Friendship Quotes

Good friends are hard to find and worth holding onto. These quotes celebrate the people who show up, tell you the truth, and stick around when things get difficult — the chosen family that makes life richer.

“There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.”

Henry Ward Beecher

More Friendship Quotes

“Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.”

Washington Irving

“There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.”

Henry Ward Beecher

“What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.”

Marcus Tullius Cicero

“One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.”

Simone de Beauvoir

“Eros will have naked bodies Friendship naked personalities.”

C. S. Lewis

“Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.”

Thomas Jefferson

“True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.”

Joseph Addison

“Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.”

Jane Austen

“A friend to all is a friend to none.”

Aristotle

“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

“One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.”

Henry Adams

“Success always necessitates a degree of ruthlessness. Given the choice of friendship or success, I'd probably choose success.”

Sting

Other Categories

View all →