50 Real Friends Quotes That Will Inspire You

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50 Best Real Friends Quotes

1. “Friendship is a wildly underrated medication.” – Anna Deavere Smith

2. “A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.” – William Shakespeare

3. “Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can’t have too many friends because then you’re just not really friends.” – Truman Capote

4. “Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.” – Francesco Guicciardini

5. “The real test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?” – Eugene Kennedy

6. “The great thing about new friends is that they bring new energy to your soul.” – Shanna Rodriguez

7. “A friend is an emotional bond, just like friendship is a human experience.” – Simon Sinek

8. “A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success!” – Doug Larson

9. “True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.” – Henry David Thoreau

10. “Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.” – Anais Nin

11. “Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare and precious as a pearl.” – Tahar Ben Jelloun

12.“There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.” – Linda Grayson

13. “Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend’s success.” – Oscar Wilde

14. “The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away.” – Barbara Kingsolver

15. “I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.” – Robert Brault

16. “Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.” – Khalil Gibran

17.“You can always tell a real friend: when you’ve made a fool of yourself he doesn’t feel you’ve done a permanent job.” – Laurence J. Peter

18.“A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.” – Walter Winchell

19.“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

20. “Things are never quite as scary when you’ve got a best friend.” – Bill Watterson

21.“Real friendship is when your friend comes over to your house and then you both just take a nap.” – Anonymous

22. “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

23. “Don’t make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.” – Thomas J. Watson

24. “Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.” – Elie Wiesel

25.“A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.” – Arnold H. Glasgow

26. “Some people go to priests. Others to poetry. I to my friends.” – Virginia Woolf

27. “Anything is possible when you have the right people there to support you.” – Misty Copeland

28.“There are three things that grow more precious with age; old wood to burn, old books to read, and old friends to enjoy.” – Henry Ford

29. “The love that comes from friendship is the underlying facet of a happy life.” – Chelsea Handler

30.“The only way to have a friend is to be one.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

31.“A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.” – Elbert Hubbard

32.“A single rose can be my garden… a single friend, my world.” – Leo Buscaglia

33. “One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.” – Euripides

34. “One’s friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.” – George Santayana

35. “I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.” – Ernest Hemingway

36. “Growing apart doesn’t change the fact that for a long time we grew side by side; our roots will always be tangled. I’m glad for that.” – Ally Condie

37. “There’s not a word yet for old friends who’ve just met.” – Jim Henson

38. “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

39.“Never leave a friend behind. Friends are all we have to get us through this life and they are the only things from this world that we could hope to see in the next.” – Dean Koontz

40.“Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.” – Richard Bach

41.“A friend is one who overlooks your broken fence and admires the flowers in your garden.” – Anonymous

42.“True friends are those rare people who come to find you in dark places and lead you back to the light.” – Anonymous

43. “Friendship isn’t about who you’ve known the longest. It’s about who walked into your life, said, “I’m here for you”, and proved it.” – Anonymous

44. “One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.” – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

45. “Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.” – Thomas Aquinas

46. “Every friendship goes through ups and downs. Dysfunctional patterns set in; external situations cause internal friction; you grow apart and then bounce back together.” – Mariella Frostrup

47.“Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.” – Eustace Budgell

48.“When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands.” – Maria Shriver

49. “Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you; spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life.” – Amy Poehler

50. “You find out who your real friends are when you’re involved in a scandal.” – Elizabeth Taylor

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