70 Quotes about Friendship
Below is a list of quotes about friendship. Use these short
messages for intrapersonal reflection and to determine whether the people in
your life are true friends. Furthermore, do a self-assessment and determine if
you have been a faithful friend to others.
1. “A real
friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.” — Walter
Winchell
2. “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
3. “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
4. “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
5. “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
6. “There’s
not a word yet for old friends who’ve just met.” — Jim Henson
7. “Best
friends are the people in your life who make you laugh louder, smile brighter
and live better.” — Unknown
8. “A real
friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.” — Walter
Winchell
9. “The most
beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without
growing apart.” — Elisabeth Foley
10.
“Don’t make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends
who will force you to lever yourself up.” — Thomas J. Watson
11.
“True friends are never apart, maybe in distance but never in
heart.” — Helen Keller
12.
“A friend is one of the best things you can be and the greatest
things you can have.” — Sarah Valdez
13.
“A friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future,
and accepts you just the way you are.” — Unknown
14.
“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
15.
“Time doesn’t take away from friendship, nor does separation.” —
Tennessee Williams
16.
“We weren’t sisters [or brothers] by birth, but we knew from the
start…fate brought us together to be sisters [or brothers] by heart.” —
Unknown
17.
“A single rose can be my garden…a single friend, my world.” — Leo
Buscaglia
18.
“It’s not what we have in life, but who we have in our life that
matters.” — Unknown
19.
“A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my
memory fails.” — Donna Roberts
20.
“To the world you may be just one person, but to one person you
may be the world.” — Dr. Seuss
21.
“Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and
impossible to forget.” — G. Randolf
22.
“A friend is one who overlooks your broken fence and admires the
flowers in your garden.” — Unknown
23.
1. “A friend who
understands your tears is much more valuable than a lot of friends who only
know your smile.” — Unknown
2. “When the world is
so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands.” —
Maria Shriver
24.
“Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the
friends we choose.” — Tennessee Williams
25.
“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
26.
Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world
together.” — Woodrow T. Wilson
27.
“Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to
hear the answer.” — Ed Cunningham
28.
“I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the
light.” — Helen Keller
29.
“It’s the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.”
— Marlene Dietrich
30.
“Best friends understand when you say, ‘forget it.’ Wait forever
when you say, ‘just a minute.’ Stay when you say, ‘leave me alone.’ And open
the door before you can say, ‘come in.’” — Unknown
31. “A good friend is
like a four-leaf clover; hard to find and lucky to have.” — Irish Proverb
32.
“Best friend: the one that you can be mad at only for a short
period of time because you have important stuff to tell them.” — Unknown
33.
“Sometimes being with your best friend is all the therapy you
need.” — Unknown
34.
“A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even
though he knows that you are slightly cracked.” — Bernard Meltzer
35.
“Friends are the siblings God never gave us.” — Mencius
36.
“Never let your best friends get lonely…keep disturbing them.” —
Candlelight Publications
37.
“True friends are like diamonds — bright, beautiful, valuable, and
always in style.” — Nicole Richie
38.
“A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be
going down.” — Arnold H. Glasgow
39.
“A best friend is someone who makes you laugh even when you think
you’ll never smile again.” — Unknown
40.
“There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true
friendship.” — Thomas Aquinas
41. “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
42.
“Friends are the family you choose.”— Jess C. Scott
43.
“True friends are always together in spirit.” — L.M. Montgomery
44.
“Anything is possible when you have the right people there to
support you.” — Misty Copeland
45.
“True friends aren’t the ones who make your problems disappear.
They are the ones who won’t disappear when you’re facing problems.” — Unknown
46.
“A sweet friendship refreshes the soul.” — Proverbs 27:9
47.
“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.” — Unknown
48.
“God made us best friends because he knew our moms couldn’t handle
us as sisters.” — Unknown
49.
“Everyone hears what you say. Friends listen to what you say. Best
friends listen to what you don’t say.” — Unknown
50.
“The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another’s
little lapses.” — David Storey
51. “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
52.
“My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.” — Henry
Ford
53.
“Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an
opportunity.” — Khalil Gibran
54.
“A friend can tell you things you don’t want to tell yourself.” —
Frances Ward Weller
55.
“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
56.
“A strong friendship doesn’t need daily conversation or being
together. As long as the relationship lives in the heart, true friends never
part.” — Unknown
57.
“Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare — and
precious as a pearl.” — Tahar Ben Jelloun
58.
“Friends…they cherish one another’s hopes. They are kind to one
another’s dreams.” — Henry David Thoreau
59.
“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
60.
“False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it
embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it
supports.” — Richard Burton
61. “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
62.
“The only way to have a friend is to be one.” — Ralph Waldo
Emerson
63.
“There are friendships imprinted in our hearts that will never be
diminished by time and distance.” — Dodinsky
64.
“No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship
of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other’s worth.” — Robert Southey
65.
“Everyone has a friend during each stage of life. But only lucky
ones have the same friend in all stages of life.” — Unknown
66.
“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
67.
“That’s when I realized what a true friend was. Someone who would
always love you — the imperfect you, the confused you, the wrong you — because
that is what people are supposed to do.” — Unknown
68.
“The love that comes from friendship is the underlying facet of a
happy life.” — Chelsea Handler
69.
“Each new friendship can make you a new person, because it opens
up new doors inside of you.” — Kate DiCamillo
70.
“But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the
sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of
life is sunshine.” — Thomas Jefferson
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