Tony Robbins on Friendship

"My definition for friendship is quite simple: if you're a friend, then you absolutely love a person unconditionally, and you'll do anything you can to support them. If they call you when they're in trouble or truly in need, you're there for them. Months go by, yet the friendship would never weaken once you decide that somebody is truly your friend. That's it! You never question it again. I think I have lots of friends because my rules for friendship are so easy to meet! All you have to do is care about me and love me, and I'll care about you and love you, and now we're friends."

Anthony Robbins: Awaken the Giant Within

Best Friend Quotes | Friendship Quotes by The French

Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.

Montesquieu


The pleasure found in friendship as in love comes more from the things we don't know about others than from the things we know.

La Rochefoucauld


Women give nothing to friendship except what they borrow from love.

Chamfort

Friendship is Disinterested Commerce

Friendship is disinterested commerce between equals; love, an object intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

Oliver Goldsmith

Relation of Estrangement in Friendships

"These friendships were not just easy relations of complicity and likemindedness, but brought both parties face to face with that which exceeds them. To be a friend is to cease to be what one is. It is a relation of estrangement. Only in the eyes of the Other do I exceed my existence as an isolated being. This holds not only for the actuality of friendship, but especially for the exigency of writing."

Ullrich Haase and William Large: Maurice Blanchot (Routledge Critical Thinkers)

Henry Adams Friendship Quotes

One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible.
Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

Henry Adams:

The Education of Henry Adams (1907)