Friendship Quotes
In our moments of heartbreak and despair, we count ourselves fortunate to have loyal friends by our side to pick us up when we are at our lowest. The love of a friend may just be the purest one there is, as these friendship quotes would attest.
What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
- Aristotle
Friendship is the finest balm for the pangs of despised love.
- Jane Austen
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
Friendship is a sheltering tree.
- Samuel Coleridge
Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labor. For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe unto him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up.
- Ecclesiastes 4:9-10
The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.
- Elizabeth Foley
We all need friends with whom we can speak of our deepest concerns, and who do not fear to speak the truth in love to us.
- Margaret Guenther
We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.
- Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama
But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life; and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine.
- Thomas Jefferson
You can make more friends in two months by becoming really interested in other people, than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
- Bernard Meltzer
Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.
- Charles Peguy
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
- Marcel Proust
A friend loves at all times.
- Proverbs 17, 17
An honest answer is the sign of true friendship.
- Proverbs 24:26
Friendship with oneself is all important because without it one cannot be friends with anybody else in the world.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
No man is useless while he has a friend.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. I have no wealth to bestow on him. If he knows that I am happy in loving him, he will want no other reward. Is not friendship divine in this?
- Henry David Thoreau
The holy passion of friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.
- Mark Twain
All love that has not friendship for its base,
Is like a mansion built upon the sand.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
- Walter Winchell
Needless to say, a good friend will always be there in times of trouble, ready and willing to offer their aid and support. But a true friend should also be truthful enough to set us straight when we are out of line. Real friendship entails loyalty and honesty, and one could not ask for any greater love than that.
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