If you find good friends, never joke with them, never trash them, and regularly inspire them with friendly quotes. These are friendships that have stood through the storm, through hardship, through good times, and bad times.
Share a friendship quote with your friend and let him/her smile.
True Friendship Quotes
Some of the biggest challenges in relationships come from the fact that most people enter a relationship in order to get something: they’re trying to find someone who’s going to make them feel good. In reality, the only way a relationship will last is if you see your relationship as a place where you go to give, not a place where you go to take.
Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love.
Socrates
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.
Khalil Gibran
Friends make you smile. Best friends make you giggle ’til you pee your pants.
Terri Guillemets
She is a friend of my mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order.
Toni Morrison
To love is nothing. To be loved is something. But to love and be loved, that’s everything.
T. Tolis
“Love your friends as if they would some day hate you.”
A friend is what the heart needs all the time.
Henry Van Dyke
The biggest ingredient in a best friend is someone whose actions you respect and who you can truly be yourself around.
Renee Olstead
Love is the greatest refreshment in life.”
… 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
Meaningful Friendly Quotes
Love will be worthless without true friends.
You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.
Henry Drummond
Nobody who is afraid of laughing, and heartily too, at his friend, can be said to have a true and thorough love for him.
Things are never quite as scary when you’ve got a best friend.
Bill Watterson
Life isn’t about having a thousand friends, it’s about finding the very few right ones you need.
A.R. Asher
A true friend would die for you, so when you start trying to count them on one hand, you don’t need any fingers.
Larry Flynt
Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.
See also: Cute Friendly Quotes and Messages
Best Friend Quotes
A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success!
Doug Larson
For the two of us, home isn’t a place. It is a person. And we are finally home.
True friend encourages us, comforts us, supports us like a big easy chair, offering us a safe refuge from the world.
H. Jackson Brown
To say that one waits a lifetime for his soulmate to come around is a paradox. People eventually get sick of waiting, take a chance on someone, and by the art of commitment become soulmates, which takes a lifetime to perfect.
Criss Jami
Friendship is a word, the very sight of which in print makes heart warm.
Augustine Birrell
Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.
Maya Angelou
See also: Thank You Friendly Quotes
Real Friends Quotes
Sooner or later you’ve heard all your best friends have to say. Then comes the tolerance of real love.
Ne Rorem
There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.
Thomas Aquinas
It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.
Henry Ward Beecher
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
Walter Winchell
The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.
A friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future, and accepts you just the way you are.
“Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love.”
Socrates
When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand.
Henri Nouwen
Among the many ships in life, friendship is the most adventurous of them all, and I am glad I am on this ship with you.
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