25 powerful quotes about friendship (you’ll love 17)

02/08/2025 by

If you’re looking for quotes about friendship, I have curated some excellent ones for you today.

Friendship is a relationship of equals

Friends are people with whom we have common interests. They’re people whose company we enjoy. If they called us at 3 am because they were in trouble, they’re the people we’d go out of our way to help.

In short, they’re people who matter to us.

You’re lucky if you have one true friend, a real pal. If you have two, then you’re rich indeed.

Don’t make the mistake of assuming you have lots of friends. No one does. Not really.

Whilst you may be on good terms with many people, how many would be there shoulder-to-shoulder if you were in serious trouble?

Real friends will be there for you no matter what. Everyone else in your life is just people you know with varying degrees of familiarity.

Genuine friendship is truly a precious gift.

So appreciate your real friends and let them know how much they mean to you.

Here are 25 thought-provoking quotes about friendship to make you think and remind you that having friends is what makes life bearable. They’re the family you get to choose.

We are social animals, and we need other people. And the best people are the people we call friends. They’re the ones with whom we choose to spend our time.

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Quotes about friendship (1-15):

Friends are the family you choose. ~Jess C. Scott

Friends are the siblings God never gave us. ~Mencius

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives. ~Euripides

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept. ~Samuel Butler

It’s the friends you can call up at 4.00 am that matters. ~Marlene Dietrich

You cannot buy with gold the old associations. ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The language of friendship is not words but meanings. ~Henry David Thoreau

Wishing to be friends is quick work but friendship is a slow ripening fruit. ~Aristotle

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

A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you. ~Elbert Hubbard

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Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together. ~Woodrow Wilson

A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out. ~Walter Winchell

Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant. ~Socrates

True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable. ~David Tyson Gentry

Friendship consists of forgetting what one gives and remembering what one receives. ~Alexander Dumas

Quotes about friendship (16-25):

Friendship is delicate as a glass, once broken it can be fixed but there will always be cracks. ~Waqar Ahmed

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood. ~Lucius Annaeus Seneca

A friend who understands your tears is much more valuable than a lot of friends who only know your smile. ~Author Unknown

Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. ~Marcel Proust

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

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 Breault

If you wanna find out who’s a true friend, screw up, or go through a challenging time, then see who sticks around. ~Karen Salmonsohn

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

We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is, at last, a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over. ~Ray Bradbury

Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It’s not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything. ~Muhammad Ali

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21 quotes about relationships to enlighten you a little

11/26/2024 by

People! We can’t live with them, but we can’t live without them either.

While they can be frustrating, we are social animals and need people and relationships.

The more we understand about relationships, the more likely we’ll be in a position to form and sustain successful relationships.

Hence today’s blog post with 21 thought-provoking quotes about relationships to help you ponder and improve your understanding of one of life’s trickier aspects.

Now some people struggle to form successful relationships, while others enjoy perfect relationships, or so it seems. Well, don’t be fooled by appearances.

All relationships can be tricky because we all have this romantic notion about what the perfect relationship should look like. That notion may be romantic, but it’s also inaccurate.

Perfect relationships don’t exist.

Consequently, relationships take time, effort, and compromise. We must work at them constantly to keep them healthy and beneficial.

Furthermore, we must recognise that for a relationship to work, it must be balanced. The dynamics within the relationship must be in equilibrium.

By that, I mean that within any relationship, both parties must feel their needs are being met.

Where the dynamic within a relationship favours one side or the other, then this breeds resentment and frustration. That in turn results in friction and disharmony within the relationship, which can be damaging, of course.

No one can have it all their way all the time. Compromise is essential.

However, compromise shouldn’t be to the point where you’re actively working against your interests.

It would never make sense to do anything that works against our interests. If we don’t look after our interests, no one else will.

So here are those 21 thought-provoking quotes about relationships. I hope you find them interesting, dear reader.

Quotes about relationships (1-13):

  1. A dame that knows the ropes isn’t likely to get tied up. ~Mae West
  2. When you don’t talk, there’s a lot of stuff that ends up not getting said. ~Catherine Gilbert Murdock
  3. When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are. ~Donald Miller
  4. The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much and forgetting that you are special too. ~Ernest Hemingway
  5. For there to be betrayal, there would have to have been trust first. ~Suzanne Collins
  6. Cheating and lying aren’t struggles; they’re reasons to break up. ~Patti Callahan Henry
  7. I suffer from girl-next-door-itis where the guy is friends with you and that’s it. ~Taylor Swift
  8. I want to be in a relationship where you telling me you love me is just a ceremonious validation of what you already show me. ~Steve Maraboli
  9. Relationships don’t always make sense, especially from the outside. ~Sarah Dessen
  10. Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike. ~JK Rowling
  11. It’s no good pretending that any relationship has a future if your record collections disagree violently or if your favourite films wouldn’t even speak to each other if they met at a party. ~Nick Hornby
  12. The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed. ~CG Jung
  13. There is greatness in doing something you hate for the sake of someone you love. ~Shmuley Boteach

Quotes about relationships (14-21):

  1. Every couple needs to argue now and then. Just to prove that the relationship is strong enough to survive. Long-term relationships, the ones that matter, are all about weathering the peaks and the valleys. ~Nicholas Sparks
  2. I know enough to know that no woman should ever marry a man who hated his mother. ~Martha Gellhorn
  3. People like to say love is unconditional, but it’s not, and even if it was unconditional, it’s still never free. There’s always an expectation attached. They always want something in return. Like they want you to be happy or whatever and that makes you automatically responsible for their happiness because they won’t be happy unless you are. I just don’t want that responsibility. ~Katja Millay
  4. To say that one waits a lifetime for his soulmate to come around is a paradox. People eventually get sick of waiting, take a chance on someone and by the art of commitment become soulmates, which takes a lifetime to perfect. ~Criss Jami
  5. Every couple has their ups and downs; every couple argues, and that’s the thing; you’re a couple, and couples can’t function without trust. ~Nicholas Sparks
  6. If a girl starts out all casual with a guy and she doesn’t tell him that she wants a relationship, it will never become a relationship. If you give the guy the impression that casual is okay with you, then that’s all he’ll ever want. Be straight with him from the start. If he gets scared and runs away, he wasn’t right for you. ~Susane Colasanti
  7. Women cannot complain about men anymore until they start getting better taste in them. ~Bill Maher
  8. What we wait around a lifetime for with one person, we can find in a moment with someone else. ~Stephanie Klein

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