Friend means a place where you can openly say everything and share all your problems. We don’t have to go to great lengths to keep this relationship alive, quarrelsome misunderstandings are all too much, but with a smile or hug between friends and friendships, everything seems to be lost somewhere. Today I appeared before you with the status of this friend.
In this post, you will get friendship quotes and friendship day quotes.
“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
“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
“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
“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
“A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill requires only our silence; which costs us nothing.”
— John Tillotson
“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
“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.”
“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
“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
“When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are.”
– Donald Miller
“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
“If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone.”
– Maxwell Maltz
“A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.”
– Bernard Meltzer
“The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when someone asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.”
— Henry David Thoreau
“People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges.”
— Joseph F. Newton Men
“Friendship is like a glass ornament, once it is broken it can rarely be put back together exactly the same way.”
– Charles Kingsley
“Someone to tell it to is one of the fundamental needs of human beings.”
— Miles Franklin
“It is not so much our friends’ help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.”
– Epicurus
“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
“Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.”
– Tennessee Williams
“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
“Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?”
– Abraham Lincoln
“A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud. I am arrived at last in the presence of a man so real and equal, that I may drop even those undermost garments of dissimulation, courtesy, and second thought, which men never put off, and may deal with him with the simplicity and wholeness with which one chemical atom meets another.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The best time to make friends is before you need them.”
– Ethel Barrymore
“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
“In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, for in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.”
– Khalil Gibran
“Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.”
– Unknown
“They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.”
– Carl W. Buechner
“Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.”
– Henry David Thoreau
“A true friend is someone who is there for you when he’d rather be anywhere else.”
– Len Wein
“It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
“A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.”
– Elbert Hubbard
“A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.”
– Donna Roberts
“There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate. “
– Linda Grayson
“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
“It is the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.”
– Marlene Dietrich
“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
“Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.”
– Elie Wiesel
“We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over.”
– Ray Bradbury
“Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.”
– Maya Angelou
“I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let’s face it, friends make life a lot more fun.”
– Charles R. Swindoll
“Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
“One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.”
– Seneca
“A man’s friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.”
– Charles Darwin
“Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.”
– Euripides
“One of the tasks of true friendship is to listen compassionately and creatively to the hidden silences. Often secrets are not revealed in words, they lie concealed in the silence between the words or in the depth of what is unsayable between two people.”
– John O’Donohue
“A friend is someone who makes it easy to believe in yourself.”
– Heidi Wills
“Awards become corroded. Friends gather no dust.”
– Jesse Owens
“A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself — and especially to feel, or not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at any moment is fine with them. That’s what real love amounts to – letting a person be what he really is.”
– Jim Morrison
“Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.“
– Samuel Butler
“Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.”
– Baltasar Gracian
“Friends are the family you choose.“
– Jess C. Scott
“My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.”
– Henry Ford
“The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.”
– Henry David Thoreau
“Friends are relatives you make for yourself.“
– Eustache Deschamps
“Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends, for it is one of God’s greatest gifts. It involves many things, but above all the power of going out of one’s self and appreciating what is noble and loving in another.”
– Thomas Hughes
“Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.”
– Khalil Gibran
“A friend to all is a friend to none.”
– Aristotle
“A snowball in the face is surely the perfect beginning to a lasting friendship.“
– Markus Zusak
“Do not save your loving speeches for your friends till they are dead; do not write them on their tombstones, speak them rather now instead.”
– Anna Cummins
“We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we’re not alone.”
– Orson Welles
“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
“All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand.”
– Ella Wheeler Wilcox
“Friends are the siblings God never gave us.”
– Mencius
“Friends are people who know you really well and like you anyway.”
– Greg Tamblyn
“Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.”
– Marcus Tullius Cicero
“True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.”
– St. Jerome
“I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.”
– Helen Keller
“A good friend is a connection to life — a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world.“
– Lois Wyse
“If we treated ourselves as well as we treated our best friend, can you imagine?”
– Meghan Markle
“Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you; spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life.”
– Amy Poehler
“Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.”
– Sicilian Proverb
“Don’t be dismayed at goodbyes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends.”
– Richard Bach
“There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.“
– Sylvia Plath
“Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn’t seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.“
– Anne Morrow Lindbergh
“Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.”
– Jacques Delille
“Friends should be like books, few, but hand-selected.”
– C.J. Langenhoven
“Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.”
– Benjamin Franklin
“True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.”
– Henry David Thoreau
“The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.”
– Mark Twain
“A true friend stabs you in the front.”
– Oscar Wilde
“There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.”
– Thomas Aquinas
“Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.”
– Aristotle
“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
“Things are never quite as scary when you have a best friend.”
– Bill Watterson
“If you have two friends in your lifetime, you’re lucky. If you have one good friend, you’re more than lucky.”
– S.E. Hinton
“The only way to have a friend is to be one.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The royal road to a man’s heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.”
— Dale Carnegie
“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
“To the world you may be just one person, but to one person you may be the world.”
– Brandi Snyder
“Friendship is a wildly underrated medication.”
– Anna Deavere Smith
“Some people arrive and make such a beautiful impact on your life, you can barely remember what life was like without them.”
– Anna Taylor
“A good friend is like a four-leaf clover; hard to find and lucky to have.”
– Irish Proverb
“Where there are friends, there is wealth.”
– Titus Maccius Plautus
“True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.”
– Charles Caleb Colton
“A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.”
– William Shakespeare