Top 25 Meaningful Friendship Quotes (2025 Update)

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

— Helen Keller

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2. “I define connection as the energy that exists between people when they feel seen, heard, and valued; when they can give and receive without judgment; and when they derive sustenance and strength from the relationship.”

— Brené Brown

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

— Elbert Hubbard

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4. “If you want others to like you, if you want to develop real friendships, if you want to help others at the same time as you help yourself, keep this principle in mind: Become genuinely interested in other people.”

— Dale Carnegie

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5. “Lean on me, when you’re not strong and I’ll be your friend, I’ll help you carry on.”

— Bill Withers

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

— Aristotle

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

— C. S. Lewis

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9. “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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10. “Friendships multiply joys and divide griefs.”

— Thomas Fuller

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11. “The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend.”

— Aristotle

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

— Jim Morrison

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13. “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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14. “My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.”

— Henry Ford

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15. “Sharing knowledge is the most fundamental act of friendship. Because it is a way you can give something without losing something.”

— Richard Stallman

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16. “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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17. “Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find.”

— William Shakespeare

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18. “The real friendship is like fluorescence, it shines better when everything has darkened.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

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19. “Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.”

— Louisa May Alcott

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20. “The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.”

— Epictetus

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21. “Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.”

— Elie Wiesel

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22. “Walking alone is not difficult but when we have walked a mile worth a thousand years with someone then coming back alone is what is difficult.”

— Faraaz Kazi

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23. “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

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24. “Community means strength that joins our strength to do the work that needs to be done. Arms to hold us when we falter. A circle of healing. A circle of friends. Someplace where we can be free.”

— Starhawk

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25. “To be alone means that you avoid bad company. But to have a true friend is better than being alone.”

— Umar

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26. “Live amongst people in such a manner that if you die they weep over you and if you are alive they crave for your company.”

— Ali ibn Abi Talib

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27. ““Sometimes,” said Pooh, ‘the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.’”

— A. A. Milne

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28. “Never above you. Never below you. Always beside you.”

— Walter Winchell

29. “The connections we make in the course of a life – maybe that’s what heaven is.”

— Fred Rogers