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Cherishing Connections: 114 Quotes Celebrating Genuine Friendship

Hey there, friend! 

Today, we’re diving into a treasure trove of friendship quotes that warm the heart and celebrate the beautiful connections that enrich our lives. 

From the wisdom of cherished authors to the timeless words of beloved figures, these quotes serve as a reminder of the laughter, support, and love that true friends bring. 

So grab a cup of your favorite brew, settle into a cozy spot, and let’s embark on this heartwarming journey together. Get ready to be inspired, uplifted, and reminded of the incredible power of friendship!

  1. Good friends are hard to find, harder to leave and impossible to forget. G. Randolf
  2. Distance yourself from people that you don’t want to become. Shane Parris
  3. Good friendships make life awesome. Lex Fridman
  4. Friendships are discovered rather than made. Harriet Beecher Stowe
  5. The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship. William Blake
  6. It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend. William Blake
  7. What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it. C. S. Lewis
  8. A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow. William Shakespeare
  9. If there ever comes a day when we can’t be together, keep me in your heart, I’ll stay there forever. Winnie The Pooh
  10. When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. Thomas Sowell
  11. Friends… they cherish one another’s hopes. They are kind to one another’s dreams. Henry David Thoreau
  12. The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. I have no wealth to bestow on him. If he knows that I am happy in loving him, he will want no other reward. Is not friendship divine in this? Henry David Thoreau
  13. We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship. C.S. Lewis
  14. Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them. Unknown
  15. It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them. Confucius
  16. We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends. Francis Bacon
  17. You don’t need a lot of friends, just the right ones. Unknown
  18. He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, and he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere. Ralph Waldo Emerson
  19. 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
  20. He will never have true friends who is afraid of making enemies. William Hazlitt
  21. The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends. Friedrich Nietzsche
  22. Friends make the good things better and the bad things not so bad. Unknown
  23. Disagreement should not destroy a friendship. Unknown
  24. Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance. Rabindranath Tagore
  25. Friendship is given us by nature, not to favor vice, but to aid virtue. Cicero
  26. Who you surround yourself with is who you become. Alex Lieberman
  27. Friendship is more than being there for your friends when they need you, it’s also allowing your friends to be there for you. Shane Parrish
  28. A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out. Walter Winchell
  29. Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which strengthens with the setting sun of life. Jean de La Fontaine
  30. The most ordinary things could be made extraordinary, simply by doing them with the right people. Nicholas Sparks
  31. Never forget who was with you when you had nothing. Rakesh Valand
  32. To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform. Theodore H. White
  33. Friendship isn’t a big thing – it’s a million little things. Unknown
  34. The best cure for a bad day is a good friend. Unknown
  35. Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer. Jean de La Fontaine
  36. The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two. Sophie Swetchine
  37. Friendship, as has been said, consists in a full commitment of the will to another person with a view to that person’s good. Pope John Paul II
  38. When people are friends, they have no need of justice, but when they are just, they need friendship in addition. Aristotle
  39. Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one. Oscar Wilde
  40. A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship. Saint Francis de Sales
  41. Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom. Francis Bacon
  42. There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate. Linda Grayson
  43. I’m a controversial figure. My friends either dislike me or hate me. Toni Morrison
  44. Your friend is your needs answered. Kahlil Gibran
  45. It’s the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter. Marlene Dietrich
  46. The best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. Aristotle
  47. No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another. Charles Dickens
  48. Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit. Aristotle
  49. The best mirror is an old friend. George Herbert
  50. Truth springs from argument amongst friends. David Hume
  51. A man who seeks a perfect friend will remain friendless. Turkish proverb
  52. There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. William Hazlitt
  53. One loyal friend can make a difference in your life. Steve Harvey
  54. Opposition is true friendship. William Blake
  55. A good friendship is a conversation that never ends. Gloria Steinem
  56. Love is friendship on fire. Susan Sontag
  57. Remember, no man is a failure who has friends. Unknown
  58. Notice the people who make an effort to stay in your life. Unknown
  59. Friends are the family you choose. Unknown
  60. Life is nothing without friendship. Cicero
  61. No friendship is an accident. O. Henry
  62. A friend is a gift you give yourself. Robert Louis Stevenson
  63. The friendship which can cease has never been real. St. Jerome
  64. The language of friendship is not words but meanings. Henry David Thoreau
  65. Of all possessions a friend is the most precious. Herodotus
  66. Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together. Woodrow Wilson
  67. We cannot hope to only leave our children a bigger car, a bigger bank account. We must hope to give them a sense of what it means to be a loyal friend. George H. W. Bush
  68. A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself – and especially to feel, or not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at any moment is fine with them. Jim Morrison
  69. Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. Mark Twain
  70. A friend is one soul abiding in two bodies. Aristotle
  71. A friend to all is a friend to none. Aristotle
  72. Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship. Dorothy Parker
  73. Be slow to fall into friendship, but when thou art in, continue firm and constant. Socrates
  74. Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself. Confucius
  75. A day without a friend is like a pot without a single drop of honey left inside. Winnie The Pooh
  76. As soon as I saw you, I knew an adventure was going to happen. Winnie The Pooh
  77. We’ll be friends forever, won’t we, Pooh? asked Piglet. Even longer. Pooh answered. Winnie The Pooh
  78. The best thing to hold onto in life is each other. Audrey Hepburn
  79. My friends are my estate. Emily Dickinson
  80. Friends are proved by adversity. Cicero
  81. There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven’t yet met. William Butler Yeats
  82. Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart. Eleanor Roosevelt
  83. The only way to have a friend is to be one. Ralph Waldo Emerson
  84. Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends? Abraham Lincoln
  85. If you have one true friend you have more than your share. Thomas Fuller
  86. A good friend is like a four-leaf clover; hard to find and lucky to have. Irish Proverb
  87. A man’s friendships are one of the best measures of his worth. Charles Darwin
  88. 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
  89. I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light. Helen Keller
  90. Friendship is not about whom you know the longest. It is about who came and never left. Paulo Coelho
  91. A friend is one of the nicest things you can have and one of the best things you can be. Winnie The Pooh
  92. A friend is someone who helps you up when you’re down, and if they can’t, they lay down beside you and listen. Winnie The Pooh
  93. How distant I am from people when I am with them, and how close when they are far away. Kahlil Gibran
  94. here cannot be friendship without equality. Swami Sivananda
  95. 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
  96. My definition of a friend is somebody who adores you even though they know the things you’re most ashamed of. Jodie Foster
  97. “Stay” is a charming word in a friend’s vocabulary. Louisa May Alcott
  98. Man’s best support is a very dear friend. Cicero
  99. 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
  100. Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world. Eleanor Roosevelt
  101. Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth. Herman Melville
  102. Friendships are a reciprocation of efforts. Justin Kan
  103. Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit. Kahlil Gibran
  104. Friendship consists in forgetting what one gives and remembering what one receives. Alexander Dumas
  105. Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words. George Eliot
  106. A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you. Elbert Hubbard
  107. True friendship is like sound health. The value of it is seldom known until it be lost. Charles Caleb Colton
  108. Be true to your work, your word, and your friend. Henry David Thoreau
  109. I don’t like that man. I must get to know him better. Abraham Lincoln
  110. The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it. Ralph Waldo Emerson
  111. Friendship is a sheltering tree. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  112. I have learned that to be with those I like is enough. Walt Whitman
  113. It’s not what we have, but who we have. Winnie The Pooh
  114. One friend in a storm is worth more than a thousand friends in sunshine. Matshona Dhliwayo

 

 

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