My Friendship Quotes

Intimacy blossoms anytime you let down your socially acceptable mask.

Friendship that possesses the whole soul, and there rules and sways with an absolute sovereignty, can admit of no rival.

The religion of my doctor or my lawyer cannot matter. That consideration has nothing in common with the functions of the friendship they owe me.

The best relationships develop out of friendships.

When I write I try as far as possible to forget I'm writing it at all. I tell it down onto the page, as if I'm telling it to one person only, my best friend.

A true test of friendship, to sit or walk with a friend for an hour in perfect silence , without wearying of one another's company.

My thing is to gain the respect as an actor, as a professional, and the friendship and everything else will happen from there.

All things are in common among friends.

We must rediscover the habit of thinking the best of each other

The Graces was a great experience; it's great working with women, but we weren't put together in an organic way, and I think that's why we didn't stay together. There wasn't that natural friendship.

This isn't romance. This isn't a declaration of love or affirmation of friendship. This is something more.

I was lost til you were found, but I never knew how far down I was falling before I reached the bottom.

I would welcome a friendship with Lynne Hinton. I would welcome an invitation to sit down at her table, but mostly I would welcome her next book.

A word, a smile, and the stranger at your elbow may become an interesting friend. All through life we deny ourselves stimulating fellowship because we are too proud or too afraid to unbend.

There you see Exxon CEO Rex Tillerson closing a deal with [Vladimir] Putin in 2011. Two years later, he received one of Russia's highest civilian honors, the Order of Friendship.

I know you have much to bear with in me, and I really do sometimes in you, but I have never looked at friendship in a deep sense as easy or entirely comfortable.

One's capacity for friendship, which can be developed, is basic to one's capacity for happiness.

What others regard as retreat from them or rejection of them is not those things at all but instead a breeding ground for greater friendship, a culture for deeper involvement, eventually, with them.

Caring for friends opens the heart, and gifts us with the privilege of sharing the fruits of our self-imposed and necessary solitude.

Real friends require honesty, openness, and even vulnerability. They also require attention and simple acts of kindness.

Fix yourself upon the wealthy. In a word, take this for a golden rule through life: Never, never have a friend that is poorer than yourself.

You can date the evolving life of a mind, like the age of a tree, by the rings of friendship formed by the expanding central trunk.

friendship is a virtue which comprehends all the rest; none being fit for this, who is not adorned with every other virtue.

When I want friendship defined - I look at my friends.

What's helped me is having really good friends I know I can rely on. Cameron Diaz is one of the greatest friends anyone can ever have. She has so much love to give.

Best Friends: we're a parade - even by ourselves!

I stopped working a few years ago because I just lost a spark that I'd had before. I thought I'd just try writing, and maybe start directing, but I did it very quietly.

So, they had this 40-odd year friendship with each other and with Mr Harwood. So, when I came on it Albert, Tom and Maggie were in the cast. But then Albert wasn't up for it, so he had to withdraw.

A friend is a possession we earn, not a gift.

It is still a fact that our common frontier grows stronger every year, defended only by friendship.

'peace and friendship, in freedom.'

In political life, it is extremely difficult to remain loyal to a friendship when constellations of power or interests are in the way.

Friendship embraces innumerable ends; turn where you will it is ever at your side; no barrier shuts it out; it is never untimely and never in the way.

You can come back to friendship. You can let it drop, for five years or ten years, and come back to it.

I do think in this film [Captain America] we try to tie together that their relationship has gotten stronger - that their friendship has gotten stronger from the last film, sure.

It has been always held for a special principle in friendship that prosperity provideth but adversity proveth friends.

the four virtues a person needs in order to be safe and happy in life: intelligence, friendship, strength and (I love this one) poetry.

Nobody until very recently would have thought that their husband was supposed to be their best friend, confidante, intellectual soul mate, co-parent, inspiration.

If you can help anybody even a little, be glad; up the steps of usefulness and kindness, God will lead you on to happiness and friendship.

Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.

The most important things in a friendship didn't have to be said out loud.

People are shaped by friendship as much as by romance.

For the good of all, I say: Be careful, the brutality of the world must not be more powerful or attractive than love and friendship.

It is virtue itself that produces and sustains friendship, not without virtue can friendship by any possibility exist.

It is like taking the sun out of the world, to bereave human life of friendship.

Friendship is not to be sought for its wages, but because its revenue consists entirely in the love which it implies.

I'll be your crying shoulder.

Friendship's the wine of life.

And friend received with thumps upon the back.

Friendship requires a leap, not of faith but of regard.