Good word about friendship

In this post I’d like to share the best friendship quotes I’ve found in the past 10+ years.

Because few things have such a huge impact on happiness and the enjoyment, depth and plain fun of life as the friendships we have.

It could be the friendships with our partners, family members, co-workers and the people we have known for a few years now or since we were kids.

Or even with people we have never even met at the other side of the world or the pets we love.

So I’d like to start this year by looking back and share some of the best advice on this topic from the people who have walked this earth over the past hundreds and thousands of years.

This is 136 thought-provoking, beautiful, sometimes poignant and sometimes funny quotes on friendship.

And if you want even more inspiration then I’d recommend this collection of quotes on self-care and this one filled with quotes on never giving up.

[Note: the original version of this post contained 74 quotes but it has now been updated with 60 additional quotes on friendship.]

136 Inspiring and Helpful Friendship Quotes

“A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.”
– Walter Winchell

“If you live to be 100, I hope I live to be 100 minus 1 day, so I never have to live without you.”
– Winnie the Pooh

“I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.”
– Ernest Hemingway

“Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, ‘What! You too? I thought I was the only one.”
– C.S. Lewis

“True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable.”
– David Tyson

“Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.”
– Washington Irving

“There’s not a word yet for old friends who’ve just met.”
– Jim Henson

“A single rose can be my garden… a single friend, my world.”
– Leo Buscaglia

“Don’t make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.”
– Thomas J. Watson

“You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.”
— Dale Carnegie

“A friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future, and accepts you just the way you are.”
– Unknown

“What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.”
– Confucius

“Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.”
– Oscar Wilde

“How many slams in an old screen door? Depends how loud you shut it. How many slices in a bread? Depends how thin you cut it. How much good inside a day? Depends how good you live ’em. How much love inside a friend? Depends how much you give ’em.”
– Shel Silverstein

“A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.”
– Arnold H. Glasgow

“I don’t need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.”
– Plutarch

“In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.”
– Albert Schweitzer

“The real test of friendship is can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?”
– Eugene Kennedy

“A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they’re not so good, and sympathizes with your problems when they’re not so bad.”
– Arnold H. Glasgow

“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche

“Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It’s not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything.”
– Muhammad Ali

“If ever there is tomorrow when we’re not together… there is something you must always remember. You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. But the most important thing is, even if we’re apart… I’ll always be with you.”
– Winnie the Pooh

“Growing apart doesn’t change the fact that for a long time we grew side by side; our roots will always be tangled. I’m glad for that.”
– Ally Condie

“One’s friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.”
– George Santayana

“For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.”
— Audrey Hepburn

“Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.”
– Socrates

“One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention.”
– Clifton Fadiman

“Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations. Don’t over-analyze your relationships. Stop playing games. A growing relationship can only be nurtured by genuineness. “
– Leo F. Buscaglia

“In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
– Marcel Proust

“Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respected.”
– Charles Lamb

“If you go looking for a friend, you’re going to find they’re very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you’ll find them everywhere.”
– Zig Ziglar

“You can always tell a real friend: when you’ve made a fool of yourself he doesn’t feel you’ve done a permanent job.”
– Laurence J. Peter

“Keep away from those who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you believe that you too can become great.”
– Mark Twain

“Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you. Love me and I may be forced to love you.”
– William Arthur Ward

“No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.”
– Alice Walker

“Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.”
– Woodrow T. Wilson

“Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer.”
– Ed Cunningham

“Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend’s success.”
– Oscar Wilde

“Some of the biggest challenges in relationships come from the fact that most people enter a relationship in order to get something: they’re trying to find someone who’s going to make them feel good. In reality, the only way a relationship will last is if you see your relationship as a place that you go to give, and not a place that you go to take.”
— Anthony Robbins

“The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.”
– Elisabeth Foley

“There’s one sad truth in life I’ve found
While journeying east and west –
The only folks we really wound
Are those we love the best.
We flatter those we scarcely know,
We please the fleeting guest,
And deal full many a thoughtless blow
To those who love us best.”
– Ella Wheeler Wilcox

“Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.”
— Oprah Winfrey

“Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone — but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming.”
– William Hazlitt

“A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute. He may not seem such a good friend after telling.”
– Arthur Brisbane

“Many a person has held close, throughout their entire lives, two friends that always remained strange to one another, because one of them attracted by virtue of similarity, the other by difference.”
– Emil Ludwig

“A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill requires only our silence; which costs us nothing.”
— John Tillotson

“When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are.”
– Donald Miller

“Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.”
– Anais Nin

“If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone.”
– Maxwell Maltz

“A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.”
– Bernard Meltzer

“The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when someone asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.”
— Henry David Thoreau

“People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges.”
— Joseph F. Newton Men

“Friendship is like a glass ornament, once it is broken it can rarely be put back together exactly the same way.”
– Charles Kingsley

“A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.”
– Donna Roberts

“There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate. “
– Linda Grayson

“Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it’s all over.”
– Gloria Naylor

“It is the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.”
– Marlene Dietrich

“There is magic in long-distance friendships. They let you relate to other human beings in a way that goes beyond being physically together and is often more profound.”
– Diana Cortes

“Someone to tell it to is one of the fundamental needs of human beings.”
— Miles Franklin

“It is not so much our friends’ help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.”
– Epicurus

“Whenever you’re in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.”
– William James

“Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.”
– Tennessee Williams

“The tender friendships one gives up, on parting, leave their bite on the heart, but also a curious feeling of a treasure somewhere buried.”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?”
– Abraham Lincoln

“A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud. I am arrived at last in the presence of a man so real and equal, that I may drop even those undermost garments of dissimulation, courtesy, and second thought, which men never put off, and may deal with him with the simplicity and wholeness with which one chemical atom meets another.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The best time to make friends is before you need them.”
– Ethel Barrymore

“If it’s very painful for you to criticize your friends — you’re safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that’s the time to hold your tongue.”
– Alice Duer Miller

“In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, for in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.”
– Khalil Gibran

“Things are never quite as scary when you’ve got a best friend.”
– Bill Watterson

“Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.”
– Unknown

“They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.”
– Carl W. Buechner

“Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.”
– Henry David Thoreau

“A true friend is someone who is there for you when he’d rather be anywhere else.”
– Len Wein

“It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.”
– Elbert Hubbard

“Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.”
– Elie Wiesel

“We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over.”
– Ray Bradbury

“Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.”
– Maya Angelou

“I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let’s face it, friends make life a lot more fun.”
– Charles R. Swindoll

“Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt

“One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.”
– Seneca

“A man’s friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.”
– Charles Darwin

“Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.”
– Euripides

“Friends are people who know you really well and like you anyway.”
– Greg Tamblyn

“Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.”
– Marcus Tullius Cicero

“True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.”
– St. Jerome

“I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.”
– Helen Keller

“A good friend is a connection to life — a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world.“
– Lois Wyse

“One of the tasks of true friendship is to listen compassionately and creatively to the hidden silences. Often secrets are not revealed in words, they lie concealed in the silence between the words or in the depth of what is unsayable between two people.”
– John O’Donohue

“A friend is someone who makes it easy to believe in yourself.”
– Heidi Wills

“Awards become corroded. Friends gather no dust.”
– Jesse Owens

“A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself — and especially to feel, or not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at any moment is fine with them. That’s what real love amounts to – letting a person be what he really is.”
– Jim Morrison

“Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.“
– Samuel Butler

“Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.”
– Baltasar Gracian

“Friends are the family you choose.“
– Jess C. Scott

“My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.”
– Henry Ford

“The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.”
– Henry David Thoreau

“Friends are relatives you make for yourself.“
– Eustache Deschamps

“Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends, for it is one of God’s greatest gifts. It involves many things, but above all the power of going out of one’s self and appreciating what is noble and loving in another.”
– Thomas Hughes

“Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.”
– Khalil Gibran

“A friend to all is a friend to none.”
– Aristotle

“A snowball in the face is surely the perfect beginning to a lasting friendship.“
– Markus Zusak

“Do not save your loving speeches for your friends till they are dead; do not write them on their tombstones, speak them rather now instead.”
– Anna Cummins

“We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we’re not alone.”
– Orson Welles

“When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand.”
– Henri Nouwen

“All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand.”
– Ella Wheeler Wilcox

“Friends are the siblings God never gave us.”
– Mencius

“If we treated ourselves as well as we treated our best friend, can you imagine?”
– Meghan Markle

“Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you; spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life.”
– Amy Poehler

“Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.”
– Sicilian Proverb

“Don’t be dismayed at goodbyes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends.”
– Richard Bach

“There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.“
– Sylvia Plath

“Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn’t seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.“
– Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.”
– Jacques Delille

“Friends should be like books, few, but hand-selected.”
– C.J. Langenhoven

“Friendship is a wildly underrated medication.”
– Anna Deavere Smith

“Some people arrive and make such a beautiful impact on your life, you can barely remember what life was like without them.”
– Anna Taylor

“A good friend is like a four-leaf clover; hard to find and lucky to have.”
– Irish Proverb

“Where there are friends, there is wealth.”
– Titus Maccius Plautus

“True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.”
– Charles Caleb Colton

“A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.”
– William Shakespeare

“Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.”
– Benjamin Franklin

“True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.”
– Henry David Thoreau

“Make new friends, but keep the old; Those are silver, these are gold.”
– Joseph Parry

“The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.”
– Mark Twain

“A true friend stabs you in the front.”
– Oscar Wilde

“There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.”
– Thomas Aquinas

“Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.”
– Aristotle

“I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.”
– Robert Brault

“Things are never quite as scary when you have a best friend.”
– Bill Watterson

“If you have two friends in your lifetime, you’re lucky. If you have one good friend, you’re more than lucky.”
– S.E. Hinton

“The only way to have a friend is to be one.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The royal road to a man’s heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.”
— Dale Carnegie

“Don’t walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don’t walk behind me; I may not lead. Just walk beside me and be my friend.”
– Albert Camus

“To the world you may be just one person, but to one person you may be the world.”
– Brandi Snyder

Last updated: 05/14/15

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Good friends help you to find important things when you have lost them… your smile, your hope, and your courage.-Doe Zantamata

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However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.-Albert Einstein

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Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer.-Ed Cunningham

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One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.-Seneca

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Silence make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying, but the never needing to say that counts.-Margaret Lee Runbeck

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It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.-Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, not the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship.-Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Remember: No one’s more important than people! In other words, friendship is the most important thing–not career or housework, or one’s fatigue–and it needs to be tended and nurtured.-Julia Child

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What is a friend? I will tell you… it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.-Frank Crane

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Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.-Friedrich Nietzsche

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Life is hard as it is. Too many rough roads to travel. Too many chains to untangle. But no matter how cruel the world maybe, life becomes less hard when you got a good friend.-Unknown

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No matter who broke your heart or how long it takes to heal, you will never get through it without your friends.-Unknown

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Much of the vitality in a friendship lies in the honoring of differences, not simply in the enjoyment of similarities.-Unknown

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You can make more friends in two months by becoming really interested in other people, than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.-Bernard Meltzer

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Confidence is the foundation of friendship. If we give it, we will receive it.-Harry E. Humphreys, Jr.

