150+ POSITIVE AND INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES FOR FRIENDS

Friends are the first thing that comes after the family in our mind that’s why it is valued enormously in these inspirational quotes for friends. When we are in some kind of trouble or stressed, they are the ones who are always with us. They are the ones who understand us rather than judging and gossiping behind our back that’s why friendship is always celebrated in positive and inspirational quotes for friends. Friendship is like a magic candle, it does not light off completely with a blow like said in these evergreen inspirational quotes for friends

In many positive quotes about friendship, we have seen how versatile the role of our friends is in our life. They are not with us just to make us feel comfortable and to be supportive even if we are going the wrong way, a good friend is the one who goes against us and stops to make a mistake no matter how much we dislike it. This relationship is worthy of so many inspirational quotes for friends because friends are known for their honesty, they may insult us in front of you but stand by your side on your back.

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Here is an exquisite list of the best inspirational quotes for friends, take a look-

“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

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

“A single rose can be my garden… a single friend, my world.” -Leo Buscaglia

“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

“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 ’em.” -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

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

“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

“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

“For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.” -Audrey Hepburn

“Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm & constant.”’ -Socrates

“Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations. Don’t over-analyze your relationships. Stop playing games. A growing relationship can only be nurtured by genuineness. “ -Leo F. Buscaglia

“Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.” -Marcel Proust

“Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respected.” -Charles Lamb

“If you go looking for a friend, you’re going to find they’re very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you’ll find them everywhere.” -Zig Ziglar

“You can always tell a real friend: when you’ve made a fool of yourself he doesn’t feel you’ve done a permanent job.” -Laurence J. Peter

“Keep away from those who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you believe that you too can become great.” -Mark Twain

“Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you. Love me and I may be forced to love you.” -William Arthur Ward

“No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.”  -Alice Walker

“Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.” -Woodrow T. Wilson

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

“Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend’s success.” -Oscar Wilde

“Some of the biggest challenges in relationships come from the fact that most people enter a relationship in order to get something: they’re trying to find someone who’s going to make them feel good. In reality, the only way a relationship will last is if you see your relationship as a place that you go to give, and not a place that you go to take.” -Anthony Robbins

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

“Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone — but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming.” -William Hazlitt

“A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute. He may not seem such a good friend after telling.” -Arthur Brisbane

“Many a person has held close, throughout their entire lives, two friends that always remained strange to one another, because one of them attracted by virtue of similarity, the other by difference.” -Emil Ludwig

“A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill requires only our silence; which costs us nothing.” –John Tillotson

“When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are.” -Donald Miller

“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

“If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone.” -Maxwell Maltz

“The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when someone asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.” -Henry David Thoreau

“People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges.” -Joseph F. Newton Men

“Friendship is like a glass ornament, once it is broken it can rarely be put back together exactly the same way.” -Charles Kingsley

“A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.” -Donna Roberts

“There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate. “ -Linda Grayson

“It is the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.” -Marlene Dietrich

“Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.” -Gloria Naylor

“There is magic in long-distance friendships. They let you relate to other human beings in a way that goes beyond being physically together and is often more profound.” -Diana Cortes

“Someone to tell it to is one of the fundamental needs of human beings.” -Miles Franklin

“It is not so much our friends’ help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.” -Epicurus

“Whenever you’re in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.” -William James

“Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.” -Tennessee Williams

“The tender friendships one gives up, on parting, leave their bite on the heart, but also a curious feeling of a treasure somewhere buried.” -Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?” -Abraham Lincoln

“A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud. I am arrived at last in the presence of a man so real and equal, that I may drop even those undermost garments of dissimulation, courtesy, and second thought, which men never put off, and may deal with him with the simplicity and wholeness with which one chemical atom meets another.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson

“If it’s very painful for you to criticize your friends — you’re safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that’s the time to hold your tongue.” -Alice Duer Miller

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

“The royal road to a man’s heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.” -Dale Carnegie

“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

“To the world you may be just one person, but to one person you may be the world.” -Brandi Snyder

 “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

“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

“Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.” -Henry David Thoreau

“I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.” -Helen Keller

“Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you; spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life.” -Amy Poehler

“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

"In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends." -John Churton Collins

“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 is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation, of one’s self, the very meaning of one’s soul." -Edith Wharton

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

“Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.” -Aristotle

"Some people go to priests, others to poetry, I to my friends." -Virginia Woolf

“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

“There is nothing I wouldn’t do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves; it is not my nature.” -Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

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

"A good friend is a connection to life — a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world." -Lois Wyse

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

“One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention.” -Clifton Fadiman

“Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respected.” -Charles Lamb

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

“You can always tell a real friend: when you’ve made a fool of yourself he doesn’t feel you’ve done a permanent job.” -Laurence J. Peter

“Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.” -Woodrow T. Wilson

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

"Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom." -Marcel Proust

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

“A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute. He may not seem such a good friend after telling.” -Arthur Brisbane

“A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.” -Bernard Meltzer

“Friendship is like a glass ornament, once it is broken it can rarely be put back together exactly the same way.”  -Charles Kingsley

“The best time to make friends is before you need them.” -Ethel Barrymore

“In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, for in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.” -Khalil Gibran

“The language of friendship is not words but meanings.” -Henry David Thoreau

"Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart." -Eleanor Roosevelt

“Friendship consists in forgetting what one gives and remembering what one receives.” -Alexander Dumas

“A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.” -Elbert Hubbard

“An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.” -Buddha

“Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it’s all over.” -Octavia Butler

“Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.” -Friedrich Nietzsche

"There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first; when you learn to live for others, they will live for you." -Paramahansa Yogananda

“I think if I’ve learned anything about friendship, it’s to hang in, stay connected, fight for them, and let them fight for you. Don’t walk away, don’t be distracted, don’t be too busy or tired, don’t take them for granted. Friends are part of the glue that holds life and faith together. Powerful stuff.” -John Katz

“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.” -Robert Brault

“We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over.” -Ray Bradbury

“A friendship that can end never really began.” -Publilius Syrus

"It takes a long time to grow an old friend." -John Leonard

“Every friendship travels at sometime through the black valley of despair. This tests every aspect of your affection. You lose the attraction and the magic.” -John O’Donohue

“Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.” -Marcus Tullius Cicero

“They make me stronger; they make me braver.” -Jane Fonda

"Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity." -Khalil Gibran

“Friends are the siblings God never gave us.” -Mencius

“Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends.” -H. Jackson Brown Jr.

“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

“A friend is a gift you give yourself.” -Robert Louis Stevenson

“True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.” -Henry David Thoreau

"No friendship is an accident." -O. Henry, Heart of the West

“True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.” -Charles Caleb Colton

“Friendship is the purest love.” -Osho

“Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.” -Dorothy Parker

“True friendship is never serene.” -Marquise de Sevigne

“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. That’s what real love amounts to – letting a person be what he really is.” -Jim Morrison

"Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose." -Tennessee Williams

“Friends should be like books, few, but hand-selected.” -C.J. Langenhoven

“A friend is someone who makes it easy to believe in yourself.” -Heidi Wills

“Some people arrive and make such a beautiful impact on your life, you can barely remember what life was like without them.” -Anna Taylor

“I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don’t believe I deserved my friends.” -Walt Whitman

"There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate." -Linda Grayson

“Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.” -Jacques Delille

“A snowball in the face is surely the perfect beginning to a lasting friendship.” -Markus Zusak

“Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn’t seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.” -Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson

“If you have two friends in your lifetime, you’re lucky. If you have one good friend, you’re more than lucky.” -S.E. Hinton

"The great thing about new friends is that they bring new energy to your soul." -Shanna Rodriguez

“Friends: people who borrow my books and set wet glasses on them.” -Edwin Arlington Robinson

“True friends don’t judge each other, they judge other people together.” -Emilie Saint-Genis

“A friend to all is a friend to none.” -Aristotle

“Only a true best friend can protect you from your immortal enemies.” -Richelle Mead

“Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend.” -Sarah Desse

"Friendship is like money, easier made than kept." -Samuel Butler

“Never leave a friend behind. Friends are all we have to get us through this life–and they are the only things from this world that we could hope to see in the next.” -Dean Koontz

“If you can survive 11 days in cramped quarters with a friend and come out laughing, your friendship is the real deal.” -Oprah Winfrey

“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

“No matter how tired I am, I get dinner at least once a week with my girlfriends. Or have a sleepover. Otherwise my life is just all work.” -Jennifer Lawrence

“It’s the friends you can call up at 4am that matter.” -Marlene Dietrich

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

“One friend with whom you have a lot in common is better than three with whom you struggle to find things to talk about.” -Mindy Kaling

“I think about my best friendship – which the Marnie-Hannah friendship in Girls is based on – as like a great romance of my young life.” -Lena Dunham

“A true friend stabs you in the front.” -Oscar Wilde

“We come from homes far from perfect, so you end up almost parent and sibling to your friends – your own chosen family. There’s nothing like a really loyal, dependable, good friend. Nothing.” -Jennifer Aniston

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

“The best way to mend a broken heart is time and girlfriends.” -Gwyneth Paltrow

“You find out who your real friends are when you’re involved in a scandal.” -Elizabeth Taylor

“I don’t know what I would have done so many times in my life if I hadn’t had my girlfriends.” -Reese Witherspoon

“Some souls just understand each other upon meeting.” -N. R. Hart

“Don’t be dismayed at good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends.” -Richard Bach

“In a friend you find a second self.” -Isabelle Norton

“Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.” -Aristotle

“Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends, for it is one of God’s greatest gifts. It involves many things, but above all the power of going out of one’s self and appreciating what is noble and loving in another.” -Thomas Hughes

"Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing." -Elie Wiesel

“Where there are friends, there is wealth.”-Titus Maccius Plautus

“The only good thing about times of adversity is that you realize who your real friends and fans are – and the rest go away – which in my mind is an OK thing.” -Pete Wentz

 “A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be.” -Douglas Pagels

“Things are never quite as scary when you have a best friend.” -Bill Watterson

“I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let’s face it, friends make life a lot more fun.” -Charles R. Swindoll

“When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means 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.” -Henri Nouwen

“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

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

“Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.” –Unknown

In this way, some eminent people have expressed their thought on friendship in these positive quotes for friends. These inspirational quotes for friends must have reminded you about your best friends or some of your childhood friends. In many inspirational quotes for friends, we have seen how immortal friendship becomes at times. There are innumerable songs, stories and inspirational quotes for friends. For the beautiful bond of friendship, we have a friendship day to celebrate where we share our love with these inspirational quotes for friends. Zig Ziglar believed that friendship is something to initiate, not just to expect.

The best part of being with our friends is that we are never judged for who we are, or no matter how non-sense we talk. The positive vibe we get with our friends is so comfortable that makes us never want to stay away from them; they are reminded after reading these inspirational quotes for friendship.

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