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“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
“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
“A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.” ― Elbert Hubbard
“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche
“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”― Mark Twain
“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
“There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.” ― Linda Grayson
“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
“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.” ― Alfred Tennyson
“The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.” ― Bob Marley
“It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.” ― Marlene Dietrich
“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
“Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend.” ― Sarah Dessen, Someone Like You
“We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?' asked Piglet.
Even longer,' Pooh answered.”
― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
“I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.” ― Helen Keller
“You are my best friend as well as my lover, and I do not know which side of you I enjoy the most. I treasure each side, just as I have treasured our life together.”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook
“When someone loves you, the way they say your name is different. You know that your name is safe in their mouth.” ― Jess C. Scott, The Intern
“Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind. "Pooh?" he whispered.
"Yes, Piglet?"
"Nothing," said Piglet, taking Pooh's hand. "I just wanted to be sure of you.”
― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
“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, The Four Loves
“What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.” ― Aristotle
“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.” ― Jon Katz
“Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.” ― A.A. Milne
“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
“Only a true best friend can protect you from your immortal enemies.” ― Richelle Mead, Vampire Academy
“Silence make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying, but the never needing to say that counts.” ― Margaret Lee Runbeck
“Why did you do all this for me?" he asked. "I don't deserve it. I've never done anything for you.'
You have been my friend,' replied Charlotte. 'That in itself is a tremendous thing.” ― E.B. White, Charlotte's Web
“Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respected.” ― Charles Lamb, The Life, Letters and Writings of Charles Lamb
“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
“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.” ― Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934
“Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find.” ― William Shakespeare
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80 Inspiring Friendship Quotes For Your Best Friend. Posted by “A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same. Irish Proverb.
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend. Henry David Thoreau Click to tweet
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it. Ralph Waldo Emerson Click to tweet
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 Click to tweet
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 Click to tweet
Friendship is a sheltering tree. Samuel Taylor Coleridge Click to tweet
I don’t like that man. I must get to know him better. Abraham Lincoln Click to tweet
It’s not what we have, but who we have. Winnie The Pooh Click to tweet
A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you. Elbert Hubbard Click to tweet
I have learned that to be with those I like is enough. Walt Whitman Click to tweet
Good friends are hard to find, harder to leave and impossible to forget. G. Randolf Click to tweet
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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
Friendship is not about whom you know the longest. It is about who came and never left. Paulo Coelho
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 consists in forgetting what one gives and remembering what one receives. Alexander Dumas
“Stay” is a charming word in a friend’s vocabulary. Louisa May Alcott
Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words. George Eliot
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 Click to tweet
Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends. Virginia Woolf Click to tweet
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
Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world. Eleanor Roosevelt
A friend is one of the nicest things you can have and one of the best things you can be. Winnie The Pooh
Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth. Herman Melville
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
The friendship which can cease has never been real. St. Jerome (This is one of my favorite friendship quote. Leave a reply here and let me know what’s yours!)
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Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together. Woodrow Wilson Click to tweet
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept. Samuel Butler
Friendship is not always the sequel of obligation. Samuel Johnson
Friendship is what gets you through the bad times and helps you enjoy the good times. Unknown
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
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
Friendship is a wildly underrated medication. Anna Deavere Smith
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
Friendship is something that creates equality and mutuality, not a reward for finding equality or a way of intensifying existing mutuality. Rowan Williams
Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious. Thomas Aquinas
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity. Kahlil Gibran Click to tweet
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The only way to have a friend is to be one. Ralph Waldo EmersonClick to tweet
The best thing to hold onto in life is each other. Audrey Hepburn
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
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
A friend to all is a friend to none. Aristotle Click to tweet
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
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
I get by with a little help from my friends. The Beatles
A friend is one soul abiding in two bodies. Aristotle
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Life is nothing without friendship. Cicero Click to tweet
True friendships are eternal. Cicero
Friends are the family you choose. Unknown
Friendship = vulnerability * time. Sahil Lavingia
No friendship is an accident. O. Henry
Truth springs from argument amongst friends. David Hume
Love is friendship on fire. Susan Sontag
Remember, no man is a failure who has friends.