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Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend’s success.-Oscar Wilde

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Close friends are truly life’s treasures. Sometimes they know us better than we know ourselves. With gentle honesty, they are there to guide and support us, to share our laughter and our tears. Their presence reminds us that we are never really alone.-Vincent van Gogh

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Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it’s all over.-Gloria Naylor

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We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.-Dalai Lama

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Friendship arises out of mere Companionship when two or more of the companions discover that they have in common some insight or interest or even taste which the others do not share and which, till that moment, each believed to be his own unique treasure (or burden).-C.S. Lewis

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I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.-Helen Keller

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It takes a long time to grow an old friend.-John Leonard

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Friendship is comfort knowing that even when you feel all alone, you aren’t.—

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A man’s friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.-Charles Darwin

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Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That’s why it’s a comfort to go hand in hand.-Emily Kimbrough

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The influence of each human being on others in this life is a kind of immortality.-John Quincy Adams

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People who bore one another should meet seldom; people who interest one another, often.-C.S. Lewis

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A friend is one who walks in when others walk out.-Walter Winchell

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If you have one true friend, you have more than your share.-Thomas Fuller

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God, how we get our fingers in each other’s clay. That’s friendship, each playing the potter to see what shapes we can make of each other.-Ray Bradbury, Something Wicked This Way Comes

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Never shall I forget the days I spent with you. Continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.-Ludwig van Beethoven

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Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.-George Washington

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The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing… not healing, not curing… that is a friend who cares.-Henri Nouwen

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You have been my friends. That in itself is a tremendous thing.-E.B. White

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My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.-Henry Ford

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Friends are the most important ingredient in the recipe called life.—

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Think where man’s glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.-William Butler Yeats

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My friends are my estate.-Emily Dickinson

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A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.-Arnold H. Glasow

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I don’t need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.-Plutarch

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A friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future, and accepts you just the way you are.—

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Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art… It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.-C.S. Lewis

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True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.-Henry David Thoreau

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My friends have made the story of my life. In a thousand ways they have turned my limitations into beautiful privileges and enabled me to walk serene and happy in the shadow cast by my desperation.-Helen Keller

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The best time to make friends is before you need them.-Ethel Barrymore

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The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.-Joseph Addison

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The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.-Friedrich Nietzsche

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Friends are people who know you really well and like you anyway.-Greg Tamblyn

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The sincere friends of this world are as ship lights in the stormiest of nights.-Giotto di Bondone

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The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.-Buddha

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Oh, you’re the best friends anybody ever had. And it’s funny, but I feel as if I’d known you all the time, but I couldn’t have, could I?-Wizard of Oz

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Adversity is the touchstone of friendship.-French Proverb

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A true friend stabs you in the front.-Oscar Wilde

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A friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself.-Jim Morrisson

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Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.-Confucius

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A true friend loves at all times.-Proverbs 17:17

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Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.-Khalil Gibran

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Wherever you are, it’s your friends who make your world.-William James

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A friend accepts us as we are yet helps us be what we should be; a friend affirms us when we’re weak and gives us strength to let us free.-Unknown

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Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.-Friedrich Nietzsche

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May the hinges of our friendship never grow rusty.-Irish Proverb

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A friend is a beloved mystery; dearest always because he is not ourself, and has something in him which it is impossible for us to fathom. If it were not so, friendship would lose its chief zest.-Lucy Larcom

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Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.-Elie Wiesel

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True friendship is seen through the heart not through the eyes.-Unknown

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I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.-Walt Whitman

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The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.-Benjamin Disraeli

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It’s a good thing to be rich and a good thing to be strong, but it is a better thing to be beloved of many friends.-Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Friendship involves many things but, above all the power of going outside oneself and appreciating what is noble and loving in another.-Thomas Huxley

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Never leave a friend behind. Friends are all we have to get us through this life–and they are the only things from this world that we could hope to see in the next.-Dean Koontz

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Between men and woman there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.-Oscar Wilde

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To ensure that the self doesn’t shrink, to see that it holds on to its volume, memories have to be watered like potted flowers, and the watering calls for regular contact with the witnesses of the past, that is to say, with friends.-Milan Kundera, Identity

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As soon as you try to describe a close friendship, it loses something.-Dean Smith

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If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.-A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

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Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.-Euripides

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Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can’t have too many friends because then you’re just not really friends.-Truman Capote

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No road is long with good company.-Turkish Proverb

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Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It’s not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything.-Muhammad Ali

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Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find.-William Shakespeare

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Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.-Khalil Gibran

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The language of friendship is not words but meanings.-Henry David Thoreau

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Friendship with oneself is all important because without it one cannot be friends with anybody else in the world.-Eleanor Roosevelt

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The best things in life aren’t things… they’re your friends.-Unknown

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You can’t stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.-A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

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The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.-Bob Marley

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A friend in need is a friend indeed.-Latin Proverb

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True friendship is never serene.-Marquise de Sevigne

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There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.-Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

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To have a friend and be a friend is what makes life worthwhile.-Unknown

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Charles Darwin

A man’s friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

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Charles R. Swindoll

I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let’s face it, friends make life a lot more fun.

