Friends thing. The best professional relationships feel like friendships. Aside from your significant other -- who is likely to as well be your best friend -- your near of import relationships are your friends.

Here are some great quotes about friendship -- and friends.

  1. "I call up if I've learned anything about friendship, it's to hang in, stay connected, fight for them, and permit them fight for you. Don't walk away, don't be distracted, don't be too decorated or tired, don't take them for granted. Friends are part of the glue that holds life and faith together. Powerful stuff." Jon Katz
  2. "Friends are the family y'all choose." Jess C. Scott
  3. "Dear is the simply force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend." Martin Luther King, Jr.
  4. "Lots of people want to ride with y'all in the limo, simply what y'all desire is someone who volition accept the passenger vehicle with y'all when the limo breaks down." Oprah
  5. "The language of friendship is not words but meanings." Henry David Thoreau
  6. "Friendship is the only cement that volition ever agree the world together." Woodrow Wilson
  7. "True friendship comes when the silence between ii people is comfy." David Tyson Gentry
  8. "Friendship is born at that moment when 1 person says to another: 'What! You too? I thought I was the only i." C.S. Lewis
  9. "Friendship consists in forgetting what ane gives and remembering what one receives." Alexander Dumas
  10. "Be tedious to autumn into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm & constant." Socrates
  11. "Friendship is like coin, easier made than kept." Samuel Butler
  12. "A friend is i that knows you as you are, understands where yous have been, accepts what you have become, and even so, gently allows you lot to grow." Shakespeare
  13. "Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend's success." Oscar Wilde
  14. "I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better." Plutarch
  15. "Wishing to be friends is quick work, only friendship is a deadening ripening fruit." Aristotle
  16. "A good friend can tell you what is the thing with you in a minute. He may not seem such a good friend subsequently telling."  Arthur Brisbane
  17. "There is nada better than a friend, unless information technology is a friend with chocolate." Linda Grayson
  18. "Don't walk behind me; I may non lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend." Albert Camus
  19. "A friend is someone who knows all about you and notwithstanding loves you." Elbert Hubbard
  20. "Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?" Abraham Lincoln
  21. "Let us be grateful to people who make u.s.a. happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom." Marcel Proust
  22. "Friendship is e'er a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity." Khalil Gibran
  23. "An insincere and evil friend is more to exist feared than a wild fauna; a wild beast may wound your torso, merely an evil friend volition wound your mind." Buddha
  24. "It'southward the friends you can recall at 4 a.one thousand. that thing." Marlene Dietrich
  25. "My all-time friend is the one who brings out the best in me." Henry Ford
  26. "Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It'due south non something you learn in schoolhouse. Simply if you haven't learned the significant of friendship, you really haven't learned anything." Muhammad Ali
  27. "Sometimes being a friend ways mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to bung themselves into their ain destiny. And a time to set to pick upwards the pieces when information technology's all over." Octavia Butler
  28. "There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others get-go; when you learn to live for others, they will live for y'all." Paramahansa Yogananda
  29. "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." Friedrich Nietzsche
  30. "Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like fine art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival" C.S. Lewis
  31. "The friend who holds your manus and says the wrong thing is fabricated of dearer stuff than the one who stays away." Barbara Kingsolver
  32. "I value the friend who for me finds fourth dimension on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his agenda." Robert Brault
  33. "Sweet is the retentivity of afar friends! Like the mellow rays of the parting sunday, it falls tenderly, notwithstanding sadly, on the heart." Washington Irving
  34. "How many slams in an former screen door? Depends how loud you close it. How many slices in a staff of life? Depends how sparse y'all cut information technology. How much good inside a 24-hour interval? Depends how adept you live 'em. How much dear within a friend? Depends how much you give 'em." Shel Silverstein
  35. "Growing autonomously doesn't change the fact that for a long fourth dimension we grew next; our roots volition ever be tangled. I'chiliad glad for that." Marry Condie
  36. "We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, at that place is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a serial of kindnesses in that location is at concluding ane which makes the heart run over." Ray Bradbury
  37. "Never leave a friend backside. Friends are all we have to get u.s.a. through this life-and they are the merely things from this world that we could promise to run into in the next." Dean Koontz
  38. "Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to accept her nonsense respected." Charles Lamb
  39. "The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, not the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; information technology is the spiritual inspiration that comes to ane when you lot observe that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust yous with a friendship." Ralph Waldo Emerson
  40. "A friendship that can end never really began." Publilius Syrus
  41. "Lovers accept a correct to beguile you. Friends don't." Judy Holliday
  42. "No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow." Alice Walker
  43. "In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends." John Churton Collins
  44. "Yous tin e'er tell a real friend: when y'all've made a fool of yourself he doesn't experience you've done a permanent job." Laurence J. Peter
  45. "Every friendship travels at one-time through the black valley of despair. This tests every attribute of your affection. You lose the attraction and the magic. Your sense of each other darkens and your presence is sore. If you lot tin can come through this fourth dimension, it can purify with your love, and falsity and demand volition fall away. Information technology will bring you onto new ground where amore tin can grow again." John O'Donohue
  46. "You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to go other people interested in y'all." Dale Carnegie
  47. "Some people go to priests, others to poetry, I to my friends." Virginia Woolf
  48. "The real examination of friendship is can yous literally practise nothing with the other person? Tin can y'all enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?" Eugene Kennedy
  49. "Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief." Cicero
  50. "One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives." Euripides