Quotes on Friendship

There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation of one's self, the very meaning of one's soul. - Edith Wharton

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

Friendship isn't a big thing - it's a million little things. - Unknown

The best kind of friend is the one you could sit on a porch with, never saying a word, and walk away feeling like that was the best conversation you've ever had. - Unknown

When you truly care for someone, you don't look for faults, you don't look for answers, you don't look for mistakes. Instead, you fight the mistakes, you accept the faults, and you overlook the excuses. Never abandon an old friend. You will never find one who can take his place. Friendship is like wine, it gets better as it grows older. - Unknown

A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping and with a breath of kindness blow the rest away. - Arabian Proverb

The miracle of friendship can be spoken without words...hearing unspoken needs, recognizing secret dreams, understanding the silent things that only true friends know. - Unknown

A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway. - Fr. Jerome Cummings

A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words. - Donna Roberts

Real friendship is shown in times of trouble; prosperity is full of friends. - Euripedes

Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys and by dividing our grief. - Joseph Addison

Hold a true friend with both hands. - Nigerian Proverb

A friend is someone who reaches for your hand, but touches your heart. - Kathleen Grove

You can never lose a true friend. - Sable

A friend is one who knows who you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still gently allows you to grow. - William Shakespeare

The greatest challenge in being a friend is not listening when words are spoken, but hearing and feeling even though there is nothing but silence. - Unknown

Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer. - Ed Cunningham

A true friend is one who is there for you when he's rather be anywhere else. - Len Wein

I didn't find my friends, the good God gave them to me. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

When it hurts to look back and you're scared to look ahead, you can look beside you and your best friend will be there. - Unknown

A friend is a gift you give yourself. - Robert Louis Stevenson

A good friend remembers what we were and sees what we can be. - Janette Oake

A friend is one with whom you are comfortable, to whom you are loyal, through whom you are blessed, and for whom you are grateful. - William Arthur Ward

When being together is more important than what you do, you are a true friend. - Unknown

Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship. - Lord Byron

Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence. - Sydney Smith

It's friends that become the deepest love. It's like one day someone flicks a switch and you wake up and your best friend becomes the person you could never live without. Love is finding that single most important being to ever grace my existence. - Dawson's Creek

Friends are kisses blown to us by angels. - Unknown

Though miles may lie between us, we're never far apart. For friendship doesn't count the miles, it's measured by the heart. - Rozina Hasham

Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget. - G. Randolf

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

The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him with his friendship. - Ralph Waldo Emerson