Friendship is a relationship of mutual affection between people. Friendship is a stronger form of interpersonal bond than an association. Although there are many forms of friendship, some of which may vary from place to place, certain characteristics are present in many types of such bonds. Such characteristics include affection; kindness, love, virtue, sympathy, empathy, honesty, altruism, loyalty, mutual understanding and compassion, enjoyment of each other’s company, trust, and the ability to be oneself, express one’s feelings to others, and make mistakes without fear of judgment from the friend.
Some of the best quotes on friendship are listed below.
- “A best friend is like a four leaf clover, hard to find and lucky to have.” – Sarah Jessica Parker
- “A friend in need is a friend indeed.” – Latin Proverb
- “A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.” – Donna Roberts
- “A friend to all is a friend to none.” – Aristotle
- “A friend who understands your tears is much more valuable than a lot of friends who only know your smile.” – Anonymous
- “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
- “A good friend knows all your stories. A best friend helped you create them.” – Unknown
- “A man’s friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.” – Charles Darwin
- “A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.” – Walter Winchell
- “A single rose can be my garden… a single friend, my world.” – Leo Buscaglia
- “A strong friendship doesn’t need daily conversation or being together. As long as the relationship lives in the heart, true friends never part.” – Anonymous
- “A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.” – Bernard Meltzer
- “A true friend is the only person who never gets tired of listening to our own pointless dramas over and over again.” – Unknown
- “An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.” – Buddha
- “Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm & constant.” – Socrates
- “Before borrowing money from a friend, decide which you need most.” – American Proverb
- “Best friends are the people you can do anything and nothing with and still have the best time.” – Unknown
- “Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?” – Abraham Lincoln
- “Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone — but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming.” – William Hazlitt
- “Don’t make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.” – Thomas J. Watson
- “Don’t walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don’t walk behind me; I may not lead. Just walk beside me and be my friend.” – Albert Camus
- “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
- “Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.” – Jacques Delille
- “Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you. Love me and I may be forced to love you.” – William Arthur Ward
- “For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.” – Audrey Hepburn
- “Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer.” – Ed Cunningham
- “Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.” – Euripides
- “Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.” – Gibran Khalil Gibran
- “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
- “Friendship is delicate as a glass, once broken it can be fixed but there will always be cracks.” – Waqar Ahmed
- “Friendship is like a glass ornament, once it is broken it can rarely be put back together exactly the same way.” – Charles Kingsley
- “Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.” – Samuel Butler
- “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
- “Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.” – Woodrow T. Wilson
- “Friendship isn’t about whom you’ve known the longest. It’s about who came and never left your side.” – Unknown
- “Friendship means understanding, not agreement. It means forgiveness, not forgetting. It means the memories last, even if contact is lost.” – Unknown
- “Good friends are like stars. You don’t always see them, but you know they’re there.” – Unknown
- “Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of joy you must have somebody to divide it with.” – Mark Twain
- “Hard times will always reveal true friends.” – Unknown
- “I don’t need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.” – Plutarch
- “I get by with a little help from my friends.” – The Beatles
- “I keep telling myself to stop talking to weirdos but then I wouldn’t have any friends left.” – Unknown
- “If ever there is tomorrow when we’re not together… there is something you must always remember. You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. But the most important thing is, even if we’re apart… I’ll always be with you.” – Winnie the Pooh
- “If it’s very painful for you to criticize your friends — you’re safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that’s the time to hold your tongue.” – Alice Duer Miller
- “If you go looking for a friend, you’re going to find they’re very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you’ll find them everywhere.” – Zig Ziglar
- “If you live to be 100, I hope I live to be 100 minus 1 day, so I never have to live without you.” – Winnie the Pooh
- “If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone.” – Maxwell Maltz
- “In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.” – Albert Schweitzer
- “It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
- “It is not so much our friends’ help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.” – Epicurus
- “It scares me to trust people when the ones who promised will never leave, go. And the ones who say they will always be there, were never really there.” – Unknown
- “It’s really amazing when two strangers become the best of friends, but it’s really sad when the best of friends become two strangers.” – Unknown
- “It’s the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.” – Marlene Dietrich
- “Keep away from those who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you believe that you too can become great.” – Mark Twain
- “Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.” – Marcel Proust
- “Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.” – Tennessee Williams
- “Like a wave out on the ocean, I will always come right back to you.” – Unknown
- “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
- “Making a hundred friends is not a miracle. The miracle is to make a single friend who will stand by your side even when hundreds are against you.” – Unknown
- “Many a person has held close, throughout their entire lives, two friends that always remained strange to one another, because one of them attracted by virtue of similarity, the other by difference.” – Emil Ludwig
- “My best friend, I would lie for, cry for, take a bullet for and straight up die for.” – Unknown
- “Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.” – Chanakya
- “No matter how serious life gets, you’ve still got to have that one person you can be completely stupid with.” – Unknown
- “No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.” – Alice Walker
- “One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.” – Lucius Annaeus Seneca
- “People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges.” – Joseph F. Newton
- “Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.” – Jean de La Fontaine
- “Say what you want about aging, it’s still the only way to have old friends.” – Robert Brault
- “Sitting silently beside a friend who is hurting may be the best gift we can give.” – Unknown
- “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 that you go to give, and not a place that you go to take.” – Tony Robbins
- “Some people only get called by nicknames. Usually it sounds weird to even say their real name.” – Unknown
- “Someone to tell it to is one of the fundamental needs of human beings.” – Miles Franklin
- “Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it’s all over.” – Gloria Naylor
- “Sometimes me thinks, ‘what is a friend?’ And then me say, ‘friend is someone to share the last cookie with.’” – Cookie Monster
- “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
- “The best time to make friends is before you need them.” – Ethel Barrymore
- “The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when someone asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.” – Henry David Thoreau
- “The most beautiful discovery true friends can make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.” – Elizabeth Foley
- “The only way to have a friend is to be one.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “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
- “The tender friendships one gives up, on parting, leave their bite on the heart, but also a curious feeling of a treasure somewhere buried.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
- “There is magic in long-distance friendships. They let you relate to other human beings in a way that goes beyond being physically together and is often more profound.” – Diana Cortes
- “There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.” – Linda Grayson
- “There’s not a word yet for old friends who’ve just met.” – Jim Henson
- “They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.” – Carl W. Buechner
- “To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.” – Gaius Sallustius Crispus
- “To the world you may be just one person, but to one person you may be the world.” – Brandi Snyder
- “True friends do not judge each other, they judge people together.” – Unknown
- “True friendship is when you walk into their house and your WiFi connects automatically.” – Unknown
- “Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.” – Unknown
- “Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.” – Oscar Wilde
- “We are best friends. Always remember that if you fall, I will pick you up. After I finish laughing.” – Unknown
- “What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.” – Confucius
- “When a friend is in trouble, don’t annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.” – Edgar Watson Howe
- “When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends.” – Japanese Proverb
- “When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are.” – Donald Miller
- “Whenever you’re in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.” – William James
- “Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.” – Aristotle
- “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
- “You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.” – Dale Carnegie
