Friendship Quotes"True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost." - Charles Caleb Colton "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 "Friends are the angels who lift us to our feetwhen our wings have trouble remembering how to fly."- Unknown "A friend is one who walks in when others walk out" -Walter Winchell "If you're trusted and people will allow you to share their inner garden...what better gift?" - Fred Rogers "Best friends are better than boyfriends." - Sent by Mavis Jukes "As I reach a time of complete uncertainty, friends are my most precious asset."- Unknown "There is no distance too great between friends, for love gives wings to the heart." Sent by Elizabeth E. Koehler "A friend will strengthen you with her prayers, bless you with her love, and encourage you with her hope."- Unknown "A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words." - Unknown "There comes that mysterious meeting in life when someone acknowledges who we are and what we can be, igniting the circuits of our highest potential."-Rusty Berkus "A friend is one who believes in you when you have ceased to believe in yourself." - Unknown "A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature."-Ralph Waldo Emerson "Friendship without self interest is one of the rare and beautiful things in life." - James Francis Byrnes "The best antiques are old friends."- Unknown "The secret to friendship is being a good listener."- Unknown
"Time isn't what makes a friendship last...It's love and devotion that keeps the tie between souls." - Sent by Christina "My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life."-Lee Iacocca "Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light."-Albert Schweitzer "It takes a long time to grow an old friend." - by John Leonard "Money might make you wealthy, but friends makes you rich."- Unknown "You don't make friends, you earn them."- Unknown "Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you."- Elbert Hubard "Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light."- Helen Keller "A circle is round it has no end,that's how long I want to be your friend!"- Anonymous "I get by with a little help from my friends." - John Lennon "A faithful friend is a strong defence and he that hath found one hath found a treasure"- Unknown "No lapse of time or distance of place can lessen the friendship of those who are truly persuaded of each other's worth." - Unknown "A friend with break your heart, a friend will mend it, a friend will provide you with every feeling in the world, good and bad. A friend is emotion incarnate.""Two may talk together under the same roof for many years, yet never really meet; and two others at first speech are old friends." - Mary Catherwood "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 "How lucky I am to have known someone who was so hard to say goodbye to."- Unknown "Friends are the most important ingredient in this recipe of life." - Unknown "Never shall I forget the days I spent with you. Continue to be my friend,as you will always find me yours."- Ludwig van Beethoven "Friends are those rare people who ask how you areand then wait to hear the answer."- Unknown "The better part of one's life consists of his friendships." - Abraham Lincoln "I don't remember how we happened to meet each other. I don't remember who got along with whom first. All I can remember is all of us together... always."- Unknown "You only meet your once in a lifetime friend... once in a lifetime." - Little Rascals "Any day is sunny that's brightened by a smile...Any friendship blossoms if it's tended to with style."- Unknown "The most beautiful discovery that true friends can make is that they can grow separately without growing apart." -Elizabeth Foley "How lucky I am to have known someone who was so hard to say goodbye to.""A circle is round it has no end, that's how long I want to be your friend!" - Anonymous "One loyal friend is better than ten thousand family members."- Unknown "One's best friend is oneself." - Unknown "Make new friends and keep the old, one is silver and the other gold"- a Girl Scout motto "I have a hand, and you have another; put them together and we have each other." - a Girl Scout motto "Strangers are just friends waiting to happen." - Unknown "The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but to reveal to him, his own." -Benjamin Disraeli "Don't be dismayed at good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you canmeet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes,is certain for those who are friends."- Richard Bach "Wherever you may be it is your friends who make your world."- Unknown "I always knew looking back on the tears would make me laugh.But I never knew looking back on the laughs would make me cry."- Unknown "All love that has not friendship for its base,is like a mansion built upon the sand."- Ella Wheeler Wilcox "A mirror reflects a man's face, but what he is really likeis shown by the kind of friends he chooses."- Proverbs 27:19 "In a friend you find a second self."- Isabelle Norton "I can trust my friends. These people force me to examine, encourage me to grow." -Cher "Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being." -Goethe "No love, no friendship, can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever." - Francois Mocuriac "What is a friend? I will tell you...it is someone with whomyou dare to be yourself."- Frank Crane "A good friend remembers what we were and sees what we can be."