Friendship for most people is a combination of affection, loyalty, love, respect, and trust. … True friendship is when someone knows you better than yourself and takes a position in your best interests in a crisis. Friendship goes beyond just sharing time together, and it is long-lasting.
Friendship can be the most beautiful thing if you have good friends. Here are quotes that will inspire you to have good friendships.
Inspiring Friendship Quotes.
“My definition of a friend is somebody who adores you even though they know the things you’re most ashamed of.” Jodie Foster
“Growing apart doesn’t change the fact that for a long time we grew side by side.” Ally Condie
“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
“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
“It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The great thing about new friends is that they bring new energy to your soul.” Shanna Rodriguez
“Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.”
Henry David Thoreau
“The only way to have a friend is to be one.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
“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
“One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.” Lucius Annaeus Seneca
“Friendship is given to us by nature, not to favor vice, but to aid virtue.” Cicero
“Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.” Elie Wiesel
“Sitting silently beside a friend who is hurting may be the best gift we can give.” Anonymous
“Hard times will always reveal true friends.” Anonymous
“A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.” Walter Winchell
“Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.” Baltasar Gracian
“Friendship with oneself is all-important because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.” Eleanor Roosevelt
“A sweet friendship refreshes the soul.” Anonymous
“I don’t like that man. I must get to know him better.” Abraham Lincoln
“A man’s friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.” Charles Darwin
“It’s not what we have, but who we have.” Winnie The Pooh
“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
“Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?” Abraham Lincoln
“I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.” Helen Keller
“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
“Friendship is a sheltering tree.” Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“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
“The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.” Henry David Thoreau
“What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.” Augustine
“Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.” Marcus Tullius Cicero
“As soon as I saw you, I knew an adventure was going to happen.” Winnie The Pooh
“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
“My friends are my estate.” Emily Dickinson
“To the world, you may be just one person, but to one person you may be the world.” Brandi Snyder
“Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.” Elbert Hubbard