455 Quotes Regarding Friendship


A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.
Elbert Hubbard

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

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

Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.
Muhammad Ali

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

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.
Henri Nouwen

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

A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity.
Robert Hall

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.
Arnold H. Glasow

A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.
Leo Buscaglia

A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely.
Pam Brown

I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.
Robert Brault

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
Marcel Proust

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
George Washington

Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.
William Butler Yeats

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
C. S. Lewis

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 healing, not curing... that is a friend who cares.
Henri Nouwen

True friends stab you in the front.
Oscar Wilde

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson