“What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.”
Aristotle
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100 Friendship Quotes
A short introduction
Friendship rarely gets the same stack of quotes that romance does. That is a shame. The people who make ordinary days feel kept deserve good language too.
These hundred friendship quotes come from essayists, philosophers, and writers who knew that chosen family can save a life. You will find lines about loyalty, laughter, distance, and the relief of being known.
If you are making a birthday note or a simple text, steal a sentence and add one of your own. The quote opens the door. Your detail makes it personal.
Want a print or a story graphic? Generate a poster from any line on this page. Four designs, no watermark, author still credited. Send the one that sounds like your person.
Friendship quotes work best when they are specific enough to feel true and generous enough to send.
Think of one person. Read until a sentence sounds like them, not like a greeting card. Then send it, or print it. FOURQuoteDesigns will make four posters if you want a picture instead of a text. Keep the credit. The friendship is still the real gift.
100 quotes
“A friend is one soul in two bodies.”
Aristotle
“A true friend stabs you in the front.”
Oscar Wilde
“Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
Marcel Proust
“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
Maya Angelou
“A friend may be waiting behind a stranger's face.”
Maya Angelou
“What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?”
George Eliot
“You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.”
Jim Rohn
“There are no strangers here; only friends you haven't yet met.”
William Butler Yeats
“Life's too short to hang out with people who aren't resourceful.”
Jeff Bezos
“It's better to hang out with people better than you.”
Warren Buffett
“My model for business is The Beatles. They were four guys who kept each other's kind of negative tendencies in check.”
Steve Jobs
“The fastest way to change yourself is to hang out with people who are already the way you want to be.”
Reid Hoffman
“Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.”
Aristotle
“The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.”
Audrey Hepburn
“I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.”
Roy Croft
“Love is friendship that has caught fire.”
Ann Landers
“A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
Elbert Hubbard
“Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.”
Woodrow Wilson
“A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.”
Walter Winchell
“Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.”
Helen Keller
“I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.”
Helen Keller
“The only way to have a friend is to be one.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.”
Aristotle
“A friend to all is a friend to none.”
Aristotle
“Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.”
Albert Camus
“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
“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
“Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.”
Euripides
“A true friend is the most precious of all possessions.”
La Rochefoucauld
“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
“You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.”
Dale Carnegie
“The language of friendship is not words but meanings.”
Henry David Thoreau
“Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.”
Aristotle
“A single rose can be my garden; a single friend, my world.”
Leo Buscaglia
“Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.”
Anaïs Nin
“The love of friends is the greatest love.”
C. S. Lewis
“True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable.”
David Tyson
“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
“Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher.”
Oprah Winfrey
“Love is like a friendship caught on fire.”
Bruce Lee
“We were together. I forget the rest.”
Walt Whitman
“I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.”
Elbert Hubbard
“There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.”
Thomas Aquinas
“Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, What! You too?”
C.S. Lewis
“A single rose can be my garden… a single friend, my world.”
Leo Buscaglia
“Friends are the siblings God never gave us.”
Mencius
“A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by doubling our joy and dividing our grief.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
Mark Twain
“A good friend is like a four-leaf clover: hard to find and lucky to have.”
Irish proverb
“One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.”
Euripides
“Friendship is a sheltering tree.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.”
Marlene Dietrich
“There is no wilderness like a life without friends.”
Baltasar Gracián
“A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.”
Arnold H. Glasow
“Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school.”
Muhammad Ali
“Love is a friendship set to music.”
Joseph Campbell
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
“Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.”
William Shakespeare
“The course of true love never did run smooth.”
William Shakespeare
“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind.”
William Shakespeare
“To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.”
Oscar Wilde
“Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden.”
Oscar Wilde
“The heart was made to be broken.”
Oscar Wilde
“Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.”
Rumi
“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”
Rumi
“Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.”
Rumi
“The wound is the place where the Light enters you.”
Rumi
“You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.”
Rumi
“Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.”
Rumi
“Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure.”
Rumi
“Let the beauty we love be what we do.”
Rumi
“Silence is the language of God, all else is poor translation.”
Rumi
“Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop.”
Rumi
“The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you.”
Rumi
“Love recognizes no barriers.”
Maya Angelou
“Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.”
Mother Teresa
“If you judge people, you have no time to love them.”
Mother Teresa
“Spread love everywhere you go.”
Mother Teresa
“The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.”
Mother Teresa
“Where there is love there is life.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive.”
Dalai Lama
“The more you are motivated by love, the more fearless and free your actions will be.”
Dalai Lama
“Love is the absence of judgment.”
Dalai Lama
“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
Lao Tzu
“Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.”
Lao Tzu
“The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.”
Morrie Schwartz
“You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not.”
Jodi Picoult
“To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.”
David Viscott
“The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.”
Eden Ahbez
“We loved with a love that was more than love.”
Edgar Allan Poe
“I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.”
Mother Teresa
“Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.”
Peter Ustinov
“There is no remedy for love but to love more.”
Henry David Thoreau
“The giving of love is an education in itself.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
“Love doesn't make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.”
Franklin P. Jones
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