Top 100 Friendship Quotes

1

My very best friend died in a car accident when I was 16 years old. That was the hardest blow emotionally that I have ever had to endure. Suddenly, you realize tomorrow might not come. Now I live by the motto, 'Today is what I have.'

2

When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.

3

A friend is a second self.

4

To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.

5

Each departed friend is a magnet that attracts us to the next world.

6

Dad needs to show an incredible amount of respect and humor and friendship toward his mate so the kids understand their parents are sexy, they're fun, they do things together, they're best friends. Kids learn by example. If I respect Mom, they're going to respect Mom.

7

The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear.

8

It is my experience that in some areas [my poodle] Charley is more intelligent that I am, but in others he is abysmally ignorant. He can't read, can't drive a car, and has no grasp of mathematics. But in his own field of endeavor, which he is now practicing, the slow, imperial smelling over and anointing on an area, he has no peer. Of course his horizons are limited, but how wide are mine?

9

There is so little difference between husbands you might as well keep the first.

10

I want to thank you my sweet darling for digging in the mud and picking me up.

11

You grimy as birds shittin' on the top of ya Fords.

12

All the literati keep An imaginary friend.

13

In true friendship, in which I am expert, I give myself to my friend more than I draw him to me. I not only like doing him good better than having him do me good, but also would rather have him do good to himself than to me; he does me most good when he does himself good.

14

I know nothing which life has to offer so satisfying as the profound good understanding, which can subsist, after much exchange ofgood offices, between two virtuous men, each of whom is sure of himself, and sure of his friend. It is a happiness which postpones all other gratifications, and makes politics, and commerce, and churches, cheap.

15

Come back, and do that thing, be lovely to each-other.

16

I could do without many things with no hardship-you are not one of them.

17

When having a smackerel of something with a friend, don't eat so much that you get stuck in the doorway trying to get out.

18

Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.

19

Perfect friendship puts us under the necessity of being virtuous. As it can only be preserved among estimable persons, it forces us to resemble them. You find in friendship the surety of good counsel, the emulation of good example, sympathy in our griefs, succor in our distress.

20

The best part about having true friends is that you can go months without seeing them and they'll still be there for you and act as if you'd never left!

21

Give us a man, young or old, high or low, on whom we know we can thoroughly depend, who will stand firm when others fail; the friend faithful and true, the adviser honest and fearless, the adversary just and chivalrous,-in such a one there is a fragment of the Rock of Ages.

22

Friendship multiplies blessings and...soothes the soul.

23

If your best friend has stolen your girlfriend, it does become life and death.

24

I think there is nothing more lovely than the love of two beautiful women who are not envious of each other's charms.

25

Political criticism is our enemies' best friend.

26

I'm passionate about color. My best friend and I sit and look at Pantone books for fun.

27

Now, each of us has his own special gift And you know this was meant to be true. And if you don't underestimate me I won't underestimate you.

28

I define connection as the energy that exists between people when they feel seen, heard, and valued; when they can give and receive without judgment; and when they derive sustenance and strength from the relationship.

29

I'm laughing at you, you're laughing at me.

30

There are people who take the heart out of you, and there are people who put it back.

31

What are the odds so long as the fire of the soul is kindled at the taper of conviviality, and the wing of friendship never molts a feather?

32

A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company

33

Friends aren't jumper cables. You don't throw them into the trunk and pull them out for emergencies.

34

There are three friendships which are advantageous, and three which are injurious. Friendship with the upright; friendship with the sincere; and friendship with the man of much observation: these are advantageous. Friendship with the man of specious airs; friendship with the insinuatingly soft; and friendship with the glib-tongued: these are injurious.

35

When the only bond between close friends is attachment, then even a minor issue may cause one's projections to change. As soon as our projections change, the attachment disappears, because that attachment was based solely on projection and expectation. It is possible to have compassion without attachment, and similarly, to have anger without hatred.

36

For my part, I believe that the vain, glorious and the violent will not inherit the earth. . . . In pursuance of that faith my friends and I take the hands of the dying in our hands. And some of us travel to the Pentagon, and others live in the Bowery and serve there, and others speak unpopularly and plainly of the fate of the unborn and of convicted criminals. It is all one.

37

I'll be back 'round again, yes, I'll walk in time with you, old friend. And we'll find that place that we had danced in so long ago.

38

In your eyes, I see what's on my mind.

39

The free conversation of a friend is what I would prefer to any environment.

40

We always see our worst selves. Our most vulnerable selves. We need someone else to get close enough to tell us we’re wrong. Someone we trust.

41

The best relationships develop out of friendships.

42

To arrive at perfection, a man should have very sincere friends or inveterate enemies; because he would be made sensible of his good or ill conduct, either by the censures of the one or the admonitions of the other.

43

There was too much noise. Sirens from police cars and ambulances. Shouts from the crowd on the street eighteen floors below. Traffic from other streets and all of the noises of San Francisco. Mostly, though, there were the voices. Whispering to him. Reminding him of the dark things he had done - all of the little things he had forgotten, all of the big things he had tried to forget. Mostly they reminded him of his biggest secret, a betrayal of trust and friendship long ago. He squeezed his eyes shut as if that could somehow keep the voices away.

44

The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life clearly discerns his object, and towards that object habitually directs his powers.

45

I would never betray a friend to serve a cause. Never reject a friend to help an institution. Great nations may fall in ruin before I would sell a friend to save them.

