Quotes about friendship

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“True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.”

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

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

“Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.”

“The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.”

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

“One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.”

“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.”

“Friendship is also about liking a person for their failings, their weakness. It's also about mutual help, not about exploitation.”

“The strong bond of friendship is not always a balanced equation; friendship is not always about giving and taking in equal shares. Instead, friendship is grounded in a feeling that you know exactly who will be there for you when you need something, no matter what or when.”

“The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.”

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

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

“But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.”

“Be true to yourself, help others, make each day your masterpiece, make friendship a fine art, drink deeply from good books - especially the Bible, build a shelter against a rainy day, give thanks for your blessings and pray for guidance every day.”

“Friendships are the family we make - not the one we inherit. I've always been someone to whom friendship, elective affinities, is as important as family.”

“There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.”

“Friendship is one of our most treasured relationships, but it isn't codified and celebrated; it's never going to give you a party.”

“Forgiveness is that subtle thread that binds both love and friendship. Without forgiveness, you may not even have a child one day.”

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

“It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.”

“The differences between friends cannot but reinforce their friendship.”

“False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.”

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

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

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

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

“We do not need your guilt feelings. We need your friendship.”

“I wrote pages of music that tell the story. Life of rhythm, friendship, love, fun and pure emotion. Pages to live and let live again, in all the hearts that beat at dance time.”

“In love, in friendship, in work and in life: put your heart into it.”

“Sometimes, friendship may change the world.”

“If you don't know that friendship implies give and take, then you're not worthy to be called my friend.”

“You can try to mix capitalism and socialism together, but you cannot be both at the same time! In the end, one system will always take over the other. Resulting in a true/false friendship.”

“Division and subtraction are not required in a friendship or marriage. Only addition and multiplication of great things.”

“Asceticism concerns the soul for the next world. True asceticism means the thrusting out from the heart of all worldly thoughts reckoning them as vanity. It leads ultimately to friendship with God.”

“One's friendship with God consists in being satisfied with whatever comes from God and expresses his gratitude hundred thousand time that he was remembered by Him.”

“I sincerely hope that our country, through our people’s wisdom and unceasing efforts, achieves further development and contributes to the friendship and peace of the international community and the welfare and prosperity of humankind.”

“I am wholly decided and resolved to go in person to help my brother because his need is so great and the perils so extreme that it does not merely threaten him but places all Christendom at risk. I cannot and must not abandon him because of the office I hold and because of the obligations of fraternal friendship and also because he is such a good brother to me.”

“Friendship craves
The commerce of the mind, not the exchange
Of emulous feasts that foster sycophants.”

“My opinion is that the best law is an education of quality, that begins in the family, grows at school and finds in society a stimulus for the formation of people. We are greatly lacking in civic friendship, we look at one another as mad people and not as brethren or as people who share the same ideal, the same purpose.”

“Friendship is a very simple bond: it is true, loyal and concrete.”

“Be honey to those who seek your friendship, but deadly poison to those who dare attack you.”

“You don't kill your brother.
You don't rape your sister.
You don't destroy your friend's country.
That's why today we dismantled this monument once created as a sign of friendship between Ukraine and Russia.”

“Friendship was just diplomacy by other means, after all.”

“Acquaintance, n. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to. A degree of friendship called slight when its object is poor or obscure, and intimate when he is rich or famous”

“An example of life? In work, in friendship, in love, in pleasure and in pain: always, unconditionally and simply be yourself.”

“Good friendships are the foundation of all relationships. Whether it is in business or marriage. A good friend is the best partner.”

“The substantial difference between me and a friendship, I believe in true friendship.”

“True friendship is that feeling in which one loves, one has trust and spontaneous smiles are born.”

“Friendship, true and indissoluble friendship is confirmed in time of need. The rest be defined knowledge.”

“He who possesses the rare gift of believing in friendship, knows your flaws and values them.”

“Be very careful of false friendships, the true, are few.”

“It's important to live by finding balance in health, friendship, work and love without ever giving up. Life owes you dreams.”

“True friendships and true loves are born exclusively between people with values.”

“Life communicates in a strange way: it does so through signals and codes. You think you already know them all, but you don't. Each person who enters your life teaches you a new word: affection, friendship, trust, competition, success, love, pleasure, respect, longing, loneliness, courage, betrayal, disappointment…. My favourite words have always been love, pleasure, respect and trust; the last one I learnt was courage.”

“It's necessary to learn to value our time and to share it exclusively with people who deserve our friendship, love, affection and respect.”

“True friendship is an authentic and deep bond, based on trust, respect, esteem and understanding.”

“The only advantage that can be obtein from false friendships is to lose them, without ever feeling the lack of them.”