The 200+ Most Beautiful Friendship Quotes

Friends hold a special place in our lives. They have seen us at our most successful and the deepest pits of despair, yet they remain. We all have best friends from childhood and college, those we meet through our children, and friends who have weaved their way to an important role in our lives without us even noticing. We are truly blessed because of and through all of these people. It’s always an appropriate time to let them know how we feel.

Whether we feel the need to share ourselves or think that they could use a word from us, sharing our feelings with them can brighten everyone’s days. Just think of getting a note from your friend. That same feeling could be shared from your end, as well. So, if it is their birthday, a holiday, or just any day of the week, go ahead and tell them how you feel. Give them a call, write them a letter, or send an email or text. All are appropriate and all will be greatly appreciated. Don’t waste any more time, do it today!

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Short Famous Friendship Quotes

• 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

• The capacity for friendship is God’s way of apologizing for our families. Jay McInerney
• A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you. Elbert Hubbard

• 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. Joan Powers

• 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
• I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light. Helen Keller
• Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend. Sarah Dessen

• 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
• What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies. Aristotle
• No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow. Alice Walker
• Friends are the family you choose
• Cutting people out of your life is easy, keeping them in is hard. Walter Dean Myers
• A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself. Jim Morrison

• The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend. Aristotle

 

• Stay is a charming word in a friend’s vocabulary.  Amos Bronson Alcott
• The best mirror is an old friend. George Herbert
• True friends are always together in spirit. L.M. Montgomery
• There’s not a word yet, for old friends who’ve just met. Jim Henson
• A friend to all is a friend to none. Aristotle
• There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up. John Holmes

• No friendship is an accident. O. Henry
• Time doesn’t take away from friendship, nor does separation. Tennessee Williams
• A good friend is a connection to life – a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world. Lois Wyse
• A single rose can be my garden; a single friend, my world. Leo F. Buscaglia
• Only a true best friend can protect you from your immortal enemies. Richelle Mead, Vampire Academy

• The better part of one’s life consists of his friendships. Abraham Lincoln

Wise Friendship Quotes

• 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
• Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years. Richard Bach
• A friend may be waiting behind a stranger’s face. Maya Angelou

• No human relation gives one possession in another—every two souls are absolutely different. In friendship or in love, the two side by side raise hands together to find what one cannot reach alone. Kahlil Gibran
• Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant. Socrates
• We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship. C.S. Lewis
• Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity. Kahlil Gibran
• The real friendship is like fluorescence, it shines better when everything has darken. Rabindranath Tagore

Inspirational Quotes About Friendship

• We are like islands in the sea, separate on the surface but connected in the deep. William James

• Friendship … is born at the moment when one man says to another “What! You too? I thought that no one but myself…”. C.S. Lewis
• 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
• The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again. Charles Dickens
• Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends? Abraham Lincoln
• I don’t need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better. Plutarch
• A faithful friend is a strong defense; And he that hath found him hath found a treasure. Louisa May Alcott

• 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
• 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
• Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing. Elie Wiesel

• In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends. John Churton Collins
• When you part from your friend, you grieve not; For that which you love most in him may be clearer in his absence, as the mountain to the climber is clearer from the plain. Kahlil Gibran

• 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
• 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. Gloria Naylor
• Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel. Doris Lessing
• I don’t care about whose DNA has recombined with whose. When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching–they are your family. Jim Butcher
• Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief. Marcus Tullius Cicero

Poetic Quotes About Friendship

• When you part from your friend, you grieve not; For that which you love most in him may be clearer in his absence, as the mountain to the climber is clearer from the plain. Khalil Gibran
• 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
• There are no faster or firmer friendships than those formed between people who love the same books. Irving Stone

• Silence make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying, but the never needing to say that counts. Margaret Lee Runbeck

• There are some things you can’t share without ending up liking each other, and knocking out a twelve-foot mountain troll is one of them. J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
• Can miles truly separate you from friends… If you want to be with someone you love, aren’t you already there? Richard Bach
• Unreal friendship may turn to real
  But real friendship, once ended, cannot be mended. T.S. Eliot, Murder in the Cathedral

Funny Friendship Quotes

• There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate. Linda Grayson
• A snowball in the face is surely the perfect beginning to a lasting friendship. Markus Zusak
• Watson. Come at once if convenient. If inconvenient, come all the same. Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes

• Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend’s success. Oscar Wilde
• There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends. Sylvia Plath

Long Quotes About Friendship

• When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm 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 J.M. Nouwen
• For what is your friend that you should seek him with hours to kill?  Seek him always with hours to live. For it is his to fill your need, but not your emptiness. And 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

• 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
• 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
• I am looking for friends. What does that mean — tame?”
  “It is an act too often neglected,” said the fox. “It means to establish ties.”
  “To establish ties?”
  “Just that,” said the fox. “To me, you are still nothing more than a little boy who is just like a hundred thousand other little boys. And I have no need of you. And you, on your part, have no need of me. To you I am nothing more than a fox like a hundred thousand other foxes. But if you tame me, then we shall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, I shall be unique in all the world….
  Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

• This is how it works. I love the people in my life, and I do for my friends whatever they need me to do for them, again and again, as many times as is necessary. For example, in your case you always forgot who you are and how much you’re loved. So what I do for you as your friend is remind you who you are and tell you how much I love you. And this isn’t any kind of burden for me, because I love who you are very much. Every time I remind you, I get to remember with you, which is my pleasure. James Lecesne
• 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

• When you have a good friend that really cares for you and tries to stick in there with you, you treat them like nothing. Learn to be a good friend because one day you’re gonna look up and say I lost a good friend. Learn how to be respectful to your friends, don’t just start arguments with them and don’t tell them the reason, always remember your friends will be there quicker than your family. Learn to remember you got great friends, don’t forget that and they will always care for you no matter what. Always remember to smile and look up at what you got in life. Marilyn Monroe

• Friendship is the bestiest thing that comes to life . Friends will always be there for you don’t worry about the fakes worry about the people who had your back from the start and never treated you wrong always remember they are your real friends don’t never take them as granted because one day your going to lose a good friend by the way your action’s are when you see a good friend stick to that person . Marilyn Monroe

• Close friends are truly life’s treasures. Sometimes they know us better than we know ourselves. With gentle honesty, they are there to guide and support us, to share our laughter and our tears. Their presence reminds us that we are never really alone. Vincent van Gogh

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