Top 171 Friendships Quotes

People feel better when their spouses have good friendships, over and above the effects of their own friendships.

The most important thing I learned was the value of personal friendships and working cooperatively with your peers – the Academy has a saying, ‘cooperate to graduate,’ and that remains a very important central core in my thinking today.

The word ‘sister’ evokes an ideal of connection and support, like the friendships that made Rebecca Wells’s ‘Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood’ and Ann Brashares’s ‘The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants’ into best-selling novels and successful films.

But it’s amazing how many people think that gay men should slink off into the shadows when it comes to having friendships with children.

When I got on Twitter, that was the first time I was able to have lasting relationships with outsiders. And even though they were limited to those 140 characters, it was the duration of the friendships and the rapport we were able to develop.

Because I have sixty years of being a professional composer, conductor, musician, whatever, and you develop a lot of friendships and you get involved with a lot of sort of long-term commitments and obligations.

I boldly assert, in fact I think I know, that a lot of friendships and connections absolutely depend upon a sort of shared language, or slang. Not necessarily designed to exclude others, this can establish a certain comity and, even after a long absence, re-establish it in a second.

That’s what friendships are, isn’t it? You don’t all have to be the same, as long as you’ve all got the same sense of humor and same attitudes on life.

The firmest of friendships have been formed in mutual adversity, as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame.

Without a doubt, my richest relationships are my long-term friendships with musical partners, because we make music together. That’s what we love to do with our lives.

When I speak with people who love their jobs and have vital friendships at work, they always talk about how their workgroup is like a family.

It’s hard to create new friendships outside sports.

I have a lot of girlfriends. That’s sort of my whole thing is, I have really, really deep friendships, more so than anybody I’ve ever met.

I definitely think that touring is a really crazy lifestyle and makes it hard to live a normal life and have relationships and friendships.

I’m far from being reclusive. I have 30- or 40-year friendships that I prefer to meeting new people. I go to an occasional party, but just because I don’t go to a lot of events, and I’m not out in public all the time doesn’t mean I’m anti-social or a recluse.

Just as people have long believed that strengthening ties of trade improves the prospects for peace and the free exchange of ideas, Facebook friendships or Twitter followings already transcend national borders.

I’m grateful for the friendships and being able to show it, for people’s dancing pleasure.

You don’t just luck into things as much as you would like to think you do. You build step by step, whether it is friendships or opportunities.

What does being a woman today mean? Is there a right way of doing it? Is there a wrong way of doing it? Different kinds of women, female friendships: It’s all pretty funny, and worth making fun of.

I think it’s very rare that you see girl friendships on television. It’s always cattiness and all that drama.

I’m going through this phase where I don’t make an effort to make friends with anyone. This is primarily because I know that people try to make friends only till the time the camera is on. I’m not comfortable with such friendships and I didn’t resort to it in ‘Bigg Boss’ either.

We don’t mess with squads. Our friend group is not, like, a strategic thing. There’s no strategy to our friendships. There’s no strategy to the circle of girls. Everyone’s, like, bound together for different things.

We understand in this sport, of course, people will develop friendships. But at the same time, in our business, you’ll fight, and we’re OK with that.

Because I didn’t go to graduate school or have mentorship out of college, meeting other playwrights and developing those friendships as a result of being a ‘grown up’ playwright – that’s become an essential community for me. My contemporaries are all my mentors whether they know it or not.

I feel like there are probably more films about white male friendships than almost any other types of movies.

You never know where someone else is coming from. Even within best friendships or within mother- daughter relationships, you never fully know what’s behind someone’s eyes.

As far as friendships go, things change even without the fame. People start moving on. I have a few friends that are married and are starting to have kids and I’m like, ‘Oh my goodness gracious – that’s so insane.’ I also have friends who are just doing their own thing, which is cool.

All the details of the life and the quirks and the friendships can be laid out for us, but the mystery of the writing will remain. No amount of documentation, however fascinating, can take us there.

There is no greater feeling in business than building a product which impacts people’s lives in a profound way. When we look around at the thousands of people who have attended Summit gatherings, it makes us smile to see the new friendships, business partnerships and philanthropic initiatives that each event produces.

It’s not a lighthearted decision to change your language, your country, your citizenship, and come to a world where you don’t know anybody, to leave a place where you’ve had opportunities to build friendships from childhood. That’s quite a big decision to make.

