110 True friends quotes and sayings from famous people. Here are the best friendship quotes that you can read, and at the same time will inspire you as well. A true friend is hard to find. When you found them, you should treasure them and never let them go. Some signs of true friendship are understanding, trust, love, and respect for each other. May these short friendship quotes with images inspire you to treasure the bond with your friends. Share these inspirational friendship quotes with your friends, family, and loved ones to enlighten them on what it takes to become a true friend.
1. Yes, we must ever be friends and of all who offer you friendship. Let me be ever the first, the truest, the nearest and dearest! - Longfellow
2. The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money. - Mark Twain
3. Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends better. - Edgar W. Howe
4. A day without a friend is like a pot without a single drop of honey left inside. - Winnie the Pooh
5. 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
6. Two friends, two bodies with one soul inspired. - Homer
7. There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves; it is not my nature. - Jane Austen
8. Then come the wild weather, come sleet or come snow, We will stand by each other, however it blow. - Simon Dach
9. There are three faithful friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money. - Benjamin Franklin
10. Not until you become a stranger to yourself. Will you be able to make acquaintance with the Friend. - Nur 'Ali Shah
11. Friendship is no plant of hasty growth; Tho' planted in esteem's deep fixed soil, The gradual culture of kind intercourse, Must bring it to perfection. - Joanna Baillie
12. Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other. - Honore de Balzac
13. A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
14. A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend. - Henry David Thoreau
15. If a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it. - Edgar W. Howe
16. Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years. - Richard Bach
17. Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant. - Socrates
18. Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men. - The Dhammapada
19. Forsake not an old friend, for the new is not comparable unto him. A new friend is as new wine: when it is old thou shalt drink it with pleasure. - Ecclesiasticus
20. One good friendship will outlive forty average loves. - Anonymous
21. Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by, the doubling of our joy, and diving of our grief. - Joseph Addison
22. That was what a best friend did: hold up a mirror and show you your heart. - Kristin Hannah
23. Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them. - Johann Kaspar Lavater
24. A good friend is a connection to life — a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world. - Lois Wyse
25. For it would then be true friendship, such as no hope, no fear, no self-interest can sever. That is a friendship that stays with people until they die—and that people die for. - Lucius Annaeus Seneca
26. If you have two friends in your lifetime, you’re lucky. If you have one good friend, you’re more than lucky. - S.E. Hinton
27. One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error. - Bulwer Lytton
28. Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one. - Robert E. Lee
29. Expect not a friendship with him who hath injured thee: he who suffereth the wrong, may forgive it; but he who doth it never will it be well with him. - Akhenaton
30. Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life. - Pythagoras
31. A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure. - Buddha
32. Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity. - Chilo
33. Never contract friendship with a person that is not better than thyself. - Confucius
34. Things are never quite as scary when you’ve got a best friend. - Bill Watterson
35. There is nought better than to be, With noble souls in company: There is nought dearer than to wend, With good friends faithful to the end. This is the love whose fruit is sweet; Therefore to bide therein is meet. - Mahabharata
36. It is not so much our friends' help that helps as the confidence of their help. - Epicurus
37. What I realise now in hindsight is that there is a natural ebb and flow to friendships. There are times you think there’s nothing left between you, that you’ve hit the bottom, but the special ones survive, find ways of restoring themselves. - Colette McBeth
38. Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life. - La Fontaine
39. Poor is the friendless master of a world; a world in purchase of a friend is gain. - Anonymous
40. Friendship, peculiar boon of Heaven, The noble mind's delight and pride, To men and angels only given, To all the lower world denied. - Samuel Johnson
41. A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
42. The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
43. Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together. - Woodrow Wilson
44. With true friends... even water drunk together is sweet enough. - Chinese Proverb
45. Secret forces are bringing compatible spirits together. If the man permits himself to be led by this ineffable attraction, good fortune will come his way. When deep friendships exist, formalities and elaborate preparations are not necessary. - I Ching
46. Life has no blessing like a prudent friend. - Euripides
47. Friendship's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial. - Nahum Tate
48. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation. - George Washington
49. The qualities of your friends will be those of your enemies, cold friends, cold enemies; half friends, half enemies; fervid enemies, warm friends. - Johann Kaspar Lavater
50. True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost. - Charles Caleb Colton
51. The condition which high friendship demands is ability to do without it. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
52. A true friend is somebody who can make us do what we can. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
53. The language of friendship is not words but meanings. - Henry David Thoreau
54. 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. - Bovee
55. Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots. - George Santayana
56. The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words. - Buddha
57. Friendship is the only thing in the world concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed. - Marcus Tullius Cicero
58. As the yellow gold is tried in fire, so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity. - Publius Ovidius Naso
59. Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures. - Seneca
60. Remember that life’s most valuable antiques are dear old friends. - H. Jackson Brown Jr.
61. A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget. - Samuel Butler
62. Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer. - La Fontaine
63. The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself. - Moliere
64. Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings. - La Bruyere
65. Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows. - Jean Paul Richter
66. Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature. - Nathaniel Hawthorne
67. You don't have to have anything in common with people you've known since you were five. With old friends, you've got your whole life in common. - Lyle Lovett
68. Life is an ugly, awful place to not have a best friend. - Sarah Dessen
69. To give counsel as well as to take it is a feature of true friendship. - Marcus Tullius Cicero
70. It may be doubtful, at first, Whether a person is an enemy or friend. Meat, if not properly digested, becomes poison; But poison, if used rightly, may turn medicinal. - Saskya Pandita
71. Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find. - William Shakespeare
72. That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end. - Francis Quarles
73. He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength. - Joseph Joubert
74. Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. - Aristotle
75. What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine. - Plautus
76. A friend is, as it were, a second self. - Marcus Tullius Cicero
77. Friendship is Love without his wings! - Lord Byron
78. A small house will hold a hundred friends. - African Proverb
79. Tell me your friends and I'll tell you who you are. - Assyrian Proverb
80. God gives us our relatives. Thank God we can choose our friends. - Ethel Watts Mumford
81. Friendship isn't a big thing, it's a million little things. - Unknown
82. Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends. - Czech Proverb
83. A true friend reaches for your hand and touches your heart. - Unknown
84. The time to make friends is before you need them. - Traditional Proverb
85. The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart. - Elisabeth Foley
86. A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails. - Donna Roberts
87. There is nothing better than the encouragement of a good friend. - Jean Jacque Rousseau
88. I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
89. True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable. - Dave Tyson Gentry
90. The language of true friendship is not words but meanings. - Henry David Thoreau
91. Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... rather it is one of those things that give value to survival. - C.S. Lewis
92. Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait for the answer. - Unknown
93. Constant use will not wear ragged the fabric of friendship. - Dorothy Parker
94. A friend is the one who comes in when the whole world has gone out. - Grace Pulpit
95. A true friend is one who thinks you are a good egg even if you are half-cracked. - Unknown
96. A friend can tell you things you don't want to tell yourself. - Frances Ward Weller
97. Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness. - Richard Bach
98. Everyone has a gift for something, even if it is the gift of being a good friend. - Marian Anderson
99. Remember, the greatest gift is not found in a store nor under a tree, but in the hearts of true friends. - Unknown
100. New friends are awaiting the beauty of your voice in the symphony of their lives. Hear the sound of friendship. - Kathy Ireland
101. Friendship with one's self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world. - Eleanor Roosevelt
102. Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty. - Sicilian Proverb
103. A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down. - Arnold Glasow
104. Wherever we are, it is our friends that make our world. - Henry Drummond
105. Friendship is the act of supporting someone without condition or without thought for gain. - Kathy Ireland
106. The greatest healing therapy is friendship & love. - Hubert H. Humphrey
107. The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. - Joseph Addison
108. Love is only chatter, FRIENDS are all that matter. - Gelett Burgess
109. The ornaments of a house are the FRIENDS who frequent it. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
110. No love, no friendship, can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever. - Francois Mocuriac
1. Yes, we must ever be friends and of all who offer you friendship. Let me be ever the first, the truest, the nearest and dearest! - Longfellow
2. The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money. - Mark Twain
3. Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends better. - Edgar W. Howe
4. A day without a friend is like a pot without a single drop of honey left inside. - Winnie the Pooh
5. 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
6. Two friends, two bodies with one soul inspired. - Homer
7. There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves; it is not my nature. - Jane Austen
8. Then come the wild weather, come sleet or come snow, We will stand by each other, however it blow. - Simon Dach
