Quotes on Friendship
“No peace and security among mankind—let alone common friendship—can ever exist as long as people think that governments get their authority from God and that religion is to be propagated by force of arms.”
― John Locke, A Letter Concerning Toleration
John Locke, Friendship, Government, Belief, Anger and Fighting
“Now, I appeal to the consciences of those who persecute, wound, torture, and kill other men on the excuse of ‘religion’, whether they do this in a spirit of friendship and kindness.”
― John Locke, A Letter Concerning Toleration
John Locke, Belief, Friendship, Kindness
"Nicole Richie reminds me of my jeep."
Kim Kardashian, Friendship
"Having lots of siblings is like having built-in best friends."
Kim Kardashian, Friendship
“What I see, what I went through, what a friend of mine may have gone through, whatever – I rap about it.”
Kevin Gates, Goals, Music, Friendship
“It doesn’t really exist, this Frat Pack. We run into each other on occasions and we all like each other’s films, I guess, but there isn’t some big funny restaurant or bar where we all hang out. At least, if there is, they haven’t invited me.”
Will Ferrell, Friendship
“Why not work with your friends? It’s working with people you know, and you share the same sensibility.”
Will Ferrell, Friendship
“Confucius had it right: It’s nearly impossible for the quality of your life to be higher than the quality of your friends.”
― Will Smith, Will
Will Smith, Friendship
“I have lost friends, some by death...others by sheer inability to cross the street.”
Virginia Woolf, Death, Friendship
“Be a father first. Don’t put a priority of being a friend with your wife first, or a friend with your kids first.”
Hulk Hogan, Goals, Sex, Friendship
“Never do a wrong thing to make a friend--or to keep one.”
Robert E Lee, Goals, Friendship
“Wherever you are, it is your friends who make your world.”
William James, Friendship
“Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendships and intimacies … and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to "keep" by force of mere inertia.”
William James, Friendship, Life
“It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.”
William Blake, Friendship
“Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.”
Richard Bach, Friendship
“Don't be dismayed at good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends.”
― Richard Bach, Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
Richard Bach, Friendship
“If our friendship depends on things like space and time, then when we finally overcome space and time, we've destroyed our own brotherhood! But overcome space, and all we have left is Here. Overcome time, and all we have left is Now. And in the middle of Here and Now, don't you think that we might see each other once or twice?”
Richard Bach, Friendship
“Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?”
Richard Bach, Friendship, Love
“Being honest may not get you a lot of friends but it’ll always get you the right ones.”
John Lennon, Friendship, Truth
“I get by with a little help from my friends.”
John Lennon, Friendship
“Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.”
John Lennon, Goals, Friendship, Happiness
“My treasure lies in my friends.”
Alexander the Great, Friendship
“Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.”
Stephen King, Truth, Friendship, Love
“Friends.
They aren’t any such thing as good friend or bad friend.
Maybe there are just friend.
People who stand by you when you're hurt and who helped you feel not so lonely.
Maybe there are worth being scared for and hoping for and living for.
Maybe worth dying for too.
If that what has to be.
No bad friends.
Only people you want.
Need to be with.
People who build their houses in your heart.” ― Stephen King, It
Stephen King, Friendship
"Never make excuses. Your friends don’t need them and your foes won’t believe them."
John Wooden, Goals, Friendship, Anger and Fighting
“As a child, my number one best friend was the librarian in my grade school. I actually believed all those books belonged to her.”
Erma Bombeck, Friendship
"I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world."
Thomas Edison, Friendship
“The truth springs from arguments amongst friends.”
David Hume, Truth, Friendship
"Morning without you is a dwindled dawn."
Letter to Elizabeth Holland
Emily Dickinson, Friendship
"My friends are my estate
I argue thee that love is life and life hath immortality"
Poem – That I did always love
Emily Dickinson, Friendship, Wealth, Love, Life
“For 70 nights, right across America, I’ve been getting out there with two ex-lovers and we’ve been playing songs which are so specific about each of us, you just wouldn’t know. We’re friends now but we can’t forget what happened between us.”
