
Your friend is your needs answered.Kahlil Gibran
These 77 quotes on friendship come straight from the QuotePlace collection — lines by poets, philosophers, leaders and artists across the centuries. Open any card to read the quote on its own page and meet the author behind it.

Your friend is your needs answered.Kahlil Gibran

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.Kahlil Gibran

Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul there is no such thing as separation.Rumi

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.Kahlil Gibran

Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.Rabindranath Tagore

What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.Confucius

He who does not trust enough will not be trusted.Lao Tzu

How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world.William Shakespeare

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.Oscar Wilde

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.Charles Dickens

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.Charles Dickens

It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.J.K. Rowling

The forces that unite us are intrinsic and greater than the superimposed influences that keep us apart.Kwame Nkrumah

The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.Ernest Hemingway

I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.Frederick Douglass

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.Helen Keller

What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.Aristotle

My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.Desmond Tutu

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.Cicero

Let us put our minds together and see what life we can make for our children.Sitting Bull

Don't go outside your house to see flowers. My friend, don't bother with that excursion. Inside your body there are flowers.Kabir

Give me your hand and we will dance; give me your hand and you will love me.Gabriela Mistral

There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.Thomas Aquinas

The only way to have a friend is to be one.Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man should keep his friendships in constant repair.Samuel Johnson

Give others confidence, give others joy, give others hope, give others convenience.Hsing Yun

All for one and one for all.Alexandre Dumas

Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless — like water. You put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. Be water, my friend.Bruce Lee

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

In joy or sadness, flowers are our constant friends.Okakura Kakuzo

Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean.Ryunosuke Satoro

Kill me, O my faithful friends, for in my death is my life.Mansur al-Hallaj

For you, a thousand times over.Khaled Hosseini

The wound inflicted by fire heals; the wound inflicted by the tongue does not.Thiruvalluvar
Silence is a true friend who never betrays.Confucius
I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.Abraham Lincoln
You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.Indira Gandhi
We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.Albert Schweitzer
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.Marcel Proust
Deep listening is miraculous for both listener and speaker.When someone receives us with open-hearted, non-judging, intensely interested listening…Sue Patton Thoele
Friendship with oneself is all important because without it one cannot be friends with anybody else in the world.Eleanor Roosevelt
Snowflakes are one of natures most fragile things, but just look what they can do when they stick together.Vista Kelly
Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.Margaret Runbeck
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.Ralph Waldo Emerson
A true friend is the most precious of all possessions and the one we take the least thought about acquiring.Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.Richard Bach
Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?Richard Bach
Silence is the true friend that never betrays.Confucius
Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer.Ed Cunningham
Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness.Richard Bach
Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.Martin Luther King Jr.
No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.Alice Walker
We are the leaves of one branch, the drops of one sea, the flowers of one garden.Jean Lacordaire
Only through our connectedness to others can we really know and enhance the self. And only through working on the self can we begin to enhance our…Harriet Lerner
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
Don't be dismayed by good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for…Richard Bach
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can…Theodore H. White
For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.Rudyard Kipling
Your heart and my heart are very, very old friends.Hafiz
Friend, how am I to hold back my heart?Michael Madhusudan Dutt
Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.George Washington
Truth springs from argument amongst friends.David Hume

Be loyal and trustworthy. Do not befriend anyone who is lower than yourself in this regard. When making a mistake, do not be afraid to correct it.Confucius

Once a brother, always a brother, no matter the distance, no matter the difference, and no matter the issue.Byron Pulsifer

Nothing happens by chance, my friend... No such thing as luck.Richard Bach

Associate with people who are likely to improve you.Seneca

Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud.Maya Angelou

Rarely do members of the same family grow up under the same roof.Richard Bach

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge.Aristotle

The quality of your life is determined by the quality of your relationships.Tony Robbins

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.Friedrich Nietzsche

Nobody sees a flower really; it is so small. We haven't time, and to see takes time — like to have a friend takes time.Georgia O'Keeffe

The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.Richard Bach

At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person.Albert Schweitzer

My best friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.Abraham Lincoln

Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.Mark Twain

An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language.Martin Buber