Friendship Quotes
Our friendship quotes collection looks at one of the most valued resources on earth: our friends.
If you’re in friend love, this is the list for you. Who knows, maybe it will inspire you to give one of your best friends a call.
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Top 10 Friendship Quotes
1.) Love is blind. Friendship tries not to notice.
Unknown
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.) It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
4.) 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
5.) 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
6.) It is not a lack of love but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
Friedrich Nietzsche
7.) One’s friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.
George Santayana
8.) 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
9.) A good word is an easy obligation, but not to speak ill requires only our silence, which costs us nothing.
John Tillotson
10.) 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
Funny Friendship Quotes
11.) One good reason to only maintain a small circle of friends is that three out of four murders are committed by people who know the victim.
George Carlin
12.) Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer.
Ed Cunningham
13.) There are three faithful friends, an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
Benjamin Franklin
14.) An old friend will help you move. A good friend will help you move a dead body.
Jim Hayes
15.) The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn’t exist.
Aaron Machado
16.) A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.
Bernard Meltzer
17.) Money can’t buy friends, but you can get a better class of enemy.
Spike Milligan
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Being a Friend
18.) Be nice to everyone, always smile, and appreciate things because it could all be gone tomorrow.
Ed Sheeran
19.) The only unsinkable ship is friendship.
Unknown
20.) When you’re in jail, a good friend will be trying to bail you out. A best friend will be in the cell next to you saying, “Damn, that was fun.
Unknown
21.) We’ll be friends until we’re old and our memories go. Then, we’ll be new friends.
Unknown
22.) If all my friends were to jump off a bridge, I wouldn’t jump with them; I would be at the bottom to catch them.
Unknown
23.) Friendship improves happiness and abates misery by the doubling of our joy and diving of our grief.
Joseph Addison
24.) You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.
Albert Camus
25.) Good friends don’t let you do stupid things — alone!
Unknown
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Short Sayings
26.) The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend.
Aristotle
27.) The best time to make friends is before you need them.
Ethel Barrymore
28.) No one is as entertained by us as us.
Unknown
29.) You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.
Albert Camus
30.) The soul of conversation is sympathy.
Thomas Campbell
31.) Friends are God’s way of apologizing for our families.
Unknown
32.) You must look into other people as well as at them.
Lord Chesterfield
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33.) A man’s own good breeding is the best security against other people’s ill manners.
Lord Chesterfield
34.) 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
35.) There is nothing better than a friend unless it is a friend with chocolate.
Linda Grayson
36.) Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.
Richard Bach
37.) True friends are like diamonds — bright, beautiful, valuable, and always in style.
Nicole Richie
38.) 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
39.) A friend may be waiting behind a stranger’s face.
Maya Angelou
40.) A good friend is like a four-leaf clover: hard to find and lucky to have.
Irish Proverb
Good Friends
41.) Do not forget small kindnesses and do not remember small faults.
Chinese Proverb
42.) What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.
Confucius
43.) The more you say, the less people remember.
François Fénelon
44.) There’s not a word yet for old friends who’ve just met.
Jim Henson
45.) Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?
Abraham Lincoln (for more great Abraham Lincoln Quotes)
46.) Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
Mencius
47.) Don’t allow the grass to grow on the path of friendship.
Native American Proverb
48.) One smile begins a friendship.
Unknown
49.) Friendship isn’t a big thing; it’s a million little things.
Unknown
50.) No person is your friend who demands your silence or denies your right to grow.
Alice Walker
51.) Friendship is the marriage of affections.
Thomas Watson
52.) Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.
Woodrow T. Wilson
53.) Friendship never forgets. That is the wonderful thing about it.
Oscar Wilde
54.) A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
Walter Winchell
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Fellowship Sayings
55.) 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
56.) A single rose can be my garden — a single friend, my world.
Leo Buscaglia
57.) Two people are better off than one, for they can help each other succeed. If one person falls, the other can reach out and help. But someone who falls alone is in real trouble.