Between the age of 30 and going fishing, none of my friendships had any of that magic dust of when you were young. There was a sort of functionality to them, just keeping in touch. ‘Oh, I should invite so and so, I haven’t seen them for ages.

Select your friendships carefully. Gather people around you who will reinforce your lifestyle.

It’s love. It’s two men – two strong, very virile men – finding that space in life where they can let go enough of their masculinity to feel the passion of love and respect and trust. Friendships are based on those things, and you seal it with a kiss.

Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

I’d rather trust nine people and have the 10th one stab me in the back. I’d take that fall in order to have those nine friendships or working relationships instead of having none. That’s not living.

I pushed away a lot of friendships.

Workaholics typically have a lot of achievement with very little appreciation of what they have, whether it’s cars or friendships or otherwise. That is a shallow victory. Then you have people with a lot of appreciation and no achievement, which is fine, but it doesn’t create a lot of good in the world.

Always admit when you’re wrong. You’ll save thousands in therapy… and a few friendships too.

Here in the big city people spend their time thinking about work and about money; they don’t give some value to friendships and it can be depressing.

There will never be a replacement for that ongoing physical contact. But I don’t think blogging is meant to replace the face-to-face of friendships and meetings. Blogging is a way to keep in touch with a larger group of people on an ongoing basis, in a more efficient way.

It was the camaraderie and the friendships, too, that really drew me to Queensbridge.

I’m fiercely loyal to my friends, and I really cherish my friendships.

While I am grateful for the friendships and relationships that I have with my Republican colleagues, it would be naive to pretend that those friendships will change the way that major policies are enacted in Arizona.

I think friendships, true friendships, morph as our lives change into what we need them to be. I am very lucky to have some really great friends, who have been there for me during my ups and downs.

It’s such a joy to be able to have friendships free from worry. It’s so lovely to live without fear.

As a person, I don’t feel insecure about most things in life. From relationships, friendships to work, I am quite at peace in my head.

It’s no good trying to keep up old friendships. It’s painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it.

I value my friendships and go out of my way to commit time and energy to them.

I was miserable at uni. There were months at a time when I wouldn’t leave the house unless it was to buy food. I lost a lot of friendships. I later lost jobs because of my mental health.

Players build up friendships with each other, so when a team-mate wants out, part of you understands that he is torn and you know you can’t begrudge him a move. But the other part of you wants him to stay because you want to win games.

I am hugely honored to represent my country in the Olympics and in World Cups, and I’m grateful for all the advantages being a professional soccer player brings my way – the opportunities to see the world, the camaraderie and friendships, and more.

I definitely have had friendships and moments with people from different backgrounds and in different stages of their lives.

I suffer from depression and anxiety, and having a show and having a character that portrays a young woman who is dealing with that and the consequences of it – how it affects her friendships and her relationships with her mom and her sister – it’s beautiful to see that.

When I come onto a show where I haven’t met any actors, I try to zero in on the script and what’s expected of the character I’m going to play and hopefully keep my focus on that, and friendships develop from that.

You can’t fake the subway, and you can’t fake friendships.

My friendships all tend to be quite steady, so it’s really hard to novelise that stuff because it’s just boring. I mean, there’s interesting conversations, but there’s no power struggle. And you can’t work with equilibrium; you have to work with something that’s just off and then observe how it tries to correct itself.

‘ER’ was an all-consuming universe, but I don’t have a single regret. It gave me some of the greatest friendships I have and afforded me one of the rarest commodities in an actor’s life, which is the financial security to pick and choose jobs for factors besides the paycheck.

I think, growing up, the female friendships that I saw on television were portrayed as catty and vicious.

Families have become models for public life, constructing friendships between individuals of different temperaments, ambitions and ages, even if they are often unsuccessful. People now want, above all, appreciation of their uniqueness.

When I look back on my life, it seems nearly everything of interest happened in little more than one decade – dramas, tragedies, major events, pleasures, my close friendships with artists and political figures, the lovely places where I lived in England and New York, the trips to Europe, visits at the White House.

Few friendships could survive the moodiness of love affairs.

I regret not working harder to create true friendships with other couples, not seeking out people with whom to go do things and go places – people with whom to have a few crazy, memorable bonding adventures.

Your most important friendships should be with your own brothers and sisters and with your father and mother. Love your family. Be loyal to them. Have a genuine concern for your brothers and sisters.

Friendships and marriage are far more potent than financial conflicts.

