80 Inspiring Friendship Quotes For Your Best Friend
Following are the best friendship quotes and sayings with images. If you’re looking for quotes about best friends, true friendship or funny sayings – you’ve come to the right place. We’ve compiled a list of top 80 inspiring quotes (with pictures) on this topic. Enjoy.
Top 80 Inspiring Friendship Quotes
1. “The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.” – Hubert H. Humphrey
2. “A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.” – Elbert Hubbard
3. “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
4. “My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.” – Henry Ford
5. “Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.” – Henry David Thoreau
6. “A friend is one who overlooks your broken fence and admires the flowers in your garden.”
7. “True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable.” – David Tyson
8. “True friends are those rare people who come to find you in dark places and lead you back to the light.”
9. “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.”
10. “A true friend is someone who sees the pain in your eyes while everyone else believes the smile on your face.”
11. “The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.” – Henry David Thoreau
12. “One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.” – Lucius Annaeus Seneca
13. “Real friendship is when your friend comes over to your house and then you both just take a nap.”
14. “No friendship is an accident.” – O. Henry
15. “Sometimes being with your best friend is all the therapy you need.”
16. “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.”
17. “Friends are the siblings God never gave us.” – Mencius
18. “Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.” – Marcus Tullius Cicero
19. “True friends are like diamonds – bright, beautiful, valuable, and always in style.”
20. “A good friend is like a four-leaf clover; hard to find and lucky to have.” – Irish Proverb
21. “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.”
22. “A best friend is someone who makes you laugh even when you think you’ll never smile again.”
23. “F.R.I.E.N.D.S. Fight for you. Respect you. Include you. Encourage you. Need you. Deserve you. Stand by you.”
24. “Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.” – Benjamin Franklin
25. “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
26. “Friendship is one mind in two bodies.” – Mencius
27. “There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.” – Thomas Aquinas
28. “Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.” – Elie Wiesel
29. “Everyone has a friend during each stage of life. But only lucky ones have the same friend in all stages of life.”
30. “Best friends. Because of anyone else heard our conversations we’d end up in the mental hospital.”
31. “True friends aren’t the ones who make your problems disappear. They are the ones who won’t disappear when your facing problems.”
32. “All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand.” – Ella Wheeler Wilcox
33. “I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.” – Helen Keller
34. “Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.” – Baltasar Gracian
35. “Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.” – Thomas Aquinas
36. “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
37. “Friendship is essentially a partnership.” – Aristotle
38. “We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we’re not alone.” – Orson Welles
39. “A true friend is someone who is there for you when he’d rather be anywhere else.” – Len Wein
40. “Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.” – Epicurus
41. “Even where friendship is concerned, it takes me a long time to trust people.” – Namie Amuro
42. “Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.” – Elie Wiesel
43. “Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.” – Euripides
44. “Sitting silently beside a friend who is hurting may be the best gift we can give.”
45. “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
46. “True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.” – St. Jerome
47. “There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.” – William Hazlitt
48. “Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.” – Khalil Gibran
49. “Friends confront each other sometimes, and sometimes the friendship lasts, and sometimes it doesn’t.” – Brooke Elliott
50. “Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.” – Eustace Budgell
51. “When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands.” – Maria Shriver
52. “The rules of friendship are tacit, unconscious; they are not rational. In business, though, you have to think rationally.” – Steven Pinker
53. “A man’s friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.” – Charles Darwin
54. “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
55. “You find out who your real friends are when you’re involved in a scandal.” – Elizabeth Taylor
56. “Friendship is a wildly underrated medication.” – Anna Deavere Smith
57. “Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.” – Virginia Woolf
58. “A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.” – Walter Winchell
59. “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
60. “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
61. “Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.” – Francesco Guicciardini
62. “Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.” – Herodotus
63. “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
64. “Friendship is inexplicable, it should not be explained if one doesn’t want to kill it.” – Max Jacob
65. “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
66. “Things are never quite as scary when you’ve got a best friend.” – Bill Watterson
67. “True friends stab you in the front.” – Oscar Wilde
68. “The great thing about new friends is that they bring new energy to your soul.” – Shanna Rodriguez
69. “The language of friendship is not words but meanings.” – Henry David Thoreau
70. “A friend is an emotional bond, just like friendship is a human experience.” – Simon Sinek
71. “A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success!” – Doug Larson
72. “True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.” – Henry David Thoreau
73. “A sweet friendship refreshes the soul.” – Proverbs 27:9
74. “One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.” – Euripides
75. “Friendship is delicate as a glass, once broken it can be fixed but there will always be cracks.” – Waqar Ahmed
76. “If you have one true friend you have more than your share.” – Thomas Fuller
77. “Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.” – Aristotle
78. “True friendship is never serene.” – Marquise de Sevigne
79. “A friend is what the heart needs all the time.” – Henry Van Dyke
80. “A friend is someone who makes it easy to believe in yourself.” – Heidi Wills
81. “Friendship is a word, the very sight of which in print makes heart warm.” – Augustine Birrell
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