Ecclesiastes
58.) I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.
Ernest Hemingway
59.) 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
60.) If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, Sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair.
Samuel Johnson
61.) 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
62.) Friendship with oneself is all-important because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
Eleanor Roosevelt
More on Life
63.) Be slow to fall into friendship, but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
Socrates
64.) True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable.
David Tyson
65.) True 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
66.) 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
67.) Don’t make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.
Thomas J. Watson
68.) 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
69.) A friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future, and accepts you just the way you are.
Unknown
Best Friend Quotes
70.) 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
71.) Ultimately, the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.
Oscar Wilde
72.) I don’t need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.
Plutarch
73.) 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
74.) Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
William Thackeray
75.) The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.
Hubert H. Humphrey
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Friends Sayings
76.) Be slow to fall into friendship, but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
Socrates
77.) Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations. Don’t over-analyze your relationships. Stop playing games. A growing relationship can only be nurtured by genuineness.
Leo F. Buscaglia
78.) Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
Marcel Proust
79.) 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
80.) In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
81.) 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
82.) Keep away from those who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you believe that you, too, can become great.
Mark Twain
83.) Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respected.
Charles Lamb
More Sayings on Friends
84.) Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you. Love me, and I may be forced to love you.
William Arthur Ward
85.) 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
86.) 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
87.) The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.
Elisabeth Foley
88.) 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
89.) 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
90.) If you make friends with yourself, you will never be alone.
Maxwell Maltz
91.) The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when someone asked me what I thought and attended to my answer.
Henry David Thoreau
Amigos
92.) People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges.
Joseph F. Newton Men
93.) Friendship is like a glass ornament; once it is broken, it can rarely be put back together exactly the same way.
Charles Kingsley
94.) A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.
Donna Roberts
95.) It is not so much our friends’ help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.
Epicurus
96.) 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
97.) 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
98.) Friendship’s the wine of life.
Edward Young
99.) One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Inspirational Friendship Quotes
100.) 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
101.) Life is partly what we make it and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
Tennessee Williams
102.) 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
103.) They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.
Carl W. Buechner
104.) Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.
Unknown
105.) The royal road to a man’s heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.
Dale Carnegie
106.) Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing. Elie Wiesel
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Bestie Quotes
107.) It’s not that diamonds are a girl’s best friend, but it’s your best friends who are your diamonds.
Gina Barreca
108.) Life is an ugly, awful place to not have a best friend.
Sarah Dessen
109.) It is the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.
Marlene Dietrich
110.) Close friends are truly life’s treasures. Sometimes, they know us better than we know ourselves.
Unknown
111.) Someone to tell it to is one of the fundamental needs of human beings.
Miles Franklin
112.) Some people go to priests; others to poetry I to my friends.
Virginia Woolf
113.) 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
114.) Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.
Khalil Gibran
115.) Friends are the siblings God never gave us.
Mencius
BFF
116.) It’s your best friends who are supremely resilient, made under pressure, and of astonishing value. They’re everlasting; they can cut glass if they need to.
Gina Barreca
117.) Friendship isn’t a big thing – it’s a million little things.
Paulo Coelho
118.) Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.
Henry David Thoreau
119.) Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.
Woodrow Wilson
120.) The best mirror is an old friend.
George Herbert
121.) Don’t be afraid of new beginnings. Don’t shy away from new people, new energy, new surroundings. Embrace new chances at happiness.
Billy Chapata
122.) The great thing about new friends is that they bring new energy to your soul.
Shanna Rodriguez
Heartfelt Friendship Quotes
123.) 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
124.) Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world.
John Evelyn
125.) For it would then be true friendship, such as no hope, no fear, no self-interest can sever. That is a friendship that stays with people until they die—and that people die for.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
126.) When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands.
Maria Shriver
127.) Some people arrive and make such a beautiful impact on your life that you can barely remember what life was like without them.
Anna Taylor
128.) Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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