35 Friendship Quotes To Inspire You

Friendship is defined as a state of enduring affection, regard, closeness, and trust between two individuals. In all societies, friendships are essential connections throughout an individuals lifespan. Friendships assume a critical part in healthy human growth and development and alteration over the life expectancy. May these friendship quotes inspire you to have good friendships. 

1. “My definition of a friend is somebody who adores you even though they know the things you’re most ashamed of.” Jodie Foster

2. “It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

3. “As soon as I saw you, I knew an adventure was going to happen.” Winnie The Pooh

4. “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

5. “My friends are my estate.” Emily Dickinson

6. “A sweet friendship refreshes the soul.” Anonymous 

7. “I don’t like that man. I must get to know him better.” Abraham Lincoln

8. “The great thing about new friends is that they bring new energy to your soul.” Shanna Rodriguez

9. “Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.” Henry David Thoreau

10. “The only way to have a friend is to be one.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

11. “We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we’re not alone.” Orson Welles

12. “One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.” Lucius Annaeus Seneca

13. “Friendship is given to us by nature, not to favor vice, but to aid virtue.” Cicero

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

15. “Friendship with oneself is all-important because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.” Eleanor Roosevelt

16. “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

17. “Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?” Abraham Lincoln

18. “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

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

20. “I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.” Helen Keller

21. “Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.” Marcus Tullius Cicero

22. “Sitting silently beside a friend who is hurting may be the best gift we can give.” Anonymous

23. “Hard times will always reveal true friends.” Anonymous 

24. “A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.” Walter Winchell

25. “Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.” Baltasar Gracian

26. “A man’s friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.” Charles Darwin

27. “It’s not what we have, but who we have.” Winnie The Pooh

28. “To the world, you may be just one person, but to one person you may be the world.” Brandi Snyder

29. “Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.” Elbert Hubbard

30. “We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.” Robert Louis Stevenson

31. “Growing apart doesn’t change the fact that for a long time we grew side by side.” Ally Condie

32. “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

33. “Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.” Oprah Winfrey

34. “The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.” Henry David Thoreau

35. “What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.” Augustine