Here are the collection of 100 quotes about friendship, Friendship is one of the most important and valuable relationships in our lives. It provides us with comfort, support, and a sense of belonging. Whether it’s a close bond with a childhood friend, a strong connection with a colleague, or a deep connection with a loved one, friendship enriches our lives and helps us to navigate the ups and downs of life. Hope you will enjoy my collection of quotes.
Best 100 Friendship Quotes
The great thing about new friends is that they bring new energy to your soul.
Shanna Rodriguez
Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, ‘What! You too? I thought I was the only one.
C.S. Lewis
The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away.
Barbara Kingsolver
A good friend is like a four-leaf clover; hard to find and lucky to have.
Irish Proverb
There are three things that grow more precious with age; old wood to burn, old books to read, and old friends to enjoy.
Henry Ford
Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.
Elie Wiesel
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
Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can’t have too many friends because then you’re just not really friends.
Truman Capote
Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.
Eustace Budgell
Best friends don’t necessarily have to talk every day. They don’t even need to talk for weeks. But when they do, it’s like they never stopped talking.
Anonymous
The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.
Elisabeth Foley
Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend’s success.
Oscar Wilde
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.
William Shakespeare
Meaningful Friendship Quotes.
Throughout life you will meet one person who is like no other. You could talk to this person for hours and never get bored, you could tell this person things and they will never judge you. This person is your soulmate, your best friend. Don’t ever let them go.
Anonymous
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
I still have friends from primary school. And my two best girlfriends are from secondary school. I don’t have to explain anything to them. I don’t have to apologize for anything. They know. There’s no judgment in any way.
Emma Watson
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
And what is a friend? More than a father, more than a brother: a traveling companion, with him, you can conquer the impossible, even if you must lose it later. Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.
Elie Wiesel
Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
Marcel Proust
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 healing, not curing…that is a friend who cares.
Henri Nouwen
Every friendship travels at sometime through the black valley of despair. This tests every aspect of your affection. You lose the attraction and the magic. Your sense of each other darkens and your presence is sore. If you can come through this time, it can purify with your love, and falsity and need will fall away. It will bring you onto new ground where affection can grow again.
John O’Donohue
When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means 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.
Henri Nouwen
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.
Anais Nin
Some of the biggest challenges in relationships come from the fact that most people enter a relationship in order to get something: they’re trying to find someone who’s going to make them feel good. In reality, the only way a relationship will last is if you see your relationship as a place that you go to give, and not a place that you go to take.
Anthony Robbins
Friendship Goal Quotes.
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?
Eugene Kennedy
Friendship — my definition — is built on two things. Respect and trust. Both elements have to be there. And it has to be mutual. You can have respect for someone, but if you don’t have trust, the friendship will crumble.
Stieg Larsson
There are friendships imprinted in our hearts that will never be diminished by time and distance.
Dodinsky
A strong friendship doesn’t need daily conversation, doesn’t always need togetherness, as long as the relationship lives in the heart, true friends will never part.
Anonymous
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
Friendship is accepting a person with all their qualities — good and bad.
Mohanlal
There is magic in long-distance friendships. They let you relate to other human beings in a way that goes beyond being physically together and is often more profound.
Diana Cortes
Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer.
Ed Cunningham
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.
Robert Brault
Best friends share laughs, memories and inside jokes. They will always be honest and stand by your side no matter what. They wipe your tears, pick you up when you fall, and are forever a piece of your heart.
Anonymous
Famous Friendship Quotes.
There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.
Linda Grayson
A friend is one of the best things you can be and the greatest things you can have.
Sarah Valdez
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
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.
Oprah Winfrey
If you live to be a hundred, I hope I live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you.
Winnie the pooh
One’s friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.
George Santayana
Best friend: the one that you can be mad at only for a short period of time because you have important stuff to tell them.
Anonymous
Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.
Thomas Aquinas
When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands.
Maria Shriver
Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.
Francesco Guicciardini
In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, for in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.
Khalil Gibran
Best Friends Quotes.
Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.
Richard Bach
Some people go to priests. Others to poetry. I to my friends.
Virginia Woolf
Time doesn’t take away from friendship, nor does separation.
Tennessee Williams
A friend who understands your tears is much more valuable than a lot of friends who only know your smile.
Anonymous
Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
Tennessee Williams
Friendship isn’t about who you’ve known the longest. It’s about who walked into your life, said, “I’m here for you”, and proved it.
Anonymous
Things are never quite as scary when you’ve got a best friend.
Bill Watterson
A single rose can be my garden… a single friend, my world.
Leo Buscaglia
Anything is possible when you have the right people there to support you.
Misty Copeland
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 healing, not curing… that is a friend who cares.
Henri Nouwen
A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.
Elbert Hubbard
A friend is one who overlooks your broken fence and admires the flowers in your garden.
Anonymous
Sad Friendship Quotes.
You know what sucks about getting older? Your friends have known you for way too long. They’ve got too much on you. I want friends who still lie to me because they don’t want to hurt my feelings. I sadly kind of mean that.
Nick Miller
The worst thing ever is seeing your best friend slowly replacing you with another friend.
Anonymous
When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands.
Maria Shriver
No one is really busy. It all depends on what number you are on their priority list.
Anonymous
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Don’t feel sad over someone who gave up on you, feel sorry for them because they gave up on someone who would have never given up on them.
Frank Ocean
Oh, my bad. I’m sorry for bothering you. I forgot I only exist when you need me for something.
Anonymous
Every friendship goes through ups and downs. Dysfunctional patterns set in; external situations cause internal friction; you grow apart and then bounce back together.
Mariella Frostrup
It hurt because it mattered.
John Green
Some people aren’t loyal to you. They are loyal to their needs of you. Once their needs change, so does their loyalty.
Anonymous
Real Friendship Quotes.
Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare — and precious as a pearl.
Tahar Ben Jelloun
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.
Laurence J. Peter
Real friendship is when your friend comes over to your house and then you both just take a nap.
Anonymous
You find out who your real friends are when you’re involved in a scandal.
Elizabeth Taylor
Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you; spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life.
Amy Poehler
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
Walter Winchell
Don’t make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.
Thomas J. Watson
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.
Anais Nin
The love that comes from friendship is the underlying facet of a happy life.
Chelsea Handler
One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
Euripides
A real friendship should not fade as time passes, and should not weaken because of space separation.
John Newton
Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.
Woodrow Wilson
A strong friendship doesn’t need daily conversation and doesn’t always need togetherness. As long as the relationship lives in the heart, true friends will never part.
Anonymous
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
True friendship Quotes.
A friend is an emotional bond, just like friendship is a human experience.
Simon Sinek
True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
Henry David Thoreau
True friends are like diamonds — bright, beautiful, valuable, and always in style.
Nicole Richie
A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.
Arnold H. Glasgow
True friends are those rare people who come to find you in dark places and lead you back to the light.
Steven Aitchison
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.
Anonymous
A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.
Bernard Meltzer
One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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.
Paramahansa Yogananda
True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable.
David Tyson
Friends joke with one another. ‘Hey, you’re poor. Hey, your momma’s dead.’ That’s what friends do.
Michael Scott
A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your Success.
Doug Larson
Short Friendship Quotes.
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.
Khalil Gibran
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
Samuel Butler
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friendship is a wildly underrated medication.
Anna Deavere Smith
It’s the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.
Marlene Dietrich
Friendship’s the wine of life.
Edward Young
There’s not a word yet for old friends who’ve just met.
Jim Henson
Friends are relatives you make for yourself.
Eustache Deschamps
In my friend, I find a second self.
Isabel Norton
Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend.
Sarah Dessen
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
