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30 True Friendship QuotesQuotes that describe what true friendship is or is not. Find the thoughts of others about the qualities of a real friend.While we may have acquaintances and friends a true friend is different. No matter what is going on, no matter how inconvenient a true friend is always willing to be there for you, both in good times and in bad. Don't ever take this friendship for granted. As true friendship is rare to find! |
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Every pal will appreciate these true friendship quotes and sayings. Share these kind quotes about friendship with your best friends.
Due to popular demand, we built this incredible list of the best friend quotes of all time!
True friendship is a sacred thing, and now hard to come by in this day in age, with trust issues running high. This article is for everyone out there who either has a best friend or is still looking for one.
If these quotes get you thinking about a friend of yours, go ahead and share the page with them, so they know how much they mean to you.
1. “A friend to all is a friend to none.” – Aristotle
2. “Friendship is delicate as a glass, once broken it can be fixed but there will always be cracks.” – Waqar Ahmed
3. “A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.” – Bernard Meltzer
4. “Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm & constant.” – Socrates
5. “People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges.” – Joseph F. Newton
6. “I get by with a little help from my friends.” – The Beatles
7. “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
8. “Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.” – Woodrow T. Wilson
9. “Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.” – Samuel Butler
10. “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
11. “If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone.” – Maxwell Maltz
12. “Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.” – Marcel Proust
13. “It’s the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.” – Marlene Dietrich
14. “Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.” – Aristotle
15. “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
16. “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
17. “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
18. “A strong friendship doesn’t need daily conversation or being together. As long as the relationship lives in the heart, true friends never part.” – Anonymous
19. “The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when someone asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.” – Henry David Thoreau
20. “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
21. “A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.” – Walter Winchell
22. “A friend who understands your tears is much more valuable than a lot of friends who only know your smile.” – Anonymous
23. “True friendship is when you walk into their house and your WiFi connects automatically.” – Unknown
24. “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
25. “There’s not a word yet for old friends who’ve just met.” – Jim Henson
26. “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
27. “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
28. “To the world you may be just one person, but to one person you may be the world.” – Brandi Snyder
29. “They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.” – Carl W. Buechner
30. “Someone to tell it to is one of the fundamental needs of human beings.” – Miles Franklin
31. “Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.” – Unknown
32. “A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.” – Donna Roberts
33. “When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are.” – Donald Miller
34. “My best friend, I would lie for, cry for, take a bullet for and straight up die for.” – Unknown
35. “Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.” – Tennessee Williams
36. “Friendship isn’t about who’m you’ve known the longest. It’s about who came and never left your side.” – Unknown
37. “Don’t make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.” – Thomas J. Watson
38. “Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer.” – Ed Cunningham
39. “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
40. “What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.” – Confucius
41. “No matter how serious life gets, you’ve still got to have that one person you can be completely stupid with.” – Unknown
42. “A single rose can be my garden… a single friend, my world.” – Leo Buscaglia
43. “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
44. “No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.” – Alice Walker
45. “A good friend knows all your stories. A best friend helped you create them.” – Unknown
46. “It is not so much our friends’ help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.” – Epicurus
47. “Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?” – Abraham Lincoln
48. “Best friends are the people you can do anything and nothing with and still have the best time.” – Unknown
49. “Some people only get called by nicknames. Usually it sounds weird to even say their real name.” – Unknown
50. “The best time to make friends is before you need them.” – Ethel Barrymore
51. “Making a hundred friends is not a miracle. The miracle is to make a single friend who will stand by your side even when hundreds are against you.” – Unknown
52. “The most beautiful discovery true friends can make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.” – Elizabeth Foley
53. “It’s really amazing when two strangers become the best of friends, but it’s really sad when the best of friends become two strangers.” – Unknown
54. “We are best friends. Always remember that if you fall, I will pick you up. After I finish laughing.” – Unknown
55. “Sometimes me thinks, ‘what is a friend?’ And then me say, ‘friend is someone to share the last cookie with.'” – Cookie Monster
56. “A best friend is like a four leaf clover, hard to find and lucky to have.” – Sarah Jessica Parker
57. “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
58. “Good friends are like stars. You don’t always see them, but you know they’re there.” – Unknown
59. “A true friend is the only person who never gets tired of listening to our own pointless dramas over and over again.” – Unknown
60. “I keep telling myself to stop talking to weirdos but then I wouldn’t have any friends left.” – Unknown
61. “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
62. “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
63. “Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.” – Oscar Wilde
Friendship, deep and meaningful ones, can be some of the greatest and most lasting relationships we will ever have.
There are times when a lifelong friendship is the longest and most meaningful relationship that someone will ever experience.
We are often far better at recognizing what it means for someone to be a good friend to us, than we do at what it means to be a good friend to another.
This is the time to consider its true meaning, and how great relationships like this work in both directions. Here are some thoughts and friendship quotes for you to ponder on.
