Friendship Quotes

He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.

I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.

The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, adapted

Friends come and go, but enemies accumulate

Love is blind, but friendship closes its eyes.

I think the best friendships are those that can stand the test of time, where the friendship is based more on who you are than on what you do or what you have.

A friendship founded on business is a good deal better than a business founded on friendship.

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

Be a friend to thyself and others will too.
Thomas Fuller 1608

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
AnaÔs Nin

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers.
Charles W Eliot 1834

Don't listen to friends when the Friend inside you says 'Do this.'.
Mahatma Gandhi 1869

The sharing of joy, whether physical, emotional, psychic, or intellectual, forms a bridge between the sharers which can be the basis for understanding much of what is not shared between them, and lessens the threat of their difference.

Don't sacrifice your life to work and ideals. The most important things in life are human relations. I found that out too late.
Katharine Susannah Prichard 1883

True friendship consists not in the multitude of friends, but in their worth and value.

Freindship consists in forgetting what one gives, and remembering what one receives.
Alexandre Dumas 1803

Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: "What! You, too? Thought I was the only one."

Friendship is a sheltering tree.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772

Go cherish your soul; express companions; set your habits to a life of solitude; then will the faculties rise fair and full within.

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.

Friendship with oneself is all important because without it one cannot be friends with anybody else in the world

All love that has not friendship for its base, Is like a mansion built upon the sand.

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.







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Alone, we slip into a self reinforcing haze. A place of isolation in which the only voice we hear is our own, and we become more and more convinced that our world view, what we see, is the only one that makes sense, the only one that is correct. Living in our own heads we build empires, cast down the unworthy, glory in our intellect. We become a floating island of ego, living within ourselves and living only for ourselves. Other people are the only antidote to this. Friendship offers not only companionship, love, and fun, but it offers a reflector as well. Our ideas, prejudices, hatreds, misconceptions and brilliant notions bounce off another human being and are reflected back. We are forced to face ideas other than our own. Our mental lives become less rigid, we gain the ability to grow, to change our minds and to understand the perspectives of others.