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66 Inspirational Quotes About Friends(2021)

July 13, 2021Ayobiojo Mayowa

In this post I will share 66 of the best quotes about friends I have found over the years

The world can be so lonely without friends who you can share the good and not so good memories with. A friend is someone who you share a bond of mutual affection with, I have heard people say they do not need friends anymore in their lives but its obviously because of the type of friends they keep. We all need a friend in our lives who we can share mutual affection with , a friend who will stick to you through the good and the bad times.

Below is  66 of the best quotes about friends I have found over the years and if you need more inspiring quotes aside this inspirational quotes about friends I will recommend this inspiring love quotes and this inspirational quotes for work

66 Inspirational Quotes About Friends

“Don’t make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.” — Thomas J. Watson

“A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.” – Walter Winchell

“Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.” — Tennessee Williams

“Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, ‘What! You too? I thought I was the only one.” – C.S. Lewis

“A friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future, and accepts you just the way you are.” — Unknown

“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

“It’s not what we have in life, but who we have in our life that matters.” — Unknown

“A friend is one of the best things you can be and the greatest things you can have.” — Sarah Valdez

“Time doesn’t take away from friendship, nor does separation.” — Tennessee Williams

“When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands.” — Maria Shriver

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“Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.” — Woodrow T. Wilson

“Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.” — G. Randolf

“True friends are never apart, maybe in distance but never in heart.” — Helen Keller

“Friends are the siblings God never gave us.” — Mencius

“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 aren’t the ones who make your problems disappear. They are the ones who won’t disappear when you’re facing problems.” — Unknown

“A strong friendship doesn’t need daily conversation or being together. As long as the relationship lives in the heart, true friends never part.” — Unknown

“False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.” — Richard Burton

“Everyone has a friend during each stage of life. But only lucky ones have the same friend in all stages of life.” — Unknown

“Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare — and precious as a pearl.” — Tahar Ben Jelloun

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More inspiring quotes about friends

“The love that comes from friendship is the underlying facet of a happy life.” — Chelsea Handler

“The real test of friendship is can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?” –Eugene Kennedy

“Life isn’t about having a thousand friends, it’s about finding the very few right ones you need.” —  A.R. Asher

“There are friends, there is family, and then there are friends that become family.”- Unknown

“True friendship is never serene.” — Marquise de Sevigne

“Friends are medicine for a wounded heart, and vitamins for a hopeful soul.” — Steve Maraboli​

“Friends should be like books, few, but hand-selected.” ― C.J. Langenhoven

“One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.” — Euripides

“A single rose can be my garden… a single friend, my world.” — Leo Buscaglia

“There’s nothing like a really loyal, dependable, good friend. Nothing.” — Jennifer Aniston

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“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. – Muhammad Ali

“There are big ships and small ships. But the best ship of all is friendship.” –Unknown

“Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?” — Abraham Lincoln

“A strong friendship doesn’t need daily conversation or being together. As long as the relationship lives in the heart, true friends never part.” – unknown

“Friendship to me isn’t about how much we talk, but instead how much we’re there for each other in times of need.” — Trent Shelton

“The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.” — Elizabeth Foley

Don’t make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to level yourself up.” – Thomas J. Watson

“Friendship is accepting a person with all their qualities — good and bad.” — Mohanlal

“Each new friendship can make you a new person, because it opens up new doors inside of you.” — Kate DiCamillo

“The kindest way of helping yourself is to find a friend.” — Ann Kaiser Stearns

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“You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.” — Dale Carnegie

“A friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future, and accepts you just the way you are.” – Unknown

“I don’t need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.” – Plutarch

“The real test of friendship is can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?” – Eugene Kennedy

“A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they’re not so good, and sympathizes with your problems when they’re not so bad.” – Arnold H. Glasgow

“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.” – Ally Condie

“Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.”– Socrates

“In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

“ It is the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respected.” – Charles Lamb

 

“Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend’s success.” – Oscar Wilde

“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

“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

“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

“They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.”– Carl W. Buechner

“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

“Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.”– Euripides

“I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.”– Helen Keller

“A friend is someone who makes it easy to believe in yourself.”– Heidi Wills

“The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.”– Henry David Thoreau

“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

“A good friend is like a four-leaf clover; hard to find but lucky to have.”– Irish Proverb

“Things are never quite as scary when you have a best friend.”– Bill Watterson

“To the world you may be just one person, but to one person you may be the world.”– Brandi Snyder

 

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