Here is a collection of great friends quotes you can add to cards, letters and emails to express your thoughts about your friends.
Friends are precious. They stand by us in good and bad times, cheers us on and accept us for who we are. True friends are those whom we can trust and depend on for honest comments to build us up.
We are blessed to have best friends who bring sunshine to our life and chase our blues away. They know what is on our minds without us having to say it out.
You can share these quotes with your friends and let them know how much their friendships mean to you.
"The only way to have a friend is to be one."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"You can make more friends in two months by becoming really interested in other people, than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you."
- Bernard Meltzer
"Remember that every good friend was once a stranger."
- Old proverb
"When your looking for a friend don't look for perfection, just look for friendship."
- Unknown
"Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends whom we choose."
- Tehyi Hsieh
"A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"It's better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you'll drift in that direction."
- Warren Buffett
"When we share laughter, there’s twice the fun; when we share success, we’ve surpassed what we’ve done. When we share problems, there’s half the pain; when we share tears, a rainbow follows rain; when we share dreams, they become more real; when we share secrets, it’s our hearts we reveal."
- Jill Wolf
"Every one of us gets through the tough times because somebody is there, standing in the gap to close it for us.”
- Oprah Winfrey
"A friend is one who believes in you when you have ceased to believe in yourself."
- Unknown
"Real friendship is shown in times of trouble; prosperity is full of friends."
- Euripedes
"A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out."
- Walter Winchell
"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
"Gems may be precious, but friends are priceless."
- Unknown
"True friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget."
- Amanda Kunkle
"Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart."
- Eleanor Roosevelt
"When it hurts to look back, and you're scared to look ahead, you can look beside you and your best friend will be there."
- Unknown
"My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me."
- Henry Ford
"A friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself."
- Jim Morrison
"Everyone hears what you say. Friends listen to what you say. Best friends listen to what you don't say."
- Anon
"The best kind of friend is the one you could sit on a porch swing with, never saying a word, and walk away feeling like that was the best conversation you've ever had."
- Unknown
"The better you know someone, the less there is to say. Or maybe, there's less that needs to be said."
- Unknown
"A friend can tell you things you don't want to tell yourself.”
- Frances Ward Weller
"My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private."
- Solomon Ibn Gabirol
"I can trust my friends. These people force me to examine, encourage me to grow."
- Cher
"We all need friends with whom we can speak of our deepest concerns, and who do not fear to speak the truth in love to us."
- Margaret Guenther
"Money will buy you a bed, but not a good night's sleep, a house but not a home, a companion but not a friend."
- Zig Ziglar
"Money might make you wealthy, but friends makes you rich."
- Unknown
"A true friend is someone you can disagree with and still remain friends. For if not, they weren't true friends in the first place."
- Sandy Ratliff
"Friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious thing."
- Randolph S. Bourne
“A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely."
- Pam Brown
"Friendship must never be buried under the weight of misunderstanding."
- Sri Chinmoy
"Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude."
- Timothy Bentley
"We all lose friends.. we lose them in death, to distance and over time. But even though they may be lost, hope is not. The key is to keep them in your heart, and when the time is right, you can pick up the friendship right where you left off. Even the lost find their way home when you leave the light on."
- Amy Marie Walz
"True friends are the ones who never leave your heart, even if they leave your life for a while. Even after years apart, you pick up with them right where you left off, and even if they die, they‘re never dead in your heart."
- Renee
"Our friendship is a treasure I value each and every day. I give thanks and count my blessings for friends like you."
- Catherine Pulsifer
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