Friendship Quotes
A true friend is a companion who will be there for you no matter what. Friendships are born in a million different ways, and all good friends strive to achieve the same goal, to be a source of love and support to each other. We have compiled amazing quotes about friendship. You can share them with your friends to let them know how much you love and value them.
Below you will find lovely friendship quotes, these quotes will help you love and treasure the friends you have.
80 Beautiful Friendship Quotes & Sayings
“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
“Friends are the sailors who guide your rickety boat safely across the dangerous waters of life.” – Sare and Cate
“Friends are medicine for a wounded heart, and vitamins for a hopeful soul.” – Steve Maraboli
“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
“Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer.” – Ed Cunningham
“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
“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
“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 delicate as a glass, once broken it can be fixed but there will always be cracks.” – Waqar Ahmed
“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 always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.” – Khalil Gibran
“When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands.” – Maria Shriver
“Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.” – Richard Bach
“Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.” – Plautus
“In a friend you find a second self.” – Isabelle Norton
“Good friends help you to find important things when you have lost them…your smile, your hope, and your courage.” – Doe Zantamata
“Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.” – Francesco Guicciardini
“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
“I would rather walk with a friend in the dark than walk alone in the light.” – Helen Keller
“Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.” – Epicurus
“Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.” – Eustace Budgell
“The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.” – Hubert H. Humphrey
“Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.” – Samuel Butler
“Friendship is one mind in two bodies.” – Mencius
“A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.” – Unknown
“A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.” – Elbert Hubbard
“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
“F.R.I.E.N.D.S. Fight for you. Respect you. Include you. Encourage you. Need you. Deserve you. Stand by you.” – Unknown
“A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be.” – Douglas Pagels
“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
“Friends confront each other sometimes, and sometimes the friendship lasts, and sometimes it doesn’t.” – Brooke Elliott
“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
“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
“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
“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
“A friend is someone who understand your past, believes in your future, and accepts you today just the way you are.” – Unknown
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.” – Aristotle
“Friends are like stars, they come and go, but the ones that stay are the ones that glow.” – Roxy Quicksilver
“A friend is the one who comes in when the whole world has gone out.” – Grace Pulpit
“Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends.” – H. Jackson Brown Jr.
“Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.” – Benjamin Franklin
“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
“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
“Some people arrive and make such a beautiful impact on your life, you can barely remember what life was like without them” – Anna Taylor
“Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.” – Margaret Lee Runbeck
“There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.” – Linda Grayson
“Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.” – Henry David Thoreau
“A man’s friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.” – Charles Darwin
“Friendship is a sheltering tree.” – Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.” – Ellie Weisel
“Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm & constant.” – Socrates
“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 only cement that will ever hold the world together.” – Woodrow Wilson
“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
“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
“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
“I don’t need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.” – Plutarch
“Friends should be like books, few, but hand-selected.” – C.J. Langenhoven
“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
“Friendship consists in forgetting what one gives and remembering what one receives.” – Alexander Dumas
“Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.” – Oscar Wilde
“A snowball in the face is surely the perfect beginning to a lasting friendship.” – Markus Zusak
“Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.” – Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.” – Thomas Aquinas
“A day without a friend is like a pot without a single drop of honey left inside.” – Winnie the Pooh