Friendship Quotes

The company you keep determines how others view you. Identify with mediocrity and you will be labeled sub par. Collaborate with questionable people and your reputation becomes suspect. Guilt by association can end a career, hurt your business and cost you friends. Choose alliances wisely or you may be condemned for someone else's sins.

~ Carlos Wallace

...having you as a friend wasn’t second prize. It wasn’t something to chafe against. It was an honor.

~ Courtney Milan

You are unique in the world, a friend like no other. It’s so amazing that we have so much in common so your happiness is also mine.

~ Auliq Ice

You do so much for me, my friend. I am truly blessed to have the friendship of someone as amazing as you. You are part of my life.

~ Auliq Ice

A friend who will never fail is the one who will stand by you regardless of the situation, time or location.

~ Ellen J. Barrier

A friend who will never fail is the one who will stand by you regardless of the situation,time or location.

~ Ellen J. Barrier

When choosing friends, I seek quality, not quantity.

~ Charles F. Glassman

A friend is a companion for the journey,never a means to our own.What we take we take together,the joy we reap, we have sown.

~ Tom Althouse

Friendship improves happiness, abates misery by doubling our joy and dividing our grief.

~ John

Well, everyone has a friend who holds a very special place in his life. Talking about men…a friend whom you love unconditionally and selflessly.....a friend who knows every secret of your life and who is always the first person whom you want to call when you are in some mess…a friend who tells you exactly what you want to hear. Ena was such a friend to me. My best friend – if that defines the zenith of good friendship. I would rather say, there is no definition of friendship that we shared with each other, the more I explain it, the more complicated it becomes to recite the aspects of our relationship.She was that closer a friend to me, who knew all the nitty-gritties of my life…from every girl who ever came into my life, to passwords of my email accounts or public profiles. Absolutely everything! She was the only girl on earth I trusted blindly and cared for, truly and unconditionally. She was the only girl who could actually make me dance to her beats. We shared that deeper relationship with each other.

~ Shivam Singh

When you date someone, you have the markers along the way, right: You kiss, you have The Talk, you say the Three Little Words, you sit on a swing set and break up. You can plot the points on a graph. And you check up with each other along the way: Can I do this? If I say this, will you say it back?But with friendship, there's nothing like that. Being in a relationship, that's something you choose. Being friends, that's just something you are.

~ John Green

Jill!” I called to her through our connecting bathroom as I pulled on some jeans. “You realize I’ve been more than twenty-four hours without a shower, right?” “Oh, who cares,” she grumbled. “You look fine. Just put on some deodorant and a bra. I mean, aren’t we just going to be getting sweaty lugging your stuff down from storage anyway?

~ J.m. Richards

Richard looked up to find a thirty-ish, tall, black haired man sauntering towards him with a smile that said “You can trust me”, but really meant “Don’t believe a word I say”. This was Jack, and he hadn’t changed a bit.

~ Alexander Ferrick

Out of the corner of my eye, I can see Felicity and Ann hunched over their ornaments as if they were fascinating relics from an archaeological dig. I note that their shoulders are trembling, and I realize that they are fighting laughter over my terrible plight. There's friendship for you.

~ Libba Bray

Sometimes he was weird, sometimes he was Captain Douchebag, but he was always my best friend.

~ Sharon Sant

I think we ought to find something else to do,” said Mandy. “But Alecto my love, you’re the first person to notice my retro diner kitchen. When my parents saw it, they thought I was creating a weird art project.”“I like it. It's got that let’s-drown-ourselves-in-better-days type ambiance,” Alecto declared, his gray eyes narrowed.

~ Rebecca Mcnutt

Her laughter sounded like April showers, like whispered secrets, like glass wind-chimes.

~ Rebecca Mcnutt

Um, well, I’ve been working out with Alex. Today just happened to be right after our workout,” Craig admits finally.“Really,” I say dripping with sarcasm. “And you failed to mention this earlier? You ran off so abruptly for your tryst. I should’ve suspected something illicit was occurring.”Alex erupts in laughter looking at Craig. “You didn’t tell her.

~ Isabelle Joshua

I had to be right in never talking about what you could not change, and I had to make many people agree that I was right. None of them ever accused me of being responsible for what had happened to Phineas, either because they could not believe it or because they could not understand it. I would have talked about that, but they would not, and I would not talk about Phineas in any other way.