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Pam Brown

A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often — just to save it from drying out completely.

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Thomas Fuller

If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

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Octavia Butler

Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it’s all over.

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Saint Francis de Sales

A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship.

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Unknown

A true friend accepts who you are, but also helps you become who you should be.

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Misty Copeland

Anything is possible when you have the right people there to support you.

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Christie Brinkley

Share your smile with the world. It’s a symbol of friendship and peace.

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Unknown

A friend is one who overlooks your broken fence and admires the flowers in your garden.

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Proverbs 27:9​​​

A sweet friendship refreshes the soul.

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Maya Angelou

Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.

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Gina Barreca

It’s not that diamonds are a girl’s best friend, but it’s your best friends who are your diamonds.

16

Unknown

In the cookie of life, friends are the chocolate chips.

17

Eleanor Roosevelt

Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.

18

Unknown

There are friends, there is family and then there are friends that become family.

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Unknown

Good friends are like stars. You don’t always see them, but you know they’re always there.

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Unknown

Life was meant for good friends and great adventures.

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What do you value most in a friend? These friendship quotes show how special great friends truly are.

Having great friends to share your life with is a gift like no other, and having a “best friend” is one of life’s most precious gifts.

A true friend is a companion who will be there for you no matter what. You can be 100% yourself around them with no judgement, and they’ll love and support you through thick and thin.

So whether you want to honor your friendships or just remember why you love your friends dearly, we hope you enjoy these amazing friendship quotes.

So share them with your best friends and make some new ones too. It’s always a good time to be a friend to someone who needs it.

Friendship is a word, the very sight of which in print makes heart warm.

Augustine Birrell

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Khalil Gibran

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

Aristotle

Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.

Woodrow Wilson

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Samuel Butler

The real test of friendship is can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?

Eugene Kennedy

Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It’s not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything.

Muhammad Ali

There are big ships and small ships. But the best ship of all is friendship.

Unknown

Friendship is like a glass ornament, once it is broken it can rarely be put back together exactly the same way.

Charles Kingsley

Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

Thomas Aquinas

Friendship is delicate as a glass, once broken it can be fixed but there will always be cracks.

Waqar Ahmed

Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow.

Swedish Proverb

The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.

Hubert H. Humphrey

Every friendship travels at sometime through the black valley of despair. This tests every aspect of your affection. You lose the attraction and the magic.

John O’Donohue

Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm & constant.

Socrates

Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Oil and perfume make the heart glad, and the sweetness of a friend comes from his earnest counsel.

Proverbs 27:9, ESV

Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn’t seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.

Eustace Budgell

Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.

Dorothy Parker

One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention.

Clifton Faidman

Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.

Ellie Weisel

A snowball in the face is surely the perfect beginning to a lasting friendship.

Markus Zusak

Friendship isn’t about who you’ve known the longest, it’s about who walked in to your life, said ‘I’m here for you’ and PROVED it.

Anonymous

Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can’t have too many friends because then you’re just not really friends.

Truman Capote

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Epicurus

There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.

William Hazlitt

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand.

Henri Nouwen

Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.

George Washington

In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.

Albert Schweitzer

We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over.

Ray Bradbury

Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.

Elie Weisel

No matter how tired I am, I get dinner at least once a week with my girlfriends. Or have a sleepover. Otherwise my life is just all work.

Jennifer Lawrence

Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.

Oscar Wilde

When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands.

Maria Shriver

The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, not the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

The rules of friendship are tacit, unconscious; they are not rational. In business, though, you have to think rationally.

Steven Pinker

Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world.

John Evelyn

Friendship my definition is built on two things. Respect and trust. Both elements have to be there. And it has to be mutual. You can have respect for someone, but if you don’t have trust, the friendship will crumble.

Stieg Larsson

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

Katherine Mansfield

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, for in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.

Khalil Gibran

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Balthasar Gracian

A man’s friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

Charles Darwin

Women’s friendships are like a renewable source of power.

Jane Fonda

Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, ‘You too? I thought I was the only one.’

C.S. Lewis

Every friendship goes through ups and downs. Dysfunctional patterns set in; external situations cause internal friction; you grow apart and then bounce back together.

Mariella Frostrup

Friendship’s the wine of life.

Edward Young, Night Thoughts

If you can survive 11 days in cramped quarters with a friend and come out laughing, your friendship is the real deal.

Oprah Winfrey

Friendship isn’t a big thing. It’s a million little things.

Anonymous

Friendship consists in forgetting what one gives and remembering what one receives.

Alexandre Dumas

Anything is possible when you have the right people there to support you.

Misty Copeland

Growing apart doesn’t change the fact that for a long time we grew side by side; our roots will always be tangled. I’m glad for that.

Ally Condie

No road is long with good company.

Turkish Proverb

Friend Quotes

Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer.

Ed Cunningham

It’s the friends you can call up at 4am that matter.

Marlene Dietrich

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

Anais Nin

In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.

John Churton Collins

I would rather walk with a friend in the dark than walk alone in the light.

Helen Keller

A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.

Elbert Hubbard

A friend can tell you things you don’t want to tell yourself.

