Friendship Quotes

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.

I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you

Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart

True friends are like stars; you can only recognize them when it's dark around you.

A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.

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

Make new friends, but keep the old; Those are silver, these are gold. New-made friendships, like new wine, Age will mellow and refine. Friendships that have stood the test - Time and change - are surely best; Brow may wrinkle, hair grow gray, Friendship never knows decay. For 'mid old friends, tried and true, Once more we our youth renew. But old friends, alas! may die, New friends must their place supply. Cherish friendship in your breast- New is good, but old is best; Make new friends, but keep the old; Those are silver, these are gold.

The fidelity of a dog is a precious gift demanding no less binding moral responsibilities than the friendship of a human being.

If you judge people, you have no time to love them.

A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.

To be honest with you, I don't have the words to make you feel better, but I do have the arms to give you a hug, ears to listen to whatever you want to talk about, and I have a heart; a heart that's aching to see you smile again.

Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. 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 curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.

In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.

Your heart and my heart are very, very old friends.

A good friend is a connection to life - a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world.

It ain't no fun if the homies can't have none.

The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, not the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship.

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

True friends are never forgotten, they live within our hearts and souls.... forever , and always , dancing on our stage of memories.

Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.

Being honest may not get you a lot of friends but it’ll always get you the right ones

In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends.

A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers.

Three things tell a man: his eyes, his friends and his favorite quotes

Work Hard. Do your best. Keep your word. Never get too big for your britches. Trust in God. Have no fear; and Never forget a friend.

Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.

If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.

Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

We come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.

Close friendships are one of life's miracles - that a few people get to know you deeply, all your messy or shadowy stuff along with the beauty and sweetness, and they still love you. Not only still love you, but love you more and more deeply. I would do anything for my closest friends, and they would do almost anything for me, and that is about as spiritual a truth as you can get.

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship.

There is no possession more valuable than a good and faithful friend.

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

Family does not necessarily mean blood relatives but often a description of a community,
organisation or nation.

I have always looked at life as a voyage, mostly wonderful, sometimes frightening. In my family and friends I have discovered treasure more valuable than gold.

Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as common hatred for something.

When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.

It is better to be alone than in bad company.

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

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

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.

The trouble is not in dying for a friend, but in finding a friend worth dying for.

Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon.

I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.

The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.