50 Compelling Friendship Quotes
“A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.” – Elbert Hubbard
“Before you can successfully make friends with others, first you have to become your own friend.” – Stephen Richards
“I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.” – Helen Keller
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.
“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
“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
“No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.” – Alice Walker
“If you have two friends in your lifetime, you’re lucky. If you have one good friend, you’re more than lucky.” – S.E. Hinton
“Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find.” – William Shakespeare
“Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respected.” – Charles Lamb
“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
“Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer.” – Ed Cunningham
“When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies but the pack survives.” – George R.R. Martin
Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend's success.
“Stay is a charming word in a friend’s vocabulary.” – Amos Bronson Alcott
“Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend.” – Sarah Dessen
“If you hang out with chickens, you’re going to cluck and if you hang out with eagles, you’re going to fly.” – Steve Maraboli
“True friends are always together in spirit.” – L.M. Montgomery
“Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.” – Aristotle
“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
“No friendship is an accident. ”- O. Henry
“A friend to all is a friend to none.” – Aristotle
One friend with whom you have a lot in common is better than three with whom you struggle to find things to talk about.
“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
“Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.” – Socrates
“In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.” – John Churton Collins
“Time doesn’t take away from friendship, nor does separation.” – Tennessee Williams
“A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.” – Jim Morrison
“I don’t need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.” – Plutarch
“The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend.”- Aristotle
“Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.” – Khalil Gibran
“When you choose your friends, don’t be short-changed by choosing personality over character.” – W. Somerset Maugham
“A faithful friend is a strong defense; And he that hath found him hath found a treasure.” – Louisa May Alcott
“Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief” – Marcus Tullius Cicero
“A friend is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.” – Frank Crane
“Relationships are all about trust and equality. If one person shares, then the other person should share, too.” – Sophie Kinsella
“Two things you will never have to chase: True friends & true love.” – Mandy Hale
“A best friend is the only one that walks into your life when the world has walked out.” – Shannon l. Alder
“Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his.” – Benjamin Franklin
“A single rose can be my garden; a single friend, my world.” – Leo Buscaglia
“Friendship is selfless love, care, respect, and honor not a profitable opportunity.” – Santosh Kalwar
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.
“The most valuable gift you can receive is an honest friend.”- Stephen Richards
“A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.” – Walter Winchell
“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
“The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend.” – Henry David Thoreau
“To throw away an honest friend is, as it were, to throw your life away” – Sophocles
“If you have but one friend, make sure you choose her well.” – Muriel Barbery
“Of all the means to insure happiness throughout the whole life, by far the most important is the acquisition of friends.”- Epicurus