Quotes for Friendship

Loyalty and friendship trumps politics for me.

Robert Kraft

I've known Brisa Trinchero for years. Our friendship blossomed in our love for the arts, but it's come into full bloom as I've watched Brisa growing her own company from the ground up. She's a relentless worker with a big heart and an imaginative mind.

Randi Zuckerberg

Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.

Oprah Winfrey

Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams.

Henry David Thoreau

Instead of loving your enemies - treat your friends a little better.

E. W. Howe

Matching tattoos don't ensure the longevity of a friendship, any more than any other mutual hardship.

Jenna Wortham

Friendships naturally shift over life. We have different friends for different times in our lives, and sometimes it's not the best idea to hang on to a friendship to try to make it work if it's an unhealthy connection.

Tara Stiles

If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first; when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.

Paramahansa Yogananda

My definition of a friend is somebody who adores you even though they know the things you're most ashamed of.

Jodie Foster

It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.

Charles Kingsley

Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.

Confucius

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

Anne Lamott

Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded.

Gertrude Stein

Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

Oliver Goldsmith

My parents, and librarians along the way, taught me about the space between words; about the margins, where so many juicy moments of life and spirit and friendship could be found. In a library, you could find miracles and truth and you might find something that would make you laugh so hard that you get shushed, in the friendliest way.

Anne Lamott

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

My aim is to create a happy society with genuine friendship. Friendship between Tibetan and Chinese peoples is very essential.

Dalai Lama

The first two lessons, which we learned early in our efforts to be good member missionaries, have made sharing the Gospel much easier: We simply can't predict who will or won't be interested in the Gospel, and building a friendship is not a prerequisite to inviting people to learn about the Gospel.

Clayton M. Christensen

A friend to all is a friend to none.

Aristotle