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In a world where social media has become so important to us, we can easily lose touch with the power of real-life friendships. Here are some meaningful friendship quotes to remind us of the importance of the true connection that is a meaningful friendship.
If you’re looking for more meaningful friendship quotes, check out some of the annual great meaningful friendship roundups I’ve put together the last couple of years:
Meaningful Friendship Quotes
1. The meaning of friendship is not that two or more people get together and have fun, but that they are together for a common cause. -Dale Carnegie
2. “If you really want to make friends, hang around people who are friendly.” — Bob Hope
3. “It is not enough to have a kind word; it should be a good word.” — John Ruskin
4. “When I was young, I thought it was wonderful to have a friend. Now that I am old, I find that friendship is wonderful when you have only one.” — Groucho Marx
5. “If you want to be a friend, you have to be a friend.” — Unknown
6. “The best way to get to know someone is to get under their skin and see what they’re made of.” — Unknown
7. “Friendship means never having to say you’re sorry.” — Unknown
8. “The most important thing in the world is to be loved. If you can’t love, then learn to live.” — Marge Piercy
9. “You should be able to tell if a person is your friend by how they treat you when they don’t have to be.” — Unknown
10. “The best way to get to know a man is to take a walk with him.” — Unknown
11. “A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.” — Elbert Hubbard
12. “When I am with my friends, I am never lonely.” — George Bernard Shaw
13. “The only true friends are those who accept you as you are.” — Anonymous
14. “Friends are like stars. You don’t always see them, but you can always feel their presence.” — Anonymous
15. “True friendship is when two people can find a reason to smile at each other even when there isn’t one.” — Unknown
16. “A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.” — Unknown
17. “A true friend is someone who cares for your well-being as much as they do for their own.” — Unknown
18. “A friend is someone who cares for your well-being as much as they do for their own.” — Unknown
19. “Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another ‘What! You too? I thought I was the only one.’” –C.S. Lewis
20. “If you want to be a friend, you’ve got to be a good listener.” –Jodi Picoult
21. “A real friend is someone who knows all about you and loves the things about you that nobody else sees.” –Maya Angelou
22. “A true friend is someone who cares enough to listen to you rant and rave for hours on end, even though he has no idea what you’re talking about.” –Anonymous
23. “You don’t have to be crazy to work in television, but it helps.” –Johnny Carson
24. “I’m not sure there’s anything quite so useless as a book read straight through.” —G.K. Chesterton
25. “We can never be alone when we have friends.” —Mark Twain
26. “The only thing worse than having an enemy is having a fake friend.” –Mitch Hedberg
27. “The best kind of friend is the kind you can sit on a porch with, shoot the sh*t with, and never see again.” —Unknown
28. “If you want to test friendship, drink its milk.” —Homer Simpson
29. “True friendship is sitting together, silently holding hands.” —Woody Allen
30. “I think that friendship is like sunshine. It doesn’t care how you feel, it just keeps on shining.” —Unknown
31. “You can’t be a friend if you don’t let your friends be themselves.” —Lily Tomlin
32. “We can never be alone when we have friends.” –Mark Twain
33. “True friendship is sitting together, silently holding hands.” –Woody Allen
34. “Friendship is when two people who need each other stay together for life.” — Joan Didion
35. “A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.” — Elbert Hubbard
36. “When I was a kid, I always wanted a best friend. Then I grew up and I realized that I already had the best friend I needed. He was right there inside me.” — Bill Cosby
37. “Friends are the family we choose for ourselves.” — Maya Angelou
38. “Friends are angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.” — Unknown
39. “A true friend is someone who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.” – William Shakespeare
40. “Friends are those who come into our lives and quickly go out again, never to return. But those who come into our lives, stay awhile, help us to make sense of things, help us to grow, and then go on their way, leaving us better, sometimes even happier than when they arrived.” — Unknown
41. “Friends are not necessarily those whom we agree with, but those whom we love.” — Robert Browning
42. “The best kind of friends are the ones who are always there for you, even when you’re having a bad day.” — Unknown
43. “True friends are the rarest treasure in the world, and it’s very difficult to find them. But when you do, hold onto them forever, for they are so rare and so valuable that they never come again.” — Frank Lloyd Wright
44. “We are all of us angels with only one wing, and sometimes we fly into each other’s arms.” — Mary Oliver
45. “I have no trouble believing in God. The trouble is, I can’t seem to find him anywhere.” — Robert Brault
46. “I’m lucky to have had my share of friends in life. It doesn’t matter how many people you know. If you don’t have a friend, you’re missing out on the whole ballgame.” — Jerry Seinfeld
47. “I believe in friendship more than human happiness.” — Friedrich Nietzsche
48. “Love your friends, but not too much. They may become jealous of you.” — Jean-Paul Sartre
49. “A true friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.” —E. E. Cummings
50. “A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.” —E. E. Cummings
51. “I believe in friendship, but I don’t believe in just any old friend. I want a best friend.” — Maya Angelou
52. “Friendship isn’t something you learn in school. You either have it or you don’t.” — Maya Angelou
53. “Friends are angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have forgotten how to fly.” — Unknown
54. “A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.” — Eloise
55. “It takes two to hold hands. One to hold the other’s hand. And one to let go.” — Unknown
56. “True friends are hard to find. You have to look for them when they are standing right in front of you.” — Author Unknown
57. “The measure of a person is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.” — Martin Luther King Jr.