Frances Ward Weller

Some people arrive and make such a beautiful impact on your life, you can barely remember what life was like without them.

Anna Taylor

Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.

Henry David Thoreau

Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.

Washington Irving

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

I may not always be there with you, but I will always be there for you.

Anonymous

A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.

Jim Morrison

Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you; spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life.

Amy Poehler

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

A friend is someone who makes it easy to believe in yourself.

Heidi Wills

The great thing about new friends is that they bring new energy to your soul.

Shanna Rodriguez

Don’t walk behind me; I may not lead. Don’t walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.

Albert Camus

Some people go to priests, others to poetry, I to my friends.

Virginia Woolf

A day without a friend is like a pot without a single drop of honey left inside.

Winnie the Pooh

I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don’t believe I deserved my friends.

Walt Whitman

You’ve got a friend in me.

Randy Newman, Toy Story

Friends should be like books, few, but hand-selected.

C. J. Langenhoven

Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends, for it is one of God’s greatest gifts. It involves many things, but above all the power of going out of one’s self and appreciating what is noble and loving in another.

Thomas Hughes

Don’t be dismayed at good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends.

Richard Bach

There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.

Linda Grayson

A friend accepts us as we are yet helps us to be what we should.

Anonymous

We come from homes far from perfect, so you end up almost parent and sibling to your friends – your own chosen family. There’s nothing like a really loyal, dependable, good friend. Nothing.

Jennifer Aniston

One friend with whom you have a lot in common is better than three with whom you struggle to find things to talk about.

Mindy Kaling

Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.

Margaret Lee Runbeck, Answer Without Ceasing

An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.

Buddha

I don’t need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.

Plutarch

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Friends are the sailors who guide your rickety boat safely across the dangerous waters of life.

Sare and Cate

Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.

Richard Bach

Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.

Sicilian Proverb

Friends are like stars, they come and go, but the ones that stay are the ones that glow.

Roxy Quicksilver

Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.

Euripides

There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.

Sylvia Plath

I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was 12.

Steven King, Stand by Me

Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

Tennessee Williams

Friends are medicine for a wounded heart, and vitamins for a hopeful soul.

Steve Maraboli

A friend is an emotional bond, just like friendship is a human experience.

Simon Sinek

How many slams in an old screen door? Depends how loud you shut it. How many slices in a bread? Depends how thin you cut it. How much good inside a day? Depends how good you live ’em. How much love inside a friend? Depends how much you give ’em.

Shel Silverstein

Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.

Plautus

Never leave a friend behind. Friends are all we have to get us through this life–and they are the only things from this world that we could hope to see in the next.

Dean Koontz

If you’re alone, I’ll be your shadow. If you want to cry, I’ll be your shoulder. If you want a hug, I’ll be your pillow. If you need to be happy, I’ll be your smile. But anytime you need a friend, I’ll just be me.

Unknown

I think if I’ve learned anything about friendship, it’s to hang in, stay connected, fight for them, and let them fight for you. Don’t walk away, don’t be distracted, don’t be too busy or tired, don’t take them for granted. Friends are part of the glue that holds life and faith together. Powerful stuff.

John Katz

Sitting silently beside a friend who is hurting may be the best gift we can give.

Unknown

A friend is someone who understand your past, believes in your future, and accepts you today just the way you are.

Unknown

There are three things that grow more precious with age; old wood to burn, old books to read, and old friends to enjoy.

Henry Ford

I have friends, I have associates, and I have friends.

Shaquille O’Neal

I felt it shelter to speak to you.

Emily Dickinson

Winning friends begins with friendliness.

Dale Carnegie

A good friend is a connection to life — a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world.

Lois Wyse

A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.

Donna Roberts

There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation, of one’s self, the very meaning of one’s soul.

Edith Wharton

The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away.

Barbara Kingsolver

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.

Dale Carnegie

We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.

Caroline Sheridan Norton

Some people arrive and make such a beautiful impact on your life, you can barely remember what life was like without them

Anna Taylor

Friends confront each other sometimes, and sometimes the friendship lasts, and sometimes it doesn’t.

Brooke Elliott

Good friends help you to find important things when you have lost them…your smile, your hope, and your courage.

Doe Zantamata

Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That’s why it’s a comfort to go hand in hand.

Emily Kimbrough

Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for a while, leave footprints on our hearts, and we are never, ever the same.

Flavia Weedn

Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.

Francesco Guicciardini

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

Henry David Thoreau

If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.

George MacDonald

A friend is the one who comes in when the whole world has gone out.

Grace Pulpit

I get by with a little help from my friends.

The Beatles, With A Little Help from My Friends

Dear George, remember no man is a failure who has friends.

Henry Travers, It’s a Wonderful Life

Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

You can always tell a real friend: when you’ve made a fool of yourself he doesn’t feel you’ve done a permanent job.

Laurence J. Peter

Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

Anais Nin

Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.

Benjamin Franklin

The richest man is the one with the most powerful friends.

Eli Wallach, The Godfather Part III

Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

Marcel Proust

Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it’s all over.

Octravia Butler

A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.

Elbert Hubbard

A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they’re not so good, and sympathizes with your problems when they’re not so bad.

Arnold H. Glasgow

There is nothing I wouldn’t do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves; it is not my nature.

Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute. He may not seem such a good friend after telling.

Arthur Brisbane

If you have two friends in your lifetime, you’re lucky. If you have one good friend, you’re more than lucky.

