Inspiring Friendship
1. “ A friend is one of the best things you can be and the greatest things you can have. ”
— Sarah Valdez
2. “ A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out. ”
— Walter Winchell
3. “ 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
4. “ Best friends are the people in your life who make you laugh louder, smile brighter and live better. ”
— Unknown
5. “ 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
6. “ To the world you may be just one person, but to one person you may be the world. ”
— Dr. Seuss
7. “ Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together. ”
— Woodrow T. Wilson
8. “ A friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future, and accepts you just the way you are. ”
— Unknown
9. “ Sometimes being with your best friend is all the therapy you need. ”
— Unknown
10. “ Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity. ”
— Khalil Gibran
11. “ A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked. ”
— Bernard Meltzer
12. “ True friends are like diamonds — bright, beautiful, valuable, and always in style. ”
— Nicole Richie
13. “ A friend is one who overlooks your broken fence and admires the flowers in your garden. ”
— Unknown
14. “ My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me. ”
— Henry Ford
15. “ A good friend is like a four-leaf clover; hard to find and lucky to have. ”
— Irish Proverb
16. “ Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare — and precious as a pearl. ”
— Tahar Ben Jelloun
17. “ A best friend is someone who makes you laugh even when you think you’ll never smile again. ”
— Unknown
18. “ A friend who understands your tears is much more valuable than a lot of friends who only know your smile. ”
— Unknown
19. “ Love is friendship set on fire. ”
— Jeremy Taylor
20. “ Everyone you meet knows something you don’t know but need to know. Learn from them. ”
— C.G. Jung
21. “ Friendship is accepting a person with all their qualities — good and bad. ”
— Mohanlal
22. “ 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
23. “ True friends are never apart, maybe in distance but never in heart. ”
— Helen Keller
24. “ The kindest way of helping yourself is to find a friend. ”
— Ann Kaiser Stearns
25. “ A real friendship should not fade as time passes, and should not weaken because of space separation. ”
— John Newton
26. “ If you are ever lucky enough to find a weirdo, never let them go. ”
— Matthew Gray Gubler
27. “ But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine. ”
— Thomas Jefferson
28. “ Friends are the siblings God never gave us. ”
— Mencius
29. “ In the cookie of life, friends are the chocolate chips. ”
— Unknown
30. “ When it hurts to look back and you’re afraid to look ahead, you can look beside you and your best friend will be there. ”
— Unknown
31. “I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light. ”
— Helen Keller
32. “ The language of friendship is not words but meanings. ”
— Henry David Thoreau
33. “ Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts. ”
— Margaret Lee Runbeck
34. “ Share your smile with the world. It's a symbol of friendship and peace. ”
— Christie Brinkley
35. “ It's not what we have in life, but who we have in our life that matters. ”
— Unknown
36. “ A strong friendship doesn’t need daily conversation or being together. As long as the relationship lives in the heart, true friends never part. ”
— Unknown
37. “ True friends are always together in spirit. ”
— L.M. Montgomery
38. “ The only way to have a friend is to be one. ”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
39. “ Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher. ”
— Oprah Winfrey
40. “ True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable. ”
— David Tyson
41. “ There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship. ”
— Thomas Aquinas
42. “ It's not that diamonds are a girl's best friend, but it's your best friends who are your diamonds. ”
— Gina Barreca
43. “ The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart. ”
— Elisabeth Foley
44. “ Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart. ”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
45. “ Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend. ”
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
46. “ Life was meant for good friends and great adventures. ”
— Unknown
47. “ Awards become corroded. Friends gather no dust. ”
— Jesse Owens
48. “ A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails. ”
— Donna Roberts
49. “ Friendship is when people know all about you but like you anyway. ”
— Unknown
50. “ There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate. ”
— Linda Grayson
51. “ Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil. ”
— Baltasar Gracian
52. “ Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go. ”
— Margaret Walker
53. “ One’s friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human. ”
— George Santayana
54. “ A friend can tell you things you don’t want to tell yourself. ”
— Frances Ward Weller
55. “ Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world. ”
— John Evelyn