Collection of famous friendship quotes.

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. - Baltasar Gracian

A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they're not so good, and sympathizes with your problems when they're not so bad. - Arnold H. Glasow

Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer. - Ed Cunnigham

A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and the one which we take the least thought to acquire. - La Rochefoucauld

Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together. -.Woodrow Wilson

One friend, one person who is truly understanding, who takes the trouble to listen to us as we consider our problem, can change our whole outlook on the world. - Dr. Elton Mayo

Some of your old friends will stick with you through thick and thin. Others will drift away. You have to start making a world for yourself. - Dr. Joyce Brothers

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing. - Benjamin Franklin

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

We need someone to believe in us - if we do well, we want our work commended, our faith corroborated. The individual who thinks well of you, who keeps his mind on your good qualities, and does not look for your flaws, is your friend. Who is my brother? I'll tell you: he is the one who recognizes the good in me. - Elbert Hubbard

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather is one of those things that give value to survival. - C. S. Lewis

Friendship is love with understanding. - Ancient Proverb

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

Silences make the real conversation between friends. Not the saying, but the never needing to say, is what counts. - Margaret Lee Runbeck

The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart. - Elisabeth Foley

The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile...it's the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him with his friendship. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

In prosperity it is very easy to find a friend, but in adversity it is the most difficult of all things. - Epictetus

True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost. - Charles Caleb Colton

A person's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth. - Charles Darwin

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. - Martin Luther King Jr.

Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love. - Jane Austen

Friendship is the allay of our sorrows, the ease of our passions, the discharge of our oppressions, the sanctuary to our calamities, the counselor of our doubts, the clarity of our minds. - Jeremy Taylor

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me. - Henry Ford

A prudent man, remembering that life is short, examines his friendships critically now and then. A few he retains, but the majority he tries to forget. - H. L. Mencken

The friend who understands you, creates you. - Romain Rolland

When you stop spending time with real friends, you lose your balance. - Author Unknown

Living means changing, and changing means, or at least should mean, forming new friendships and discarding some of those we outwear. - Zig Ziglar

Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and be loved is the greatest happiness of existence. - Sydney Smith There is nothing better than the encouragement of a good friend. - Katharine Butler Hathaway

Some of the rewarding and beautiful moments of a friendship happen in the unforeseen open spaces between planned activities. It is important that you allow these spaces to exist. - Collenbach

Choose your friends like your books, few but choose. - American Proverb

Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget. - G. Randolf

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 Nouwen

A friend is somebody who would come and get you. - Jim Rohn

A friend is one who walks in when others walk out. - Walter Winchell

Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you. - Elbert Hubbard

Faint heart never won true friend. O my friend, may it come to pass, once, that when you are my friend I may be yours. - Henry David Thoreau

To each of us friendship has a different meaning. For all of us it is a gift. Friendship needs to be cherished and nurtured. It needs to be cultivated on a daily basis. Then shall it germinate and yield its fruit. - Source Unknown

Hold a true friend with both your hands. - Nigerian Proverb

A good friend will fit you like ring to finger. - Venezuelan Proverb

The friendships which last are those wherein each friend respects the other's dignity to the point of not really wanting anything from him. - Cyril Connolly

I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends. - Abraham Lincoln

In my friend, I find a second self. - Isabel Norton

What brings joy to the heart is not so much the friend's gift as the friend's love. - St. Ailred of Rievaulx

You can make more friends in a month by being interested in them than in ten years by trying to get them interested in you. - Charles L. Allen

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light. - Helen Keller

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance. - Henry David Thoreau

Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty. - Sicilian Proverb

A true friend never breaches the trust of his companion or stabs in his back. He is trustworthy and reliable. One should therefore always try to be a true and reliable friend. - Sam Veda

The only way to have a friend is to be one. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life. - Thomas Jefferson

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