Friendship Quotes

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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?
• 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.
• 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.
• You give me reasons to smile and reasons to laugh, but most of all, you give me memories I could never forget.
• True friends are never apart. Maybe in distance but never in heart.
• Here together, friends forever. Some things were just meant to be, and that’s you and me.
• Some people can’t believe in themselves until someone else believes in them first.
• I don’t have friends, I have family.
• The most important thing in life will always be the people in this room. Right here, right now.
• Keep your friends close, but your enemies even closer.
• An old friend is never an extra guest.
• It’s an insane world but in it there is one sanity, the loyalty of old friends.
• 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.
• True friends are always together in spirit.
• Friendship isn’t about being inseparable, but about being separated and knowing nothing will change.
• Anyone can change your life, if you let them.
• It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies, but a great deal more to stand up to your friends.
• I am glad you are here with me. Here at the end of all things, Sam.
• Old stories are like old friends, she used to say. You have to visit them from time to time.
• We made a deal ages ago… men, babies, it doesn’t matter. We’re soulmates.
• Louise, no matter what happens, I’m glad I came with you.
• My dream wouldn’t be complete without you in it.
• Every minute spent in your company becomes the new best moment of my life.
• You and I are a team. Nothing is more important than our friendship.
• When you’re the best of friends having so much fun together… you’re not even aware, you’re such a funny pair.
• I’ll miss you when I wake up.
• No matter what happens, you’ll always be a prince to me.
• We’re a family, we stick together.
• You’ve got a friend in me.
• When I look at you, I can feel it. I look at you and I’m home.
• If you keep on believing, the dream that you wish will come true.
• Some people are worth melting for.
• I wouldn’t trade it for anything. Never, no, never. Your friendship is the best present ever.
• 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.
• We didn’t even realize we were making memories. We just knew we were having fun.
• We will be friends until forever, just you wait and see.
• Only a true friend would be that truly honest.
• Sometimes me think, ‘What is friend?’ Then me say, ‘Friend is someone to share the last cookie with.
• Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respected.
• There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.
• Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.
• 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.
• 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.
• One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.
• 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.
• 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.
• Loyalty and friendship, which is to me the same, created all the wealth that I’ve ever thought I’d have.
• Someone to tell it to is one of the fundamental needs of human beings.
• One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
• True friends stab you in the front.
• He that is jealous is not in love.
• Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.
• The jealous are possessed by a mad devil and a dull spirit at the same time.
• You can be the moon and still be jealous of the stars.
• Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend’s success.
• Jealousy is the fear of comparison.
• It takes a long time to grow an old friend.
• Friendship should be surrounded with ceremonies and respects, and not crushed into corners. Friendship requires more time than poor busy men can usually command.
• Those truly linked don’t need correspondence. When they meet again after many years apart, their friendship is as true as ever.
• 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.
• Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.
• 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.
• There are friendships imprinted in our hearts that will never be diminished by time and distance.
• Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.
• Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.
• Flattery is like friendship in show, but not in fruit.
• 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.
• It is difficult to say who do you the most mischief: enemies with the worst intentions or friends with the best.
• Losing friends that are easily lost is no loss at all.
• 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.
• No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.
• I don’t need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.
• In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
• True enemies are better than false friends.
• A faithful friend is the medicine of life.
• Friends are the siblings God never gave us.
• Iron sharpens iron; so one man sharpens another.
• The righteous person is a guide to his friend, but the path of the wicked leads them astray.
• A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
• Whoever walks with the wise becomes wise, but the companion of fools will suffer harm.
• Listen to advice and accept instruction, that you may gain wisdom in the future.
• Love one another with brotherly affection. Out do one another in showing honor.
• And as you wish that others would do to you, do so to them.
• Let us be concerned for one another, to help one another to show love and to do good.
• Do not be deceived: Bad company ruins good morals.
• 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.
• 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.
• We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.
• The soul of Jonathan was knit to the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul.
• One who has unreliable friends soon comes to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.
• What a good favor God does to those he places in the company of good people!
