Imagine waking up on your birthday to see some words of friendship sent as text to you?
One of the best feelings we would ever experience in our lives is the ones we experience with those we call our friends.
These people are life savers. I have personally lost count of how many times I have been helped by my friends and this is because friendship means a whole lot more than what it is portrayed to be.
The world friendship is from an old English word which means ‘Mutual liking or conjugal love’.
One thing I noticed among all the friendships that I have made is that words are powerful in uniting our bond. This need not be special long words, just a quote or two sent randomly to a friend or on their special day can be a game changer and uplift your friendship.
It is as a result of this and my commitment to ensure that friendship among people keeps getting strengthened that I have compiled some of the best quotes and words of friendship to keep the fire burning among pals, irrespective of their age or distance.
You can copy out these words of friendship to encourage your friends, celebrate them or even send to them randomly. Cheers!
Friendship Quotes for Buddies/Besties
“True friends are like diamonds – bright, beautiful, valuable, and always stylish.” – Nicole Richie
“It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Friendship is a mysterious cement of the human heart.” – Voltaire
“Silence makes the real conversations between friends.” – Margaret Lee Runbeck
“In the end, we will not remember the years, but the moments that make up the years.” – J.R.R. Tolkien
“There is one friend in the life of every person who is the key to self-discovery.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes
“The only true wealth is friends.” – Theodora Roosevelt
“Walking with a friend doubles the enjoyment.” – Chinese Proverb
“Let us be grateful for the friends who make us laugh. All the laughter in our lives proves they were friends worth having.” – E.B. White
“There are things I can’t tell you, but you know them anyway.” – Frederic Beigbeder
General Words of Friendship
“One’s best friend is the man who will get one through trouble.” – Robert E. Lee
“We are all a little weird and life’s a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it friendship.” – Elizabeth Gilbert
“The foundation of strong and lasting friendship is trust.” – Robert Bailey
“A friend is one soul abiding in two bodies.” – Aristotle
“True friends are like diamonds – bright, beautiful, valuable, and always stylish.” – Nicole Richie
“It’s not what we say with our words that defines our friendships. It’s what we understand with our hearts.” – Unknown
“Friends are the family you choose.” – Jess C. Scott
“One good friend is more than a brother.” – Jean Baptiste Legouve
“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
“Don’t walk behind me; I may not lead. Don’t walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.” – Albert Camus
“Friendship is a sheltering tree.” – Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“The only true wealth is friends.” – Theodora Roosevelt
“You can’t choose your family, but you can choose your friends.” – Adrian Brody
Friendship Quotes for Young People
These quotes remind us of the power of friendship during our formative years; a period when we need to start building strong relationships.
“Friendship is a precious thing. Never take it for granted.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
“A friend is someone who knows you by heart and loves you anyway.” – Elbert Hubbard
“Make new friends, but keep the old; one is silver and the other gold.” – Unknown
“There is nothing I will not do for those who are really my friends.” – Jane Austen
“There is one friend in the life of every person who is the key to self-discovery.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes
“The better part of one’s life consists of his friendships.” – Abraham Lincoln
“Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.” – Joseph Addison
“You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.” – Dale Carnegie
“True friends are those who are willing to listen to what you don’t say.” – Euripides
Friendship Quotes When You’re Missing Your Friend
“True friends are never apart, maybe in distance but never in heart.” – Unknown
“Friendship is a wise thing and a pleasant thing, and if it happens by good luck to a man he should think of it as the chief blessing of his life.” – Epicurus
“Friendship is constant in all other things, save in silence.” – George Eliot
“Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for a while, leave their footprints on our hearts, and we are never, ever the same.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
“Friendship is seeing the world with someone else’s eyes.” – Henry David Thoreau
“A friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future, and accepts you just the way you are.” – Unknown
“I would rather walk with a friend in the dark than walk alone in the light.” – Helen Keller
“It is not how much we give but how much love we put into giving that makes a gift valuable.” – Mother Teresa
“Knowing you are loved by someone you love is the greatest happiness in the world.” – Pierre de Beaumarchais
“A friend is a gift you give yourself.” – Robert Louis Stevenson
Quotes About the Importance of Communication in Friendship
“The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.” – Eleanore Roosevelt
“Friendship that consists of superfluous compliments and every day messages becomes a dull affair.” – Jane Austen
“Friendship is a delicate thing and needs as much care as a garden plant.” – Chinese Proverb
“Friendship multiplies joys and divides griefs.” – Roman Proverb
“There is nothing I will not do for those who are really my friends.” – Jane Austen
Quotes Highlighting the Strength of Friendship
“A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.” – Proverbs 17:17
“I cannot even imagine where I would be today without the support of my friends.” – Oprah Winfrey
“Friendship is the wine of life.” – Richard Henry Dana
“It is not the number of friends you have, but the quality of the friendship that matters.” – Marcus Tullius Cicero
Concluding Notes
These quotes are truly inspiring and empowering. I normally like sharing my most favorite with you and in this particular case, I have two friendship quotes that I so much love. The first is a quote from Dale Carnegie.
“You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.” – Dale Carnegie.
This quote is particularly helpful for those who are introverted and would want to make more friends and become more social. It’s a very practical hack that I have been using since I first learned about it from Dale Carnegie’s book, How to Win Friends and Influence People and it’s been working for me.
The second is a quote from Elizabeth Gilbert.
“We are all a little weird and life’s a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it friendship.” – Elizabeth Gilbert.
It’s funny and makes so much sense to me at the same time.
