Friendship quotes
A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.
– Jim Morrison
One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.
– Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.
– Hubert H. Humphrey
Love demands infinitely less than friendship.
– George Jean Nathan
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.
– Khalil Gibran
The strong bond of friendship is not always a balanced equation; friendship is not always about giving and taking in equal shares. Instead, friendship is grounded in a feeling that you know exactly who will be there for you when you need something, no matter what or when.
– Simon Sinek
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.
– Baltasar Gracian
We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we’re not alone.
– Orson Welles
Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.
– Jean de La Fontaine
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.
– Khalil Gibran
Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends.
– H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art… It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
– C. S. Lewis
Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.
– Chanakya
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
– Henry Ford
The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.
– Hubert H. Humphrey
A true friend is someone who is there for you when he’d rather be anywhere else.
– Len Wein
Friendship is the complete explanation of what a Cheetah Girl is – if you have that true friendship, you can conquer anything you want.
– Sabrina Bryan
When I was growing up, my mother was always a friend to my siblings and me (in addition to being all the other things a mom is), and I was always grateful for that because I knew she was someone I could talk to and joke with, and argue with and that nothing would ever harm that friendship.
– Marlo Thomas
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
– Eleanor Roosevelt
Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.
– Bruce Lee
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
Friends are the siblings God never gave us.
– Mencius
A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.
– Arnold H. Glasow
If you have one true friend you have more than your share.
– Thomas Fuller
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
– Marcel Proust
I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let’s face it, friends make life a lot more fun.
– Charles R. Swindoll
Friends and good manners will carry you where money won’t go.
– Margaret Walker
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
Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.
– Euripides
You find out who your real friends are when you’re involved in a scandal.
– Elizabeth Taylor
My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
– Aristotle
Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare – and precious as a pearl.
– Tahar Ben Jelloun
Share your smile with the world. It’s a symbol of friendship and peace.
– Christie Brinkley
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
– Walter Winchell
Be true to yourself, help others, make each day your masterpiece, make friendship a fine art, drink deeply from good books – especially the Bible, build a shelter against a rainy day, give thanks for your blessings and pray for guidance every day.
– John Wooden
There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven’t yet met.
– William Butler Yeats
Things are never quite as scary when you’ve got a best friend.
– Bill Watterson
There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.
– Thomas Aquinas
Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.
– Herodotus
A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.
– Saint Basil
Friends… they cherish one another’s hopes. They are kind to one another’s dreams.
– Henry David Thoreau
A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success!
– Doug Larson
No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.
– Alice Walker
No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.
– Alice Walker
A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
– John D. Rockefeller
Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.
– Robert Staughton Lynd
I’m single, footloose and fancy free, I have no responsibilities, no anchors. Work, friendship and self-improvement, that’s me.
– Joel Edgerton
Friends are born, not made.
– Henry Adams
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
– Friedrich Nietzsche
The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
– Henry David Thoreau
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
My friends are my estate.
– Emily Dickinson
Friendship… is not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything.
– Muhammad Ali
A single rose can be my garden… a single friend, my world.
– Leo Buscaglia
Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others!
– William Hazlitt
A friend is what the heart needs all the time.
– Henry Van Dyke
Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
– Jean de La Fontaine
Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.
– Helen Keller
I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.
– Walt Whitman
I think friendship is more important than love, but that love that grows out of friendship is the very best of all.
– Jane Green
True friends stab you in the front.
– Oscar Wilde
A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.
– William Penn
I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.
– Thomas Edison
Friendship is also about liking a person for their failings, their weakness. It’s also about mutual help, not about exploitation.
– Paul Theroux