58. “Friends are those who lift us up when we can’t lift ourselves.” — Anonymous
59. “The more you help others, the more you give yourself.” — Leo Buscaglia
60. “You’re never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” – C.S. Lewis
61. “A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.” –Elbert Hubbard
62. “There is no such thing as a friend. A friend is a person with whom I can be myself.” – Elbert Hubbard
63. “I don’t have time for friends. I’m too busy being a friend.” — Unknown
64. “There are two kinds of friends those who are there when you need them, and those who would be there if you needed them but aren’t.” — Unknown
65. “Friendship is friendship. And if you haven’t got anything else to do, you’ve got to be friends with your friends.” —Unknown
66. “A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.” — Elbert Hubbard
67. “There are no such things as friends. Only acquaintances.” — Mark Twain
68. “Friendship is friendship. The kind that helps you move through the dark. It’s not about who’s more important or who’s more successful, it’s about two people choosing to be together.” — Unknown
69. “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view…until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.” – Unknown
70. “A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself.” — Mignon McLaughlin
71. “I know what it means to be lonely. I have been that way too many times.” — C.S. Lewis
72. “I’ve got a new motto Friends are people who walk in when the rest of the world walks out.” — Charles M. Schulz
73. “Friends are God’s way of apologizing to us for relatives.” — Anne Lamott
74. “If you have ever wanted to be somebody else, just be yourself.” — Maya Angelou
75. “You can tell how much a person cares by how many friends he has.” — Dorothy Parker
76. “A friend is a person who knows all about you and still loves you.” — Elbert Hubbard
77. “Friends are people who know all about you and love you anyway.” — Robert Brault
78. “Friends are like angels, they smile on you in times of sadness and happiness.” — Unknown
79. “Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another ‘What! You too? I thought I was the only one!’” — C.S. Lewis
80. “A good friend is someone who loves you for yourself.” — Unknown
81. “A true friend is someone who cares more about you than you do yourself.” — Unknown
82. “If you can’t be a good example, then you’ll just have to be a horrible warning.” — Catherine Aird
83. “I think that friends are those rare people who make you laugh at the same time they’re making you cry.” — Joss Whedon
84. “True friendship is an expensive thing. You don’t realize it at first, but it costs you something. And then one day, you wake up and you’re empty.” — Unknown
85. “The way to a friend’s heart is through her stomach.” —Mark Twain
86. “True friends are hard to find. They may be few in number, but they are priceless.” —William Shakespeare
87. “A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself – and accepts you for exactly the way you are.” —Linda Gillman
88. “A true friend is someone who knows all about you and loves you anyway.” —Mae West
89. “The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.” —Robert Frost
90. “True friendship is not about what you say or how you say it; it’s about what you do when you say it.” —Unknown
91. “The only true happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves.” —Oscar Wilde
92. “We should all be so lucky as to have a friend like Fats Waller.” —Robert Benchley
93. “A friend is someone who knows all about you and loves you anyway.” —Mae West
94. “There are moments when friendship is more than an emotion, it is a way of life.” —Eleanor Roosevelt
95. “I have no time to go out and look for trouble. Trouble looks for me.” —Mark Twain
96. “Friends are God’s way of apologizing to us for our relatives.” —Lily Tomlin
97. “A true friend is one who thinks you’re a good egg even if he doesn’t agree with your politics.” —George Burns
98. “A true friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.” – Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
99. “When someone shows you who they are believe them; the first time.” – Maya Angelou
100. “The most common question I hear from people is ‘How do I make friends?’ and I say, ‘You already have. You just don’t know it yet.’” – Unknown
101. “Be kind for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.” – Plato
102. “I think that friendship is the hardest thing to explain, because it’s so simple, so natural. It doesn’t need any reason. It just is.” – Bill Watterson
103. “Friends may be silent, but they never, ever forget.” – Unknown
104. “I am not what I want to be, but I am what I want to be.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
105. “Friends are angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.” – James Baldwin
106. “If we could live by each other’s joy instead of our own, we should all be in heaven.” – Thomas Fuller
107. “A friend is someone with whom you can be yourself.” – Robert Frost
108. “To be in love is to be vulnerable. To be vulnerable is to be alive.” – Laurie Colwin
109. “True friends are rare because true friends are rare.” – David Lynch
110. “The best thing about friends is that they always believe in you, even when you stop believing in yourself.” – Unknown
111. “It is the nature of friendship to have your heart torn out and then put back in again.” – Charles M. Schulz
112. “A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.” – Elbert Hubbard
113. “When you have friends, you don’t need anyone else.” – George Bailey
114. “You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” – C.S. Lewis
115. “True friends are hard to find, harder to leave, but impossible to forget.” – Unknown
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