S.E. Hinton

What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

Aristotle

F.R.I.E.N.D.S. Fight for you. Respect you. Include you. Encourage you. Need you. Deserve you. Stand by you.

Unknown

There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation, of one’s self, the very meaning of one’s soul.

Edith Wharton

A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be.

Douglas Pagels

I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let’s face it, friends make life a lot more fun.

Charles R. Swindoll

Friends: people who borrow my books and set wet glasses on them.

Edwin Arlington Robinson

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

Benjamin Franklin

Do not save your loving speeches for your friends till they are dead; do not write them on their tombstones, speak them rather now instead.

Anna Cummins

Growing apart doesn’t change the fact that for a long time we grew side by side; our roots will always be tangled.

Ally Condie

Friends are like walls. Sometimes you lean on them, and sometimes it’s good just knowing they are there.

Unknown

The only good thing about times of adversity is that you realize who your real friends and fans are – and the rest go away – which in my mind is an OK thing.

Pete Wentz

Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.

Jacques Delille

Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find.

William Shakespeare

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Alice Walker

I don’t know what I would have done so many times in my life if I hadn’t had my girlfriends.

Reese Witherspoon

A friend in need is a pest.

Vince Vaughan, Wedding Crashers

The best way to mend a broken heart is time and girlfriends.

Gwenyth Paltrow

You find out who your real friends are when you’re involved in a scandal.

Elizabeth Taylor

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

Aristotle

I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.

Robert Brault

Don’t make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.

Thomas J. Watson

They make me stronger; they make me braver.

Jane Fonda

Best Friend Quotes

Only a true best friend can protect you from your immortal enemies.

Richelle Mead

A best friend is like a fourleaf clover: hard to find and lucky to have.

Irish Proverb

Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend.

Sarah Dessen

Things are never quite as scary when you have a best friend.

Bill Waterston, Calvin and Hobbes

My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

Aristotle

I think about my best friendship – which the Marnie-Hannah friendship in Girls is based on – as like a great romance of my young life.

Lena Dunham

My best friend is me, and I take good care of me.

Diane von Furstenberg

When a man’s best friend is his dog… That dog has a problem.

Edward Abbey

She’s always there for me when I need her; She’s my best friend; she’s just my everything.

Ashley Olsen

The best mirror is an old friend.

George Herbert

What do you do with your best friend? You do nothing.

Blake Lively

It’s not that diamonds are a girl’s best friend, but it’s your best friends who are your diamonds. It’s your best friends who are supremely resilient, made under pressure and of astonishing value. They’re everlasting; they can cut glass if they need to.

Gina Barreca

Best friends can turn a horrible day into one of the best days of your life.

Nathaniel Richmond

I’ve known my best friend since I was a baby, and I don’t know what I would do without her. She is always straight with me and can make me laugh hysterically. Everyone should have someone like that in their life.

Jasmine Guinness

That was the thing about best friends. Like sisters and mothers, they could piss you off and make you cry and break your heart, but in the end, when the chips were down, they were there, making you laugh even in your darkest hours.

Kristin Hannah

That was what a best friend did: hold up a mirror and show you your heart.

Kristin Hannah

If we treated ourselves as well as we treated our best friend, can you imagine?

Meghan Markle

A best friend is someone who makes you laugh even when you think you’ll never smile again.

Anonymous

Picking a best friend who stands up for what she believes in, is true to herself and allows you to be yourself without judgement of how ‘cool’ you are? Well, now you’re picking a friend for life.

Renee Olstead

You can’t describe your best friends in words. You can describe them with memories that you had with them.

Saurabh Saini

A bosom friend an intimate friend, you know a really kindred spirit to whom I can confide my inmost soul.

L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

Friends listen to what you say. Best friends listen to what you don’t say.

Anonymous

The best kind of friend is the one you could sit on a porch with, never saying a word, and walk away feeling like that was the best conversation you’ve had.

Steven Wright

Ooh you’re the best friend that I ever had. I’ve been with you such a long time. You’re my sunshine and I want you to know. That my feelings are true. I really love you. Oh you’re my best friend.

Queen, You’re My Best Friend

The biggest ingredient in a best friend is someone whose actions you respect and who you can truly be yourself around.

Renee Olstead

Best friends don’t necessarily have to talk every day. They don’t even need to talk for weeks. But when they do, it’s like they never stopped talking.

Anonymous

The biggest ingredient in a best friend is someone whose actions you respect and who you can truly be yourself around.

Anonymous

Talking to your best friend is sometimes all the therapy you need.

Anonymous

Best friend: someone you can only stay mad at for so long because you have important things to talk about.

Anonymous

Best friend isn’t just a name. A best friend is someone who’s there for you, no matter what. You can trust them, with anything and everything. Best friends share tears and laughs, almost like their emotions are intertwined. Most importantly, you can always count on a best friend.

Anonymous

Best friends? Well, I guess you could call us that but I think we are more like sisters.

Anonymous

Nothing compares to the pain of a belly ache from laughing too hard with your best friend.

Anonymous

You can always tell when two people are best friends because they are having more fun than it makes sense for them to be having.

Anonymous

A good friend knows all your best stories, but a best friend has lived them with you.

Anonymous

You know, real life doesn’t just suddenly resolve itself. You have to keep working at it. Democracy, marriage, friendship. You can’t just say, ‘She’s my best friend.’ That’s not a given, it’s a process.

