Friendship Quotes

Enjoy our collection of famous friendship quotes and sayings. Friends are true support in life. Friendships come and go, but true friends are always there!

I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and new.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

A faithful friend is a strong defense; and he that hath found him hath found a treasure.
Louisa May Alcott

Friendship with oneself is all-important because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
Eleanor Roosevelt


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

Never take friendship for granted, you never know what tomorrow holds.
Catherine Pulsifer

It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.
Henry Ward Beecher

Distrust is poison to friendship.
Danish Proverb

Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall; a mother's secret hope outlives them all!
Washington Irving






Friendship isn't a big thing - it's a million little things.
Author Unknown

Friendship flourishes at the fountain of forgiveness.
William Arthur Ward

There are good ships, and there are wood ships, the ships that sail the sea.
But the best ships are friendships, and may they always be.
Irish Saying

The "as if" principle works. Act "as if" you were not afraid and you will become courageous, "as if" you could and you'll find you can. Act "as if" you like a person and you'll find a friendship.
Norman Vincent Peale

Friendship is special, value it.
Catherine Pulsifer

Keep your friendships in repair.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
George Washington

Friendship with oneself is all-important because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
Eleanor Roosevelt

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
Henry David Thoreau

The glory of friendship is not in the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is in the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Don't allow the grass to grow on the path of friendship.
Native American Proverb

Return to old watering holes for more than water; friends and dreams are there to meet you.
African Proverb

There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
Henry Ward Beecher

Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall; a mother's secret hope outlives them all!
Washington Irving

I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.
Thomas Edison


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