Friendship Quotes

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.

I am already kindly disposed towards you. My friendship it is not in my power to give: this is a gift which no man can make, it is not in our own power: a sound and healthy friendship is the growth of time and circumstance, it will spring up and thrive like a wildflower when these favour, and when they do not, it is in vain to look for it.

I have lost friends, some by death ... Others by sheer inability to cross the street.

I am quite sure that no friendship yields its true pleasure and nobility of nature without frequent communication, sympathy and service.

Affinities are rare. They come but a few times in a life. It is awful to risk losing one when it arrives.

Laugh, and the world laughs with you; weep and you weep alone.

The people you need to help you make your dream come true are everywhere, and within your reach.

Every organism requires an environment of friends, partly to shield it from violent changes, and partly to supply it with its wants.

I suppose there is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation, of one's self.

There is a definite process by which one made people into friends, and it involved talking to them and listening to them for hours at a time.

Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art.

It's the folks that depend on us for this and for the other that we most do miss.

Actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.

Friendship, like money, is a trust, a stewardship, a responsibility.

If you have just one or two spiritual friends with whom you can share your highest aspirations, you should consider yourself richly blessed.