Friendship is a quiet kind of courage — the steady practice of showing up with compassion, listening with care, and sharing the kind of laughter that lightens the load. These favorite quotes honor loyalty, trust, and the simple joy of walking each other home. ✨
As Abraham Lincoln once said,
“The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.”
Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends. ~ Virginia Woolf
Constant use will not wear ragged the fabric of friendship. ~ Dorothy Parker
Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them. ~ Francesco Guicciardini
Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance. ~ Rabindranath Tagore
The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love. ~ Hubert Humphrey
All great business is based on friendship. ~ J.C. Penney
Equals make the best friends. ~ Aesop's Fables
True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in their worth and choice. ~ Samuel Johnson
However rare true love is, true friendship is even rarer. ~ François, duc de La Rochefoucauld
If you want to win friends, make it a point to remember them. If you remember my name, you pay me a subtle compliment; you indicate that I have made an impression on you. Remember my name and you add to my feeling of importance. ~ Dale Carnegie
Give truth, and your gift will be paid in kind, and honor will honor meet; and the smile which is sweet will surely find a smile that is just as sweet. ~ Madeline S. Bridges
Friendships begin because, even without words, we understand how someone feels. ~ Joan Walsh Anglund
Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn’t seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces. ~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud. ~ Joseph Addison
A friend is what the heart needs all the time. ~ Henry van Dyke
A single rose can be my garden… a single friend, my world. ~ Leo Buscaglia
True friendship is like sound health — the value of it is seldom known until it is lost. ~ Charles Caleb Colton, Lacon: or, Many Things in Few Words