Positive Friendship Quotes:

A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand.

- Les Brown

topic: Friendship, Hands, Sometimes, Awe Inspiring, Positive Friendship

Those that will always help a friend, will always have a friend.

- Anthony D. Williams

topic: Helping, Positive Friendship

I thank you for my friends, for those who understand me better than I understand myself. For those who know me at my worst, and still like me. For those who have forgiven me when I had no right to expect to be forgiven. Help me to be as true to my friends as I would wish them to be to me.

- William Barclay

topic: Friendship, Wish, Helping, Positive Friendship

Finding an old friend is like finding a lost treasure.

- Anthony D. Williams

topic: Friendship, Old Friends, Treasure, Positive Friendship, Reuniting

Your heart and my heart are very, very old friends.

- Hafez

topic: Hate, Heart, Old Friends, Positive Friendship

Friendship flourishes at the fountain of forgiveness.

- William Arthur Ward

topic: Friendship, Fountain, Positive Friendship

When someone cares... it is easier to speak, it is easier to listen, it is easier to play, it is easier to work. When someone cares it is easier to laugh.

- Susan Polis Schutz

source: Susan Polis Schutz (1974). “Peace flows from the sky”, Blue Mountain Press

topic: Friendship, Play, Laughing, Positive Friendship

May our house always be too small to hold all of our friends.

- Myrtle Reed

source: Myrtle Reed, Mary Badollet Powell (1911). “The Myrtle Reed Year Book: Epigrams and Opinions from the Writings and Sayings of Myrtle Reed”

topic: Friendship, House, May, Wine Toast, Drinking Toast

Drink in the beauty of friendship. In this world of constant change, we need the comfort of friendship more than ever before.

- Susan Jeffers

topic: Friendship, Needs, World, Positive Friendship

Of all the heavenly gifts that mortal men commend, What trusty treasure in the world can counterfail a friend?

- Nicholas Grimald

topic: Friendship, Men, Treasure, Positive Friendship

With every true friendship, we build more firmly the foundations on which the peace of the whole world rests.

- Mahatma Gandhi

topic: Friendship, Peace, True Friend, Positive Friendship

Friends, though absent, are still present.

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

topic: Friendship, Absent, Stills, Positive Friendship, Absent Friends

Happy is the house that shelters a friend.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: House, Shelter, Human Rights, Solemnity, Positive Friendship

Each departed friend is a magnet that attracts us to the next world.

- Jean Paul

topic: Friendship, Departed, World, Departed Friends, Famous Condolence

Real friendship is shown in times of trouble; prosperity is full of friends.

- Euripides

source: Euripides (1958). “Euripides: Hecuba, translated by W. Arrowsmith. Andromache, translated by J. F. Nims. The Trojan women, translated by R. Lattimore. Ion, translated by R. F. Willetts”

topic: Real, Army, Prosperity, Positive Friendship, Real Friendship

True friends visit us in prosperity only when invited, but in adversity they come without invitation.

- Theophrastus

topic: Friendship, True Friend, Adversity, Positive Friendship, Greek Philosopher

Is my mother my friend? I would have to say, first of all she is my Mother, with a capital 'M'; she's something sacred to me. I love her dearly...yes, she is also a good friend, someone I can talk openly with if I want to.

- Sophia Loren

topic: Mom, Mother, Good Friend, Mother's Day, Mothers Day Messages

The greatest trust between man and man is the trust of giving counsel.

- Francis Bacon

source: Francis Bacon (2007). “Essays”, p.55, Cosimo, Inc.

topic: Friendship, Men, Giving, Positive Friendship