Friendship Quotes

A friend is a present you give yourself.

True friendship is seen through the heart not through the eyes.

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

But friendship is precious, not only in the shade,
But in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things,
The greater part of life is sunshine.

The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.

You can make more friends in two weeks
By becoming interested in other people that you can in two years
By trying to get other people interested in you.

Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow.
Don't walk behind me, I may not lead.
Walk beside me and be my friend.

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies,
But the silence of our friends.

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.

A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart,
And can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.

A friend is someone who knows all about you and loves you anyway.

Strangers are just friends waiting to happen.

There are not many things in life so beautiful as true friendship,
And not many things more uncommon.

Friends are the most important ingredient in this recipe of life.

Friendship is love with wings.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

The making of friends, who are real friends,
Is the best token we have of a man's success in life.

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?

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.

Happiness isn't the easiest thing to find,
But one place you're guaranteed to find it is in a friend's smile.

I'd like to be the sort of friend that you have been to me,
I'd like to be the help that you've been always glad to be;
I'd like to mean as much to you each minute of the day,
As you have meant old friend of mine, to me along the way.

Don't be dismayed at good-byes.
A farewell is before you can meet again.
And meeting again after a moment or lifetime is certain for those who are friends.

Yesterday brought the beginning,
Tomorrow brings the end,
But somewhere in the middle we've become the best of friends.

A friend is one to whom you can pour out the contents of your heart, chaff and grain alike.
Knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it,
Keep what is worth keeping and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

A real friend is someone who is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

Friendships are fragile things, and require as much handling as any other fragile and precious thing.

Friendships is one mind in two bodies.

Friendships are what our dreams are made of.
We hold onto each other with its binding love.
We stand close to each other, hand in hand, showing each other we understand.
Some friends may come and go, but you are the truest friend I know.

Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.

A friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

A friend is one who believes in you when you have ceased to believe in yourself.

A hug is worth a thousand words. A friend is worth more.

Friends are God's way of taking care of us.

No love, no friendship, can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever.

Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

I do not wish to treat friendships daintily,
But with the roughest courage.
When they are real, they are not glass threads or frost-work,
But the solidest thing we know.