9. There are three faithful friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money. - Benjamin Franklin
10. Not until you become a stranger to yourself. Will you be able to make acquaintance with the Friend. - Nur 'Ali Shah
11. Friendship is no plant of hasty growth; Tho' planted in esteem's deep fixed soil, The gradual culture of kind intercourse, Must bring it to perfection. - Joanna Baillie
12. Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other. - Honore de Balzac
13. A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
14. A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend. - Henry David Thoreau
15. If a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it. - Edgar W. Howe
16. Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years. - Richard Bach
17. Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant. - Socrates
18. Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men. - The Dhammapada
19. Forsake not an old friend, for the new is not comparable unto him. A new friend is as new wine: when it is old thou shalt drink it with pleasure. - Ecclesiasticus
20. One good friendship will outlive forty average loves. - Anonymous
21. Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by, the doubling of our joy, and diving of our grief. - Joseph Addison
22. That was what a best friend did: hold up a mirror and show you your heart. - Kristin Hannah
23. Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them. - Johann Kaspar Lavater
24. A good friend is a connection to life — a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world. - Lois Wyse
25. For it would then be true friendship, such as no hope, no fear, no self-interest can sever. That is a friendship that stays with people until they die—and that people die for. - Lucius Annaeus Seneca
26. If you have two friends in your lifetime, you’re lucky. If you have one good friend, you’re more than lucky. - S.E. Hinton
27. One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error. - Bulwer Lytton
28. Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one. - Robert E. Lee
29. Expect not a friendship with him who hath injured thee: he who suffereth the wrong, may forgive it; but he who doth it never will it be well with him. - Akhenaton
30. Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life. - Pythagoras
31. A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure. - Buddha
32. Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity. - Chilo
33. Never contract friendship with a person that is not better than thyself. - Confucius
34. Things are never quite as scary when you’ve got a best friend. - Bill Watterson
35. There is nought better than to be, With noble souls in company: There is nought dearer than to wend, With good friends faithful to the end. This is the love whose fruit is sweet; Therefore to bide therein is meet. - Mahabharata
36. It is not so much our friends' help that helps as the confidence of their help. - Epicurus
37. What I realise now in hindsight is that there is a natural ebb and flow to friendships. There are times you think there’s nothing left between you, that you’ve hit the bottom, but the special ones survive, find ways of restoring themselves. - Colette McBeth
38. Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life. - La Fontaine
39. Poor is the friendless master of a world; a world in purchase of a friend is gain. - Anonymous
40. Friendship, peculiar boon of Heaven, The noble mind's delight and pride, To men and angels only given, To all the lower world denied. - Samuel Johnson
41. A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
42. The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
43. Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together. - Woodrow Wilson
44. With true friends... even water drunk together is sweet enough. - Chinese Proverb
45. Secret forces are bringing compatible spirits together. If the man permits himself to be led by this ineffable attraction, good fortune will come his way. When deep friendships exist, formalities and elaborate preparations are not necessary. - I Ching
46. Life has no blessing like a prudent friend. - Euripides
47. Friendship's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial. - Nahum Tate
48. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation. - George Washington
49. The qualities of your friends will be those of your enemies, cold friends, cold enemies; half friends, half enemies; fervid enemies, warm friends. - Johann Kaspar Lavater
50. True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost. - Charles Caleb Colton
51. The condition which high friendship demands is ability to do without it. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
52. A true friend is somebody who can make us do what we can. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
53. The language of friendship is not words but meanings. - Henry David Thoreau
54. 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. - Bovee
55. Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots. - George Santayana
56. The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words. - Buddha
57. Friendship is the only thing in the world concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed. - Marcus Tullius Cicero
58. As the yellow gold is tried in fire, so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity. - Publius Ovidius Naso
59. Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures. - Seneca
60. Remember that life’s most valuable antiques are dear old friends. - H. Jackson Brown Jr.
61. A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget. - Samuel Butler
62. Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer. - La Fontaine
63. The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself. - Moliere
64. Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings. - La Bruyere
65. Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows. - Jean Paul Richter
66. Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature. - Nathaniel Hawthorne
67. You don't have to have anything in common with people you've known since you were five. With old friends, you've got your whole life in common. - Lyle Lovett
68. Life is an ugly, awful place to not have a best friend. - Sarah Dessen
69. To give counsel as well as to take it is a feature of true friendship. - Marcus Tullius Cicero
70. It may be doubtful, at first, Whether a person is an enemy or friend. Meat, if not properly digested, becomes poison; But poison, if used rightly, may turn medicinal. - Saskya Pandita
71. Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find. - William Shakespeare
72. That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end. - Francis Quarles
73. He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength. - Joseph Joubert
74. Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. - Aristotle
75. What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine. - Plautus
76. A friend is, as it were, a second self. - Marcus Tullius Cicero
77. Friendship is Love without his wings! - Lord Byron
78. A small house will hold a hundred friends. - African Proverb
79. Tell me your friends and I'll tell you who you are. - Assyrian Proverb
80. God gives us our relatives. Thank God we can choose our friends. - Ethel Watts Mumford
81. Friendship isn't a big thing, it's a million little things. - Unknown
82. Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends. - Czech Proverb
83. A true friend reaches for your hand and touches your heart. - Unknown
84. The time to make friends is before you need them. - Traditional Proverb
85. The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart. - Elisabeth Foley
86. A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails. - Donna Roberts
87. There is nothing better than the encouragement of a good friend. - Jean Jacque Rousseau
88. I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
89. True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable. - Dave Tyson Gentry
90. The language of true friendship is not words but meanings. - Henry David Thoreau
91. Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... rather it is one of those things that give value to survival. - C.S. Lewis
92. Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait for the answer. - Unknown
93. Constant use will not wear ragged the fabric of friendship. - Dorothy Parker
94. A friend is the one who comes in when the whole world has gone out. - Grace Pulpit
95. A true friend is one who thinks you are a good egg even if you are half-cracked. - Unknown
96. A friend can tell you things you don't want to tell yourself. - Frances Ward Weller
97. Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness. - Richard Bach
98. Everyone has a gift for something, even if it is the gift of being a good friend. - Marian Anderson
99. Remember, the greatest gift is not found in a store nor under a tree, but in the hearts of true friends. - Unknown
100. New friends are awaiting the beauty of your voice in the symphony of their lives. Hear the sound of friendship. - Kathy Ireland
101. Friendship with one's self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world. - Eleanor Roosevelt
102. Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty. - Sicilian Proverb
103. A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down. - Arnold Glasow
104. Wherever we are, it is our friends that make our world. - Henry Drummond
105. Friendship is the act of supporting someone without condition or without thought for gain. - Kathy Ireland
106. The greatest healing therapy is friendship & love. - Hubert H. Humphrey
107. The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. - Joseph Addison
108. Love is only chatter, FRIENDS are all that matter. - Gelett Burgess
109. The ornaments of a house are the FRIENDS who frequent it. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
110. No love, no friendship, can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever. - Francois Mocuriac
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