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.

• “Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.”

  — Lord Byron · Friendship

• “Friendships are the family we make - not the one we inherit. I've always been someone to whom friendship, elective affinities, is as important as family.”

  — Salman Rushdie · Friendship

• “Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.”

  — Elbert Hubbard · Friendship

• “One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.”

  — George Santayana · Friendship

• “There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.”

  — Chanakya · Friendship

• “Friendship is one of our most treasured relationships, but it isn't codified and celebrated; it's never going to give you a party.”

  — Hanya Yanagihara · Friendship

• “Forgiveness is that subtle thread that binds both love and friendship. Without forgiveness, you may not even have a child one day.”

  — George Foreman · Friendship

• “In romance, we feel the need to zoom in and expound on our partner's foibles in intimate detail; in friendship, we tend to do the opposite, avoiding confrontation through fear, lethargy or both.”

  — Mariella Frostrup · Friendship

• “Loyalty and friendship, which is to me the same, created all the wealth that I've ever thought I'd have.”

  — Ernie Banks · Friendship

• “Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams.”

  — Henry David Thoreau · Friendship

• “Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.”

  — Kahlil Gibran · Friendship

• “I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.”

  — Augustine of Hippo · Friendship

• “The sincere friends of this world are as ship lights in the stormiest of nights.”

  — Giotto · Friendship

• “It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.”

  — Henry Ward Beecher · Friendship

• “A friend is what the heart needs all the time.”

  — Henry van Dyke Jr. · Friendship

• “A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.”

  — François de La Rochefoucauld · Friendship

• “The differences between friends cannot but reinforce their friendship.”

  — Mao Zedong · Friendship

• “False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.”

  — Richard Burton · Friendship

• “Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.”

  — Eustace Budgell · Friendship

• “Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.”

  — Nathaniel Hawthorne · Friendship

• “Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.”

  — Elbert Hubbard · Friendship

• “Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity.”

  — Mortimer J. Adler · Friendship

• “You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.”

  — Laurence J. Peter · Friendship

• “It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.”

  — Ralph Waldo Emerson · Famous Quotes · Friendship

• “The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.”

  — Hubert Humphrey · Friendship

• “Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.”

  — Octavia E. Butler · Friendship

• “No person is your friend who demands your silence or denies your right to grow.”

  — Alice Walker · Famous Quotes · Friendship

• “Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.”

  — Muhammad Ali · Friendship

• “Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.”

  — Montesquieu · Friendship

• “Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.”

  — Dag Hammarskjöld · Friendship

• “All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand.”

  — Ella Wheeler Wilcox · Friendship · Love

• “Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.”

  — Cicero · Friendship

• “A youth, when at home, should be filial and, abroad, respectful to his elders. He should be earnest and truthful. He should overflow in love to all and cultivate the friendship of the good. When he has time and opportunity, after the performance of these things, he should employ them in polite studies.”

  — Confucius · Friendship

• “Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.”

  — Jane Austen · Friendship

• “It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.”

  — Epicurus · Friendship

• “Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.”

  — Herodotus · Friendship

• “We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.”

  — Albert Schweitzer · Famous Quotes · Friendship

• “Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.”

  — Euripides · Famous Quotes · Friendship

• “The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.”

  — Ovid · Friendship