Friendship Quotes

by allinspiration.com

Here is a collection of friendship quotes from various authors, celebrities, famous persons, and other sources compiled by allinspiration.com for you to read and enjoy.

“… no man is useless while he has a friend.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson

“A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults.”
– Charles Kingsley

“A friend is a present you give to yourself. ”
– Robert Louis Stevenson

“A friend is like an oreo, its not always that great, but it always gets better!”
– Erin Westbrook

“A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.”
– Jerome Cummings

“A friend is one with whom you are comfortable, to whom you are loyal, through whom you are blessed, and for whom you are grateful.”
– William Arthur Ward

“A Friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of Nature.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.”
– Lord Byron

“A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.”
– Walter Winchell

“A single rose can be my garden… a single friend, my world.”
– Leo Buscaglia

“A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.”
– Homer

“A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.”
– Arnold Glasow

“A true friend unbosoms freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably. ”
– William Penn

“A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy. ”
– Friedrich Nietzsche

“All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand.”
– Ella Wheeler Wilcox

“Always, Sir, set a high value on spontaneous kindness. he whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord, will love you more than one whom you have been at pains to attach to you.”
– Samuel Johnston

“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

“Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for ’tis better to be alone than in bad company.”
– George Washington

“Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.”
– W. Clement Stone

“Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.”
– Socrates

“Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends, for it is one of God‘s greatest gifts.
It involves many things, but above all the power of going out of one’s self and appreciating what is noble and loving in another.”
– Thomas Hughes

“Can miles truly separate us from friends? If we want to be with someone we love, aren’t we already there?”
– Richard Bach

“Confidence is the foundation of friendship. If we give it, we will receive it.”
– Harry E. Humphreys, Jr.

“Don’t make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.”
– Thomas J. Watson

“Don’t flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes

“Don’t walk in front of me, I may not follow; Don’t walk behind me, I may not lead; Walk beside me, and just be my friend. ”
– Albert Camus

“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

“Every one has a gift for something, even if it is the gift of being a good friend.”
– Marian Anderson

“False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade. ”
– Christian Nevell Bovee

“Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.”
– Jacques Delille

“For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.”
– Simone Weil

“Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life. ”
– Pythagoras

“Friends are born, not made.”
– Henry Adams

“Friends are the sunshine of life.”
– John Hay

“Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer.”
– Ed Cunningham

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