Friendship Quotes

The following friendship quotes will remind you how precious the gift of friendship is. A good friend will hold your hand when you're down, celebrate when you're up and be honest when you're not quite ready for skinny jeans. Share your favourite friendship quotes with the people you hold closest to your heart. Let them know how much you care and appreciate them. After all, isn't that what friends are for?

I get by with a little help from my friends.
--John Lennon

A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be.
--Douglas Pagels

A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.
--Elbert Hubbard

Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.
--Woodrow Wilson

Silences make the real conversations between friends.
--Margaret Lee Runbeck

Everyone wants to ride in the limo, but what you need is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.
-- Oprah Winfrey

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

It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies, but even more to stand up to your friends.
--J. K. Rowling

A real friend is someone who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
--Proverb

Friendship with oneself is all-important because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
--Eleanor Roosevelt

One good reason to only maintain a small circle of friends is that three out of four murders are committed by people who know the victim.
--George Carlin

An old friend will help you move. A good friend will help you move a dead body.
--Jim Hayes

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

Everyone hears what you say. Friends listen to what you say. Best friends listen to what you don't say.
--Source Unknown

The only way to have a friend is to be one.
--Source Unknown

A friend drops their plans when you're in trouble, shares joy in your accomplishments, feels sad when you're in pain. A friend encourages your dreams and offers advice--but when you don't follow it, they still respect and love you.
--Doris Wild Helmering

Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend's forehead.
--Chinese Proverb

Friends are family you choose for yourself.
--Author Unknown

More Friendship Quotes

Given the choice of friendship or success, I'd probably choose success.
--Sting

Often we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies.
--Leon Uris

A true friend never gets in your way unless you are going down.
--Arnold H. Glasgow

You can make more friends in two minutes by being interested in them than you can in two weeks by trying to get them interested in you.
--Dale Carnegie

A best friend is like a four leaf clover: hard to find and lucky to have.
--Author Unknown

A friend can tell you things you don't want to tell yourself.
--Frances Ward Weller

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

Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.
--Jacques Delille

Friends are like bras: close to your heart and there for support.
--Author Unknown

Friends can be said to "fall in like" with as profound a thud as romantic partners fall in love.
--Letty Cottin Pogrebin

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

Most people walk in and out of you life. But only friends leave footprints in your heart.
--Author Unknown

Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.
--Sicilian Proverb

The most beautiful discovery that true friends can make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.
--Elizabeth Foley

The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear.
--Maya Angelou

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