Friendship Quotes

Everyone has a gift for something, even if it is the gift of being a good friend.

~ Marian Anderson

For what is your friend that you should seek him with hours to kill? Seek him always with hours to live.For it is his to fill your need, but not your emptiness.And in th 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.

~ Kahlil Gibran

There is nothing more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

~ Homer

I don't like to give up on people when they need someone not to give up on them.

~ Carroll Bryant

So when you're coldFrom the inside outAnd don't know what to do,Remember love and friendship, And warmth will come to you.

~ Stephen Cosgrove

She realized that Rowan saw each of those thoughts and more as he reached into his tunic and pulled out a dagger. Her dagger. He extended it to her, it's long blade gleaming as if he'd been secretly polishing and caring for it these months.And when she grasped the dagger, it's weight lighter than she remembered, Rowan looked into her eyes, into her very core of her, and said, 'Fireheart'.

~ Sarah J. Maas

Because the difference between a friend and a real friend is that you and the real friend come from the same territory, of the same place deep inside you, and that means you see the world in the same kind of way. You know each other even before you do.

~ Laura Pritchett

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

~ Aristotle

People aren’t always what you want them to be. Sometimes they disappoint you or let you down, but you have to give them a chance first. You can’t just meet someone and expect them to be everything you’re looking for and then be angry when they’re not every hope and aspiration you projected onto them. It’s foolish to believe that someone will be what you imagine them to be. And sometimes, when you give them a chance, they turn out to be better than you imagined. Different, but better.

~ Chloe Rattray

The Sun is such a lonely star. Whenever he comes out to see his friends, they all disappear.

~ Joseph Gordon-Levitt

To throw away an honest friend is, as it were, to throw your life away

~ Sophocles

Like a comet pulled from orbit, As it passes a sun. Like a stream that meets a boulder, Halfway through the wood. Who can say if I've been changed for the better? But because I knew you, I have been changed for good It well may be, That we will never meet again, In this lifetime. So let me say before we part, So much of me, Is made of what I learned from you. You'll be with me, Like a handprint on my heart. And now whatever way our stories end, I know you have re-written mine, By being my friend... Like a ship blown from its mooring, By a wind off the sea. Like a seed dropped by a skybird, In a distant wood. Who can say if I've been changed for the better? But because I knew you, Because I knew you, I have been changed for good.

~ Stephen Schwartz

There's no way for them to take away my sadness, but they can make sure I am not empty of all the other feelings.

~ David Levithan

The way I figure it, everyone gets a miracle.

~ John Green

Real friends are the ones you can count on no matter what.The ones who go into the forest to find you and bring you home.And real friends never have to tell you that they’re your friends.

~ Morgan Matson

.. a friend is someone who inspires, who challenges, who sends you in search of some truer sense of yourself..

~ Steve López

His hand closed automatically around the fake Horcrux but in spite of everything, in spite of the dark and twisting path he saw stretching ahead for himself, in spite of the final meeting with Voldemort he knew must come whether in a month in a year or in ten, he felt his heart lift at the thought that there was still one last golden day of peace left to enjoy with Ron and Hermione.

~ J.k. Rowling

Friendships take minutes to make, moments to break, years to repair.

~ Pierce Brown

You know a real friend?Someone you know will look after your cat after you are gone.

~ William S. Burroughs

Its easy to make frends if you let pepul laff at you.

~ Daniel Keyes

They had battled and bloodied one another, they had kept secrets, broken hearts, lied, betrayed, exiled, they had walked away, said goodbye and sworn it was forever, and somehow, every time, they had mended, they had forgiven, they had survived. Some mistakes could never be fixed - some, but not all. Some people can't be driven away, no matter how hard you try. Some friendships won't break.

~ Robin Wasserman

When you get tired of worrying and mourning your horse and trying not to be afraid, tell me and I'll do it for you a while so you can shut your eyes and sleep peaceful.

~ Shannon Hale

Nico scowled. ‘It’s none of your business, but I don’t belong. That’s obvious. No one wants me. I’m a child of –’ ‘Oh, please.’ Will sounded unusually angry. ‘Nobody at Camp Half-Blood ever pushed you away. You have friends – or at least people who would like to be your friend. You pushed yourself away. If you’d get your head out of that brooding cloud of yours for once –

~ Rick Riordan

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

~ Benjamin Franklin

Boys, Laila came to see, treated friendship the way they treated the sun: its existence undisputed; its radiance best enjoyed, not beheld directly.

~ Khaled Hosseini

It is absolutely okay with me if you need to keep some secrets. I've been thinking about this and I decided that a best friend is someone who, when they don't understand, they still understand.

~ Nancy Werlin

Some people need a red carpet rolled out in front of them in order to walk forward into friendship. They can't see the tiny outstretched hands all around them, everywhere, like leaves on trees.

~ Miranda July

the companions of our childhood always possess a certain power over our minds which hardly any later friend can obtain.

~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

There are times when friendship feels like running down a hill together as fast as you can, jumping over things, spinning around, and you don't care where you're going, and you don't care where you've come from, because all that matters is speed, and the hands holding your hands.

~ M.t. Anderson

Female friendships that work are relationships in which women help each other belong to themselves.

~ Louise Bernikow

There was a lot of apologizing going on, but I realized that was how it was with people you cared about. You forgave each other and moved on.

~ Richelle Mead

There it was, Eve supposed. There was the answer to why people got tangled up with people. Because when you were down, when you were wallowing, someone you mattered to would ask if you were okay.

~ J.d. Robb

Has it ever occurred to you that one hundred pianos all tuned to the same fork are automatically tuned to each other? They are of one accord by being tuned, not to each other, but to another standard to which each one must individually bow. So one hundred worshipers met together, each one looking away to Christ, are in heart nearer to each other than they could possibly be, were they to become 'unity' conscious and turn their eyes away from God to strive for closer fellowship.

~ A.w. Tozer

Introverts treasure the close relationships they have stretched so much to make.

~ Adam S. Mchugh

You only really fall apart in front of the people you know can piece you back together.

~ Sarah Dessen

You know, Jacob, if it weren’t for the fact that we’re natural enemies and that you’re also trying to steal away the reason for my existence, I might actually like you.

~ Stephenie Meyer

What a desperate, pathetic fool I was. Time after time, my friends had shown me their true colors. Yet, I still wanted to believe they were sorry for causing me pain. p. 128

~ Jodee Blanco

Best friends, no matter what they do or how much they hurt you, it only hurts as much as it does because they are your best friend. And none of us are perfect. Mistakes were made for best friends to forgive; it’s what makes being a best friend official.

~ J.a. Redmerski

Just because I've gone and snagged myself a hot boyfriend doesn't mean I'm going to leave my bestfriend high and dry.

~ Becca Fitzpatrick

The only true test of friendship is the time your friend spends on you.

~ John Marsden