141 Quotes About Friendship

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

Let those be thy choicest companions who have made Christ their chief companion.

If thou would'st be borne with, then bear with others.

When you break someone down--make sure you always raise them up higher than they were before.

Nature teaches us to love our friends, but religion our enemies.

There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self.

Never be a judge between thy friends in any matter where both set their hearts upon the victory. If strangers or enemies be litigants, whatever side thou favorest, thou gettest a friend; but when friends are the parties thou losest one.

It is true that a fellow cannot ignore women - but he can think of them as he ought - as sisters, not as sparring partners.

It's less the words they say than those they leave unsaid that split old friends apart.

All my friends are but one, but He is all sufficient.

I can only hope that every minister could come to know friends as true, as faithful, and as genuine as I have come to know in C. J., Mark, and Lig. We are exhilarated in being together, and we take tremendous delight in each other. One of the problems we face in today's church is that men are not often sustained by authentic friendships. This is especially deadly for pastors.

Whatever you laugh at in others, laughs at yourself.

Man and wife are equally concerned to avoid all offense of each other in the beginning of their conversation. A little thing can blast an infant blossom.

If I take offence easily; if I am content to continue in cold unfriendliness, though friendship be possible, then I know nothing of Calvary love.

We shall never have friends if we expect to find them without fault.

Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

It was the saying of a heathen though no heathenish saying, "That he, who would be good, must either have a faithful friend to instruct him, or a watchful enemy to correct him.

He is your friend who pushes you nearer to God.

When two friends part they should lock up one another's secrets, and interchange their keys.

A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship. Be who you are and be that well.

From here it sounds great to say we'll all get together soon, but all I know is this: you can call me fifty days or fifty years from now and I'll be glad to see you.

His subject thou art whom thou crownest in thy heart, and not whom thou flatterest with thy lips.

God send me a friend that will tell me of my faults.

The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.

The best mirror is an old friend.

That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

Friendship is a deep oneness that develops when two people, speaking the truth in love to one another, journey together to the same horizon.

The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.

Old friends are best. King James used to call for his old shoes; they were the easiest for his feet.

We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbor.

Let friendship creep gently to a height; if it rushes to it, it may soon run itself out of breath.

But for money and the need of it, there would not be half the friendship in the world. It is powerful for good if divinely used. Give it plenty of air and it is sweet as the hawthorn; shut it up and it cankers and breeds worms.

A faithful friend is a truthful friend.

No man can be provident of his time who is not prudent in the choice of his company.

Wherever we are, it is our friends that make our world.

If I do not give a friend "The benefit of the doubt," but put the worst construction instead of the best on what is said or done, then I know nothing of Calvary love.

How often we say about our earthly friends, "I really would like to have a good quiet settled talk with them so that I can really get to know them." And shouldn't we feel the same about our Heavenly Friend that we may really get to know Him? These thoughts have taught me the importance of the children of God taking time to commune daily with their Father, so that they may get to know His mind and to understand better what His will is.

There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.

Make not a bosom friend of a melancholy soul: he'll be sure to aggravate thy adversity, and lessen thy prosperity. He goes always heavy loaded; and thou must bear half. He's never in a good humor; and may easily get into a bad one, and fall out with thee.

Make not a bosom friend of a melancholy, sad soul. He will be sure to aggravate thine adversity and to lessen thy prosperity. He goes always heavily loaded, and thou must bear half.

My friends have made the story of my life. In a thousand ways they have turned my limitations into beautiful privileges, and enabled me to walk serene and happy in the shadow cast by my deprivation.

God has made no one absolute. The rich depend on the poor, as well as the poor on the rich. The world is but a magnificent building; all the stones are gradually cemented together. No one subsists by himself alone.

A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults.

If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept, because you will gain one friend.

When a friend asks, there is no tomorrow.

The thing needed to women (and to men too) is these friendships without love between men and women. And if between married men and married women, all the better.

Friends become wiser together through a healthy clash of viewpoints.

Be a friend to thyself, and others will be so too.

No man can expect to find a friend without faults, nor can he propose himself to be so to another. Every man will have something to do for his friend, and something to bear with in him. Only the sober man can do the first; and for the latter, patience is requisite. It is better for a man to depend on himself than to be annoyed with either a madman or a fool.

He that forgets his friend is ungrateful to him; but he that forgets his Savior is unmerciful to himself.

A good friend is my nearest relation.

Secrecy is the chastity of friendship.

True friendship needs no reciprocation.

It is much safer to reconcile an enemy than to conquer him; victory may deprive him of his poison, but reconciliation of his will.

Don't boast about your hardheartedness or refusal to shed tears. Instead, pray that God will give you a tender heart which will sympathize with others.

True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.

Our companionship with Him, like all true companionship, is a spiritual communion. All friendship, all love, human and Divine, is purely spiritual. It was after He was risen that He influenced even the disciples most.

How can modern men today make Christ, the absent Christ, their most constant companion still? The answer is that Friendship is a spiritual thing. It is independent of Matter, or Space, or Time. That which I love in my friend is not that which I see. What influences me in my friend is not his body but his spirit.

There is a third quality to friendship, and it is not as easy to put into a single word. The right word, literally, is 'sympathy' - sym-pathos, common passion. This means that friendships are discovered more than they are created at will.

We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.

Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.

Laugh at your friends, and if your friends are sore; So much the better, you may laugh the more.

I not only have my secrets, I am my secrets. And you are yours. Our secrets are human secrets, and our trusting each other enough to share them with each other has much to do with the secret of what it means to be human.

I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.

Make not thy friends too cheap to thee, nor thyself to thy friend.

There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.

Friendship is the allay of our sorrows, the ease of our passions, the discharge of our oppression, the sanctuary of our calamities, the counselor of our doubts, the clarity of our minds, the emission of our thoughts, the exercise and improvement of what we dedicate.

Friendship that flames goes out in a flash.

Like a surgeon, friends cut you in order to heal you.

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.

By friendship you mean the greatest love, the greatest usefulness, the most open communication, the noblest sufferings, the severest truth, the heartiest counsel, and the greatest union of minds of which brave men and women are capable.

He is your friend who pushes you nearer to God.

Show me the person you honor, for I know better by that the kind of person you are. For you show me what your idea of humanity is.

To please a friend is a welcome bonus; to help him is the great reward.

Friendships are discovered rather than made.

A request from a friend is a royal command.

No man is the whole of himself; his friends are the rest of him.

Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice.

The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship.

They are rich who have true friends.

If you know people in your church or your neighborhood that are facing adversity, I encourage you to offer a hand of friendship to them. That is what Jesus would do.

Hearts are united when they ache and break together.

It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.

What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

Friendship is the nearest thing we know to what religion is. God is love. And to make religion akin to Friendship is simply to give it the highest expression conceivable by man.

He's my friend that speaks well of me behind my back.

It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company.

If, instead of a gem or even a flower, we could cast the gift of a lovely thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.

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

We can live without our friends but not without our neighbors.

He's what we really need. If your friend is sick and dying, the most important thing he wants is not an explanation but for you to sit with him. He's terrified of being alone more than anything else. So God has not left us alone.

Nobody 'used to love' anyone; there is no such thing as an 'ex-friend.'

A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.

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