Opposition is true friendship. William Blake
Between friends, words are optional.
Though friendship is not quick to burn, it is explosive stuff. May Sarton
Keep the ones that heard you when you never said a word.
A friend is a gift you give yourself. Robert Louis Stevenson
There cannot be friendship without equality. Swami Sivananda
The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two. Sophie Swetchine
The best mirror is an old friend. George Herbert Click to tweet
Friendship is essentially a partnership. Aristotle
There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. William Hazlitt
My friends are my estate. Emily Dickinson
The secret to friendship is being a good listener.
Friends are proved by adversity. Cicero
Friendships are discovered rather than made. Harriet Beecher Stowe
The best cure for a bad day is a good friend.
Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer. Jean de La Fontaine
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No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another. Charles Dickens Click to tweet
You can’t shake hands with a clenched fist. Indira Gandhi
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
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
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
We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship. C.S. Lewis
If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone. Maxwell Maltz
When was the last time you asked your friend how he/she was doing? Maxime Lagacé
As soon as I saw you, I knew an adventure was going to happen. Winnie The Pooh
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
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
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
Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which strengthens with the setting sun of life. Jean de La Fontaine
One friend in a storm is worth more than a thousand friends in sunshine. Matshona Dhliwayo Click to tweet
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. Cicero
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
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
Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking. George Eliot
True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance. Henry David Thoreau
Friendship however is a plant which cannot be forced – true friendship is no gourd spring up in a night and withering in a day. Charlotte Bronte
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
Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. Charles Eastman
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
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I love how badass we think we are when we’re together. Click to tweet
Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom. Francis Bacon
Friendship is love minus sex plus reason: Love is friendship plus sex minus reason.
There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate. Linda Grayson
I’m a controversial figure. My friends either dislike me or hate me. Toni Morrison
I have no trouble with my enemies. But my goddam friends… they are the ones that keep me walking the floor nights. Oscar Levant
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
I like to hang out with people who make me forget to look at my phone.
No one will ever be as entertained by us as us.
True friendship is when you walk into their house and your WiFi connects automatically.
There are small ships and big ships but the best ships are friendships.
The better the friend, the less cleaning you do before he comes over.
Real friends don’t get offended when you insult them. They smile and call you something even more offensive. Click to tweet
We are best friends. Always remember that if you fall I will pick you up after I finish laughing.
The friendship of one intelligent man is better than that of all the unintelligent. Democritus
Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used. Elbert Hubbard
The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne. Samuel Johnson
A day spent with you is my favorite day. So today is my new favorite day. Winnie The Pooh
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
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.
You are I are more than friends. We’re like a really small gang.
A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success. Doug Larson
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A friend is what the heart needs all the time. Henry Van Dyke Click to tweet
‘Stay’ is a charming word in a friend’s vocabulary. Amos Bronson Alcott
Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends. H. Jackson Brown Jr.
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
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
If I had a flower for every time I thought of you…I could walk through my garden forever. Alfred Tennyson
There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child. Henry Ward Beecher
Nobody sees a flower – really – it is so small it takes time – we haven’t time – and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time. Georgia O’Keeffe
We don’t need sugar, flour or rice or anything else. We just want to see our dear ones. Hafiz of Persia
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
A single rose can be my garden… a single friend, my world. Leo Buscaglia
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The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship. William Blake Click to tweet
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. Publius Syrus (The Moral Sayings of Publius 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
We need old friends to help us grow old and new friends to help us stay young. Letty Cottin Pogrebin
In friendship we find nothing false or insincere; everything is straight forward, and springs from the heart. Cicero
It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them. Confucius Click to tweet
We hate some persons because we do not know them; and will not know them because we hate them. Charles Caleb Colton
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
It is not so much our friends’ help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us. Epicurus
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 Miller
Friends make the good things better and the bad things not so bad.
