Inspirational and Timeless Quotes on Friendship

Here's a list a collection of encouraging quotes on friendships. A genuine friend is a blessing from God. I hope you find encouragement and take the time to thank your friends for their love and support. Feel free to use these quotes for a letter, card or thank you note. If you have an inspirational quote you would like to share feel free to add it by leaving a comment.

"To the world you may be just one person, but to one person you may be the world." - Brandi Snyder

"The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. I have no wealth to bestow on him. If he knows that I am happy in loving him, he will want no other reward. Is not friendship divine in this?" - Henry David Thoreau

"Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity." - Kahlil Gibran

"No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow." -Alice Walker

"The only way to have a friend is to be one." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"A friend is one who walks in when others walk out." - Walter Winchell

"My friends are my estate." - Emily Dickinson

"Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen." - Samuel Paterson

"You cannot be friends upon any other terms than upon the terms of equality." - Woodrow Wilson

"You can make more friends in two months by becoming really interested in other people, than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you." - Bernard Meltzer

"Never shall I forget the days I spent with you. Continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours." - Ludwig van Beethoven

"A friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be somewhere else." - Anonymous

"A friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future, and accepts you just the way you are." - Anonymous

"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." - Winnie the Pooh

"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

"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

"A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words." - Anonymous

"Much of the vitality in a friendship lies in the honouring of differences, not simply in the enjoyment of similarities." - Anonymous

"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

"Friendships are what our dreams are made of. We hold onto each other with its binding love. We stand close to each other, hand in hand, showing each other we understand. Some friends may come and go, but you are the truest friend I know" - Anonymous

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

"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

"I am a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him down..." - Abraham Lincoln

"Friendship is a comforting smile, A familiar voice that warms the heart, and the freedom to be the person God intended." - Anonymous

"A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably." - William Penn

"To me, fair friend, you never can be old. For as you were when first your eye I eyed, such seems your beauty still." - William Shakespeare

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