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Friendship Quotes and Sayings

“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” ~ Martin Luther King Jr.

“All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand.” ~Ella Wheeler Wilcox

“Do not save your loving speeches for your friends till they are dead; do not write them on their tombstones, speak them rather now instead. ~Anna Cummins

“My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.” ~Henry Ford

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares. ~Henri Nouwen

“With every friend I love who has been taken into the brown bosom of the earth a part of me has been buried there; but their contribution to my being of happiness, strength and understanding remains to sustain me in an altered world.” ~ Helen Keller

“One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.” ~ Euripides, Greek playwrite

“There are many types of ships. There are wooden ships ,plastic ships, and metal ships. But the best and most important types of ships are friendships.” ~Robert J. Badar JR.

“My best friend was born in a manger” ~Kimberly Dawn

“A true friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world has walked away.” ~Kimberly Dawn

Friendship Quotes and Sayings“A friend is someone who is there for you when he’d rather be anywhere else.” ~ Len Wein

“Don’t walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don’t walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend.” ~ Albert Camus

“A true friend is one who knows all about you, and still likes you.” ~Kimberly Dawn

“The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but to reveal to him, his own.” ~Benjamin Disraeli

“Scatter seeds of kindness everywhere you go; Scatter bits of courtesy….watch them grow and grow. Gather buds of friendship; Keep them till full-blown; You will find more happiness than you have ever known. ~ Amy R Raabe

“The most beautiful discovery that true friends can make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.” ~Elizabeth Foley

I’d rather have two good friends, than 500,000 admirers.– E.E. Cummings

The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself. ~G. B. Shaw

“A true friend is the greatest of all blessings and the one which we take the least thought to aquire.” –Francois, Duc de la Rochefoucauld

“The only way to have a friend is to be one.” –Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make everyday a holiday and celebrate just living.” –Amanda Bradley

A friend can tell you things you don’t want to tell yourself. ~Frances Ward Weller

“If I had one gift that I could give you, my friend, it would be the ability to see yourself as others see you, because only then would you know how extremely special you are.” ~B.A. Billingsly

We all need friends with whom we can speak of our deepest concerns, and who do not fear to speak the truth in love to us. ~Margaret Guenther

Christian Friendship Quotes

Love prospers when a fault is forgiven, but dwelling on it separates close friends. ~Proverbs 17:9

To flatter friends is to lay a trap for their feet. ~Proverbs 29:5

The heartfelt counsel of a friend is as sweet as perfume and incense. ~Proverbs 27:9

An open rebuke is better than hidden love! Wounds from a sincere friend are better than many kisses from an enemy. ~Proverbs 27:5-6

Don’t befriend angry people or associate with hot-tempered people, or you will learn to be like them and endanger your soul. ~Proverbs 22:24–25

There are “friends” who destroy each other, but a real friend sticks closer than a brother. ~Proverbs 18:24

A friend is always loyal, and a brother is born to help in time of need. ~Proverbs 17:17

A perverse person stirs up conflict, and a gossip separates close friends. ~Proverbs 16:28

Christian friendship quotesTwo are better than one, Because they have a good reward for their labor. ~Ecclesiastes 4:9

“A mirror reflects a man’s face, but what he is really like is shown by the kind of friends he chooses.” ~ Proverbs 27:19

“The greatest love a person can have for his friends is to give his life for them.” ~ John 15:13

“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I say to you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you, that you may be sons of your Father in heaven; for He makes His sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust. For if you love those who love you, what reward have you? Do not even the tax collectors do the same? ~Matthew 5:43-46

Two people are better off than one, for they can help each other succeed. If one person falls, the other can reach out and help. But someone who falls alone is in real trouble. Likewise, two people lying close together can keep each other warm. But how can one be warm alone? A person standing alone can be attacked and defeated, but two can stand back-to-back and conquer. Three are even better, for a triple-braided cord is not easily broken. ~Ecclesiastes 4:9–12

There is no greater love than to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. You are my friends if you do what I command. I no longer call you slaves, because a master doesn’t confide in his slaves. Now you are my friends, since I have told you everything the Father told me. ~John 15:13–15

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Inspiring Quotes on Friendship

“A true friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out” – Walter Winchell

“I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar”- Unknown

“It’s sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew” – Henry Rollins

“Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer”-Ed Cunningham

“Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher” – Oprah Winfrey

“A friend is a person before whom I may think aloud” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Cute Friendship Quotes

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Don’t walk in front of me, I may not follow.
Don’t walk behind me, I may not lead.
Just walk beside me and be my friend. – Albert Camus

Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure. – Jewish Saying

What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies. – Aristotle

A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway. – Fr. Jerome Cummings

Remember, the greatest gift is not found in a store nor under a tree, but in the hearts of true friends. – Cindy Lew

The only way to have a friend is to be one. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Friendship doubles our joy and divides our grief. – Swedish Proverb

The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend. – Abraham Lincoln

Hold a true friend with both your hands. – Nigerian Proverb

Friendship needs no words… – Dag Hammarskjold

A faithful friend is the medicine of life. – Apocrypha

Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for awhile and leave footprints on our hearts. And we are never, ever the same. – Anonymous

Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you. – Elbert Hubbard

Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world. – John Evelyn

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil. – Baltasar Gracian

Friends are the sunshine of life. – John Hay

The best mirror is an old friend. – George Herbert

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

Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow. – Samuel Paterson

A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails. – Anonymous

I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship. – Pietro Aretino

One who looks for a friend without faults will have none. – Hasidic Saying

Friends are like melons; shall I tell you why? To find one good you must one hundred try. – Claude Mermet

Count your age with friends but not with years. – Anonymous

Plant a seed of friendship; reap a bouquet of happiness. – Lois L. Kaufman

There is nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends. – Hillaire Belloc

Friendship Quotes

Friends are the most important ingredient in this recipe of life.

Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Side by side or miles apart, dear friends are always close to the heart.

Your friends are what will matter in the end.

Love is blind, but friendship closes its eyes.

Friends are God’s way of taking care of us.
It’s the friends you can call up at 4am that matter.

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.

No love, no friendship, can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever.

True friends are like stars in the sky. They’re most clear in the darkest of times.

Good Friends Are Hard To Find, Harder To Leave, An Impossible To Forget…

A Best Friend Wont Let You Do Stupid Things…..Alone

Me and you are friends!
You cry, i cry
You fight, i fight
you jump off bridge
I get a paddle boat and save your retarded Butt!!

A best friend is a sister destiny forgot to give you.

Friends are like a box of crayons. Each one is different from the others separately, but put them together and they make a rainbow.

Someone who will pick you up, when your feeling down …..lend an ear when you need to talk, hold your hand when you are scared, be by your side, when you are lonely…..accepts you for you…..that is a true friend.

A friend is someone who reaches out for your hand…and touches your heart.

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

Friends are God’s way of taking care of us.

Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for awhile and leave footprints on our hearts. And we are never, ever the same.

A road to a friend’s house is never long.

A true friend sticks with you through thick and thin no matter what.

Friendship doubles your joys, and divides your sorrows.

True friendship is when two friends can walk in opposite directions, yet remain side by side.

No person is Ur friend who demands Ur silence, or denies ur right to grow.

Our paths may change as life goes along, but the bond between friends remains ever strong…

Friendship is not a big thing – its a million little things.

True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.

Everyone is a friend, until they prove otherwise.

Friends are the most important ingredient in this recipe of life.

To be depressed is to be lonely; to have a friend is to be happy.

Friendship is not a big thing – its a million little things.

Side by side or miles apart, dear friends are always close to the heart.

The most I can do 4 my friend is simply be his friend