These friendship day quotes will inspire you. Friendship Day (also International Friendship Day or Friend’s Day) is a day in several countries for celebrating friendship. Friendship Day is celebrated on the first Sunday of August.
Below you will find a collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging friendship day quotes, friendship day sayings, and friendship day proverbs.
Best Friendship Day Quotes
- “A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.” ~ Jim Morrison
- “A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.” ~ Elbert Hubbard
- “One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.” ~ Euripides
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“The better part of one’s life consists of his friendships.” ~ Abraham Lincoln
- “Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.” ~ Marcel Proust
- “True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.” ~ Charles Caleb Colton
- “Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.” ~ Eustace Budgell
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“Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.” ~ Elie Wiesel
- “The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.” ~ Henry David Thoreau
- “No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.” ~ Alice Walker
- “A true friend is someone who is there for you when he’d rather be anywhere else.” ~ Len Wein
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“Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.” ~ Helen Keller
- “Two are better than one,because they have a good reward for their labor. For if they fall, the one will lif’ up his fellow, but woe to him that is alone when he falleth, for he hath not another to help him up.” ~ Solomon
- “If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.” ~ A. A. Milne
- “Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art… It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.” ~ C. S. Lewis
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“Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.” ~ Anais Nin
- “I don’t need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.” ~ Plutarch
- “Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.” ~ Marcel Proust
- “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
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“Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.” ~ Virginia Woolf
- “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
- “The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.” ~ Hubert H. Humphrey
- “The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.” ~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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“The only way to have a friend is to be one.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “Two may talk together under the same roof for many years, yet never really meet; and two others at first speech are old friends.” ~ Mary Catherwood
- “I get by with a little help from my friends.” ~ John Lennon
- “Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.” ~ Mark Twain
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“A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.” ~ Donna Roberts
- “Oooh I get by with a little help from my friends.” ~ Joe Cocker
- “You Too? I thought I was the only one.” ~ C. S. Lewis
- “Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness.” ~ Richard Bach
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“There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.” ~ Thomas Aquinas
- “If you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything.” ~ Muhammad Ali
- “Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.” ~ Aristotle
- “A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.” ~ William Penn
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“Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.” ~ Euripides
- “She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It’s good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind.” ~ Toni Morrison
- “The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.” ~ Elbert Hubbard
- “If frienship is your weakest point then you are the strongest person in the world.” ~ Abraham Lincoln
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“Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.” ~ Baltasar Gracian
- “A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.” ~ Walter Winchell
- “Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.” ~ Woodrow Wilson
- “In friendship let there be laughter and sharing of pleasures.” ~ Khalil Gibran
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“To find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.” ~ Baltasar Gracian
- “A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute. He may not seem such a good friend after telling.” ~ Arthur Brisbane
- “It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island… to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.” ~ Baltasar Gracian
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“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
- “Freindshipp is beyond all relations of flesh and blood, because it is less materiall.” ~ John Evelyn
- “Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.” ~ Khalil Gibran
- “One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.” ~ Seneca the Younger
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“Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love.” ~ Elie Wiesel
- “Anyone can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend’s success.” ~ Oscar Wilde
- “My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.” ~ Henry Ford , Friendship day quotes for friend
- “A true friend knows your weaknesses but shows you your strenghs; feels your fears but fortifies your faith; sees your anxieties but frees your spirit; recognizes your disabilities but emphasizes your possibilities.” ~ William Arthur Ward
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“Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart” ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
- “Hold a true friend with both your hands.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
- “Making it look easy is the hardest thing in the world to do.” ~ Sarah Ban Breathnach
- “Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.” ~ Samuel Butler
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“Whenever I dream about flying, it’s the best feeling in the world.” ~ Kate Mara
- “The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.” ~ Toni Morrison
- “Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.” ~ Aristotle
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“To be simple is the best thing in the world.” ~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
- “Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo.” ~ Oprah Winfrey
- “A single rose can be my garden… a single friend, my world.” ~ Leo Buscaglia
