Quotes about friendship

„Be true to yourself.
Make each day your masterpiece.
Help others.
Drink deeply from good books.
Make friendship a fine art.
Build a shelter against a rainy day.
Pray for guidance and give thanks for your blessings every day.“

—  John Wooden American basketball coach 1910 - 2010

„“Friendship is rooted in the protection of deep dark secrets.”“

—  RJ Intindola (Gandolfo)

1971

„In real life, help is given out of friendship, or it is not valued; it is received from the hand of friendship, or it is resented.“

—  Robert Louis Stevenson, book Across the Plains

Source: Across the Plains (1892), Ch. IX, Beggars.
Context: We should wipe two words from our vocabulary: gratitude and charity. In real life, help is given out of friendship, or it is not valued; it is received from the hand of friendship, or it is resented.

„We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.“

—  Orson Welles American actor, director, writer and producer 1915 - 1985

„Jay Z: We are good friends, but what I got to say has nothing to do with our friendship. I have been in the industry long enough to know when I’m in the presence of a genius… and Chris Martin is just that. In years to come, Britain will look back at him as a modern day Shakespeare, he is an incredible recording artist, an incredible songwriter, but where he really comes alive is performing live. If you get the chance to see Coldplay live, do it, you ain’t gonna regret it.“

—  Chris Martin musician, co-founder of Coldplay 1977

http://www.metroguiltypleasures.com/metro/coldplays-chris-martin-is-a-modern-day-shakespeare-says-jay-z/ source

„Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship—never.“

—  Charles Caleb Colton British priest and writer 1780 - 1832

Vol. II; LXXXIII
Lacon

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

—  Thomas Aquinas Italian Dominican scholastic philosopher of the Roman Catholic Church 1225 - 1274

„Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.“

—  Bruce Lee Hong Kong-American actor, martial artist, philosopher and filmmaker 1940 - 1973

„Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.“

—  Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

Lord Darlington, Act II
Lady Windermere's Fan (1892)

„We mistakenly equate flattery to friendship and criticism to opposition; one should evaluate truth first and then judge, for flattery and criticism are primarily opinion.“

—  RJ Intindola (Gandolfo)

1975

„The philosophy of friendship has definitely paid off, because after all the highs and lows we’re still sticking together and we haven’t lost the passion for what we’re doing. In the Seventies, there were few changes, then we had this line-up with Herman [Rarebell] and Francis [Buchholz] for almost twenty years.“

—  Klaus Meine German singer 1948

„There are three classes of friendship and enmity, since men are so disposed to one another either by preference or by need or through pleasure and pain.“

—  Ptolemy Greco-Egyptian writer and astronomer of Alexandria 100 - 170

Book IV, sec. 7
Tetrabiblos

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

—  Charles Lamb English essayist 1775 - 1834

Source: The Life, Letters and Writings of Charles Lamb

„Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead.“

—  F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

Source: The Great Gatsby

„Friendship is everything. Friendship is more than talent. It is more than the government. It is almost the equal of family.- Don Corleone“

—  Mario Puzo, The Godfather

Source: The Godfather

„With tennis, they say it's a social sport you can play from six to 60 - they should say 90, your friendships go on forever.“

—  Don Tregonning Australian professional tennis player and coach 1928

„It took a lot of courage for him to befriend me in front of Hitler… You can melt down all the medals and cups I have and they wouldn't be a plating on the 24-karat friendship I felt for Lutz Long at that moment.“

—  Jesse Owens American track and field athlete 1913 - 1980

On the congratulations given by German athlete Lutz Long, a competitor in the long jump, who in some accounts he credited with giving him some friendly advice that helped him to win against him; as quoted in "Owens pierced a myth" by Larry Schwartz http://espn.go.com/sportscentury/features/00016393.html in ESPN SportsCentury (2005)
Context: It took a lot of courage for him to befriend me in front of Hitler... You can melt down all the medals and cups I have and they wouldn't be a plating on the 24-karat friendship I felt for Lutz Long at that moment. Hitler must have gone crazy watching us embrace. The sad part of the story is I never saw Long again. He was killed in World War II.

„I was tired of pretending that I was someone else just to get along with people, just for the sake of having friendships.“

—  Kurt Cobain American musician and artist 1967 - 1994

„What nobler relationship than that of friend? What nobler compliment can man bestow than friendship?“

—  Manly P. Hall Canadian writer and mystic 1901 - 1990

The Lost Keys Of Freemasonry (1923)
Context: What nobler relationship than that of friend? What nobler compliment can man bestow than friendship? The bonds and ties of the life we know break easily, but through eternity one bond remains — the bond of fellowship — the fellowship of atoms, of star dust in its endless flight, of suns and worlds, of gods and men. The clasped hands of comradeship unite in a bond eternal — the fellowship of spirit.