Inspirational Friendship Quotes

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Alice Walker

Friendship, Memorable, Real Friends

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Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

A. A. Milne

Love, Inspirational, Friendship

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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

Life, Best Friend, Friendship

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In friendship let there be laughter and sharing of pleasures.

Khalil Gibran

Friendship, Laughter, True Friend

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When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.

E. W. Howe

Friendship, Relationship, Patience

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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.

Laurence J. Peter

Friendship, Best Friend, Jobs

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We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Friendship, Best Friend, Travel

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However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Love, Friendship, Patience

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Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

Virginia Woolf

Friendship, Best Friend, Real Friends

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When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean 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. 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 curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.

Henri Nouwen

Life, Motivational, Friendship

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A true friend is one who overlooks your failures
and tolerates your success.

Doug Larson

Funny, Friendship, Patience

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The best mirror is an old friend.

George Herbert

Friendship, Patience, Real Friends

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Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Friendship, Best Friend, True Friend

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We need old friends to help us grow old and new friends to help us stay young.

Letty Cottin Pogrebin

Friendship, True Friend, Real

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Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love.

Elie Wiesel

Friendship, True Friend, Funny Friend

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It is your friends who make your world.

William James

Meaningful, Short Best Friend, My Best Friend

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Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

Dag Hammarskjold

Friendship, Loneliness, Real Friends

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Friendship makes prosperity more brilliant, and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing it.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Friendship, True Friend, Adversity

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I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

Katherine Mansfield

Love, Friendship, Best Friend

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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Samuel Butler

Friendship, Best Friend, Money

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A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Friendship, Relationship, Patience

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Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.

Elie Wiesel

Life, Friendship, Relationship

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Real friends stab you in the front.

Jonathan Davis

Friendship, Im Sorry, True Friend

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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

Inspirational, Motivational, Friendship

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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

Funny, Friendship, Football

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