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
In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends. John Churton Collins
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This is my beloved and this is my friend. Song of Solomon Click to tweet
Friendship often ends in love. But love in friendship; never. Charles Caleb Colton
Love is a friendship set to music. Joseph Campbell
Friendship is the finest balm for the pangs of despised love. Jane Austen
The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love. Hubert H. Humphrey
Friendship is the most constant, the most enduring the most basic part of love. Ed Cunningham
Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses. Ann Landers
A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love. Saint Basil
Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing. Elie Wiesel
All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand. Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Love everyone with a deep love based on charity, but form friendships only with those who can share virtuous things with you. The higher the virtues you share and exchange with others, the more perfect your friendship will be. St. Francis de Sales
Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend. Martin Luther King Jr
The most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen. Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attention…. A loving silence often has far more power to heal and to connect than the most well-intentioned words. Rachel Naomi Remen
Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation. Samuel Richardson
Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves. Oliver Goldsmith
Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship. Lord Byron
However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship. Francois de La Rochefoucauld Click to tweet
The verb ‘to love’ in Persian is ‘to have a friend’. ‘I love you’ translated literally is ‘I have you as a friend’. Shusha Guppy
There is no friendship, no love, like that of the mother for the child. Henry Ward Beecher
Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty. Cicero
Love is friendship set on fire. Jeremy Taylor
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Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil. Baltasar Gracian Click to tweet
Friendship is infinitely better than kindness. Cicero
What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other? George Eliot
The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it. Hubert H. Humphrey
A friend is someone you can share your incomplete thoughts with. People need a private space where they can speak and refine their “work in progress” thinking. The Stoic Emperor
If you set out to do what you really want to do, you may lose a lot of friends but you will not lose a single friend who is worth having. Alan Watts
There is nothing we like to see so much as the gleam of pleasure in a person’s eye when he feels that we have sympathized with him, understood him. At these moments something fine and spiritual passes between two friends. These are the moments worth living. Don Marquis
Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company. Booker T. Washington
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. Jon Katz
Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back: a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country. Anais Nin
We must reach out our hand in friendship and dignity both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy. Arthur Ashe
If one is estranged from oneself, then one is estranged from others too. If one is out of touch with oneself, then one cannot touch others. Anne Morrow Lindbergh
The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, ‘What are you going through?’ Simone Weil
There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first; when you learn to live for others, they will live for you. Paramahansa Yogananda
Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life. James F. Byrnes
In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed. Kahlil Gibran
That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end. Francis Quarles
Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend. Sarah Dessen Click to tweet
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How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard. Winnie The Pooh Click to tweet
Friends are medicine for a wounded heart and vitamins for a hopeful soul. Steve Maraboli
Share your smile with the world. It’s a symbol of friendship and peace. Christie Brinkley
Friendship is the purest love. It is the highest form of love where nothing is asked for, no condition, where one simply enjoys giving. Osho
I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing. Katherine Mansfield
The sharing of joy, whether physical, emotional, psychic, or intellectual, forms a bridge between the sharers which can be the basis for understanding much of what is not shared between them, and lessens the threat of their difference. Audre Lorde
I often find myself saying a little prayer of thanks for you. Unknown
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. Marcel Proust
Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief. Cicero
Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship. Epicurus
It’s not that other people don’t get me at all… It’s that you get me completely.
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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks. Saint Jerome Click to tweet
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
True friendship isn’t about being inseparable it’s being separated and nothing changes.
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
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.
True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable. David Tyson
There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship. Thomas Aquinas
What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship? Anais Nin Click to tweet
Best friends are the people you can do anything and nothing with and still have the best time.
A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down. Arnold H. Glasgow
True friendship is like sound health. The value of it is seldom known until it be lost. Charles Caleb Colton
The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart. Elizabeth Foley
A true friend is the most precious of all possessions and the one we take the least thought about acquiring. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Silence is the true friend that never betrays. Confucius Click to tweet
True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island… to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.