• For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.
• Friends are God’s way of taking care of us.
• Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
• The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.
• But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life.
• 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.
• Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.
• Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back.
• The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away.
• 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.
• 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.
• Sitting silently beside a friend who is hurting may be the best gift we can give.
• Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.
• The best way to mend a broken heart is time and girlfriends.
• Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn’t stop for anybody.
• The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship.
• There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.
• The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.
• Friends, though absent, are still present.
• My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
• The firmest friendship is based on an identity of likes and dislikes.
• A true friend is someone who is there for you when he’d rather be anywhere else.
• One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.
• True friendship consists not in the multitude of friends, but in their worth and value.
• 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.
• Silence is the true friend that never betrays.
• A true friend is the most precious of all possessions and the one we take the least thought about acquiring.
• The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.
• A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.
• Best friends are the people you can do anything and nothing with and still have the best time.
• What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?
• There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.
• True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable.
• 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.
• 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.
• True friendship isn’t about being inseparable it’s being separated and nothing changes.
• One friend with whom you have a lot in common is better than three with whom you struggle to find things to talk about.
• True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.
• It’s not that other people don’t get me at all… It’s that you get me completely.
• Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.
• Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.
• Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
• I often find myself saying a little prayer of thanks for you.
• 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.
• I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.
• Share your smile with the world. It’s a symbol of friendship and peace.
• Friends are medicine for a wounded heart and vitamins for a hopeful soul.
• How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.
• Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend.
• That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.
• 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.
• Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.
• 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.
• 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.
• We must reach out our hand in friendship and dignity both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy.
• 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.
• 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.
• Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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 progressx9d thinking.
• What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?
• Friendship is infinitely better than kindness.
• Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.
• Love is friendship set on fire.
• Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.
• There is no friendship, no love, like that of the mother for the child.
• The verb ‘to love’ in Persian is ‘to have a friend’. ‘I love you’ translated literally is ‘I have you as a friend’.
• However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
• Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.
• Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
• 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.
• 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.
• Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.
• 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.
• A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.
• Friendship is the most constant, the most enduring the most basic part of love.
• The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.
• Love is a friendship set to music.
• Friendship often ends in love. But love in friendship; never.
• In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.
• 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.
• He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, and he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.
• We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends.
• Friends make the good things better and the bad things not so bad.
• 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.
• It is not so much our friends’ help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us.
• He will never have true friends who is afraid of making enemies.
• We hate some persons because we do not know them; and will not know them because we hate them.
• It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.
• In friendship we find nothing false or insincere; everything is straight forward, and springs from the heart.
• We need old friends to help us grow old and new friends to help us stay young.
• Friendship is given us by nature, not to favor vice, but to aid virtue.
• Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
• Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.
• What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.
• It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
• The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.
• A single rose can be my garden… a single friend, my world.
• 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.
• 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.
• If I had a flower for every time I thought of you…I could walk through my garden forever.
• We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
• If you live to be 100, I hope I live to be 100 minus 1 day, so I never have to live without you.
• Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends.
• ‘Stay’ is a charming word in a friend’s vocabulary.
• A friend is what the heart needs all the time.
• A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success.
• You are I are more than friends. We’re like a really small gang.
• 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.
• A day spent with you is my favorite day. So today is my new favorite day.
• The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.
• Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
• The friendship of one intelligent man is better than that of all the unintelligent.
• We are best friends. Always remember that if you fall I will pick you up after I finish laughing.
• Real friends don’t get offended when you insult them. They smile and call you something even more offensive.
• The better the friend, the less cleaning you do before he comes over.
• There are small ships and big ships but the best ships are friendships.
• True friendship is when you walk into their house and your WiFi connects automatically.
• No one will ever be as entertained by us as us.
• I like to hang out with people who make me forget to look at my phone.
• 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.
• 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.
• I have no trouble with my enemies. But my goddam friends… they are the ones that keep me walking the floor nights.
• I’m a controversial figure. My friends either dislike me or hate me.
