Quotes for Friendship

A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

Leo Buscaglia

Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.

Octavia E. Butler

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Alice Walker

When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.

E. W. Howe

Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Baltasar Gracian

Love and friendship exclude each other.

Jean de la Bruyere

The truths are universal: Every kid knows fear. Every kid knows family and friendship. Loss, love, laughter. Everything else is just detail.

Jason Reynolds

Because most people are not sufficiently employed in themselves, they run about loose, hungering for employment, and satisfy themselves in various supererogatory occupations. The easiest of these occupations, which have all to do with making things already made, is the making of people: it is called the art of friendship.

Laura Riding

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

Joseph Addison

Success always necessitates a degree of ruthlessness. Given the choice of friendship or success, I'd probably choose success.

Sting

A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.

William Penn

A friend is what the heart needs all the time.

Henry Van Dyke

A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

You've got to reach a hand of friendship across the aisle and across philosophies in this country.

Joe Biden

We should have a good working friendship with the United States.

Justin Trudeau

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

George Foreman

I think everyone is always so surprised to see the friendship that I have with The Vixen. We are very supportive of each other.

Aquaria

Sustaining true friendship is a lot more challenging than we give it credit for.

Mariella Frostrup

Have you ever thought how humiliating and distressing it was to be placed upon a sphere? For friendship it is a boon never to be able to be further apart than the antipodes. But suppose that you are leaving together to go on and on; it is impossible. To go beyond a certain point is to return to where you began.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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

Henry Ward Beecher