46

Friends: people who borrow my books and set wet glasses on them.

47

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.

48

do you not feel that sometimes in life one's friendships begin by antipathy - sometimes by indifference - and sometimes by that sudden magnetism of sympathy as if in some former life we had been very near and dear, and were only picking up the threads again, and to such two souls there is no feeling that they are strangers.

49

If I had a dog I would not feel so lonely, but I suppose that is asking for too much.

50

[Friendships] are easy to get out of compared to love affairs, but they are not easy to get out of compared to, say, jail.

51

Only friends will tell you the truths you need to hear to make your life bearable.

52

What importance can we attach to the things of this world? Friendship? It disappears when the one who is liked comes to grief, or the one who likes becomes powerful. Love? it is deceived, fleeting, or guilty. Fame? You share it with mediocrity or crime. Fortune? Could that frivolity be counted a blessing? All that remains are those so-called happy days that flow past unnoticed in the obscurity of domestic cares, leaving man with the desire neither to lose his life nor to begin it over.

53

You make each day a special day. You know how, by just your being you.

54

With eye upraised his master's look to scan, The joy, the solace, and the aid of man: The rich man's guardian and the poor man's friend, The only creature faithful to the end.

55

I was too dumb to know Opie was going to grow up to be a great Director, if so, boy, I would certainly have become his best friend.

56

The loneliest woman in the world is a woman without a close woman friend.

57

Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .

58

Any friendship or relationship is about a language.

59

William Holden and I weren't just good friends. He was my very best friend. I feel his loss very much still.

60

I'm not interested in dating. I like being with my own best friend, me. Certain women, particularly older women, cannot believe I like going to a social event by myself. But I do.

61

She's an amazing dog and really inspired everything that's in this book.

62

Whitecaps in profusion all around me, but somehow in your eyes I found the strength to sail upon that raging sea.

63

Time for Tolerance,Equality, and Acceptance, It's allways TEA time with my Friends.

64

No one is completely unhappy at the failure of his best friend.

65

My dogs forgive anger in me, the arrogance in me, the brute in me. They forgive everything I do before I forgive myself.

66

The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.

67

Love, in distinction from friendship, is killed, or rather extinguished, the moment it is displayed in public.

68

My mind is full of secrets I'm too afraid to tell. My body's full of longing for you to know me well.

69

The average dog has one request to all humankind. Love me.

70

With every friend I love who has been taken into the brown bosom of the earth a part of me has been buried there; but their contribution to my being of happiness, strength and understanding remains to sustain me in an altered world.

71

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

72

A friend married is a friend lost.

73

Friends, companions, lovers, are those who treat us in terms of our unlimited worth to ourselves. They are closest to us who best understand what life means to us, who feel for us as we feel for ourselves, who are bound to us in triumph and disaster, who break the spell of our loneliness.

74

We only need to be as true to others as we are to ourselves, that there may be grounds enough for friendship.

75

I have seen some who did not know when to turn aside their eyes in meeting yours. A truly confident and magnanimous spirit is wiser than to contend for the mastery in such encounters. Serpents alone conquer by the steadiness of their gaze. My friend looks me in the face and sees me, that is all.

76

In love and friendship the imagination is as much exercised as the heart; and if either is outraged the other will be estranged. It is commonly the imagination which is wounded first, rather than the heart,--it is so much the more sensitive.

77

Friendship is never established as an understood relation. It is a miracle which requires constant proofs. It is an exercise of the purest imagination and of the rarest faith!

78

The only danger in Friendship is that it will end.

79

I love you not as something private and personal, which is my own, but as something universal and worthy of love which I have found.

80

We should never stand upon ceremony with sincerity. We should never cheat and insult and banish one another by our meanness, if there were present the kernel of worth and friendliness. We should not meet thus in haste.

81

I have never met with a friend who furnished me sea-room. I have only tacked a few times and come to anchor - not sailed - made no voyage, carried no venture.

82

How often we find ourselves turning our backs on our actual friends, that we might go and meet their ideal cousins.

83

What wealth is it to have such friends that we cannot think of them without elevation!

84

Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself.

85

I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.

86

When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.

87

These are the things I prize And hold of dearest worth: Light of the sapphire skies, Peace of the silent hills, Shelter of the forests, comfort of the grass, Music of birds, murmur of little rills, Shadows of cloud that swiftly pass, And, after showers, The smell of flowers And of the good brown earth,- And best of all, along the way, friendship and mirth.

88

What is Friendship? Something deep That the heart can spend and keep: Wealth that greatens while we give, Praise that heartens us to live.

89

The story, from beginning to end, I found again in a heart of a friend.

90

Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.

91

Laugh at your friends, And if your friends are sore; So much the better, You may laugh the more.

92

Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.

93

When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.

94

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

95

Judge not thy friend until thou standest in his place.

96

I testify that our teacher, our shepherd, is Christ, our best friend, who clears up all our doubts. He heals our wounds and turns our pain into sweet experiences.

97

He is extremely loyal to his friends, but he is tougher than anyone if he feels betrayed.

98

Harry - you're a great wizard, you know." "I'm not as good as you," said Harry, very embarrassed, as she let go of him. "Me!" said Hermione. "Books! And cleverness! There are more important things - friendship and bravery and - oh Harry - be careful!

99

Dogs love company. They place it first on their short list of needs.

100

Winter, spring, summer, or fall, all you gotta do is call, and I'll be there, 'cause you've got a friend.

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