True friendship consists not in the multitude of friends, but in their worth and value. Ben Jonson
One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
A true friend is someone who is there for you when he’d rather be anywhere else. Len Wein
The firmest friendship is based on an identity of likes and dislikes. Sallust
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me. Henry Ford
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Friends, though absent, are still present. Cicero Click to tweet
The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for. Bob Marley
There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends. Thomas Fuller
The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship. Francis Bacon
Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn’t stop for anybody. Stephen Chbosky
The best way to mend a broken heart is time and girlfriends. Gwyneth Paltrow
Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness. Euripides
Sitting silently beside a friend who is hurting may be the best gift we can give.
When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving much advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a gentle and tender hand. 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 curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares. Henri Nouwen
When a friend is in trouble, don’t annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it. Edgar Watson Howe
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
The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away. Barbara Kingsolver
Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back. Blaise Pascal
Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity. Charles Caleb Colton Click to tweet
Don’t feel bad if people remember you only when they need you. Feel privileged that you are like a candle that comes to their mind when there is darkness.
There is nothing better than the encouragement of a good friend. Katharine Butler Hathaway
But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life. Thomas Jefferson
The worst solitude is to have no real friendships. Francis Bacon
Friendship has its illusions no less than love. Stendhal
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Friends are God’s way of taking care of us. Click to tweet
For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God. Saint Teresa of Avila
What a good favor God does to those he places in the company of good people! Saint Teresa of Avila
One who has unreliable friends soon comes to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother. Proverbs 18:24
The soul of Jonathan was knit to the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul. Samuel 18:1
We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection. Dalai Lama (Tenzin Gyatso)
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
It is easy enough to be friendly to one’s friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business. Mahatma Gandhi
Do not be deceived: “Bad company ruins good morals. 1 Corinthians 15:33
Let us be concerned for one another, to help one another to show love and to do good. Hebrews 10:24
And as you wish that others would do to you, do so to them. Luke 6:31
Love one another with brotherly affection. Out do one another in showing honor. Romans 12:10
Listen to advice and accept instruction, that you may gain wisdom in the future. Proverbs 19:20
Whoever walks with the wise becomes wise, but the companion of fools will suffer harm. Proverbs 13:20
A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity. Proverbs 17:17
The righteous person is a guide to his friend, but the path of the wicked leads them astray. Proverbs 12:26
Iron sharpens iron; so one man sharpens another. Proverbs 27:17
Friends are the siblings God never gave us. Mencius
A faithful friend is the medicine of life. Ecclesiasticus 6:16 Click to tweet
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True enemies are better than false friends. Matshona Dhliwayo Click to tweet
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. Martin Luther King Jr
I don’t need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better. Plutarch
No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow. Alice Walker
Our true friends are those who are with us when the good things happen. They cheer us on and are pleased by our triumphs. False friends only appear at difficult times, with their sad, supportive faces, when, in fact, our suffering is serving to console them for their miserable lives. Paulo Coelho
Losing friends that are easily lost is no loss at all. The Stoic Emperor
It is difficult to say who do you the most mischief: enemies with the worst intentions or friends with the best. Edward Bulwer-Lytton
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
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
Flattery is like friendship in show, but not in fruit. Socrates
Suspicion is the cancer of friendship. Petrarch
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Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory. Dr. Seuss Click to tweet
There are friendships imprinted in our hearts that will never be diminished by time and distance. Dodinshy
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
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
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
Those truly linked don’t need correspondence. When they meet again after many years apart, their friendship is as true as ever. Deng Ming-Dao
