What would life be without friendships?
There’s something so pure about friendship. It’s this choice, born out of curiosity and genuine like for another kindred spirit.
It’s like finding a piece of yourself tucked somewhere, in someone else’s soul and when you meet, those pieces just connect.
Friends are the pillars that support you in your dreams and misfortunes, the ones you get to create the best memories with. They’re the family we get to choose.
Here we’re sharing a collection of beautiful friendship quotes that will make you feel uplifted and reminded of why friendships are so important to have.
How to Use These Quotes to Celebrate the Beauty of Friendship
Friendship is a beautiful bond that deserves to be celebrated and cherished. Using quotes to highlight the beauty of this bond can help articulate the emotions and importance of this unique relationship. These quotes can serve as thoughtful reminders of the importance of friendship, and they can be shared with friends to express gratitude, love, and mutual respect.
You can use friendship quotes in various ways. They can be shared on social media to publicly acknowledge the value of your friends. These quotes could also be used in personalized greeting cards or as part of a heartfelt letter to your friend. Alternatively, you can incorporate them into a speech or toast at a gathering with friends. The possibilities are endless.
Remember, the beauty of friendship is best celebrated when it is acknowledged and shared. So go ahead, pick a quote that resonates with you and your friendship, and share it with your friend to let them know how much they mean to you.
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100 Quotes Celebrating the Beauty of Friendship
1. “Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart” — Eleanor Roosevelt
2. “A true friend is someone who is there for you when he’d rather be anywhere else.” — Len Wein
3. “Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.” — John Lennon
4. “When you ask God for a gift, be thankful if he sends, not diamonds, pearls or riches, but the love of real true friends.” — Helen Steiner Rice
5. “The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.” — Hubert H. Humphrey, Jr.
6. “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
7. “Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.” — George Eliot
8. “Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.” — Khalil Gibran
9. “Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.” — Friedrich Nietzsche
10. “I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.” ― Helen Keller
11. “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.” — Albert Camus
12. “Friendship is the purest love.” — Osho
13. “Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero
14. “Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.
15. “Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.” — Woodrow Wilson
16. “A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.” — Elbert Hubbard
17. “Friends are the siblings God never gave us.” — Mencius
18. “No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever.” — Francois Muriac
19. “Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.” — Marcel Proust
20. “What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.” ― Aristotle
21. “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.” — Lois Wyse
22. “A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.” — Donna Roberts
23. “Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.” — Anais Nin
24. “A friend is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.” — Frank Crane
25. “Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.” — Ellie Weisel
26. “Some people arrive and make such a beautiful impact on your life; you can barely remember what life was like without them.” — Anna Taylor
27. “There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first; when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.” — Paramahansa Yogananda
28. “The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.” ― Elizabeth Foley
29. “Friends are medicine for a wounded heart, and vitamins for a hopeful soul.” — Steve Maraboli
30. “How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend.” — William Rotsler
“Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world.” – John Evelyn
“A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.” – Elbert Hubbard
“True friends are never apart, maybe in distance but never in heart.”
“Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, ‘What! You too? I thought I was the only one.'” – C.S. Lewis
A true friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.” – Elbert Hubbard
“Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.” – Woodrow Wilson
“The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.” – Hubert H. Humphrey
“Life was meant for good friends and great adventures.”
“A friend is a gift you give yourself.” – Robert Louis Stevenson
“The language of friendship is not words but meanings.” – Henry David Thoreau
“In the garden of life, friendships are the flowers.”
“True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable.” – David Tyson
“Friends are the family we choose for ourselves.”
“Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.” – Anaïs Nin
“Friendship isn’t about being inseparable, but about being separated and knowing nothing will change.”
“A friend is someone who can see the truth and pain in you even when you are fooling everyone else.”
“Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides its evils.” – Baltasar Gracián
“A single rose can be my garden… a single friend, my world.” – Leo Buscaglia
“Good friends are like stars. You don’t always see them, but you know they’re always there.”
“True friends are like diamonds — bright, beautiful, valuable, and always in style.”
“A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.” – Jim Morrison
Some people arrive and make such a beautiful impact on your life, you can barely remember what life was like without them.
“Friendships are like fingerprints, each one unique and irreplaceable.”
“Time doesn’t take away from friendship, nor does separation.” – Tennessee Williams
“In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends.” – John Churton Collins
“The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.” – Elisabeth Foley
“Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.” – George Eliot
“Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait for the answer.”
“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.” – Lois Wyse
“The best kind of friendships are fierce lady friendships where you aggressively believe in each other, defend each other, and think the other deserves the world.”
“Friends are the siblings destiny forgot to give us.”
“Friendship is the only flower that blooms in all seasons.”
“There’s not a word yet for old friends who’ve just met.” – Jim Henson
“The best mirror is an old friend.” – George Herbert
“To have a friend and be a friend is what makes life worthwhile.”
“Friendship is a sheltering tree.” – Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“No friendship is an accident.” – O. Henry
“A sweet friendship refreshes the soul.” – Proverbs 27:9
“The best time to make friends is before you need them.” – Ethel Barrymore
“A friend is the one who comes in when the whole world has gone out.” – Grace Pulpit
“A day without a friend is like a pot without a single drop of honey.” – Winnie the Pooh
“True 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
“The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.” – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
It’s the friends we meet along the way that help us appreciate the journey.”
“Good friends help you to find important things when you have lost them… your smile, your hope, and your courage.” – Doe Zantamata
“In the cookie of life, friends are the chocolate chips.”
“Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.” – Khalil Gibran
“Friendship is the wine of life.” – Edward Young
“Every friendship travels at sometime through the black valley of despair. This tests every aspect of your affection. You lose attraction and magic.” – John O’Donohue
“Friends are the bacon bits in the salad bowl of life.”
“Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.” – Euripides
“The best friendships are built on a foundation of laughter and sarcasm.”
“Some souls just understand each other upon meeting.” – N.R. Hart
“One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.” – Euripides
“A true friend sees the first tear, catches the second, and stops the third.”
“Friendship is not about who you’ve known the longest. It’s about who walked into your life, said ‘I’m here for you,’ and proved it.”
“Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.” – Jean de La Fontaine
“No matter how serious life gets, you still gotta have that one person you can be completely stupid with.”
“Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.” – Cicero
“A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.” – Donna Roberts
“Friends make the world beautiful.”
“To find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.” – Baltasar Gracián
“A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.” – Walter Winchell
“Each new friendship can make you a new person, because it opens up new doors inside of you.” – Kate DiCamillo
“True friends are those who lift you up when your heart’s wings forget how to fly.”
“To be a friend and to have a friend is the greatest happiness one can feel.”
“Some friendships are timeless.”
“A friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future, and accepts you today just the way you are.”
“In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years spent with good friends.”
Final Note
Now that you’ve been reminded and inspired by the beautiful meaning of friendship why don’t you take a minute to call a friend and remind them how appreciated and loved they are?
Take care of and nurture the friendships in your life, they may just be the most valuable thing you have.