Inspirational Quotes on Friendship

“Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back.”

“I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world.”

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

“Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.”

“Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: What! You too? I thought I was the only one.”

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

“True friends face in the same direction, toward common projects, interests, goals.”

“Do not waste time bothering whether you "love" your neighbor; act as if you did.”

“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.”

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

“I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let's face it, friends make life a lot more fun.”

“A rule I have had for years is: to treat the Lord Jesus Christ as a personal friend. His is not a creed, a mere doctrine, but it is He Himself we have.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.”

“The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship.”

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

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

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