Inspiring Friendship Quotes

Relationship with friends? These friends' quotes illustrate what an incredible friendship is. The best friends you have can provide you an incredible gift and having the best friend is a precious gift. An ideal friendship is one who is always with you whatever happens. It's possible that everyone will love and support you in any situation.

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

Friendship Quotes Your Best Friend Will Love

“Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, ‘What! You too? I thought I was the only one.”
“Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.”―Elie Wiesel
“A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.” — Walter Winchell
“Real friendship is when your friend comes over to your house and then you both just take a nap.” — Anonymous
“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
“The love that comes from friendship is the underlying facet of a happy life.” – Chelsea Handler
“Things are never quite as scary when you’ve got a best friend.” — Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes
“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
“Don’t make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.” – Thomas J. Watson
“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 true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.” – Arnold H. Glasgow
“Some people go to priests. Others to poetry. I to my friends.”—Virginia Woolf
“A friend is an emotional bond, just like friendship is a human experience.” – Simon Sinek
“True friends are those rare people who come to find you in dark places and lead you back to the light.” — Anonymous
“Anything is possible when you have the right people there to support you.” — Misty Copeland
“Friendship’s the wine of life.” — Edward Young, Night Thoughts
“Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.” – Eustace Budgell
“If you live to be a hundred, I hope I live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you.” — Winnie the Pooh (Winnie the Pooh Quotes)
“Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.” – Thomas Aquinas
“As much as a BFF can make you go WTF, there’s no denying we’d be a little less rich without them.” — Gossip Girl
“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, Women Make the Best Friends: A Celebration
“In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.” – Albert Schweitzer
“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
“A friend is one who overlooks your broken fence and admires the flowers in your garden.” — Anonymous
“The only way to have a friend is to be one.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Inspiring And Helpful Friendship Quotes

“A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.” – Elbert Hubbard
“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.” — Anonymous
“One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.” – Lucius Annaeus Seneca
“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
“There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.” ― Linda Grayson
“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
“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
“You find out who your real friends are when you’re involved in a scandal.” – Elizabeth Taylor
“Lose one friend, lose all friends, lose yourself.” Why? “Because nothing else seemed important.” ― Boy Meets World
“Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.” – Samuel Butler
“Friendship is a wildly underrated medication.” – Anna Deavere Smith
“There are friends, there is family, and then there are friends that become family.” — Unknown
“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
“The great thing about new friends is that they bring new energy to your soul.” – Shanna Rodriguez
“A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success!” – Doug Larson
“Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend’s success.” — Oscar Wilde
“Friends joke with one another. ‘Hey, you’re poor. Hey, your momma’s dead.’ That’s what friends do.” – Michael Scott, The Office
“We’re sisters; you’re my family. What is you, is me. There’s nothing that you could ever say to make me let go.” – Blair Waldorf, Gossip Girl
“Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare — and precious as a pearl.” – Tahar Ben Jelloun
“I found out what the secret to life is—friends. Best friends.” — Fried Green Tomatoes
“Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it’s all over.”— Octavia Butler
“The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Best friends don’t necessarily have to talk every day. They don’t even need to talk for weeks. But when they do, it’s like they never stopped talking.” – Unknown
“The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away.” — Barbara Kingsolver
“I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.” — Robert Brault
“One’s friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.”– George Santayana
“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

Inspirational Friendship Quotes To Cheer Them On

“Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.” – Khalil Gibran
“A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.” — Bernard Meltzer
“You can always tell a real friend: when you’ve made a fool of yourself he doesn’t feel you’ve done a permanent job.” — Laurence J. Peter
“True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.” – Henry David Thoreau
“A single rose can be my garden… a single friend, my world.” – Leo Buscaglia
“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
“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
“Throughout life you will meet one person who is like no other. You could talk to this person for hours and never get bored, you could tell this person things and they will never judge you. This person is your soulmate, your best friend. Don’t ever let them go.” – Unknown
“When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands.” – Maria Shriver
“If ever there is tomorrow when we’re not together… there is something you must always remember. You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. But the most important thing is, even if we’re apart… I’ll always be with you.” – Winnie the Pooh
“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.” — R. J. L.
“One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.” – Euripides
“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
“Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.” – Francesco Guicciardini
“For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.” — Audrey Hepburn
“[The greatest gift in life] is the gift of friendship, and I have received it; the greatest healing therapy is friendship.” — Hubert Humphrey
“Never leave a friend behind. Friends are all we have to get us through this life—and they are the only things from this world that we could hope to see in the next.” — Dean Koontz
“Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.” — Richard Bach
“I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.” – Ernest Hemingway
“Growing apart doesn’t change the fact that for a long time we grew side by side; our roots will always be tangled. I’m glad for that.”– Ally Condie
“There’s not a word yet for old friends who’ve just met.” – Jim Henson
“Remember George, no man is a failure who has friends.” — It’s a Wonderful Life
“The human spirit is more powerful than any drug and that is what needs to be nourished with work, play, friendship, family. These are the things that matter.” — Awakenings
“I still have friends from primary school. And my two best girlfriends are from secondary school. I don’t have to explain anything to them. I don’t have to apologize for anything. They know. There’s no judgment in any way.” — Emma Watson
“A strong friendship doesn’t need daily conversation and doesn’t always need togetherness. As long as the relationship lives in the heart, true friends will never part.” – Unknown

Short And Sweet Friendship Quotes

“Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend.” ― Sarah Dessen
“Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.” — Woodrow Wilson
“A friend can tell you things you don’t want to tell yourself.” – Frances Ward Weller
“The love that comes from friendship is the underlying fact of a happy life.” – Chelsea Handler
“In my friend, I find a second self.” – Isabel Norton
“Some people go to priests. Others to poetry. I to my friends.”—Virginia Woolf
“It’s the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.”– Marlene Dietrich
“Anything is possible when you have the right people there to support you.” — Misty Copeland
Friends are relatives you make for yourself.” — Eustache Deschamps
“Never let your best friends get lonely…keep disturbing them.” – Candlelight Publications
“We’ll be the old ladies causing trouble in the nursing home.” – Unknown

Deep Friendship Quotes For Tight Bonds

“One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.” – Euripides

“In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, for in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.” – Khalil Gibran
“Don’t make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.” – Thomas J. Watson
“A good friend is like a four-leaf clover; hard to find and lucky to have.” – Irish Proverb
“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
“Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.”―Elie Wiesel
“A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.” – Arnold H. Glasgow
“True friends are like diamonds — bright, beautiful, valuable, and always in style.” – Nicole Richie
“Best friend: the one that you can be mad at only for a short period of time because you have important stuff to tell them.” – Unknown
“Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer.” — Ed Cunningham
“Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.” — Marcel Proust
“True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable.” — David Tyson
“It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies, but a great deal more to stand up to your friends.” — Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
“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
“There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first; when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.” — Paramahansa Yogananda
“As much as a BFF can make you go WTF, there’s no denying we’d be a little less rich without them.” — Gossip Girl
“Friendship — my definition — is built on two things. Respect and trust. Both elements have to be there. And it has to be mutual. You can have respect for someone, but if you don’t have trust, the friendship will crumble.” ― Stieg Larsson