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.

“The only way to have a friend is to be one.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

More Friendship Quotes

“The steady discipline of intimate friendship with Jesus results in men becoming like Him.”

Harry Emerson Fosdick

“The differences between friends cannot but reinforce their friendship.”

Mao Zedong

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

Marcel Proust

“Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.”

Aristotle

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

Jane Austen

“True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune to keep him is a blessing.”

Baltasar Gracian

“Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life.”

George Herbert

“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

“It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.”

Mignon McLaughlin

“So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.”

Helen Keller

“The little trouble in the world that is not due to love is due to friendship.”

E. W. Howe

“But, based on my friendship with Evie as young mothers, I started going on freedom rides in 1966.”

June Jordan

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

Tahar Ben Jelloun

“A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.”

William Penn

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