Friendship Quotes

“Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.”

– Eleanor Roosevelt

You may have many friends or a few close ones. Whatever it is, friends are one of the most precious relationships we make in our life. Friendship is essential for one’s well-being. True friends not just provide us the companionship but helps us during our tough times. Difficult times seems easy when you know your friends are there to hold your back.

Having great friends to share your life with, is nothing less than a blessing. There are more than one occasions when we feel like thanking our friend to be an important part of our lives. For all such times, we bring you a list of 50 Quotes on Friendship, which can help you convey your deepest emotions.

Our collection has different kinds of Friendship Quotes. For example, you can find true friendship quotes which you can share with your best friends. Or else you can find short friendship quotes and cute friendship quotes for a phone text. So, dive in and don’t forget to share these friendship quotes with your lovely friends.

50 Friendship Quotes

“I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.”

– Helen Keller


“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

“Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.”

– Henry David Thoreau


“There’s not a word yet for old friends who’ve just met.”

– Jim Henson


“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


“Don’t make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.”

– Thomas J. Watson

“Friends should be like books, few, but hand-selected.”

– C.J. Langenhoven


“A friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future and accepts you just the way you are.”

– Unknown


“True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable.”

– David Tyson


“Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or friendship, is a conversation.”

– Oscar Wilde

“Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.”

– Washington Irving


“A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.”

– Arnold H. Glasgow


“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


“I don’t need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.”

– Plutarch


“Do not save your loving speeches for your friends till they are dead; do not write them on their tombstones, speak them rather now instead.”

– Anna Cummins

“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


“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”

– Martin Luther King Jr.


“A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they’re not so good and sympathizes with your problems when they’re not so bad.”

– Arnold H. Glasgow


“A single rose can be my garden… a single friend, my world.”

– Leo Buscaglia


“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”

– Friedrich Nietzsche


“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

“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


“Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.”

– Aristotle


“Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm & constant.”

– Socrates


“Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respected.”

– Charles Lamb


“No person is your friend who demands your silence or denies your right to grow.”

– Alice Walker

“One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention.”

– Clifton Fadiman


“Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.”

– Woodrow T. Wilson


“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

“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


“The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.”

– Elisabeth Foley


“I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let’s face it; friends make life a lot more fun.”

– Charles R. Swindoll

“A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute. He may not seem such a good friend after telling.”

– Arthur Brisbane


“If you make friends with yourself, you will never be alone.”

– Maxwell Maltz


“A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.”

– Bernard Meltzer

“Friendship is like a glass ornament; once it is broken it can rarely be put back together exactly the same way.”

– Charles Kingsley


“A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.”

– Donna Roberts


“People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges.”

– Joseph F. Men

“It is not so much our friends’ help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.”

– Epicurus


“The best time to make friends is before you need them.”

– Ethel Barrymore


“The language of friendship is not words but meanings.”

– Henry David Thoreau

“Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?”

– Abraham Lincoln


“Friendship consists in forgetting what one gives and remembering what one receives.”

– Alexander Dumas


“Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.”

– Friedrich Nietzsche

“A friendship that can end never really began.”

– Publilius Syrus


“A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him, I may think aloud. I am arrived at last in the presence of a man so real and equal, that I may drop even those under most garments of dissimulation, courtesy, and second thought, which men never put off, and may deal with him with the simplicity and wholeness with which one chemical atom meets another.”

– Ralph Waldo Emerson


“Every friendship travel at some time through the black valley of despair. This test every aspect of your affection. You lose attraction and magic.”

– John O’Donohue

“They make me stronger; they make me braver.”

– Jane Fonda


“Friendship is the purest love.”

– Osho


“Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.”

– Tennessee Williams