Quotes On Friendship And Life

Let’s face it – life just wouldn’t be the same without friends. And, whether you easily make new friends, have friends dating back years, or have on again off again friends, it helps to know what other people think about friendship sometimes. The following quotes on friendship and life cover every aspect of our relationships with friends.

Friendship Is Like…Quotes

• Best friends are like diamonds, precious and rare; False friends are like leaves, found everywhere
• Friendship is like wine, it gets better with age
• A friend is like a rainbow. They brighten your life when you’ve been through a storm.
• Friendship is like a single red rose, delicate, beautiful, and eternal.
• Friendship is like a ship that helps to cross over the ocean of time.

True Friend Quotes And Sayings

• A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out
• The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.
• A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.  ~Donna Roberts
• Friendship isn’t a big thing – it’s a million little things.
• A true friend is one who thinks you are a good egg even if you are half-cracked.

Encouragement Quotes For Friends

• Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, “I will try again tomorrow.”
• Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind. ~ Dr. Seuss
• Anyone can give up, it’s the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone else would understand if you fell apart, that’s true strength.
• I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. ~Maya Angelou
• This is my wish for you: Comfort on difficult days, smiles when sadness intrudes, rainbows to follow the clouds, laughter to kiss your lips, sunsets to warm your heart, hugs when spirits sag, beauty for your eyes to see, friendships to brighten your being, faith so that you can believe, confidence for when you doubt, courage to know yourself, patience to accept the truth, Love to complete your life.

Quotes On Family And Friends

• Friends are God’s way of apologizing to us for our families.
• One loyal friend is better than ten thousand family members.
• The best if times are always found when friends and family gather round.
• First my Mother, forever my friend; alternative: First my sister, forever my friend
• There’s an awful lot of blood around that water is thicker than.  ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic’s Notebook, 1966

Thanks For Being My Friend Quotes

• A good friend is hard to find, hard to lose, and impossible to forget…
• You meet people who forget you. You forget people you meet. But sometimes you meet those people you can’t forget. Those are your ‘friends.’
• It is by chance that we met, by choice that we became friends.
• In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out.  It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being.  We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.  ~Albert Schweitzer
• Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.  ~Plautus

Nice Sayings About Friends

• A hug is worth a thousand words. A friend is worth more.
• A friend is someone who knows all about you and loves you anyway.
• Money might make you wealthy, but friends makes you rich.
• A friend in kindergarten is the one who sat next to you and let you have the pretty red crayon, when only the ugly black one was left.
• Remember that every good friend was once a stranger

Friendship Disappointment Quotes

Sometimes friendships just don’t work out, for whatever reason. While this can be heartbreaking, the following quotes may help you know that you’re not alone.

• Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy – the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation. ~Eric Hoffer
• There’s nothing worse than loving somebody who disappoints you…” ~Unknown Author
• The only people you need in your life are the ones that prove they need you in theirs.
• Sometimes we expect more from others because we would be willing to do that much more for them.
• I give and give, even when I get nothing back – and that sets me up for disappointment. ~Angie Stone

Friends Come And Go Quotes

• Friends come and go, but good friends always leave footprints on your heart.
• Understand that friends come and go, but with a precious few you should hold on. The older you get, the more you need the people who knew you when you were young.
• People come into your life and people leave it… you just have to trust that life has a road mapped out for you.
• Time goes by so fast, people go in and out of your life. You must never miss the opportunity to tell these people how much they mean to you.
• “Friends are the most important part of your life. Treasure the tears, treasure the laughter, but most importantly, treasure the memories.” ~Dave Brenner

Quotes On Bad Friendship

Then, at times, it’s not just that the friendship didn’t work out, but that your friend was actually a bad friend. In that case, the following bad friend quotes should help you feel better.

• We always thought we’d look back on our tears and laugh, but we never thought we’d look back on our laughter and cry.
• The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship.
• Real friends are very special, but you have to be careful because sometimes you have a friend and you think they are made of rock, then suddenly you realize they’re only made of sand. It’s a terrible thing to go through life thinking that you have a rock on your side when you haven’t. ~Maria Callas
• Our very best friends have a tincture of jealousy even in their friendship, and when they hear us praised by others, will ascribe it to sinister and interested motives if they can. ~Unknown
• “If you’re going to beat on me like a drum, can I get you to improve your rhythm so I can dance to it?”

If, after reading the above quotes about bad friends, you feel that you need to end your friendship, the following should help you there:

Quotes On Ending Friendships

• Life’s not about the people who act true to your face. It’s about the people who remain true behind your back. (For someone who hasn’t been.)
• It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company.
• A friendship that can end never really began.
• It breaks my heart; it makes me sad to think of all the times we had. You made me laugh and you made me cry. And all that I can do is sigh and wonder why.
• I don’t need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better. ~Plutarch

Finally, to end this list on a positive note, some happy messages on friendship:

Friendship To Love Quotes

• Meeting you was fate, becoming your friend was a choice, but falling in love with you I had no control over.
• Well, it seems to me that the best relationships – the ones that last – are frequently the ones that are rooted in friendship. You know, one day you look at the person and you see something more than you did the night before. Like a switch has been flicked somewhere. And the person who was just a friend is… suddenly the only person you can ever imagine yourself with. ~Gillian Anderson
• “The best friend will probably acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is founded on the talent for friendship” –Friedrich Nietzsche
• If we are just friends, then tell me, why do I feel like we are much more? ~T. Anderson-Canela
• Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says ‘For the woman I love’ and the second, ‘For my best friend.’