Friendship Quotations

A collection of handpicked friendship quotations....

What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

--Aristotle

A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

--Walter Winchell

Friendship quotations to remind you of the good things in life as you work on your personal development.

Deep friendships are your best bet for a happy life.

--Adam Appleson

However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

-- La Rochefoucauld

True friendship consists not in the multitude of friends, but in their worth and value.

--Ben Johnson

Friendship is a sheltering tree.

--Samuel Coleridge

It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.

--Zora Neale Hurston

Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.

--George Washington

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

--Katherine Mansfield

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

--Ralph Waldo Emerson

A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him, I may think aloud.

--Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

--Elie Wiesel

Your friend is your needs answered.

--Kahil Gibran

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

Plant a seed of friendship; reap a bouquet of happiness.

-- Lois L. Kaufman

Friendship with oneself is all important because without it one cannot be friends with anybody else in the world.

--Eleanor Roosevelt

To find a friend one must close one eye--to keep him, two.

--Norman Douglas

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

--Alice Walker

Have no friends not equal to yourself.

--Confucious

Friendship should be surrounded with ceremonies and respects, and not crushed into corners. Friendship requires more time than poor busy men can usually command.

--Ralph Waldo Emerson

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