Top 100 Friendship Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

2. “A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.”

— Jim Morrison

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

— Helen Keller

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4. “A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”

— Elbert Hubbard

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5. “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

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6. “Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.”

— Albert Camus

7. “I’m a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn’t have the heart to let him down.”

— Abraham Lincoln

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8. “True friends are families which you can select.”

— Audrey Hepburn

9. “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

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10. “The trouble is not in dying for a friend, but in finding a friend worth dying for.”

— Mark Twain

11. “The only way to have a friend is to be one.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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12. “A good friend will always stab you in the front.”

— Oscar Wilde

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13. “There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.”

— Linda Grayson

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14. “What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.”

— Aristotle

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15. “A friend may be waiting behind a stranger's face.”

— Maya Angelou

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16. “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.”

— Anaïs Nin

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17. “Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?”

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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19. “Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success.”

— Oscar Wilde

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20. “Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.”

— Amos Bronson Alcott

21. “In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.”

— Khalil Gibran

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22. “Life is nothing without friendship.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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23. “A friend to all is a friend to none.”

— Aristotle

24. “A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals the secret of some hidden treasure.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

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25. “A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one’s heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.”

— George Eliot

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26. “As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.”

— Solomon

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27. “Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.”

— Aristotle

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28. “The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, not the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Aristotle

30. “There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.”

— Thomas Aquinas

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31. “What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.”

— C. S. Lewis

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32. “So every year when Christmas comes, I realize a new, the best gift life can offer is having friends like you.”

— Helen Steiner Rice

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33. “No one can take the place of a friend, no one.”

— Maya Angelou

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34. “A true friend is someone who is always there for you, with no agenda other than the friendship itself. We rely on our friends to lift us up in bad times, to keep us grounded in good times, but most importantly, to be there for us when we need nothing at all.”

— Tonya Hurley

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35. “Being honest may not get you a lot of friends but it’ll always get you the right ones.”

— John Lennon

36. “No matter what happens in life, be good to people. Being good to people is a wonderful legacy to leave behind.”

— Taylor Swift

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37. “Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”

— Mark Twain

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38. “The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.”

— Mark Twain

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39. “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

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40. “A warm smile is the universal language of kindness.”

— William Arthur Ward

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41. “Everyone wants 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

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42. “I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.”

— Thomas A. Edison

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43. “Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend – or a meaningful day.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

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44. “Choose people who lift you up.”

— Michelle Obama

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45. “Go where you are wanted and stray from where you aren’t. Surround yourself with positive people and environments.”

— Demi Lovato

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46. “Life is very short, and there’s no time for fussing and fighting my friends.”

— John Lennon

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47. “Have no friends not equal to yourself.”

— Confucius

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48. “There are three ways to ultimate success: The first way is to be kind. The second way is to be kind. The third way is to be kind.”

— Fred Rogers

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49. “Your heart and my heart are very, very old friends.”

— Hafez

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50. “The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.”

— Audrey Hepburn

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