Friendship Quotes
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General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.
Jane Austen
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Sometimes in our relationship to another human being the proper balance of friendship is restored when we put a few grains of impropriety onto our own side of the scale.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Anyone born in the year 1950 who grew to fancy themselves as a soulful 18-year-old bought 'Songs of Leonard Cohen' upon its original release in 1968. For many of them, it was the beginning of a lifelong friendship.
David Hepworth
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We need to strengthen such inner values as contentment, patience and tolerance, as well as compassion for others. Keeping in mind that it is expressions of affection rather than money and power that attract real friends, compassion is the key to ensuring our own well-being.
Dalai Lama
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Life often seems like a long shipwreck of which the debris are friendship, glory, and love. - The shores of existence are strewn with them.
Madame de Stael
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If you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.
Muhammad Ali
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Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
Mencius
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I consider myself to be just one among 7 billion human beings. If I were to think of myself as different from others, or as something special, it would create a barrier between us. What makes us the same is that we all want to lead happy lives and gather friends around us. And friendship is based on trust, honesty and openness.
Dalai Lama
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At the shrine of friendship never say die, let the wine of friendship never run dry.
Victor Hugo
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It is impossible to preserve my friendship with people who are allegedly leaders when they are attacking their own people, shooting at them, using tanks and other forms of heavy weaponry.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan
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You renounce your friendship even in the hour of our need ' he said. 'Yet you were glad indeed to receive our aid when you came at last to these shores fainthearted loiterers and well-nigh emptyhanded. In huts on the beaches would you be dwelling still had not the Noldor carved out your haven and toiled upon your walls.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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One hopes, of course, that a relationship grows and becomes a deep and wonderful marriage and friendship that lasts forever. But that's not always the case.
Alana Stewart
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The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
William James
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But it all comes down to friendship, treating people right.
Ernie Banks
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[Friendship] is a relationship that has no formal shape, there are no rules or obligations or bonds as in marriage or the family, it is held together by neither law nor property nor blood, there is no glue in it but mutual liking. It is therefore rare.
Wallace Stegner
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If you want to win friends, make it a point to remember them. If you remember my name, you pay me a subtle compliment; you indicate that I have made an impression on you. Remember my name and you add to my feeling of importance.
Dale Carnegie
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We have got to extend the hand of friendship, we have got to take the peacelines down brick by brick.
David Ervine
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The friendship of a great man is a favor of the gods.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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As the 2016 campaign has graphically illustrated, Trump doesn't treat rivals gently. Testifying before a congressional committee in 1993, he began with his rote protestations of friendship.
Franklin Foer
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Friendship is identification and difference.
Hermann Hesse
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When you need a friend most is when no one is cheering.
K. C. Jones
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Friendship's full of dregs.
William Shakespeare
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The key to doing 'Harold and Kumar' movies is you make it earnest. Primarily what we do is make Harold and Kumar's relationship and friendship believable, and we don't actually work on being that funny.
John Cho
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To a man the greatest blessing is individual liberty; to a dog it is the last word in despair.
William Lyon Phelps