Top 20 True Friendship Quotes (2025 Update)

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Jim Morrison

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

— Helen Keller

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5. “Friendship is the purest love. It is the highest form of love where nothing is asked for, no condition, where one simply enjoys giving.”

— Osho

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

— Thomas Aquinas

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

— Aristotle

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

— Henry Ford

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

— Rabindranath Tagore

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11. “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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12. “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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13. “True friendship resists time, distance and silence.”

— Isabel Allende

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14. “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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15. “True friendship can exist only between equals.”

— Plato

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16. “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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17. “So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.”

— Helen Keller

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18. “A True friend is one who sees a fault, gives you advice and who defends you in your absence.”

— Ali ibn Abi Talib

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19. “The one who has a good friend doesn’t need any mirror.”

— Rumi

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20. “Well, a friend in need is a friend indeed.”

— Edgar Bergen

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