“If you live to be 100, I hope I live to be 100 minus 1 day, so I never have to live without you.”– Winnie the Pooh. Here are 44 Inspirational Friendship Quotes.
Friendship Quotes
1. “The real test of friendship is can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?”– Eugene Kennedy.
2. “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
3. “A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.”– Arnold H. Glasgow
4. “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
5. “A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they’re not so good, and sympathizes with your problems when they’re not so bad.”– Arnold H. Glasgow
6. “In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”– Martin Luther King, Jr.
7. “If you live to be 100, I hope I live to be 100 minus 1 day, so I never have to live without you.”– Winnie the Pooh
8. “To the world you may be just one person, but to one person you may be the world.”– Brandi Snyder
9. “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
10. “For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.”— Audrey Hepburn
11. “The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.”– Elisabeth Foley
Friendship Quotes
12. “Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm & constant.”’– Socrates
13. “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.”– Gloria Naylor
14. “There is magic in long-distance friendships. They let you relate to other human beings in a way that goes beyond being physically together and is often more profound.”– Diana Cortes
15. “Someone to tell it to is one of the fundamental needs of human beings.”— Miles Franklin
16. “A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.”– Walter Winchell
17. “A friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future, and accepts you just the way you are.”– Unknown
18. “If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone.”– Maxwell Maltz
19. “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
20. “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
21. “True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable.”– David Tyson
22. “I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.”– Ernest Hemingway
Friendship Quotes
23. “Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone — but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming.”– William Hazlitt
24. “There’s not a word yet for old friends who’ve just met.”– Jim Henson
25. “A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute. He may not seem such a good friend after telling.”– Arthur Brisbane
26. “I don’t need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.”– Plutarch
27. “Many a person has held close, throughout their entire lives, two friends that always remained strange to one another, because one of them attracted by virtue of similarity, the other by difference.”– Emil Ludwig
28. “Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.”– Oscar Wilde
29. “You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.”— Dale Carnegie
30. “Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
– Marcel Proust
31. “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 Fadiman
32. “Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respected.”– Charles Lamb
33. “No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.”– Alice Walker
Friendship Quotes
34. “If it’s very painful for you to criticize your friends — you’re safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that’s the time to hold your tongue.”– Alice Duer Miller
35. “Growing apart doesn’t change the fact that for a long time we grew side by side; our roots will always be tangled. I’m glad for that.”– Ally Condie
36. “The best time to make friends is before you need them.”– Ethel Barrymore
37. “Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer.”– Ed Cunningham
38. “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
39. “They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.”— Carl W. Buechner
40. “The royal road to a man’s heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.”— Dale Carnegie
41. “Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Just walk beside me and be my friend.”– Albert Camus
42. “Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.”– Unknown
43. “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.”– Winnie the Pooh
44. “It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”– Friedrich Nietzsche