Beautiful Friendship Quotes:

In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

source: "The Trumpet of Conscience". Martin Luther King, Jr.'s steeler lecture at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama, November 17, 1957.

topic: Friendship, Wisdom, Clever, Sounds Of Silence, Meaningful Friendship

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

- Henry Ford

topic: Inspirational, Friendship, Best Friend, Making Friends, Bff

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

topic: Inspirational, Friendship, Good Morning, Meaningful Friendship, Inspiring Friends

Friendship is not something you can learn in college or some learning institution, no one knows how to become friends you just become but if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship you haven't learned anything

- Muhammad Ali

topic: Friendship, College, Institutions, Meaning Of Friendship, Loyal Friend

I get by with a little help from my friends.

- John Lennon

topic: Littles, Helping, Songs And Friendship, Meaning Of Friendship, Loyal Friend

It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.

- Marlene Dietrich

topic: Friendship, Best Friend, Cute Relationship, Making Friends, Bff

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

topic: Inspirational, Life, Friendship, Makin Money, Bff

Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go... And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.

- Gloria Naylor

topic: Letting Go, Art, Mean, Songs And Friendship, Special Friendship

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

- Samuel Butler

source: Samuel Butler (1951). “Samuel Butler's notebooks”

topic: Friendship, Money, Funny Friend, Making Friends, Bff

Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.

- Woodrow Wilson

topic: Friendship, Patience, Real Friends, Meaningful Friendship, Inspirational Friendship

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

- Khalil Gibran

source: Khalil Gibran “The New Frontier and Sand and Foam”, Library of Alexandria

topic: Best Friend, Friendship, Sweet, Songs And Friendship, Special Friendship

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

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Friendship, Inner Life, I Am Thankful

The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend.

- Aristotle

topic: Friendship, Relationship, True Friend, Meaningful Friendship, Inspirational Friendship

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

source: "Out of Solitude: Three Meditations on the Christian Life". Book by Henri Nouwen, 1974.

topic: Love, Friendship, Pain, Bff, Female Friends

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

topic: Friendship, Good Friend, May, Good Friendship, Cute Friendship

In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.

- John Churton Collins

topic: Friendship, Adversity, Prosperity, Meaningful Friendship, Imaginary Friend

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

topic: Love, Inspirational, Motivational, My Friendship, Wonderful Friendship

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

topic: Friendship, Family, Trust, Spiritual Inspiration, Inspiring Friends

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

topic: Friendship, Best Friend, Self, Meaning Of Friendship, Friends Forever

The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.

- David Storey

source: "Home".

topic: Friendship, Real Friends, Essence, Funny Friendship, Beautiful Friendship

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

- Katherine Mansfield

source: Katherine Mansfield (1987). “The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield: Volume II: 1918-September 1919”, OUP Oxford

topic: Love, Friendship, Real Friends, One Friend, Being A Good Friend

Friends are those rare people who ask how we are, and then wait to hear the answer.

- Ed Cunningham

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Inspiring Friends, People In Your Life

The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship.

- Joseph Addison

topic: Real, Life Is, Human Life, Sweeteners, Wonderful Friendship

The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing... not healing, not curing... that is a friend who cares.

- Henri Nouwen

topic: Friendship, Grief, Healing, Making Friends, Bff

It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.

- Epicurus

topic: Friendship, Relationship, Leadership, Lasting Friendship, Great Friendship

Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

topic: Friendship, Real Friends, Dating, Without Friends, Wearing A Mask

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

- William Blake

topic: Friendship, Forgiveness, Depressing, Stabbing, Making Friends

The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: Friendship, Best Friend, Clever, Friends And Enemies, Precious Friends

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Friendship, Best Friend, Positive, Bff, Songs And Friendship

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

topic: Friendship, Letting Go, Art, Songs And Friendship, Special Friendship

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

source: Lois Wyse (1996). “Women Make the Best Friends: A Celebration”

topic: Friendship, Life Is Short, Good Friend, Bff, Insane World

The typical expression of opening Friendship would be something like, 'What? You too? I thought I was the only one!

- C. S. Lewis

topic: Expression, Typical, Would Be, Importunate, Making Friends

In friendship let there be laughter and sharing of pleasures.

- Khalil Gibran

source: Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

topic: Friendship, Laughter, True Friend, Meaningful Friendship, Morning Dew

Best friends listen to what you don't say.

- Samantha Norman

topic: Friendship, Making Friends, Bff, Anon, Cute Friendship

Making it look easy is the hardest thing in the world to do.

- Sarah Ban Breathnach

topic: Looks, World, Easy, Inspirational Friendship, Musicianship

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 Breault

topic: Inspirational, Friendship, Best Friend, Bff, Inspirational Friendship

A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.

- Donna Roberts

topic: Friendship, Song, Memories, Bff, Songs And Friendship

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

- Seneca the Younger

source: "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

topic: Friendship, Beautiful, Loyalty, Songs And Friendship, Inspirational Friendship

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Inspirational, Friendship, Adventure, New Friendship, Meaning Of Friendship

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

- Helen Keller

topic: Friendship, Loneliness, Real Friends, Making Friends, Bff

Real friends stab you in the front.

- Jonathan Davis

topic: Real, Real Friends, Stabbing, Backstabbing, Who Your Real Friends Are

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

topic: Friendship, Best Friend, Jobs, Making Friends, Bff

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.

- Plutarch

topic: Friendship, Change, Real Friends, Inspiring Friends, Starting Anew

The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. I have no wealth to bestow on him. If he knows that I am happy in loving him, he will want no other reward. Is not friendship divine in this?

- Henry David Thoreau

topic: Friendship, Happiness, Real Friends, Songs And Friendship, Female Friends

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

- Mark Twain

topic: Life, Friendship, Book, Making Friends, Bff

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

- Alice Walker

source: Alice Walker (2013). “The Alice Walker Collection: Non-Fiction”, p.17, Hachette UK

topic: Friendship, Memorable, Acceptance, Inspirational Friendship, Inspiring Friends

True friends stab you in the front.

- Oscar Wilde

topic: Best Friend, Friendship, Funny Love, Stabbing, Inspirational Friendship