- Unknown "Give others freedom to be themselves. Appreciate the differences between their ways an yours." - Unknown "Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends whom we choose." -- Tehyi Hsieh An honest answer is the sign of true friendship.-- Proverbs 24:26 Advice from your friends in like the weather, some of it is good, some of it is bad.-Anonymous "Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts." - Maragret Lee Runbeck"Truth and tears clear the way to a deep and lasting friendship." - Unknown "Friends are God's way of taking care of us."- Unknown "Scatter seeds of kindness everywhere you go;Scatter bits of courtesy-------- watch them grow and grow.Gather buds of friendship; Keep them till full-blown;You will find more happiness than you have ever known. - Amy R Raabe Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.-Samuel Paterson "It's the friends you can call up at 4am that matter." - Marlene Dietrick "A friend is a gift you give yourself." - Robert Louis Stevenson "A new friendship is like an unripened fruit - it may become either an orange or a lemon"- Emma Stacey "Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit." -- Aristotle (4th century B.C.) "A true friend is someone you can trust with all your secrets."- Unknown "Gems may be presious, but friends are priceless."- Unknown "A good friend is my nearest relation." -- Thomas Fuller (1732) "A friend is a present you give yourself." -- Robert Louis Stevenson "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 "Friendship with oneself is all-important because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world." - Eleanor Roosevelt "If you judge people, you have no time to love them." - Mother Teresa "Friends are the sunshine of life." -- John Hay (1871) Count your age with friends but not with years - Anonymous "I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship." -- Pietro Aretino (1537) "I will speak ill of no man, and speak all the good I know of everybody." - Benjamin Franklin "Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of joy you must have somebody to divide it with." - Mark Twain "A hug is worth a thousand words. A friend is worth more."- Unknown "It takes years to build up trust, and just seconds to destroy it."- Unknown "The best mirror is an old friend." - George Herbert The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.-- Abraham Lincoln Hold a true friend with both your hands. -- Nigerian Proverb "A faithful friend is the medicine of life." -- Apocrypha "Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil." -- Baltasar Gracian (1647) "I count myselt in nothing else so happyAs in a soul remembering my good friends." - William Shakespeare "Having someone who understands is a great blessing for ourselves. Being someone who understands is a great blessing to others."- Unknown "Remember that every good friend was once a stranger" - Unknown "Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods." - Artistotle "My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me." - Henry Ford "Friends are angels following you through life" - Sent by Melissa "The music may stop now and then, But the the strings will remain forever..." - Unknown "Friend derives from a word meaning "free." A friend is someone who allows us the space and freedom to be."- Unknown Remember, the greatest gift is not found in a store nor under a tree, but in the hearts of true friends. -- Cindy Lew "The only way to have a friend is to be one." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson "No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and reverence." - George Eliot "A person who has no friends, lives only half way."- Unknown "Friends are the chocolate chips in the cookie of life."- Unknown "It is a sweet thing, friendship, a dear balm,A happy and auspicious bird of calm..." - Shelly "One can never speak enough of the virtues, the dangers, the power of shared laughter." - Francoise Sagan "Friendships are fragile things, and require as much handling as any other fragile and precious things." -Randolph S. Bourne "Most people come into our lives and quickly leave. It is the special few that come in and leave a footprint in our hearts. and we are forever changed."- Unknown "Friendship is always a sweet responsibilty, never an oppourtunity." - Kahil Gibran "When friends stop being frank and useful to each other, the whole world loses some of its radiance." - Unknown "A friend is like a rainbow. They brighten your life when you've been through a storm." - Unknown "I can doubt my friends, but I can believe in our friendship."- Anatole Broyard "Life is partly what we make it, and partly what is made by the friends whom we choose." - Tehyi Hsieh "I believe in Angels, the ones that heaven sends, I believe in Angels, but i call them my best friends" - Unknown "A friend you have to buy, wont be worth what you pay for him."- Unknown "There is no hope of joy except in human relations." - Antoine de Sainte-Exupery "The making of friends, who are real friends, is the best token we have of a man's success in life." - Edward Everett Hale "Friendship is what gets you through the bad times and helps you enjoy the good times" - Unknown "A person is only complete when she has a true friend to understand her, to share all her passions and sorrows with, and to stand by her throughout her life." - Unknown Back to inspirations quotes categories Back to homepage
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