What makes a woman beautiful is her loyalty to and her friendships with other women, and her honesty with men.

The real beauty in my professional experience has been friendships and collaborations with filmmakers.

I was bullied from grade one to six. Even middle school was tough for me. Everyone had these pre-existing friendships, and I was the new kid, who was acting, so that didn’t help much either. It was really tough.

I want to build friendships. I want to come across as being a good illustration of what Jesus is like.

I am afraid that, like Timon of Athens, I just cannot let go of my friendships.

I created great long-term friendships with Jerry Padalecki and Milo Ventimiglia back in the day.

Friendships that have stood the test of time and change are surely best.

Friendships are discovered rather than made.

I thought the more famous I became, the more friendships I would have, but the opposite was true.

Friendships born on the field of athletic strife are the real gold of competition. Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Friendships are forgotten when the game begins.

Common perceptions of female friendships are morning coffees discussing children, bags, periods and agreeing about the misdemeanours of men… mild, soft, nurturing relationships.

People feel that in this industry friendships are not for real, but that’s not true. Otherwise, what is the point of being friends?

I was always so excited for the team event in speedskating. And I think that had to do a lot with growing up playing baseball and the amount of friendships and bonds that I created.

I think part of my journeys here and the places I was able to be at and the styles of wrestling I was able to experience and the friendships and just the world experience that I garnered before I came here to WWE helped me tremendously when I got here.

‘Days Of Our Lives’ has probably the most passionate people I’ve ever worked with, that love and care so deeply about their show. I had deep friendships there.

The Games are just a nice, positive way to build friendships, camaraderie and, of course, self-esteem. Plus, the Games are a great opportunity for people to participate in sports who normally wouldn’t.

Getting an education, building relationships and lasting friendships for the rest of your life… you can’t take that away.

‘I’m a Celebrity’ has been an amazing ride, and I’m walking out of here with some amazing friendships. It’s been awesome.

I met one of my best resources because I cold-called the local FBI office one day early in my career with questions. The agent who took the call knew someone who knew someone who was ex-Army, trained in personal protection. The resulting introduction was one of the best, most enduring friendships I’ve ever enjoyed.

Manipal was the best time I ever had in life: a great university with wonderful teachers, fantastic memories and deep, lifelong friendships.

Plenty of friendships are sustainable through dinners and lunches, but will not stand a week away. So be careful with whom you go on holiday.

I’m in a collective with the same guys I met on the streets at 12. The greatest investments I ever made were those friendships.

Acting in anger and hatred throughout my life, I frequently precipitated what I feared most, the loss of friendships and the need to rely upon the very people I’d abused.

A man’s friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage – but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.

In a nightclub, the women’s loos are not just the women’s loos; they’re where temporary female friendships are forged.

Generally, social networking sites can be hugely promising and beneficial in opening new friendships and vistas and knowledge of the world, but they are also fraught with peril, when young people are reckless or headless.

In writing ‘Another Brooklyn,’ I had to imagine what happens when friendships dissolve.

I’m anxious about work, the future, friendships, past relationships… I’m just one of those people that, whatever I’m doing, it’s a big worry.

You create real friendships through a growth process. It’s not just, oh hi, we’re friends! That’s very childlike. True adult friendships take time, understanding, and it’s a plant that needs to be watered and tended to so that it blossoms.

I got a regret: That I started acting so late. I was 27, and guys who start at 18 or so, there’s this kinda continuity of friendships they form in the profession by startin’ young, I’ve never had that.

Among young people, often a key factor in them committing suicide is the trauma of transient relationships. They throw themselves into a friendship or network of friendships, then it collapses and they’re desolate.

My wife, Nancy, and I like to meet new people, renew old friendships and accept new challenges. At home we like to have small dinner parties. Sundays we have buffet brunches.

The real thing young people should fear is missing out on those few, true, long-term friendships that make for a richer, happier life.

Back in your twenties you’re discovering your boundaries in life, whether it’s with relationships or friendships and partying.

In my mind, the CalMac ferry is linked with the joy of arrival, the sadness of departure, the loss of loved ones brought home by ferry to rest in island soil. It is friendships made and a working life begun.

The band’s a really close-knit family. We’ve got fantastically good friendships and relationships that have developed after all these years.

I think I deal with my anger toward my relationship or about my relationship or about my friendships or my family – I deal with it on stage in a passive-aggressive way, and that can be very harmful if it gets back to them, which it always does.

