Inspirational Quotes on Friendship

“Make not a bosom friend of a melancholy, sad soul. He will be sure to aggravate thine adversity and to lessen thy prosperity. He goes always heavily loaded, and thou must bear half.”

“I not only have my secrets, I am my secrets. And you are yours. Our secrets are human secrets, and our trusting each other enough to share them with each other has much to do with the secret of what it means to be human.”

“It's less the words they say than those they leave unsaid that split old friends apart.”

“Many a friendship - long, loyal, and self-sacrificing - rested at first upon no thicker a foundation than a kind word.”

“We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.”

“The best mirror is an old friend.”

“When a friend asks, there is no tomorrow.”

“If, instead of a gem or even a flower, we could cast the gift of a lovely thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.”

“But for money and the need of it, there would not be half the friendship in the world. It is powerful for good if divinely used. Give it plenty of air and it is sweet as the hawthorn; shut it up and it cankers and breeds worms.”

“A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.”

“Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation. It is better be alone than in bad company.”

“Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.”

“It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company.”

“True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.”

“Actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.”

“When the great end of the day comes, the greatest joy of all will be the joy of knowing you have tried to make somebody else's life happy.”

“How often we say about our earthly friends, "I really would like to have a good quiet settled talk with them so that I can really get to know them." And shouldn't we feel the same about our Heavenly Friend, that we may really get to know Him? These thoughts have taught me the importance of the children of God taking time to commune daily with their Father, so that they may get to know His mind and to understand better what His will is.”

“Friendships are discovered rather than made.”

“No man is the whole of himself; his friends are the rest of him.”

“Whatever you laugh at in others, laughs at yourself.”