Viggo Mortensen

Yesterday brought the beginning, tomorrow brings the end, and somewhere in the middle we became the best of friends.

Anonymous

When it hurts to look back, and you’re afraid to look ahead, you can look beside you and your best friend will be there.

Anonymous

Are we going to be friends forever?’ Asked Piglet. ‘Even longer,’ Pooh answered.

A. A. Milne

Oh, you’re the best friends anybody ever had. And it’s funny, but I feel as if I’d known you all the time, but I couldn’t have, could I?

Judy Garland, The Wizard of Oz

Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.

Oprah Winfrey

As much as a BFF can make you go WTF, there’s no denying we’d be a little less rich without them.

Gossip Girl

True Friendship Quotes

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

Seneca

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Herny David Thoreau

True friends are like diamonds — bright, beautiful, valuable, and always in style.

Nicole Richie

A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.

Bernard Meltzer

True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable.

David Tyson

A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

Arnold H. Glasgow

The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.

Elisabeth Foley

A friend is someone who can see the truth and pain in you even when you are fooling everyone else.

Anonymous

Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.

Eleanor Roosevelt

A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success.

Doug Larson

True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.

Charles Caleb Colton

A strong friendship doesn’t need daily conversation and doesn’t always need togetherness. As long as the relationship lives in the heart, true friends will never part.

Anonymous

With friends like these, who needs enemies?

Joey Adams

True friends don’t judge each other, they judge other people together.

Emilie Saint-Genis

A true friend reaches for your hand and touches your heart.

Heather Pryor

One of the tasks of true friendship is to listen compassionately and creatively to the hidden silences. Often secrets are not revealed in words, they lie concealed in the silence between the words or in the depth of what is unsayable between two people.

John O’Donohue

If you wanna find out who’s a true friend, screw up or go through a challenging time… Then see who sticks around.

Karen Salmansohn

Only a true friend would be that truly honest.

Shrek

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

St. Jerome

It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies, but a great deal more to stand up to your friends.

J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone

A true friend is someone who is there for you when he’d rather be anywhere else.

Len Wein

Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Nigerian Proverb

A true friend is someone who will always love you—the imperfect, the confused, the wrong you because that is what people are supposed to do.

R.J.L.

True friendship resists time, distance, and silence.

Isabel Allende

A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

Walter Winchell

A good friend will help you move, but a true friend will help you move a body.

Steven J. Daniels

There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.

Thomas Aquinas

If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

Thomas Fuller

A true friend unbosoms freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.

William Penn

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

Jean de la Fontaine

Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respected.

Charles Lamb

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Here are 137 of the best friendship quotes I could find. Hope it will inspire you to spend even more time with people who make a true difference in your life. You’ll discover quotes by Dalai Lama, Emerson, Buddha, and more. Enjoy!

Good friends are hard to find, harder to leave and impossible to forget. G. Randolf

The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Best friends don’t expect anything from you. They just accept you the way you are. Maxime Lagacé

A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you. Elbert Hubbard

Friendship is a sheltering tree. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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I don’t like that man. I must get to know him better. Abraham Lincoln

True friendship is like sound health. The value of it is seldom known until it be lost. Charles Caleb Colton

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend. Henry David Thoreau

A friend is someone who helps you up when you’re down, and if they can’t, they lay down beside you and listen. Winnie The Pooh

I have learned that to be with those I like is enough. Walt Whitman

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Friendship is not about whom you know the longest. It is about who came and never left. Paulo Coelho

Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends. Virginia Woolf

A friend is one of the nicest things you can have and one of the best things you can be. Winnie The Pooh

It’s not what we have, but who we have. Winnie The Pooh

One friend in a storm is worth more than a thousand friends in sunshine. Matshona Dhliwayo

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The Best Friendship Quotes

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A friend is a gift you give yourself. Robert Louis Stevenson

The language of friendship is not words but meanings. Henry David Thoreau

There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven’t yet met. William Butler Yeats

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born. Anais Nin

I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light. Helen Keller

How distant I am from people when I am with them, and how close when they are far away. Kahlil Gibran

Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words. George Eliot

There cannot be friendship without equality. Swami Sivananda

My definition of a friend is somebody who adores you even though they know the things you’re most ashamed of. Jodie Foster

Man’s best support is a very dear friend. Cicero

Friendship consists in forgetting what one gives and remembering what one receives. Alexander Dumas

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“Stay” is a charming word in a friend’s vocabulary. Louisa May Alcott

The real test of friendship is can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple? Eugene Kennedy

Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it’s all over. Octavia Butler

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit. Kahlil Gibran

We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend. Robert Louis Stevenson

Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world. Eleanor Roosevelt

Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth. Herman Melville

Friendships are a reciprocation of efforts. Justin Kan (Source)

Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart. Eleanor Roosevelt

A good friend is like a four-leaf clover; hard to find and lucky to have. Irish Proverb

A man’s friendships are one of the best measures of his worth. Charles Darwin

Friendships that last have high connections, high mutual respect and low expectations. Maxime Lagacé

The friendship which can cease has never been real. St. Jerome

Part 2. Friendship Quotes That ARE…

The Most Famous Friendship Quotes

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Searching for a famous friendship quote or famous author? Check out those ones by Emerson, Confucius, Aristotle, Mark Twain, etc.

