Lovely Friendship Quotes

Finding a true friend feels like a gift, even when they are thousands of miles away. Friends are the sisters and brothers we never had. Friendships are born in a million different ways, and all good friends strive to be a source of love and support.

You will find in this article, a collection of lovely friendship quotes that perfectly describes the unique bond you share with your true friends.

60 Lovely Friendship Quotes

“Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It’s not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything.” – Muhammad Ali

“Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm & constant.” – Socrates

“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

“Friendship isn’t about who you’ve known the longest, it’s about who walked in to your life, said ‘I’m here for you’ and PROVED it.” – Unknown

“We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over.” – Ray Bradbury

“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.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world.” – John Evelyn

“If you can survive 11 days in cramped quarters with a friend and come out laughing, your friendship is the real deal.” – Oprah Winfrey

“Friendship isn’t a big thing. It’s a million little things.” – Unknown

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

“There are big ships and small ships. But the best ship of all is friendship.” – Unknown

“Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.” – Epicurus

“Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.” – Oscar Wilde

“In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, for in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.” – Khalil Gibran

“Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.” – Anais Nin

“Some people arrive and make such a beautiful impact on your life, you can barely remember what life was like without them.” – Anna Taylor

“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

“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

“We come from homes far from perfect, so you end up almost parent and sibling to your friends – your own chosen family. There’s nothing like a really loyal, dependable, good friend. Nothing.” – Jennifer Aniston

“Friendship is one mind in two bodies.” – Mencius

“Friendship is like a glass ornament, once it is broken it can rarely be put back together exactly the same way.” – Charles Kingsley

“Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.” – Eustace Budgell

“No friendship is an accident.” – O. Henry

“A friendship that can end never really began.” – Publilius Syrus

“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

“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.” – Margaret Lee Runbeck

“Friends are the sailors who guide your rickety boat safely across the dangerous waters of life.” – Sare and Cate

“Friends are relatives you make for yourself.” – Eustache Deschamps

“Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.” – Aristotle

“Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.” – Thomas Aquinas

“One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention.” – Clifton Faidman

“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

“When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands.” – Maria Shriver

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

“Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend’s success.” – Oscar Wilde

“Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.” – Richard Bach

“Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.” – Sicilian Proverb

“Friends are like stars, they come and go, but the ones that stay are the ones that glow.” – Roxy Quicksilver

“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

“Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.” – Ellie Weisel

“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.” – Albert Schweitzer

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

“Friends are medicine for a wounded heart, and vitamins for a hopeful soul.” – Steve Maraboli

“A friend is someone who understand your past, believes in your future, and accepts you today just the way you are.” – Unknown

“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

“Good friends help you to find important things when you have lost them…your smile, your hope, and your courage.” – Doe Zantamata

“You can always tell a real friend: when you’ve made a fool of yourself he doesn’t feel you’ve done a permanent job.” – Laurence J. Peter

“A day without a friend is like a pot without a single drop of honey left inside.” – Winnie the Pooh

“Every friendship travels at sometime through the black valley of despair. This tests every aspect of your affection. You lose the attraction and the magic.” – John O’Donohue

“Friendship is like a rainbow between two hearts.” – Unknown

“Friendship is a sheltering tree.” – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“Friendship my definition is built on two things. Respect and trust. Both elements have to be there. And it has to be mutual. You can have respect for someone, but if you don’t have trust, the friendship will crumble.” – Stieg Larsson

“Never leave a friend behind. Friends are all we have to get us through this life–and they are the only things from this world that we could hope to see in the next.” – Dean Koontz

“There are three things that grow more precious with age; old wood to burn, old books to read, and old friends to enjoy.” – Henry Ford

“The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away.” – Barbara Kingsolver

“If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.” – George MacDonald

“Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it’s all over.” – Octravia Butler

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