24 Inspiring Friendship Quotes

A single rose can be my garden… a single friend, my world. – Leo Buscaglia

Don’t make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up. – Thomas J. Watson

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

A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down. – Arnold H. Glasgow

If ever there is tomorrow when we're not together… there is something you must always remember. You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. But the most important thing is, even if we're apart… I'll always be with you. – Winnie the Pooh

Growing apart doesn’t change the fact that for a long time we grew side by side; our roots will always be tangled. I’m glad for that. – Ally Condie

One’s friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human. – George Santayana

I don’t need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better. – Plutarch

In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit. – Albert Schweitzer

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

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

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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

A friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future, and accepts you just the way you are. - Unknown

How many slams in an old screen door? Depends how loud you shut it. How many slices in a bread? Depends how thin you cut it. How much good inside a day? Depends how good you live ’em. How much love inside a friend? Depends how much you give them. – Shel Silverstein

Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation. – Oscar Wilde

What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others. – Confucius

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

If you live to be 100, I hope I live to be 100 minus 1 day, so I never have to live without you. Winnie the Pooh

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen. – Ernest Hemingway

True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable.– David Tyson

Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart. – Washington Irving

There’s not a word yet for old friends who’ve just met. – Jim Henson

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

They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel. — Carl W. Buechner