1.) “No friendship is an accident.” ― O. Henry, Heart of the West
2.) “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
3.) “Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.” — Henry David Thoreau
4.) “A good friend is like a four leaf clover; hard to find and lucky to have.” — Irish Proverb
5.) “I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.”— Helen Keller
6.) “Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.” ― Elie Wiesel
7.) “Sitting silently beside a friend who is hurting may be the best gift we can give.” — Unknown
8.) “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
9.) “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
10.) “Dear George: Remember no man is a failure who has friends.”— It’s a Wonderful Life
11.) “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
12.) “The great thing about new friends is that they bring new energy to your soul.” — Shanna Rodriguez
13.) “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
14.) “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
15.) “I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was 12.” — Stand by Me
16.) “You’ve got a friend in me.” — Toy Story
17.) “There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.” ― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
18.) “It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies, but a great deal more to stand up to your friends.” — Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
19.) “Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.” ― Aristotle
20.) “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.” — Unknown
21.) “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
22.) “A sweet friendship refreshes the soul.” — Proverbs 27:9
23.) “There’s not a word yet, for old friends who’ve just met.” ― Jim Henson, ‘I’m Going To Go Back There Someday’
24.) “Friendship is delicate as a glass, once broken it can be fixed but there will always be cracks.” — Waqar Ahmed
25.) “Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.” ― Socrates
26.) “True friends are like diamonds — bright, beautiful, valuable, and always in style.”― Nicole Richie
27.) “Some people go to priests. Others to poetry. I to my friends.”— Virginia Woolfe
28.) “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
29.) “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
30.) “A strong friendship doesn’t need daily conversation or being together. As long as the relationship lives in the heart, true friends never part.”— Anonymous
31.) “We’ll be friend ’til we’re old and senile. … Then we’ll be new friends!”— Anonymous
32.) “A friend who understands your tears is much more valuable than a lot of friends who only know your smile.”— Anonymous
33.) “You have been my friend,” replied Charlotte. “That in itself is a tremendous thing.”— E.B. White, Charlotte’s Web
34.) “The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.” — Elizabeth Foley
35.) “There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.” ― Linda Grayson
36.) “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
37.) “Some people arrive and make such a beautiful impact on your life, you can barely remember what life was like without them.” — Anna Taylor
38.) “If you wanna find out who’s a true friend, screw up or go through a challenging time … then see who sticks around.” — Karen Salmonsohn
39.) “The best mirror is an old friend.” ― George Herbert
40.) “Some souls just understand each other upon meeting.” — N.R. Hart
41.) “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.
42.) “The only way to have a friend is to be one.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
43.) “We’ll be friends forever, won’t we, Pooh?” Asked Piglet. “Even longer,” Pooh answered.” — Winnie The Pooh
44.) “In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” — Martin Luther King Jr.
45.) “A friend to all is a friend to none.”― Aristotle
46.) “Friends are medicine for a wounded heart, and vitamins for a hopeful soul.” — Steve Maraboli
47.) “In my friend, I find a second self.” — Isabel Norton
Many times, we think that we are a great friend, that we give and give, and that everyone else does not measure up. But are we truly being honest about what it means to be selfless, to be there for another, to care as much about their happiness and well-being as we do our own?
More often than not, what people say to me is that they are frustrated that they are not getting in return what they are giving out. This means they are asking for something, or they have expectations of the other.
When it comes to true, deep friendships, it’s all about balance. Be a good friend, in order to have good, lasting friends.
Your true friends might end up being those who you gave little attention. In this collection of fake friend quotes, you can hear your own stories.
Celebrate your person today by sharing with them one of these friendship quotes. Because: they’re your person! And life is better because they’re here.
Life is hard. It’s a blessing to go hand in hand.
Here are a bunch of friendship quotes to celebrate whoever makes you feel at home, wherever you go.
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No matter the distance, true friendship means you can never be apart.
1. “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
2. “It is not so much our friends’ help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us.” – Epicurus
3. “In the spiritual life nowhere do our ideals meet the actual more truly than in how we relate to each other, in how we make, sustain and are friends.” – James Ishmael Ford
4. “You can make it, but it’s easier if you don’t have to do it alone.” – Betty Ford
5. “We need old friends to help us grow old and new friends to help us stay young.” – Letty Cottin Pogrebin
6. “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
7. “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
8. “I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.” ― Helen Keller
9. “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
10. “A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.” – Elbert Hubbard
11. “Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.” ― Aristotle
12. “Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.” – Shel Silverstein
13. No friendship is an accident. ― O. Henry, Heart of the West
14. “Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.” – Henry David Thoreau
15. “The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.” – Elizabeth Foley
16. “Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself – and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That’s what real love amounts to – letting a person be what he really is.” ― Jim Morrison
17. “The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
18. “Friendship is mutual blackmail elevated to the level of love.” – Robin Morgan
19. “What do you most value in your friends? Their continued existence.” — Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22: A Memoir
20. “Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.” ― Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics
21. “No man is a failure who has friends.” — It’s a Wonderful Life
22. “True friendship isn’t about being inseparable; it’s about being separated and nothing changes.” – Unknown
23. “The only way to have a friend is to be one.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
24. “The best mirror is an old friend.” ― George Herbert
25. “We all need friends with whom we can speak of our deepest concerns, and who do not fear to speak the truth in love to us.” – Margaret Guenther
26. “I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.” – Katherine Mansfield
27. “A friend is one before whom I may think aloud.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
28. “'Stay' is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.” – Louisa May Alcott
29. “A friend is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.” – Frank Crane
30. “All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand.” – Ella Wheeler Wilcox
31. “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.” ― Joan Powers, Pooh’s Little Instruction Book
32. “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
33. “A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
34. “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
35. “Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.” ― Henry David Thoreau
36. “The verb ‘to love’ in Persian is ‘to have a friend.’ ‘I love you’ translated literally is ‘I have you as a friend,’ and ‘I don’t like you’ simply means ‘I don’t have you as a friend.’” – Shusha Guppy
27. "True friends are always together in spirit.” ― Lucy Maud Montgomery
38. “Friendship is like standing on wet cement. The longer you stay, the harder it’s to leave, and you can never go without leaving your footprints behind.” – Moi
39. “One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.” – Lucius Annaeus Seneca
40. “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
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