Friendship Quotes & Thoughts

On Trust

1. "A true friend is someone you can trust with all your secrets." – Unknown
2. "Trust is the highest form of human motivation. It brings out the very best in people." – Stephen R. Covey
3. "Friendship is built on two things: respect and trust." – Unknown
4. "A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you." – Elbert Hubbard
5. "The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them." – Ernest Hemingway
6. "Trust is the foundation of any lasting friendship." – Unknown
7. "True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable." – David Tyson
8. "Friends are the siblings God never gave us." – Mencius
9. "Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom." – Thomas Jefferson
10. "Loyalty and friendship, which is to me the same, created all the wealth that I've ever thought I've had." – Ernie Banks

Loyalty

1. "Loyal friends are a treasure, a best friend is worth their weight in gold." – Unknown
2. "A friend who stands by you through thick and thin is a blessing." – Unknown
3. "True friendship resists time, distance, and silence." – Isabel Allende
4. "The only way to have a friend is to be one." – Ralph Waldo Emerson
5. "It’s the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter." – Marlene Dietrich
6. "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." – Unknown
7. "There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship." – Thomas Aquinas
8. "Friendship is a potent sentiment that demands faithfulness." – Aristotle
9. "A friend is one who overlooks your broken fence and admires the flowers in your garden." – Unknown
10. "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

Support

1. "Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer." – Ed Cunningham
2. "Sometimes, being a friend means mastering the art of timing." – Octavia Butler
3. "Friendship isn’t about who you’ve known the longest, it’s about who walked into your life, said 'I’m here for you,' and proved it." – Unknown
4. "A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be." – Douglas Pagels
5. "In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." – Martin Luther King Jr.
6. "Friends are like walls—sometimes you lean on them, and sometimes it’s good just knowing they are there." – Unknown
7. "Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom." – Marcel Proust
8. "Everyone needs a house to live in, but a supportive friend makes the home." – Unknown
9. "True friends are those who lift you up when your heart’s wings forget how to fly." – Unknown
10. "We'll be friends forever, won't we, Pooh?" – Piglet, A.A. Milne

Celebrating Differences

1. "A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you." – Elbert Hubbard
2. "Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief." – Marcus Tullius Cicero
3. "Good friends are like stars. You don't always see them, but you know they're always there." – Unknown
4. "Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness." – Euripides
5. "A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out." – Walter Winchell
6. "Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends." – Virginia Woolf
7. "The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart." – Elisabeth Foley
8. "There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate." – Linda Grayson
9. "My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me." – Henry Ford
10. "Anything is possible when you have the right people there to support you." – Misty Copeland

Memories

1. "The best mirror is an old friend." – George Herbert
2. "A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails." – Donna Roberts
3. "Things are never quite as scary when you’ve got a best friend." – Bill Watterson
4. "Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together." – Woodrow Wilson
5. "Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship." – Epicurus
6. "A true friend is someone who is there for you when they’d rather be anywhere else." – Len Wein
7. "Friends should be like books, few, but hand-selected." – C.J. Langenhoven
8. "Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends." – H. Jackson Brown Jr.
9. "Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow." – Swedish Proverb
10. "Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life." – Mark Twain

Quality Time

1. "A day spent with friends is always a day well spent." – Unknown
2. "Friendship is not about whom you have known the longest, but about who came and never left your side." – Unknown
3. "Time and good friends are two things that become more valuable the older you get." – Unknown
4. "A friend is someone who makes it easy to believe in yourself." – Heidi Wills
5. "A sweet friendship refreshes the soul." – Proverbs 27:9
6. "Growing apart doesn’t change the fact that for a long time we grew side by side." – Unknown
7. "True friends are families that you can select." – Audrey Hepburn
8. "Let us not forget that friendships with real friends enhance our lives." – Unknown
9. "Even when the whole world seems cold and indifferent, a single friend can make the difference." – Unknown
10. "Soft words, a gentle smile, a sudden laugh – this is how a friend touches the heart." – Unknown

Encouragement

1. "Friends are the people who make you smile brighter, laugh louder, and live better." – Unknown
2. "A friend is what the heart needs all the time." – Henry Van Dyke
3. "Keep the ones that heard you when you never said a word." – Unknown
4. "Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world." – John Evelyn
5. "A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity." – Proverbs 17:17
6. "A simple friend opens the door of your house. A real friend opens the door to your heart." – Unknown
7. "In my friend, I find a second self." – Isabel Norton
8. "A friend encourages both our strengths and softens our weaknesses." – Unknown
9. "A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out." – Walter Winchell
10. "Words are easy, like the wind; faithful friends are hard to find." – William Shakespeare

Overcoming Challenges

1. "Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing." – Elie Wiesel
2. "Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity." – Khalil Gibran
3. "Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you." – Elbert Hubbard
4. "Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together." – Woodrow Wilson
5. "Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil." – Baltasar Gracián
6. "Nobody can avoid falling in love. They might want to deny it, but friendship is probably the most common form of love." – Stieg Larsson
7. "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
8. "In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends." – John Churton Collins
9. "Friendship consists in forgetting what one gives and remembering what one receives." – Alexandre Dumas
10. "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

Forgiveness

1. "Forgive others, not because they deserve forgiveness, but because you deserve peace." – Unknown
2. "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
3. "An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind." – Mahatma Gandhi
4. "If we really want to love, we must learn how to forgive." – Mother Teresa
5. "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." – Paul Boese
6. "To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you." – Lewis B. Smedes
7. "We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love." – Martin Luther King Jr.
8. "True friendship is effortless in forgiveness because it recognizes the triviality of differences." – Unknown
9. "Forgiveness is the needle that knows how to mend." – Jewel
10. "There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love." – Bryant H. McGill