Friendship Quotes - 51 quotes

Friendship can take many forms and is an essential aspect of human relationships. True friendship is an enduring mutual relationship between two people sharing affection, esteem, respect, intimacy, companionship, trust, and support. True friendship enriches our lives by providing a sense of belon... show more

 Zak: Carl, You are my best friend. And... and you are my family. Carl: Well, that's it. Friends are the family you choose.
- The Peanut Butter Falcon (2019 Movie)
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 That man is the only one of them all whom I could have made my friend. But his planet is indeed too small. There is no room on it for two people.

- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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 "Come and play with me," proposed the little prince. "I am so unhappy." "I cannot play with you," the fox said. "I am not tamed." "What does that mean-'tame'?" "It is an act too often neglected," said the fox. "It means to establish ties." "To establish ties'?" "Just that," said the fox. "To me, you are still nothing more than a little boy who is just like a hundred thousand other little boys. And I have no need of you. And you, on your part, have no need of me. To you, I am nothing more than a fox like a hundred thousand other foxes. But if you tame me, then we shall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, I shall be unique in all the world..."

- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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 "I am beginning to understand," said the little prince. "There is a flower... I think that she has tamed me..."

- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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 The stars are beautiful, because of a flower that cannot be seen.

- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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 What makes the desert beautiful," said the little prince, "is that somewhere it hides a well...

- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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 It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.

- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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 "Men have forgotten this truth," said the fox. "But you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed."

- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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 "One only understands the things that one tames," said the fox. "Men have no more time to understand anything. They buy things all ready made at the shops. But there is no shop anywhere where one can buy friendship, and so men have no friends any more. If you want a friend, tame me..."

- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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 The little prince went away, to look again at the roses. "You are not at all like my rose,” he said. "As yet you are nothing. No one has tamed you, and you have tamed no one. You are like my fox when I first knew him. He was only a fox like a hundred thousand other foxes. But I have made him my friend, and now he is unique in all the world."

- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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 One runs the risk of weeping a little, if one lets himself be tamed.

- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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 Then he went on with his reflections: "I thought that I was rich, with a flower that was unique in all the world; and all I had was a common rose."

- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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 Such friendship requires time and familiarity; as the proverb says, men cannot know each other till they have "eaten salt together"; nor, can they admit each other to friendship or be friends till each has been found lovable and been trusted by each..

- Aristotle

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 Be loyal and trustworthy. Do not befriend anyone who is lower than yourself in this regard.

- Confucius

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 There is a norm that friends spend time together.

- David Maxfield

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 There is a norm that friends exchange favors and requests, in a way that evens out over the long run. Friends who ask too much undermine the friendship.

- David Maxfield

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 Friendships between men and women, which begin with thoughts of companionship or confiding in one another, drag people into the pit of adultery.”

- Diyanet

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 Did you never see little dogs caressing and playing with one another, so that you might say there is nothing more friendly? but, that you may know what friendship is, throw a bit of flesh among them, and you will learn.

- Epictetus

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 Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.

- George Washington

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 Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad.

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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 We cannot tell the precise moment when a friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over;

- James Boswell

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 I ain't never loan friends money; I give it to 'em and I don't expect to get it back. Even when he says, "I'll pay you back," I never expect it. If he gives it back, then hey, that's a feather in his cap, but I don't expect to get it back.

- Mike Tyson

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 Sometimes during a relationship, a friendship, a friend's gonna have to prove they're your friend, and you're gonna have to prove you're their friend.

- Mike Tyson

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 He was easy to talk to, and easy not to talk to---equally important qualities in a friend. Essential in a travel companion.

- Phil Knight

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 I was on the verge of losing it, right on the verge. Then I saw that Johnson and Woodell were already losing it, and I realized that I couldn't afford to. Like Penny, they beat me to the panic attack punch.

- Phil Knight

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 The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.

- Richard Bach

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 But I guess I can't find lasting friends when I'm an unlasting one myself.

- Richard Bach

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 If you dwell with unaware people, you will be cold, But if you dwell with aware ones, you will be a true man Go, and build your hermit cell inside a furnace, like gold If you go out of the furnace, you will be frozen solid

- Rumi

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 Dwell in the place where your companions are spiritual heroes, So that they may wash the foul soot from your [heart] Don't think about their faults, for they Will know about it before you think.

- Rumi

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 I picture friendship most clearly as a house, jointly occupied. Each party agrees to perform their end of the upkeep, and the result is something shared that can last.

- Stephanie Bai

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 Where there is friendship, there is our natural soil.

- Voltaire

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 Virtuous men alone possess friends.

- Voltaire

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 Men and women can’t be friends because the sex part always gets in the way.

- When Harry Met Sally (1989 Movie)

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 Aristotle outlined two kinds of common friendships that are more accidental than intentional. The first is a friendship of utility. In this kind of relationship, the two parties are not in it for the affection of one another, but more so because each party receives a benefit in exchange. It’s not permanent in nature, and whenever the benefit ends, so does the relationship that brought the parties together. Aristotle observed this to be more common in older folks. An example of this would be a business or a work relationship. You may enjoy the time you spend together, but once the situation changes, so does the nature of your connection.

- Zat Rana

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 Similarly, the second kind of accidental friendship is one based on pleasure. This one, however, is more common in people that are younger. It’s the kind of relationship frequently seen among college friends or people who participate on the same sports team. The source of such a friendship is more emotional, and it’s often the most short-lived of the relationships. It’s fine for as long as the two parties gain enjoyment through a mutual interest in something external, but it ends as soon as either tastes or preferences change.

- Zat Rana

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 Rather than utility or pleasure, this kind of relationship is based on a mutual appreciation of the virtues that the other party holds dear. It’s the people themselves and the qualities that they represent that provides the incentive for the two parties to be in each other’s lives. Rather than being short-lived, such a relationship often lasts until the end, and there is quite generally a base level of goodness required in each person for it to exist in the first place.

- Zat Rana

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 It makes sense. At the end of the day, the bonds we forge with those close to us directly shape the quality of our lives. We are, and we live through, the people we spend time with. For most things, life is long enough. It is, however, too short for the wrong kinds of friendship.

- Zat Rana

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 A drop of honey will catch more flies than a gallon of gall. So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend.

- Abraham Lincoln

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 A friend to all is a friend to none

- Aristotle

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 No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever.

- Francis Mauriac

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 A friend you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him.

- G.F. Prentice

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 One who looks for a friend without faults will have none.

- Hasidic Saying

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 When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends.

- Japanese Proverb

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

- John Churton Collins

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 You shall judge of a man by his foes as well as by his friends.

- Joseph Conrad

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 The holy passion of friendship is of so sweet, steady, loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.

- Mark Twain

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 Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

- Mark Twain

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 Tell me what company you keep, and I'll tell you what you are.

- Miguel de Cervantes

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 A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

- Oscar Wilde

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 A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

- Oscar Wilde

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

- Walter Winchell

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