Stevie Nicks, Life, Music, Friendship
“It is much better to make friends with what you do not know than with what you do know, as there is an infinite supply of the former but a finite stock of the latter.”
Jordan Peterson, Friendship
“My friends have made the story of my life.”
Helen Keller, Friendship, Life
"I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light."
Helen Keller, Friendship
"‘You’ve said nothing, of course, and I ask nothing,’ he was saying; ‘but you know that friendship’s not what I want: that there’s only one happiness in life for me, that word that you dislike so ... yes, love!...‘"
Tolstoy (Leo Tolstoy), Love, Happiness, Friendship
"I touch people. I think everyone needs that. Placing a hand on a friend’s face means making contact."
Princess Diana, Kindness, Friendship
"Well, now we ain’t strangers anymore.”- Dorothy Harris
Forrest Gump, Friendship
"If there’s anything you need, I won’t be far away.” – Forrest Gump
Forrest Gump, Friendship
"You know why we’re a good partnership, Forrest? Cause we are watching out for one another like brothers and stuff."– Bubba Blue
Forrest Gump, Friendship
"If you do not like my family and friends, I do not want to hear anything about it. They may mean nothing to you, but they mean everything to me."- Forrest Gump
Forrest Gump, Friendship
"The best thing about visiting the President is the food! Now, since it was all free, and I wasn't hungry but thirsty, I must've drank me fifteen Dr. Peppers."- Forrest Gump
Forrest Gump, Funny
"Me and Jenny goes together like peas and carrots."- Forrest Gump
Forrest Gump, Friendship
"Bubba was my best good friend. And even I know that ain't something you can find just around the corner. Bubba was going to be a shrimping boat captain, but instead, he died right there by that river in Vietnam."- Forrest Gump
Forrest Gump, Friendship, Life, Death
"I never thanked you for saving my life." - Lieutenant Dan
Forrest Gump, Friendship
"I guess the attitude that I’ve tried to create here is that I’m a friend first and a boss second and probably an entertainer third."
Michael Scott, Funny, Management, Friendship
"I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society."
Henry David Thoreau, Happiness, Friendship, Society
"Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams."
Henry David Thoreau, Friendship, Hope, Goals
"The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend."
Henry David Thoreau, Friendship
"The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings."
Henry David Thoreau, Friendship
"When we speak of man, we have a conception of humanity as a whole, and before applying scientific methods to the investigation of his movement we must accept this as a physical fact. But can anyone doubt to-day that all the millions of individuals and all the innumerable types and characters constitute an entity, a unit? Though free to think and act, we are held together, like the stars in the firmament, with ties inseparable. These ties cannot be seen, but we can feel them. I cut myself in the finger, and it pains me: this finger is a part of me. I see a friend hurt, and it hurts me, too: my friend and I are one. And now I see stricken down an enemy, a lump of matter which, of all the lumps of matter in the universe, I care least for, and it still grieves me. Does this not prove that each of us is only part of a whole?
For ages this idea has been proclaimed in the consummately wise teachings of religion, probably not alone as a means of insuring peace and harmony among men, but as a deeply founded truth. The Buddhist expresses it in one way, the Christian in another, but both say the same: We are all one. Metaphysical proofs are, however, not the only ones which we are able to bring forth in support of this idea. Science, too, recognizes this connectedness of separate individuals, though not quite in the same sense as it admits that the suns, planets, and moons of a constellation are one body, and there can be no doubt that it will be experimentally confirmed in times to come, when our means and methods for investigating psychical and other states and phenomena shall have been brought to great perfection. Still more: this one human being lives on and on. The individual is ephemeral, races and nations come and pass away, but man remains. Therein lies the profound difference between the individual and the whole."
Tesla, Society, Friendship, Belief, Science
"You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with."
Jim Rohn, Friendship
"If you go out looking for friends, you're going to find they are very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere."
