Quotes About Friendship

Because today is National Friendship Day

The first Sunday of August is National Friendship Day, which was created by Hallmark in 1919 to encourage people to send cards to their friends to show their appreciation for them. But friends should really be celebrated all the time, and these quotes illustrate why.

1. “A friend is one who overlooks your broken fence and admires the flowers in your garden.” -Unknown

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

3. “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

4. “Don’t walk in front of me…I may not follow Don’t walk behind me…I may not lead Walk beside me…just be my friend.” -Albert Camus

5. “She is a friend of my mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order.” -Toni Morrison

6. “One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.” -Euripides

7. “Don’t make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.” -Thomas J. Watson

8. “Friendship…is born at the moment when one man says to another ‘What! You too? I thought that no one but myself….’” -C.S. Lewis

9. “Friendship is a sheltering tree.” -Samuel Taylor Coleridge 10. “Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.” -Maya Angelou

11. “It’s not that diamonds are a girl’s best friend, but it’s your best friends who are your diamonds.” -Gina Barreca

12. “Things are never quite as scary when you’ve got a best friend.” -Bill Watterson 13. “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

14. “A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.” -Elbert Hubbard

15. “A friend may be waiting behind a stranger’s face.” -Maya Angelou

16. “In the cookie of life, friends are the chocolate chips.” -Unknown

17. “A true friend is someone who is there for you when he’d rather be anywhere else.” -Len Wein 18. “Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.” -Tennessee Williams

19. “Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.” -Mark Twain

20. “Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend.” -Sarah Dessen

21. “Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.” -Eleanor Roosevelt

22. “There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven’t yet met.” -William Butler Yeats 23. “A friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future, and accepts you just the way you are.” -Unknown

24. “It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.” -Friedrich Nietzsche

25. “There’s not a word yet for old friends who’ve just met.” -Jim Henson

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

27. “It’s the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.” -Marlene Dietrich 28. “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

29. “There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.” -Jane Austen

30. “True friends are always together in spirit.” -L.M. Montgomery

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

32. “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.” -Octavia E. Butler 33. “A friend is one of the best things you can be and the greatest things you can have.” -Sarah Valdez

34. “There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.” -Linda Grayson

35. “A good friend is like a four-leaf clover: hard to find and lucky to have.” -Irish Proverb

36. “My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.” -Henry Ford 37. “If you have one true friend you have more than your share.” -Thomas Fuller 38. “Time doesn’t take away from friendship, nor does separation.” -Tennessee Williams

39. “Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art….It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.” -C.S. Lewis

40. “True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable.” -David Tyson

41. “A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.” -Arnold H. Glasgow

42. “True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.” -Charles Caleb Colton 43. “A single rose can be my garden…a single friend, my world.” -Leo Buscaglia

44. “What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.” -Aristotle

45. “Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.” -Woodrow Wilson

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

47. “The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.” -Pierre Teilhard de Chardin 48. “Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer.” -Ed Cunningham

49. “Nobody likes being alone that much. I don’t go out of my way to make friends, that’s all. It just leads to disappointment. ” -Haruki Murakami

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

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