Friendship Quotes

In the family, in interpersonal relationships, even in friendship, faith is tremendously important. If you have a partner who you believe is a good person, then it is your duty to have faith in them until the end, despite the fact that they might have done some bad things. And you have to support and believe in your children.

~ Greg Graffin

I know Donald Trump. I've met him I know his family. I have love and friendship and affection for his family members. But I'm going to work very hard to ensure that he is not our president.

~ Cory Booker

November 11, 1802, I arrived at Judge Patterson's at Lisle. This respectable family treated me with every mark of distinction and friendship, and likewise all the people did the same. I really want for words to express my gratitude.

~ Deborah Sampson

The building of friendship, family, community and love is complicated. We are so isolated in this country, no longer supported by tribes and villages.

~ Jasmine Guy

Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything.

~ Willa Cather

I noticed that no matter where I went in the country, there was this group of questions that got asked. I would track them and keep them in categories. Like body image, school, family, friendship, you name it, the emotional life of a teenage girl.

~ Elizabeth Berkley

When people have compassion, friendship, and unity, they speak and think in a constructive way to ensure national independence and prosperity.

~ Bhumibol Adulyadej

A friendship that like love is warm; A love like friendship, steady.

~ Thomas Moore

To be poor does not mean you lack the means to extend charity to another. You may lack money or food, but you have the gift of friendship to overwhelm the loneliness that grips the lives of so many.

~ Stanley Hauerwas

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

~ Thomas Jefferson

Most people are enduring a marginalized isolation. One of the great obstacles to modern friendships is the 'religion of rush.' People are rushing all the time through time. Friendship takes time.

~ John O'donohue

A friend is what the heart needs all the time.

~ Henry Van Dyke

In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.

~ Albert Schweitzer

No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.

~ Robert Southey

Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.

~ Bill Watterson

Friends are the best to turn to when you're having a rough day.

~ Justin Bieber

My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

~ Aristotle

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.

~ Oscar Wilde

A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

~ Charles Darwin

Lay this unto your breast: Old friends, like old swords, still are trusted best.

~ John Webster

Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of.

~ Sarah Orne Jewett

Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.

~ Margaret Walker

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.

~ John Wooden

True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.

~ Baltasar Gracián

I define friendship as a bond that transcends all barriers. When you are ready to expect anything and everything from friends, good, bad or ugly... that's what I call true friendship.

~ Harbhajan Singh

Be true to yourself. Make each day a masterpiece. Help others. Drink deeply from good books. Make friendship a fine art. Build a shelter against a rainy day.

~ John Wooden

Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.

~ William Wycherley

A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.

~ Fawn M. Brodie

What drew me towards team sport were the camaraderie and friendship. The chance to celebrate victory and success with a group of other people is something I have enjoyed doing.

~ Rahul Dravid

Sometimes people walk into plays by accident - they don't even know what they're looking at they just think to give it a chance. That can be the beginning of a long friendship.

~ Dylan Baker

Friends are the siblings God never gave us.

~ Mencius

For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.

~ Saint Teresa Of Avila

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

~ Henry David Thoreau

In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.

~ François De La Rochefoucauld

A friend is an emotional bond, just like friendship is a human experience.

~ Simon Sinek

Your experiences will be yours alone. But truth and best friendship will rarely if ever disappoint you.

~ Anne Lamott

The bracelet says 'Fear Nothing.' It was given to me by my friends, and it was made for me and my friends during the period of time that I was going through chemotherapy. And I still wear it, because it's a great reminder of friendship and how my buddies and others came together in my time of need.

~ Joseph J. Lhota

America is stronger because of President Obama's leadership, and I'm better because of his friendship.

~ Hillary Clinton

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

~ Chanakya

How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

~ Albert Camus