• Friendship is love minus sex plus reason: Love is friendship plus sex minus reason.
• Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.
• I love how badass we think we are when we’re together.
• Your friend is your needs answered.
• A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship.
• The best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
• It’s the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.
• Friendship is held to be the severest test of character.
• Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.
• When people are friends, they have no need of justice, but when they are just, they need friendship in addition.
• Friendship, as has been said, consists in a full commitment of the will to another person with a view to that person’s good.
• Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you; spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life.
• The most ordinary things could be made extraordinary, simply by doing them with the right people.
• Friendship however is a plant which cannot be forced – true friendship is no gourd spring up in a night and withering in a day.
• True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
• Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.
• 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.
• 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.
• Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which strengthens with the setting sun of life.
• 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.
• Friends… they cherish one another’s hopes. They are kind to one another’s dreams.
• When you want to help people, you tell them the truth.
• If there ever comes a day when we can’t be together, keep me in your heart, I’ll stay there forever.
• When was the last time you asked your friend how he/she was doing?
• If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone.
• We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.
• 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.
• 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.
• A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
• Friendship is more than being there for your friends when they need you, it’s also allowing your friends to be there for you.
• Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
• You can’t shake hands with a clenched fist.
• No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
• Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.
• The best cure for a bad day is a good friend.
• Friendships are discovered rather than made.
• The secret to friendship is being a good listener.
• There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself.
• Friendship is essentially a partnership.
• The best mirror is an old friend.
• The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two.
• Keep the ones that heard you when you never said a word.
• Though friendship is not quick to burn, it is explosive stuff.
• Between friends, words are optional.
• Opposition is true friendship.
• Remember, no man is a failure who has friends.
• Love is friendship on fire.
• Truth springs from argument amongst friends.
• No friendship is an accident.
• Friendship = vulnerability * time.
• Friends are the family you choose.
• True friendships are eternal.
• Life is nothing without friendship.
• A friend is one soul abiding in two bodies.
• Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.
• Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.
• Be slow to fall into friendship, but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
• 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.
• Friends are proved by adversity.
• My friends are my estate.
• I get by with a little help from my friends.
• We’ll be friends forever, won’t we, Pooh? asked Piglet. Even longer. Pooh answered.
• A day without a friend is like a pot without a single drop of honey left inside.
• As soon as I saw you, I knew an adventure was going to happen.
• Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.
• If you have one true friend you have more than your share.
• Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?
• The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.
• The only way to have a friend is to be one.
• Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.
• Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.
• Friendship is something that creates equality and mutuality, not a reward for finding equality or a way of intensifying existing mutuality.
• Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
• Friendship is a wildly underrated medication.
• 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.
• 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.
• Friendship is what gets you through the bad times and helps you enjoy the good times.
• Friendship is not always the sequel of obligation.
• Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
• Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.
• The friendship which can cease has never been real.
• A man’s friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
• A good friend is like a four-leaf clover; hard to find and lucky to have.
• Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.
• Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.
• Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
• Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.
• 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.
• 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?
• There cannot be friendship without equality.
• A friend is a gift you give yourself.
• Man’s best support is a very dear friend.
• My definition of a friend is somebody who adores you even though they know the things you’re most ashamed of.
• Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.
• Stayx9d is a charming word in a friend’s vocabulary.
• Friendship consists in forgetting what one gives and remembering what one receives.
• How distant I am from people when I am with them, and how close when they are far away.
• I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.
• 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.
• There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven’t yet met.
• The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
• One friend in a storm is worth more than a thousand friends in sunshine.
• It’s not what we have, but who we have.
• A friend is one of the nicest things you can have and one of the best things you can be.
• Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
• Friendship is not about whom you know the longest. It is about who came and never left.
• A friend is someone who helps you up when you’re down, and if they can’t, they lay down beside you and listen.
• Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
• True friendship is like sound health. The value of it is seldom known until it be lost.
• I don’t like that man. I must get to know him better.
• Friendship is a sheltering tree.
• 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.
• The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
• Good friends are hard to find, harder to leave and impossible to forget.