Zig Ziglar, Friendship
"A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand."
Les Brown, Friendship
"Once asked how we could be friends, given our disagreement on lots of things, Justice Scalia answered: 'I attack ideas. I don't attack people."
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Friendship
"Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world."
Eleanor Roosevelt, Friendship
"Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart."
Eleanor Roosevelt, Life, Friendship
"There is no friend as loyal as a book."
Ernest Hemingway, Friendship
"...and when one of them meets the other half, the actual half of himself, whether he be a lover of youth or a lover of another sort, the pair are lost in an amazement of love and friendship and intimacy and one will not be out of the other's sight, as I may say, even for a moment..."
Plato, Love, Friendship
"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, Love, Friendship
"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 appellation. "
George Washington, Friendship
"But friendship is precious, not only in the shade but in the sunshine of life; & thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine. I will recur for proof to the days we have lately passed. On these indeed the sun shone brightly."
Thomas Jefferson, Friendship
"I’ve gotten to the point where the label of ‘best friend’ is so ridiculous. If you have three people in your life that you can trust, you can consider yourself the luckiest person in the whole world."
Selena Gomez, Friendship
"People say, ‘But Betty, Facebook is a great way to connect with old friends.’ Well, at my age, if I want to connect with old friends I need a Ouija board."
Betty White, Friendship, Death
"True friends are families which you can select."
Audrey Hepburn, Friendship
"Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant."
Socrates, Friendship
"A friend is a second self."
Aristotle, Friendship
"Misfortune shows those who are not really friends."
Aristotle, Friendship
"Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods."
Aristotle, Friendship, Wealth
"The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend."
Aristotle, Anger and Fighting, Friendship
"Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit."
Aristotle, Friendship
"A friend to all is a friend to none."
Aristotle, Friendship
"What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies."
Aristotle, Friendship
"The trouble is not in dying for a friend, but in finding a friend worth dying for."
Mark Twain, Friendship
"Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life."
Mark Twain, Friendship, Life
"A friend tells you what you want to hear; a best friend tells you the truth."
Marilyn Monroe, Friendship
"I wonder what Piglet is doing,” thought Pooh. “I wish I were there to be doing it, too."
Winnie the Pooh, Happiness, Friendship
"Promise you won’t forget me ever?"
Winnie the Pooh, Friendship
"I’m never afraid with you."
Winnie the Pooh, Friendship
"How lucky am I to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard."
Winnie the Pooh, Friendship
"It’s so much more friendly with two."
Winnie the Pooh, Friendship
"It isn’t much good having anything exciting, if you can’t share it with somebody."
Winnie the Pooh, Happiness, Friendship
"But, of course, it isn’t really Good-bye, because the Forest will always be there…and anybody who is Friendly with Bears can find it."
Winnie the Pooh, Friendship
"If people are upset because you’ve forgotten something, console them by letting them know you didn’t forget—you just weren’t remembering."
Winnie the Pooh, Friendship
"We’ll be Friends Forever, won’t we, Pooh?’ asked Piglet. ‘Even longer,’ Pooh answered."
Winnie the Pooh, Friendship
"I think we dream so we don’t have to be apart for so long. If we’re in each other’s dreams, we can be together all the time."
Winnie the Pooh, Friendship
"The most important thing is, even when we’re apart … I’ll always be with you …"
Winnie the Pooh, Friendship
"You can’t stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes."
Winnie the Pooh, Friendship
"If there ever comes a day when we can’t be together, keep me in your heart, I’ll stay there forever."
Winnie the Pooh, Friendship
"Any day spent with you is my favorite day. So, today is my new favorite day."
Winnie the Pooh, Friendship
"A day without a friend is like a pot without a single drop of honey left inside."
Winnie the Pooh, Friendship
"After all, one can’t complain. I have my friends."
Winnie the Pooh, Friendship
"Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I'll meet you there.
When the soul lies down in that grass the world is too full to talk about."
