These friendship quotes phrases that are thought-provoking, beautiful, sometimes touching, sometimes funny, and most importantly, will increase your English vocabulary with quotes about friendship.
Short Friendship Quotes
Here are 46 quotes about friendship:
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable.
A friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future, and accepts you just the way you are.
What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.
A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.
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.
A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they're not so good, and sympathizes with your problems when they're not so bad.
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything.
If ever there is tomorrow when we're not together… there is something you must always remember. You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. But the most important thing is, even if we're apart… I'll always be with you.
Growing apart doesn't change the fact that for a long time we grew side by side; our roots will always be tangled. I’m glad for that.
One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.
Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm & constant.
One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention.
Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations. Don't over-analyze your relationships. Stop playing games. A growing relationship can only be nurtured by genuineness.
In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
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.
Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.
Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer.
Some of the biggest challenges in relationships come from the fact that most people enter a relationship in order to get something: they're trying to find someone who's going to make them feel good. In reality, the only way a relationship will last is if you see your relationship as a place that you go to give, and not a place that you go to take.
The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.
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.
A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill requires only our silence; which costs us nothing.
When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are.
If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone.
People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges.
Friendship is like a glass ornament, once it is broken it can rarely be put back together exactly the same way.
There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.
It is not so much our friends’ help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.
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.
Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
The tender friendships one gives up, on parting, leave their bite on the heart, but also a curious feeling of a treasure somewhere buried.
Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?
The best time to make friends is before you need them.
In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, for in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.
Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.
They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.
To the world you may be just one person, but to one person you may be the world.
Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you; spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life.
The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.
A part of you has grown in me, together forever we shall be, never apart, maybe in distance, but not in heart.
A real friendship should not fade as time passes, and should not weaken because of space separation.
If there ever comes a day when we can’t be together, keep me in your heart. I’ll stay there forever.
A strong friendship doesn't need daily conversation, doesn't always need togetherness, as long as the relationship lives in the heart, true friends will never part.
Each new friendship can make you a new person, because it opens up new doors inside of you.