Seek the companionship of virtuous friends, not virtual friends.
Elaine S. Dalton
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.
Thomas Burke Quote – True friendship brings sunshine …
True friendship brings sunshine to the shade, and shade to the sunshine.
Thomas Burke
Alexandre Dumas Quote – Friendship consists in forgetting …
Friendship consists in forgetting what one gives, and remembering what one receives.
Alexandre Dumas
May Sarton – Though friendship is not …
Though friendship is not quick to burn, it is explosive stuff.
~ May Sarton
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 with a secret.
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.
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…
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.
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 Quote – The only reward of virtue …
The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.
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?
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.
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.
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.
Henry David Thoreau Quote – The language of friendship is …
The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
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.
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.