Quotes About Friendship to Ponder and Share (Page 2 of 2)

I don't need to go onto Facebook and pretend to have friends I've never even met. To my mind, that kind of destroys the meaning of the word 'friend.' I take exception to that. Because I value and respect friendship.

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

Once you have mates who know you, right down under the this-and-that you decide people want to see today, then there's no room left for the someday person who'll magic you into being all your finest dreams. You've turned solid: you're the person your mates know, forever.

Friendship is something that is cultivated.

Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends, for it is one of God's greatest gifts. It involves many things, but above all the power of going out of one's self and appreciating what is noble and loving in another.

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

I know what things are good: friendship and work and conversation. These I shall have.

To find a friend one must close one eye. To keep him--close two.

Friends are God's apology for relations.

The way to gain a friend is to be one.

Friendship is the most important thing of all.

Real friends are the ones you can count on no matter what.
The ones who go into the forest to find you and bring you home.
And real friends never have to tell you that they're your friends.

Fake friends are like shadows: always near you at your brightest moments, but nowhere to be seen at your darkest hour
True friends are like stars, you don't always see them but they are always there.

Both friend and enemy reside within us. One lives by the rule of compassion, the other by the rule of hard knocks. Though potential influence of either extreme is inevitable, our actions bear witness to the one we embrace.

The word friend is a label anyone can try on. You decide who is best suited to wear it. Choose wisely. The most dangerous among us come dressed as angels and we learn too late they are the devil in disguise.

Friendship is an art, and very few persons are born with a natural gift for it.

Friends are like stars. You do not see all the time, but you know they are there.

Never ignore your intuition about friendships and people's intentions towards you.

Drink in the beauty of friendship. In this world of constant change, we need the comfort of friendship more than ever before.

It has always fascinated me that we're prepared to end a romantic relationship that is no longer working but are generally reluctant to do the same with friendships. Not all friendships are meant to last for life. People evolve, and friendships evolve with them.

Sometimes all a person needs to turn themselves around is one good friend.

You can find many philosophy papers on the themes of 'love' and 'friendship,' most of which are cheerful and somewhat anodyne; you don't find many on the loss of friends, relatives, and lovers from death or alienation, though it happens all the time.

Those that will always help a friend, will always have a friend.

I despise the rituals of fake friendship. I wish we could just claw each other's eyes out and call it a day; instead we put on huge radiant smiles and spout compliments until our teeth hurt from the saccharine sweetness of it all.

It is absolutely okay with me if you need to keep some secrets. I've been thinking about this and I decided that a best friend is someone who, when they don't understand, they still understand.

It was a huge comfort to have a person who'd keep you honest with yourself and who also gave you safe harbour.

Friendship is the bread of the heart.

Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world.

Friendship is also a vital and wonderful part of courtship and marriage. A relationship between a man and a woman that begins with friendship and then ripens into romance and eventually marriage will usually become an enduring, eternal friendship.

Our friendships are really the epicenter of our social world and emotional lives.

If you aren't respected by someone, how can the friendship with them be valued?

A true friend is an umbrella on the storm.

If our friendship depends on things like space and time, we have destroyed our own brotherhood.

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

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

A true friend is the best Possession.

Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.

A friendship that can end never really began.

Friendship is a miracle by which a person consents to view from a certain distance, without coming any nearer, the very being who is as necessary to him as food.

The friend within the man is that part of him which belongs to you and opens to you a door which never, perhaps, is opened to another. Such a friend is true, and all he says is true; and he loves you even if he hates you in other mansions of his heart.

Friendship is one of the sweetest joys of life. Many might have failed beneath the bitterness of their trial had they not found a friend.

Friendship flourishes at the fountain of forgiveness.

We love everything on our own account; we even follow our own taste and inclination when we prefer our friends to ourselves; and yet it is this preference alone that constitutes true and perfect friendship.

Man's best support is a very dear friend.

A sweet friendship refreshes the soul.

Don't expect your friend to be a perfect person. Help your friend to become a perfect person. That is true friendship.

A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand.

Every man passes his life in the search after friendship.

That's who you really like. The people you can think out loud in front of.

One has a right to judge a man by the effect he has over his friends.

Friends are often chosen for similitude of manners, and therefore each palliates the other's failings because they are his own.

Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love.

Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: What! You too? I thought I was the only one.

No friendship is an accident.

Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.

Don't walk in front of me… I may not follow
Don't walk behind me… I may not lead
Walk beside me… just be my friend.

Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.

Friendship is the highest degree of perfection in society.

Your friend is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving.

If friends disappoint you over and over, that's in large part your own fault. Once someone has shown a tendency to be self-centered, you need to recognize that and take care of yourself; people aren't going to change simply because you want them to.

A true friend is the one who holds your hand and touches your heart.

A friend in need is a friend indeed!

A true friend unbosoms freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.

Hold a true friend with both your hands.

One of the tasks of true friendship is to listen compassionately and creatively to the hidden silences. Often secrets are not revealed in words, they lie concealed in the silence between the words or in the depth of what is unsayable between two people.

The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.

Besties before testes.

Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend.

The richest man is the one with the most powerful friends.

What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.

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

A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be.

A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute. He may not seem such a good friend after telling.

Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.

Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend.

A friend is the one who comes in when the whole world has gone out.

Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for a while, leave footprints on our hearts, and we are never, ever the same.

The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away.

A friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future, and accepts you today just the way you are.

Friends are medicine for a wounded heart, and vitamins for a hopeful soul.

There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.

One friend with whom you have a lot in common is better than three with whom you struggle to find things to talk about.

I may not always be there with you, but I will always be there for you.

I would rather walk with a friend in the dark than walk alone in the light.

Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer.

A snowball in the face is surely the perfect beginning to a lasting friendship.

Friendship is like a glass ornament, once it is broken it can rarely be put back together exactly the same way.

There are big ships and small ships. But the best ship of all is friendship.

A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals the secret of some hidden treasure.

We walk alone in the world. Friends, such as we desire, are dreams and fables.

In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.

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

We need old friends to help us grow old and new friends to help us stay young.

Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.

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

True friendship is when you walk into their house and your WiFi connects automatically.

When people are friends, they have no need of justice, but when they are just, they need friendship in addition.

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.

Though friendship is not quick to burn, it is explosive stuff.

A good friendship is a conversation that never ends.

Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.

One friend in a storm is worth more than a thousand friends in sunshine.

There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.

Friends are relatives you make for yourself.

Are we not like two volumes of one book?

Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.

Opposition is true friendship.

He will never have true friends who is afraid of making enemies.

Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

The rules of friendship are tacit, unconscious; they are not rational. In business, though, you have to think rationally.

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

True friends stab you in the front.

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

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

Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.

While conscience is our friend, all is at peace; however once it is offended, farewell to a tranquil mind.

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Friends are the siblings God never gave us.

If we treated ourselves as well as we treated our best friend, can you imagine?

Your friend is your needs answered.

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

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

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.

Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself -- and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to -- letting a person be what he really is.

A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.

Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.

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

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

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

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

If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.

Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.

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

My friends are my estate.

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

A friend is one soul abiding in two bodies.

Truth springs from argument amongst friends.

I boldly assert, in fact I think I know, that a lot of friendships and connections absolutely depend upon a sort of shared language, or slang. Not necessarily designed to exclude others, this can establish a certain comity and, even after a long absence, re-establish it in a second.

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

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.