296 Friendship quotes

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

Share your smile with the world. It's a symbol of friendship and peace.

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

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

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

There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.

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

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

The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

A friend is what the heart needs all the time.

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.

A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success!

Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends.

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

Friends are the siblings God never gave us.

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

Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.

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

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.

Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.

If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven't yet met.

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

A friend is a gift you give yourself.

Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?

Friends are the best to turn to when you're having a rough day.

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.

True friends stab you in the front.

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.

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

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

Friendship has always belonged to the core of my spiritual journey.

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

My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

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

A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.

Love is friendship set on fire.

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.

Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

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

But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.

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

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

The friendship that can cease has never been real.

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

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

A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Lay this unto your breast: Old friends, like old swords, still are trusted best.

Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.

Opposition is true friendship.

It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

A friend to all is a friend to none.

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands.

Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.

Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.

Friendship is a sheltering tree.

It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.

Sustaining true friendship is a lot more challenging than we give it credit for.

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

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Love and friendship exclude each other.

Love is a friendship set to music.

A friend is an emotional bond, just like friendship is a human experience.

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

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

There is no friendship in trade.

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.

A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship.

Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.

Every friendship is different because everyone's personality is different.

For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.

Friendship is essentially a partnership.

As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.

An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him.

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

My friends are my estate.

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.

Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine.

Your friend is your needs answered.

There are no shortcuts to genuine friendship. Relationships are built over time.

The love that comes from friendship is the underlying facet of a happy life.

Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

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

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

Friendship is the most important thing of all.

Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.

Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.

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

Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.

Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.

To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.

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

Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life; let us swear eternal friendship.

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of.

Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.

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

Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.

Value your friendship. Value your relationships.

My definition of a friend is somebody who adores you even though they know the things you're most ashamed of.

Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship - never.

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

Friends are born, not made.

Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.

Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?

Friendship is Love without his wings!

Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.

The differences between friends cannot but reinforce their friendship.

A friendship that like love is warm; A love like friendship, steady.

You win the victory when you yield to friends.

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

All I required to be happy was friendship and people I could admire.

There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.

Sixth grade was a big time, in my childhood, of hoops and friendship, and coming up with funny things.

Laughter is not a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is the best ending for one.

The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two.

Although the troops have struck us, we throw it all behind and are glad to meet you in peace and friendship.

It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanism of friendship.

You've got to reach a hand of friendship across the aisle and across philosophies in this country.

Going through an illness and then death of a close friend has changed my attitudes to friendship enormously.

Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

Instead of loving your enemies - treat your friends a little better.

If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

My inspiration are the woman, friendship, and loneliness.

Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Some people are willing to betray years of friendship just to get a little bit of the spotlight.

I think the way to keep a friendship is to respect that everybody is different.

Even where friendship is concerned, it takes me a long time to trust people.

I take friendship very seriously.

When our weaknesses affect health and friendship, we are very much aware of their existence.

To some it may be a thrill to be known, to me it's a thrill to start a friendship even up.

Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.

He who hath many friends hath none.

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

Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.

Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.

The best time to make friends is before you need them.

A friend is, as it were, a second self.

Ultimately, it's a sense of camaraderie and friendship with local people that is core to my journeys.

I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.

Acquaintances we meet, enjoy, and can easily leave behind; but friendship grows deep roots.

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

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

Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.

You find out who your real friends are when you're involved in a scandal.

General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.

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

Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

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

Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice.

When the bank asks me about my assets, I include my friendship with Regis Philbin.

Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.

Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.

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

Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.

Your experiences will be yours alone. But truth and best friendship will rarely if ever disappoint you.

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

That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

Matching tattoos don't ensure the longevity of a friendship, any more than any other mutual hardship.

All you need to do to be my friend is like me.

Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.

Let me be very clear: my friendship with my friends ends where the interest of the country begins.

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

Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.

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

The firmest friendship is based on an identity of likes and dislikes.

Friendship has its illusions no less than love.

Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.

India-Seychelles relations have been characterized by close friendship, understanding and cooperation.

As I grow older, I think friendship between women is a thing to cherish.

America is stronger because of President Obama's leadership, and I'm better because of his friendship.

Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded.

A friend in power is a friend lost.

I've learned that friendship does not equate business, business does not equate friendship.

If I'm right, the only reason our species is still around is because of our friendship with the canines.

Caring for but never trying to own may be a further way to define friendship.

Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected.

Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Came but for friendship, and took away love.

As soon as you try to describe a close friendship, it loses something.

Acting is about communicating, reacting, and sharing - and friendship is about all of those things, too.

There's nothing that makes me cry and laugh more than stories about friendship.

Friendship! Mysterious cement of the soul, Sweet'ner of life, and solder of society.

