“A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.”
Good friends are hard to find and worth holding onto. These quotes celebrate the people who show up, tell you the truth, and stick around when things get difficult — the chosen family that makes life richer.
“It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.”
“A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.”
“During the 1950s, Aristotle Onassis and I formed what grew to be a close friendship and association in several business ventures.”
“Friendship often ends in love but love in friendship - never.”
“The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.”
“It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.”
“Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.”
“Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.”
“Friendship is essentially a partnership.”
“One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.”
“The little trouble in the world that is not due to love is due to friendship.”
“Love demands infinitely less than friendship.”
“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.”
“A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.”
“Caring for but never trying to own may be a further way to define friendship.”
“If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.”