100+ Heartwarming Friendship Quotes to Celebrate True Bonds and Cherish Memories
Friendship is one of life’s greatest treasures, offering support, trust, and joy. It is a bond that transcends differences and reminds us of the beauty of connection. True friendship provides a safe space to share our deepest thoughts and dreams, while also encouraging growth and resilience through life’s challenges. It teaches us empathy, loyalty, and the importance of being present for one another. In friendship, we find not only companionship but also a reflection of our best selves.
- “Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.”
- “In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”
- “I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better than book or orator.”
- “All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.”
- “Science arose from poetry… when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.”
- “It is better to be deceived by one’s friends than to deceive them.”
- “We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature – trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence… We need silence to be able to touch souls.”
- “I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.”
- “It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.”
- “A youth, when at home, should be filial and, abroad, respectful to his elders. He should be earnest and truthful. He should overflow in love to all and cultivate the friendship of the good. When he has time and opportunity, after the performance of these things, he should employ them in polite studies.”
- “Silence is a true friend who never betrays.”
- “Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.”
- “Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.”
- “A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.”
- “The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.”
- “A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.”
- “Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.”
- “It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
- “Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend.”
- “Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.”
- “A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything.”
- “A friend to all is a friend to none.”
- “Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.”
- “In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.”
- “Friendship is essentially a partnership.”
- “For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.”
- “Our judgments when we are pleased and friendly are not the same as when we are pained and hostile.”
- “Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.”
- “Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.”
- “No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.”
- “Some animals are cunning and evil-disposed, as the fox; others, as the dog, are fierce, friendly, and fawning. Some are gentle and easily tamed, as the elephant; some are susceptible of shame, and watchful, as the goose. Some are jealous and fond of ornament, as the peacock.”
- “Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.”
- “My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.”
- “He who hath many friends hath none.”
- “Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.”
- “No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return.”
- “I met Woz when I was 13, at a friend’s garage. He was about 18. He was, like, the first person I met who knew more electronics than I did at that point. We became good friends, because we shared an interest in computers and we had a sense of humor. We pulled all kinds of pranks together.”
- “I’ve done a lot of things I’m not proud of, such as getting my girlfriend pregnant when I was 23 and the way I handled that.”
- “The differences between friends cannot but reinforce their friendship.”
- “Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.”
- “Boldness be my friend.”
- “Alas, I am a woman friendless, hopeless!”
- “Son, brother, father, lover, friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections, as there is room in heaven for all the stars.”
- “An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him.”
- “Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.”
- “True friends stab you in the front.”
- “He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.”
- “Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.”
- “I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.”
- “Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.”
- “He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend; provided, of course, he really is dead.”
- “I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition.”
- “Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.”
- “When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.”
- “There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man’s self.”
- “Friends are thieves of time.”
- “The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.”
- “Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.”
- “Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.”
- “Plato is my friend; Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.”
- “There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.”
- “Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.”
- “Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice.”
- “Every murderer is probably somebody’s old friend.”
- “There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.”
- “I have discovered that my interest in my dear pupil, Mabel, has ripened into a far deeper feeling than that of mere friendship. In fact, I know that I have learned to love her very sincerely.”
- “It is not, of course, complete yet – but some sentences were understood this afternoon… I feel that I have at last struck the solution of a great problem – and the day is coming when telegraph wires will be laid onto houses just like water or gas – and friends converse with each other without leaving home.”
- “A man’s friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.”
- “I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.”
- “In criticism I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose nothing shall turn me.”
- “There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.”
- “Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.”
- “So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.”
- “Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.”
- “Friends applaud, the comedy is over.”
- “When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it’s a sure sign you’re getting old.”
- “I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell – you see, I have friends in both places.”
- “Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
- “There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
- “I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes.”
- “Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.”
- “Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art… It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.”
- “It may be the part of a friend to rebuke a friend’s folly.”
- “A friend of mine tells that I talk in shorthand and then smudge it.”
- “How happy had it been for me had I been slain in the battle. It had been far more noble to have died the victim of the enemy than fall a sacrifice to the rage of my friends.”
- “Your Majesty may rest assured about my conduct towards the Comtesse de Provence; I will certainly try and gain her friendship and confidence, without going too far.”
- “Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans – born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace.”
- “Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.”
- “Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder.”
- “My friends, there are no friends.”
- “To help a friend in need is easy, but to give him your time is not always opportune.”
- “I have learned to know God. I have recast my social belief… All my admirers are married; most of my friends are dead; and I stand with all the world before me, where to choose a path to make in it.”
- “As a child, I wanted to know how things worked and to control them. With a friend, I built a number of complicated models that I could control.”
- “I am confident that nobody… will accuse me of selfishness if I ask to spend time, while I am still in good health, with my family, my friends and also with myself.”
- “Being elected to Congress, though I am very grateful to our friends for having done it, has not pleased me as much as I expected.”
- “I am humble Abraham Lincoln. I have been solicited by my friends to become a candidate for the Legislature. My politics are short and sweet, like the old woman’s dance.”
- “It would astonish if not amuse the older citizens to learn that I (a strange, friendless, uneducated, penniless boy, working at ten dollars per month) have been put down as the candidate of pride, wealth, and aristocratic family distinction.”
- “Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?”
- “The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who’ll get me a book I ain’t read.”
- “Among the friends of Union, there is great diversity of sentiment and of policy in regard to slavery and the African race among us.”
- “I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end… I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.”
- “The good man is the friend of all living things.”
- “It is easy enough to be friendly to one’s friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.”