No one person can possibly combine all the elements supposed to make up what everyone means by friendship.

We should have a good working friendship with the United States.

When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.

All lasting business is built on friendship.

Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker.

Establishing a friendship after divorce takes great effort and a lot of swallowing of your pride and ego.

Loyalty and friendship trumps politics for me.

There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.

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

The steady discipline of intimate friendship with Jesus results in men becoming like Him.

In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.

Secrecy is the chastity of friendship.

Friendship is something that is cultivated.

I only understand friendship or scorched earth.

I love life in spite of all that mars it. I love friendship, jokes and laughter.

Like any friendship or marriage, familiarity breeds more contempt, and love, and everything.

My friendship with the great actor and director Alan Rickman did not have a particularly auspicious start.

Great is the victory, but the friendship of all is greater.

Friendship and money: oil and water.

But, based on my friendship with Evie as young mothers, I started going on freedom rides in 1966.

One sure way to lose another woman's friendship is to try to improve her flower arrangements.

Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is.

Any friendship or relationship is about a language.

Lovers have a right to betray you... friends don't.

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

My reputation is too important to put it aside for purposes of some friendship. We have a job to do.

Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.

Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.

Bad faith likes discourse on friendship and loyalty.

If you go to the Air and Space Museum in Washington, you can see the burn patterns on Friendship 7.

Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue.

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

I'm quite obsessed with the idea of nailing the girl friendship. It's such an art, so delicate.

All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.

Aristotle uses a mother's love for her child as the prime example of love or friendship.

The little trouble in the world that is not due to love is due to friendship.

You can't build anything with a flimsy foundation. Friendship is the foundation.

A friendship between Germany and Israel didn't always seem natural.

But it all comes down to friendship, treating people right.

Friendship's the wine of life: but friendship new... is neither strong nor pure.

How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

I wanted to show platonic friendship between men and women, because I think it is underutilised in fiction.

Nobody ever chooses the already unfortunate as objects of his loyal friendship.

A band is a good way to break up a friendship.

Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.

I not only enjoy a really great friendship with both my girls but also a close mother-daughter bond as well.

Friendship and sentiment and the giving of one's words are very important.

Friendship is a difficult, dangerous job. It is also (though we rarely admit it) extremely exhausting.

I have a very close friendship with the skaters.

The most deadly fruit is borne by the hatred which one grafts on an extinguished friendship.

Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

I've got many close friends, but there's an awful lot about friendship that is not demonstrative in my case.

I don't think I could live with someone that I didn't have an intellectual friendship with.

The joys of friendship inert the heart and fizzy home bouncing jubilantly with laughter-buttered love.

The rare few, who, early in life have rid themselves of the friendship of the many.

Friendship is a personal issue, and it should remain that way.

My films are always concerned with family, friendship, honor, and patriotism.

There is nothing like mortal fear to galvanize a friendship.

I really enjoy writing about female friendship. It's an endlessly interesting dynamic for me.

The most important thing for me is to have real friendship between Egyptians and Americans.

I love all girl squads. I'm all for, like, girl power and friendship, and I'm all about that.

Friendship is mutual blackmail elevated to the level of love.

Friendship is a wildly underrated medication.

Friends confront each other sometimes, and sometimes the friendship lasts, and sometimes it doesn't.

One of the great things personally coming to Hawai'i is my friendship of Jim Nicholson.

I lend people money, but I'd never lend something that would jeopardise a friendship if I didn't get it back.

Sweat makes good friendship cement.

Whenever people reach out the hand of friendship towards me, I am not going to refuse that hand.

Longevity in friendship is very important and one of the keys to the foundation of a happy life.

Usually, you don't have commitment promises in a friendship. Usually, it just grows.

Don't let this music industry or any industry come between friendship. Just stay focused on your goals.

I like friendship.

Restoration of friendship with Russia, our biggest neighbor, is necessary for our peace and economy.

The sacrifices of friendship were beautiful in her eyes as long as she was not asked to make them.

I would like to raise my glass to friendship between Russia and the United States.

I'm loyal, and I like my friends. Friendship enriches your life and makes it more interesting.

I really wasn't even aware that Batman and Superman had this kind of grudging friendship.

Friendship is a word, the very sight of which in print makes the heart warm.

When you start a relationship, there's part of the friendship that dies - you can never go back.

Friendship is inexplicable, it should not be explained if one doesn't want to kill it.

Richard Donner's friendship and guidance showed me that there's more to life than being an actor.

Never be afraid to meet to the hilt the demand of either work, or friendship - two of life's major assets.

I hope to continue my friendship with France and its filmmakers for many years to come.