Never ignore your intuition about friendships and people’s intentions towards you.

I don’t really care about the friendships on the court. I got my friends. I got my family, which I’m close to. I got a couple of friends that I’m always around.

I did a lot of my school on set. Some years I went to a private school for a couple of hours, and then I’d always finish up with a tutor. I couldn’t do full days, but I tried to maintain my friendships and some normalcy while doing a show.

Yes, exes can be good friends, but after a certain time. Though no break-up is a good break-up, time heals everything, including broken friendships. It also depends on the kind of people they are, their mindsets and the reasons for the break ups.

I think whether you’re old or young, we’re all trying to do the same thing, and it’s random who we click with. Ideally, you’d want to collaborate with a Christopher Nolan or somebody like that, starting out, and build those friendships.

All careers go up and down like friendships, like marriages, like anything else, and you can’t bat a thousand all the time.

Over everything, over friendships or anything, is my kids – and obviously fighting for that belt is my kids’ future. It doesn’t sound too nice, but if my mom had the belt, she better give it up because my kids gotta eat. If I’m willing to fight my mom, imagine a good friend.

You get to choose the bond of lifelong friendships, of being there for the darkest and happiest of times.

I did not find that writing a diary with a lead male character differed in any essential way from writing one with a female character. They all had the same challenges in terms of attempting to establish an identity, coping with loneliness, friendships, relationships.

Over the years, I have created close friendships with many successful men, many of whom I have made a lot of money for through deals that I brought to them or business counsel that I have provided.

I’ve been on tour since I was 16, and I always do meet-and-greets before and after shows, so you kind of build these friendships with people. I have girls come up to me and tell me exactly what’s going on in their love lives.

One of my best friendships dwindled in the pub business – we still talk, but it challenged that friendship too much – and that taught me to go into football and find people that I can have good relations with but without being overly friendly.

It’s hard for me to be involved in superficial friendships with other women.

Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy.

There are many different shapes of friendships to be had.

We form friendships so that we can feel certain emotions, like love, want, magic – of missing people, avoid others – like loneliness.

Get a hobby. Maintain your friendships. Hang out with other people.

Mary Tyler Moore was a working woman whose story lines were not always about dating and men. They were about work friendships and relationships, which is what I feel my adult life has mostly been about.

I think all women have a friend who at some point dumped them or betrayed them or deeply disappointed them. And at the same time all women have a friend who they dumped or betrayed or hurt in some way. That’s universal in women’s friendships.

We are already seeing the creation of a new kind of network based on friendships: Startups, which are often founded by friends, are the beginning of something that could reshape social relations.

Friendships, like marriages, are dependent on avoiding the unforgivable.

I find, in film, we’re always making things and having these intense friendships and then losing track of people. When I first start a job, I’m quite nervous, and it takes me a while to find my place, and then it feels like I’m just really loving it and feeling great, and it’s all over.

If I had to choose between the band or the friendships, I’d choose the friendships at this point.

As an American, and especially as a Christian, I am convinced that a love for our own people is not a bad thing, but love doesn’t stop at borders. Love is infinitely boundless and all about holy trespassing and offensive friendships.

We invest less in our friendships and expect more of friends than any other relationship. We spend days working out where to book for a romantic dinner, weeks wondering how to celebrate a partner or parent’s birthday, and seconds forgetting a friend’s important anniversary.

Jesus said, ‘Greater things of these you shall do…’ Become a peace builder, a bridge builder, not a destroyer, and the way you do that is through friendships and relationships, and through authentic character.

I feel like a lot of the female relationships I see on TV or in movies are in some way free of the kind of jealousy and anxiety and posturing that has been such a huge part of my female friendships, which I hope lessens a little bit with age.

Friendships that don’t fit my life anymore have faded away, and new ones have come in.

When actors are vying for the same kinds of roles, there’s bound to be a little rivalry. Deep friendships cannot be forged when you are competing with each other.

The more professional opportunities came my way, the more time I spent away from my friends – the people I truly cared about. Maintaining friendships with people to talk to, depend on and enjoy takes time.

You try to do the best for your club, and you also create relationships and friendships – with Neymar, my relationship is really strong.

If you’re lucky enough to have a Black friend who has tolerated your racist parents while you turned a blind eye to the mistreatment they’ve suffered, maybe start by saying sorry, and then actually change the record. It is that change that could literally save lives, or at the very least, save friendships.

When we started Airbnb, I had no idea about the people we would meet or the friendships I would make.

Secretly, I’m in awe of Broadway performers. I would love to perform at that level. I love the exchange with the audience. I love being able to sing and dance to express your emotions and the community and friendships that are formed when working on a theater piece.

Believe it or not, friendships are difficult to write in fiction. They can easily come across as forced, particularly if they involve too much explication and too many overt gestures of affection.

I’m blessed by having very long-term, solid friendships, and they’re such joyous things.

One must never compromise on finances and confuse personal friendships with professional charges.

Books are a real solace, friendships are good but action is better than all.

It’s not too late to develop new friendships or reconnect with people.

You don’t have to dislike people you disagree with and it doesn’t mean you shouldn’t be able to have bipartisan friendships in this place. Life’s too short to have it any other way.

The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.

It was good for us, I suppose. Those kinds of times produce qualities in us that make us better for having had them. My parents were not getting along. My mother was quite intolerant of friendships that were being developed.

You need to experience life to be able to write about friendships, relationships, and heartbreak.

I find I really put careful consideration into my friendships with women because the relationships can be so sensitive. Let’s face it: some women can be down right catty. This is what makes me cautious, but also what makes my true friendships so dear to me.

I support any means to make real connections so long as that it does lead really quickly to real connections. It’s the long-term online friendships and relationships that start to get a little hairy.

Most of my really strong friendships are with people I’ve known all my life.

Some of the most lasting contacts and friendships that I have developed began by just grabbing a drink or breaking bread with a stranger at an industry event.

It still feels like I am just playing with my mates a lot of the time. A lot of us in the England team have grown up playing cricket together and formed very close friendships, which makes the dressing room a very enjoyable place to be.

We actually have a small family. It’s just my father and I and my grandmother, who lives in Tokyo. I cherish my friendships.

When we’re talking about friendships, generosity and fairness and equanimity and sharing and all those things are super-important to me.

That’s always the biggest thing, especially in the secondary, is building not just communication and everything but friendships and bonds of off-the-field stuff and things like that.

Some of the choicest blessings of my life have been the close friendships I have experienced over the years. Often, these friendships have been forged in the fires of shared experience.

I have many intense friendships with artists. I don’t mean we have intense one-day conversations but ongoing conversations that last in some cases for years.

Being a scientist is a special privilege: for it brings the opportunity to be creative, the passionate quest for answers to nature’s most precious secrets, and the warm friendships of many valued colleagues.

I think I’m close to lot of people in Bollywood, but I believe in evil eye, and I feel when I talk about friendships and relationships in public something somewhere goes wrong with it.

I have always enjoyed the company of women and have formed deep and long-lasting friendships with many of them.

I cannot quantify the physics of friendships and do not know exactly how much intense pressure can be applied before these glittery, brittle bonds break.

You just don’t luck into things as much as you’d like to think you do. You build step by step, whether it’s friendships or opportunities.

I am a bit of a solitude person – a solitary personality. I like being on my own. I don’t have any major friendships or relationships with people.

Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.

Family and friends and faith are the most important things in your life and you should be building friendships.

I think it’s weird that we expect ups and downs in friendships, but not in relationships. It all has to be romance, romance, romance – but there’s two people and there are always going to be disagreements, and you have to work at it.

Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.

I believe people think as a group more often than we might realize or care to admit. We like to believe that we act as individuals and nothing more, but time and again – in corporations and business, in politics and religion, in fashion and culture, and in friendships and social circles – we think and do as one.

The rise of Right-wing populism globally has divided not just countries, but families. It has broken relationships and torn apart friendships. It has created social media discord and abuse, and led to unprecedented name-calling.

When you fail, things get real. In fact, they get real real. If your success was a high profile success, then your failure will be a high profile failure. Opportunities and ‘friendships’ will evaporate. Failure shines a bright light on all relationships. The ones that last are pure and true, which is a true gift.

You try to do the best for your club, and you also create relationships and friendships – with Neymar, my relationship is really strong, even though it really hurt the club when he left. As a friend, I could understand his decision and why he wanted to go to Paris. I tried to be fair to him no matter what.

I’m losing friendships over forgetting to get back to people. But you can’t keep up with everything. I’ve got a 13-year-old, a nine-year-old and a baby.

Indeed, ‘Sex and the City’ highlighted the importance of female friendships, and showed the world that it was hip to be single.