Friendship should be surrounded with ceremonies and respects, and not crushed into corners. Friendship requires more time than poor busy men can usually command. Ralph Waldo Emerson
It takes a long time to grow an old friend. John Leonard
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Jealousy is the fear of comparison. Max Frisch Click to tweet
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
You can be the moon and still be jealous of the stars. Gary Allan
The jealous are possessed by a mad devil and a dull spirit at the same time. Johann Kaspar Lavater
Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius. Fulton J. Sheen Click to tweet
He that is jealous is not in love. Augustine of Hippo
True friends stab you in the front. Oscar Wilde
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One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives. Euripides Click to tweet
Someone to tell it to is one of the fundamental needs of human beings. Miles Franklin
Loyalty and friendship, which is to me the same, created all the wealth that I’ve ever thought I’d have. Ernie Banks
It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship. Henry Ward Beecher
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
One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life. E. M. Forster
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. Karl Menninger
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
Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports. Kenneth Branagh
There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity. Samuel Johnson
Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respected. Charles Lamb
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Sometimes me think, ‘What is friend?’ Then me say, ‘Friend is someone to share the last cookie with. Cookie Monster
Only a true friend would be that truly honest. Shrek
We will be friends until forever, just you wait and see. Winnie The PoohClick to tweet
We didn’t even realize we were making memories. We just knew we were having fun. Winnie The Pooh
If ever there is a 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. Winnie The Pooh
I wouldn’t trade it for anything. Never, no, never. Your friendship is the best present ever. Tigger
Some people are worth melting for. Olaf
If you keep on believing, the dream that you wish will come true. Cinderella
When I look at you, I can feel it. I look at you and I’m home. Dory
You’ve got a friend in me. Toy Story
We’re a family, we stick together. Toy Story
No matter what happens, you’ll always be a prince to me. Aladdin
I’ll miss you when I wake up. Alice In Wonderland
When you’re the best of friends having so much fun together… you’re not even aware, you’re such a funny pair. The Fox and The Hound
You and I are a team. Nothing is more important than our friendship. Monsters, Inc.
Every minute spent in your company becomes the new best moment of my life. Bolt
My dream wouldn’t be complete without you in it. The Princess And The Frog
Louise, no matter what happens, I’m glad I came with you. Thelma
We made a deal ages ago… men, babies, it doesn’t matter. We’re soulmates. Samantha
Old stories are like old friends, she used to say. You have to visit them from time to time.
I am glad you are here with me. Here at the end of all things, Sam. J.R.R. Tolkien
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
Anyone can change your life, if you let them. The Intouchables
Friendship isn’t about being inseparable, but about being separated and knowing nothing will change. Ted
True friends are always together in spirit. Anne of Green Gables
The human spirit is more powerful than any drug and that is what needs to be nourished with work, play, friendship, family. These are the things that matter. Awakenings
It’s an insane world but in it there is one sanity, the loyalty of old friends. Ben-Hur
An old friend is never an extra guest. Notorious
Keep your friends close, but your enemies even closer. The Godfather
The most important thing in life will always be the people in this room. Right here, right now. Dom Toretto
I don’t have friends, I have family. Dom Toretto Click to tweet
Some people can’t believe in themselves until someone else believes in them first. Good Will Hunting
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Here together, friends forever. Some things were just meant to be, and that’s you and me. Winnie The Pooh
True friends are never apart. Maybe in distance but never in heart.
You give me reasons to smile and reasons to laugh, but most of all, you give me memories I could never forget.
Flowers will die, the sun will set, but you’re a friend I won’t forget. Your name is so precious, it will never grow old. It’s engraved in my heart in letters of gold.
At the end of every tunnel, there is a light somewhere, a light of hope and reason, and a light to guide us to the safety from the dark, to outstretched hands there. These hands hold out friendship, something everyone needs, for friendship brings a wealth much more than anything money can buy, for without this wealth, many of us would just shrivel up and die. David Harris
Don’t walk in front of me. I may not follow. Don’t walk behind me. I may not lead. Walk beside me, just be my friend. Albert Camus
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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 Click to tweet
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Friends matter. The best professional relationships feel like friendships. Aside from your significant other -- who is likely to also be your best friend -- your most important relationships are your friends.
