Relationships
The 20 best quotes about friendship
Let’s celebrate our friends, who make the journey of life so much more bearable and certainly a lot more fun, with these wonderful quotations on friendship.
- “The only way to have a friend is to be one” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.” – Khalil Gibran
- “The language of friendship is not words but meanings.” – Henry David Thoreau
- “Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.” – Woodrow T. Wilson
- “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
- “True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable.” – David Tyson Gentry
- “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
- “Friendship consists in forgetting what one gives and remembering what one receives.” – Alexander Dumas
- “Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.” – Socrates
- “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
- “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
- “Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend’s success.” – Oscar Wilde
- “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
- “A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.” – Elbert Hubbard
- “Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.” – Marcel Proust
- “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
- “Friends are the family you choose.” – Jess C. Scott
- “Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respected.” – Charles Lamb
- “The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, not the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.” – Marcus Tullius Cicero
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