Friendship
Friendship is one of life’s great gifts. True friends stay with you through the good times and the bad.
And real friends are always there for us, especially when we need them most.
Enjoy this collection of great friendship quotes that sum up what true friendship is all about.
Friendship Quotes
Samuel Butler – Friendship is like money …
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
~ Samuel Butler
John Churton Collins – In prosperity, our friends …
In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends.
~ John Churton Collins
Marlene Dietrich – Think twice before burdening a friend …
Think twice before burdening a friend with a secret.
~ Marlene Dietrich
Robert Louis Stevenson Quote – A friend is a present …
A friend is a present you give yourself.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
Anonymous Quote – Friendship isn’t about whom …
Friendship isn’t about whom you have known the longest… It’s about who came, and never left your side…
~ Anonymous
Walter Winchell Quote – A real friend is one who …
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
~ Walter Winchell
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote – I awoke this morning with …
I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote – The only reward of virtue …
The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Henry David Thoreau Quote – The most I can do for my friend …
The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. I have no wealth to bestow on him. If he knows that I am happy in loving him, he will want no other reward. Is not friendship divine in this?
~ Henry David Thoreau
William Penn Quote – A true friend unbosoms freely …
A true friend unbosoms freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.
~ William Penn
Mignon McLaughlin Quote – It is important to our friends to believe …
It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
Thomas Jefferson Quote – But friendship is precious, not only …
But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life; and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Henry David Thoreau Quote – The language of friendship is …
The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Elie Weisel Quote – Friendship marks a life …
Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.
~ Elie Weisel
Jon Katz Quote – I think if I’ve learned anything …
I think if I’ve learned anything about friendship, it’s to hang in, stay connected, fight for them, and let them fight for you. Don’t walk away, don’t be distracted, don’t be too busy or tired, don’t take them for granted. Friends are part of the glue that holds life and faith together. Powerful stuff.
~ Jon Katz
Albert Camus Quote – Don’t walk behind me …
Don’t walk behind me; I may not lead.
Don’t walk in front of me; I may not follow.
Just walk beside me and be my friend.
~ Albert Camus
Helen Keller Quote – I would rather walk with a friend in the dark …
I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.
~ Helen Keller
Mark Twain Quote – Good friends, good books …
Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
~ Mark Twain
Henri Nouwen Quote – When we honestly ask ourselves …
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 rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. 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 curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.
~ Henri Nouwen
Adam Lindsay Gordon Quote – There comes a point …
There comes a point in your life when you realize:
Who matters,
Who never did,
Who won’t anymore,
And who always will.
So, don’t worry about people from your past, there’s a reason why they didn’t make it to your future.
~ Adam Lindsay Gordon