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.

“Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.”

Khalil Gibran

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“Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.”

Khalil Gibran

“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

“There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.”

William Hazlitt

“Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.”

Ann Landers

“He who hath many friends hath none.”

Aristotle

“Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.”

Samuel Butler

“Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.”

Tahar Ben Jelloun

“Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.”

Aristotle

“There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise.”

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

“To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.”

William Hazlitt

“All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand.”

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

“The fact is, with every friendship you make, and every bond of trust you establish, you are shaping the image of America projected to the rest of the world. That is so important. So when you study abroad, you're actually helping to make America stronger.”

Michelle Obama

“Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.”

Confucius

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