~ John Knowles

Knowing this secret, being the only one chosen to know, makes me feel important in a way. But it’s a negative importance, it’s the importance of a blank sheet of paper. I can know because I don’t count. I feel singled out, but also bereft.

~ Margaret Atwood

If you tell anyone what I just told you, I’ll call the Mob. I know some of them, you know.” “Bullshit.” I shrugged. “Believe what you want.” Finch eyed me suspiciously, and then smiled. “You are officially the coolest person I know.” “That’s sad, Finch. You should get out more,” I said, stopping at the cafeteria entrance.

~ Jamie Mcguire

Difficult times give an opportunity to understand, who is your good friend and who is just a friend.

~ Sukant Ratnakar

She is probably by this time as tired of me, as I am of her; but as she is too Polite and I am too civil to say so, our letters are still as frequent and affectionate as ever, and our Attachment as firm and sincere as when it first commenced.

~ Jane Austen

Our time was most delightfully spent, in mutual Protestations of Freindship, and in vows of unalterable Love, in which we were secure from being interrupted, by intruding and disagreeable Visistors, as Augustus and Sophia had on their first Entrance in the Neighbourhood, taken due care to inform the surrounding Families, that as their happiness centered wholly in themselves, they wished for no other society.

~ Jane Austen

Our faith in others betrays that we would rather have faith in ourselves. Our longing for a friend is our betrayer. And often with our love we want merely to overcome envy. And often we attack and make ourselves enemies, to conceal that we are vulnerable.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

If you can't get everyone on your side, make sure they're right behind you.

~ Benny Bellamacina

There is no friendship between kings.

~ Jayne Castel

The introvert's dilemma is that we might not get a lot of invitations for the kind of socializing we like best--small, mellow gatherings. In other words, the kind of socializing other introverts like to do. Because, let's face it: We're introverts. We're all at home waiting to be invited to do introvert things. Which means, of course, that none of us are getting the invitations we crave. It's an introvert standoff.

~ Sophia Dembling

The tragedies of our past are the stepping stones for us to reach the happy endings of our tomorrows. Guilt is not going to help you become a better person. Acceptance will.

~ Yara Greathouse

Everyone thought they would be friends for decades, forever. But for most people, of course, that hadn't happened. As you got older, you realized that the qualities you valued in the people you slept with or dated weren't necessarily the ones you wanted to live with, or be with, or plod through your days with. If you were smart, and if you were lucky, you learned this and accepted this. You figured out what was most important to you and you looked for it, and you learned to be realistic.

~ Hanya Yanagihara

I won’t do anything Sara; this is not me trying to get into your pants, or to rekindle what we had. This is just me concerned over a friend I know for a long time and don’t want to lose to a crazed lunatic.

~ Nicole Kiefer

Taylor,” Nathan said, “Why didn’t you take the rest of us?” “I didn’t want to put you in danger,” she said. “Gee, thanks,” I said. “Hey, I brought Jayden, remember? He insisted on bringing you.” “Gee, thanks,” Jayden crossed his arms and frowned.

~ Embee

Well tarnation you're a meanie pants aren't you? ~Miss Mary~

~ Lucian Bane

Sometimes sharing your pain helps the hurt and the guilt more bearable. You need to feel that way. I need you to feel that way.

~ Yara Greathouse

For Calo, Galdo, and Bug

~ Scott Lynch

Revenge might be sweet and although friendship might be sweeter, once you find true love you will tast the sweetest thing life has to offer

~ Morten Høgsberg

Revenge might be sweet and although friendship might be sweeter, once you find true love you will taste the sweetest thing life has to offer

~ Morten Høgsberg

She was never satisfied with anything less than perfection, but she was no grind. She was too interested in people.

~ Doris Kearns Goodwin

Movies lost their appeal when people realized their real lives were more interesting.

~ Star Trek Enterprise

The author perceptively outlines what might be an underrated aspect of his subject and of many others whose public achievements are of note – a gift for friendship. McCullough says Adams, despite his towering intellect and curmudgeonly demeanor, had a soft heart for other people and a genuine interest in their particulars.

~ David Mccullough