Here are some great quotes about friendship -- and friends.
Published on: Jan 19, 2018
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Friendship is Love without his wings! Lord Byron With friends there is not such a word as debt: Where amity is . The true, the wise, the beautiful, is sleeping in the dust.
Friendship quotes are a fantastic way to show you just how special your true friends are to you in life. Let these quotes about friendship and best friends make you want to reach out and remind yours just how much they mean to you.
What is it to be a true friend? Why are we drawn to certain people and not others?
Specifically, what is the difference between the people who will be our friends for life, and those who will pass through our lives for a reason or a season?
Hopefully, these quotes about friends can give you some inspiration about the people you surround yourself with and why.
Below is our collection of inspirational, wise, and warm best friends quotes, friendship sayings, and friendship proverbs, collected from a variety of sources over the years.
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.) “The only way to have a friend is to be one.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
3.) “There’s not a word yet for old friends who’ve just met.” – Jim Henson
4.) “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
5.) “Friendship is delicate as a glass, once broken it can be fixed but there will always be cracks.” — Waqar Ahmed
6.) “When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are.” – Donald Miller
7.) “A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill requires only our silence; which costs us nothing.” — John Tillotson
8.) “Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.”―Elie Wiesel
9.) “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
10.) “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
11.) “No friendship is an accident.” ―O. Henry, Heart of the West
12.) “Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.” ― Socrates
13.) “A single rose can be my garden… a single friend, my world.” – Leo Buscaglia
14.) “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 Buscaglia
15.) “Only a true friend would be that truly honest.” — Shrek
16.) “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
17.) “A good friend can tell you what the matter with you is in a minute. He may not seem such a good friend after telling.” – Arthur Brisbane
18.) “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
19.) “True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable.” – David Tyson
20.) “Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?” – Abraham Lincoln
21.) “I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.” — Helen Keller
22.) “True friends are like diamonds — bright, beautiful, valuable, and always in style.” ― Nicole Richie
23.) “Don’t make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.” – Thomas J. Watson
24.) “Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respected.” – Charles Lamb
25.) “A friend to all is a friend to none.” ― Aristotle
26.) “If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone.”– Maxwell Maltz
27.) “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
28.) “One’s friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.”– George Santayana
29.) “Some people go to priests. Others to poetry. I to my friends.”—Virginia Woolfe
30.) “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
31.) “Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm & constant.”’ – Socrates
32.) “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
33.) “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
34.) “Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”– Marcel Proust
35.) “When a woman becomes her own best friend, life is easier.”—Diane von Furstenburg
36.) “A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.”– Bernard Meltzer
37.) “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
38.) “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
39.) “I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.”– Ernest Hemingway
40.) “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
41.) “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
42.) “I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was 12.”—Stand by Me
43.) “A friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future, and accepts you just the way you are.”– Unknown
44.) “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
45.) “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
46.) “The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when someone asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.”— Henry David Thoreau
47.) “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
48.) “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
49.) “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
50.) “It is not so much our friends’ help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.”– Epicurus
51.) “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
52.) “True friendship is never serene.”—Marquise de Sevigne
53.) “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
54.) “In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”– Martin Luther King, Jr.
55.) “There’s not a word yet, for old friends who’ve just met.”―Jim Henson, “I’m goingto Go Back There Someday”
56.) “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
57.) “The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.”– Elisabeth Foley
58.) “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
59.) “A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.”– Walter Winchell
60.) “Someone to tell it to is one of the fundamental needs of human beings.”— Miles Franklin
61.) “Dear George: Remember no man is a failure who has friends.”—It’s a Wonderful Life
62.) “I get by with a little help from my friends.”—The Beatles
63.) “Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.”– Oscar Wilde
64.) “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
65.) “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
66.) “People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges.”— Joseph F. Newton Men
67.) “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
68.) “It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”– Friedrich Nietzsche
“Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.” – Epicurus. “Friends show their love in.
