Friendship quotes

189 quotes. Authors include A. Powell Davies, Abraham Lincoln, Albert Camus, Albert Schweitzer, Alice Walker, Anaïs Nin, Anton Chekhov, Aristotle, Arthur Ashe, Augustine of Hippo, Baltasar Gracián, Barbara Bush, Basil of Caesarea, Benjamin Franklin, Brooks Adams, Bruce Lee, Chanakya, Charles Caleb Colton, Charles Eastman, Charles Kingsley, Charles Péguy, Christian Dior, Christie Brinkley, Chuck Swindoll, Cicero, Confucius, Dag Hammarskjöld, Dalai Lama, Doug Larson, Ed Cunningham.

• “Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship.”

  — Marilyn Monroe · Friendship

• “I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.”

  — Thomas Edison · Friendship

• “Remember that a gesture of friendship, no matter how small, is always appreciated.”

  — H. Jackson Brown Jr. · Friendship

• “In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.”

  — Kahlil Gibran · Friendship

• “It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.”

  — Mignon McLaughlin · Friendship

• “True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of oneself, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.”

  — Joseph Addison · Friendship

• “The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing... not healing, not curing... that is a friend who cares.”

  — Henri Nouwen · Friendship

• “Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.”

  — Herman Melville · Friendship

• “A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.”

  — John Locke · Friendship

• “Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship - never.”

  — Albert Camus · Friendship · Love

• “Friendship brings in a lot of honesty and trust into any relationship, especially a marriage.”

  — Farhan Akhtar · Friendship

• “Love and friendship exclude each other.”

  — Jean de La Bruyère · Friendship

• “Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.”

  — Seneca the Younger · Friendship

• “The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.”

  — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin · Friendship

• “There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first; when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.”

  — Paramahansa Yogananda · Friendship

• “A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.”

  — Walter Winchell · Friendship

• “Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.”

  — Samuel Butler · Friendship

• “However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.”

  — François de La Rochefoucauld · Friendship

• “Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.”

  — Epicurus · Wisdom · Friendship

• “Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.”

  — Plautus · Friendship

• “The friendship that can cease has never been real.”

  — Jerome · Friendship

• “My friends are my estate.”

  — Emily Dickinson · Friendship

• “A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.”

  — Jim Morrison · Friendship

• “I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.”

  — Plutarch · Friendship

• “Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life.”

  — George Herbert · Friendship

• “True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.”

  — Charles Caleb Colton · Friendship

• “One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.”

  — Brooks Adams · Friendship

• “A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.”

  — Elbert Hubbard · Friendship

• “It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree.”

  — Elbert Hubbard · Friendship

• “A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends”

  — Ralph Waldo Emerson · Friendship

• “Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.”

  — Washington Irving · Friendship

• “You win the victory when you yield to friends.”

  — Sophocles · Friendship

• “He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.”

  — Oscar Wilde · Friendship

• “I have learned that friendship isn't about who you've known the longest, it's about who came and never left your side.”

  — Yolanda Hadid · Friendship

• “The only way to have a friend is to be one.”

  — Ralph Waldo Emerson · Famous Quotes · Friendship

• “Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.”

  — Jean de La Fontaine · Friendship

• “If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.”

  — Michel de Montaigne · Friendship · Love

• “Friendship is also about liking a person for their failings, their weakness. It's also about mutual help, not about exploitation.”

  — Paul Theroux · Friendship

• “Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.”

  — James F. Byrnes · Friendship

• “The strong bond of friendship is not always a balanced equation; friendship is not always about giving and taking in equal shares. Instead, friendship is grounded in a feeling that you know exactly who will be there for you when you need something, no matter what or when.”

  — Simon Sinek · Friendship

• “One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.”

  — Seneca the Younger · Friendship

• “A friend in power is a friend lost.”

  — Henry Adams · Friendship

• “The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.”

  — Cicero · Friendship

• “Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.”

  — Ralph Waldo Emerson · Friendship

• “Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.”

  — Samuel Johnson · Friendship

• “But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.”

  — Thomas Jefferson · Friendship

• “Be true to yourself, help others, make each day your masterpiece, make friendship a fine art, drink deeply from good books - especially the Bible, build a shelter against a rainy day, give thanks for your blessings and pray for guidance every day.”

  — John Wooden · Friendship

• “When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.”

  — A. Powell Davies · Friendship

• “Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.”

  — Martin Luther King Jr. · Friendship · Love

• “If you have one true friend, you have more than your share.”

  — Thomas Fuller · Friendship