Rumi, Friendship
"Your worst enemy could be your best friend and your best friend your worst enemy."
Bob Marley, Friendship
"Close friends are truly life's treasures. Sometimes they know us better than we know ourselves. With gentle honesty, they are there to guide and support us, to share our laughter and our tears. Their presence reminds us that we are never really alone."
Van Gogh, Friendship
"Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy to a friend."
Martin Luther King Jr., Love, Friendship
"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."
Martin Luther King Jr., Friendship
"We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature."
Abraham Lincoln, Anger and Fighting, Friendship
"I'm a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him down."
Abraham Lincoln, Friendship
"My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read."
Abraham Lincoln, Friendship
"Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?"
Abraham Lincoln, Anger and Fighting, Friendship
"If you cannot read all your books...fondle them---peer into them, let them fall open where they will, read from the first sentence that arrests the eye, set them back on the shelves with your own hands, arrange them on your own plan so that you at least know where they are. Let them be your friends; let them, at any rate, be your acquaintances."
Winston Churchill, Friendship
"I can't be friends with a man who blows hot and cold with the same breath."
Aesop, Friendship, Truth
"An Ass put on a Lion's skin and went about the foreset with much merriment, Scaring the foolish beasts by brooks and rocks, Till at last he tried to scare the Fox. But Reynard, hearing from beneath the mane that Raucous voice so petulant and vain, Remarked. O' Ass, I too would run away, But that I know your old familiar bray'. That's just the way with asses, just the way."
Aesop, Friendship
"once upon a time all the rivers combined to protest against the action of the sea in making their waters salt. "When we come to you," said they to the sea, "we are sweet and drinkable; but when once we have mingled with you, our waters become as briny and unpalatable as your own." The sea replied shortly, "Keep away from me, and you'll remain sweet."
Aesop, Friendship
"A man is known by the company he keeps."
Aesop, Friendship
"Whoever neglects old friends for the sake of new deserves what he gets if he loses both."
Aesop, Friendship
"Adversity tests the sincerity of friends."
Aesop, Friendship
"United we stand; divided we fall."
Aesop, Friendship
"If you choose bad companions, no one will believe that you are anything but bad yourself."
Aesop, Friendship
"A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him."
Aesop, Friendship
"Betray a friend, and you'll often find you have ruined yourself."
Aesop, Friendship
"My dearest friend, if you don’t mind, I’d like to join you by your side. Where we could gaze into the stars, and sit together, now and forever. For it is plain as anyone can see, we’re simply meant to be."
Tim Burton, Friendship
"Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success."
Oscar Wilde, Friendship
"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go."
Oscar Wilde, Friendship
"I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there."
Oscar Wilde, Friendship
"A good friend will always stab you in the front."
Oscar Wilde, Friendship
"You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit."
Oscar Wilde, Friendship
"This soldier, I realized, must have had friends at home and in his regiment; yet he lay there deserted by all except his dog. I looked on, unmoved, at battles which decided the future of nations. Tearless, I had given orders which brought death to thousands. Yet here I was stirred, profoundly stirred, stirred to tears. And by what? By the grief of one dog."
Napoleon Bonaparte, Friendship
"Surround yourself with people who make you happy. People who make you laugh, who help you when you’re in need. People who genuinely care. They are the ones worth keeping in your life. Everyone else is just passing through."
Karl Marx, Friendship
"My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me."
Henry Ford, Friendship
"The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters."
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Friendship
"It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages."
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Friendship
"A brother may not be a friend, but a friend will always be a brother."
Benjamin Franklin, Friendship
"A true Friend is the best possession."
Benjamin Franklin, Friendship
"I don’t believe in stereotypes. I prefer to hate people on a more personal basis."
Benjamin Franklin, Friendship
"A false friend and a shadow attend only while the sun shines."
Benjamin Franklin, Friendship
"Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his."
Benjamin Franklin, Friendship
"Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors."
Confucius, Friendship, Kindness
"Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself."