Quotes about Friendship
True friends challenge us and help us to be faithful on our journey.
— Pope Benedict XVI
Food is strength, and food is peace, and food is freedom, and food is a helping hand to people around the world whose good will and friendship we want.
— John F. Kennedy
[Michelle Obama] used to say to our friends, "Barack's exactly the kind of guy I want to be president. I just wish he didn't want to do it when I was married to him."
— Barack Obama
He [God] wants us to talk to him as to a friend or father - authentically, reverently, personally, earnestly.
— Bill Hybels
I wish thy lot, now bad, still worse, my friend, for when at worst, they say, things always mend.
— John Owen
I am a passionate, committed composer, and the guy I used to write musicals with, once he was able to ditch me and get a better composer, actually won the Tony.
— Eric Garcetti
For me, Jesus is my cleft in the rock. He is my safest friend, my safe totally loving accepting big brother.
— Anne Lamott
Abraham Lincoln was often criticized for trying to make friends with his enemies instead of trying to get rid of them. He replied, "Isn't that what I'm doing when I make an enemy a friend?
— Sean Covey
There's nothing better than belonging to a great group of friends and nothing worse than feeling like an outcast. Friends are important but should never become your center.
— Sean Covey
It's hard, but sometimes it is better to have no friends for a time than to have the wrong friends. The wrong group can lead you down all kinds of paths you really don't want to be on. And retracing your steps can be a long and hard journey
— Sean Covey
What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.
— Seneca
Friendship always benefits love sometimes injures.
— Seneca