The only way to have a friend is to be one. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends? Abraham Lincoln

If you have one true friend you have more than your share. Thomas Fuller

Of all possessions a friend is the most precious. Herodotus

The best thing to hold onto in life is each other. Audrey Hepburn

My friends are my estate. Emily Dickinson

Friends are proved by adversity. Cicero

Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together. Woodrow Wilson

A day without a friend is like a pot without a single drop of honey left inside. Winnie The Pooh

We’ll be friends forever, won’t we, Pooh? asked Piglet. Even longer. Pooh answered. Winnie The Pooh

As soon as I saw you, I knew an adventure was going to happen. Winnie The Pooh

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We cannot hope to only leave our children a bigger car, a bigger bank account. We must hope to give them a sense of what it means to be a loyal friend. George H. W. Bush

Be slow to fall into friendship, but when thou art in, continue firm and constant. Socrates

Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself. Confucius

A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself – and especially to feel, or not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at any moment is fine with them. Jim Morrison

A friend to all is a friend to none. Aristotle

Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship. Dorothy Parker

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. Mark Twain

A friend is one soul abiding in two bodies. Aristotle

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One-liners, short friendship quotes, thoughts, and captions for your bio, social status, self-talk, motto, mantra, signs, posters, wallpapers, and backgrounds.

A good friendship is a conversation that never ends. Gloria Steinem

Friends are the family you choose. Unknown

Friendship = Vulnerability * Time. Sahil Lavingia

Life is nothing without friendship. Cicero

No friendship is an accident. O. Henry

Distance yourself from people that you don’t want to become. Shane Parris (Source)

Truth springs from argument amongst friends. David Hume

Opposition is true friendship. William Blake

Love is friendship on fire. Susan Sontag

Remember, no man is a failure who has friends. Unknown

Notice the people who make an effort to stay in your life. Unknown

Keep the ones that heard you when you never said a word. Unknown

The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two. Sophie Swetchine

The best mirror is an old friend. George Herbert

A man who seeks a perfect friend will remain friendless. Turkish proverb

There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. William Hazlitt

One loyal friend can make a difference in your life. Steve Harvey (Source)

Friendships are discovered rather than made. Harriet Beecher Stowe

The best cure for a bad day is a good friend. Unknown

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer. Jean de La Fontaine

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Inspirational Friendship Quotes

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No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another. Charles Dickens

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit. Aristotle

Friendship is more than being there for your friends when they need you, it’s also allowing your friends to be there for you. Shane Parrish

A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out. Walter Winchell

Friendship isn’t a big thing – it’s a million little things. Unknown

A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow. William Shakespeare

We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship. C.S. Lewis

Who you surround yourself with is who you become. Alex Lieberman (Source)

When was the last time you asked your friend how he/she was doing? Maxime Lagacé

If there ever comes a day when we can’t be together, keep me in your heart, I’ll stay there forever. Winnie The Pooh

When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. Thomas Sowell

Friends… they cherish one another’s hopes. They are kind to one another’s dreams. Henry David Thoreau

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which strengthens with the setting sun of life. Jean de La Fontaine

Never forget who was with you when you had nothing. Rakesh Valand (Source)

To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform. Theodore H. White

The most ordinary things could be made extraordinary, simply by doing them with the right people. Nicholas Sparks

Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you; spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life. Amy Poehler

Friendship, as has been said, consists in a full commitment of the will to another person with a view to that person’s good. Pope John Paul II

When people are friends, they have no need of justice, but when they are just, they need friendship in addition. Aristotle

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one. Oscar Wilde

It’s the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter. Marlene Dietrich

The best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. Aristotle

A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship. Saint Francis de Sales

Your friend is your needs answered. Kahlil Gibran

Funny And Surprising Friendship Sayings

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Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom. Francis Bacon

There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate. Linda Grayson

I love how badass we think we are when we’re together.

I’m a controversial figure. My friends either dislike me or hate me. Toni Morrison

The holy passion of friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money. Mark Twain

Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down. Oprah Winfrey

No one will ever be as entertained by us as us. Unknown

Real friends don’t get offended when you insult them. They smile and call you something even more offensive.

There are small ships and big ships but the best ships are friendships. Unknown

The better the friend, the less cleaning you do before he comes over. Unknown

The friendship of one intelligent man is better than that of all the unintelligent. Democritus

A day spent with you is my favorite day. So today is my new favorite day. Winnie The Pooh

The older I get the more selective I am of who is in my tribe. I would rather have four quarters than a hundred pennies. Unknown

You are I are more than friends. We’re like a really small gang. Unknown

A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success. Doug Larson

Wise Sayings About Friendship

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The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship. William Blake

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend. William Blake

What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it. C. S. Lewis

Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them. Publilius Syrus

Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance. Rabindranath Tagore

Friendship is given us by nature, not to favor vice, but to aid virtue. Cicero

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them. Confucius

He will never have true friends who is afraid of making enemies. William Hazlitt

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends. Friedrich Nietzsche

Friends make the good things better and the bad things not so bad. Unknown

Disagreement should not destroy a friendship. It should strengthen it. Lex Fridman (Source)

We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends. Francis Bacon

He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, and he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere. Ralph Waldo Emerson

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you. Dale Carnegie

You don’t need a lot of friends, just the right ones. Gary Goodridge (Source)

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The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. I have no wealth to bestow on him. If he knows that I am happy in loving him, he will want no other reward. Is not friendship divine in this? Henry David Thoreau

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