93 Meaningful Friendship Quotes
A collection of meaningful friendship quotes and sayings to remind you how special friends are. Find short and heartfelt words to share with your friends.Friendship means sharing, caring, and being the friend that you want to have as a friend. There is nothing like the companionship and the understanding of a close friend. The relationship between people that share a fellowship is one where respect and an affinity towards each other are shown.
There is nothing like the companionship and camaraderie that is shared between people who have developed a friendship. They have a significant impact on our lives. They provide uplifting words and encouragement when we face difficult times. This is reflected in the words of Walter Winchell, "A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out."
There is a bond and a connection we feel when a friendship occurs. Let the words below reflect what a meaningful friendship looks like.
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God cares, he places friends in our lives to inspire us in the good times and the bad.
Sam Fickinsen
Christian Poems -
Among the finest gifts of life is friendship, good and true -
The kind of friendship I have found so nicely in you.
Author Unknown
Quotes For A Friend -
Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
Mark Twain
Inspirational Poems -
To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thoughts expressed - that can make life a garden.
Goethe
Garden Poems -
"You need friendships that build you up and never tear you down."
Larry Hagner, The Dad's Edge
Poems of Encouragement
A friend should be a source of encouragement and support, if they do not encourage and support you they are not a friend they are just an acquaintance. -
Happiness and friendship take away the hardship
Catherine Pulsifer, Rainbows & Lollipops
Birthday Poems -
"I think there is a thread that runs through each friendship
and keeps it going no words necessary. Each knows what the
other knows about him through good times and bad."
Lauren Bacall
Train Of Life Poem
A bond and an affinity develops friendships -
The years have passed us by but our friendship no one can deny. God sends us friends to bless us and you in my life has been a plus.
Catherine Pulsifer, Friends Like You
Birthday Poem For Friend -
Miles apart, yet heart and spirit entwined, for true friendship knows no spatial confined!
Catherine Pulsifer, What A Treasure
True Friend Poem -
If you treat your friends with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience you will find true friendship.
Catherine Pulsifer
Verses About Friendship -
A friend like you to share the school years - you're different than my other peers - has been only the best, we survived and passed all the tests.
Graduation Poems -
Filled with unconditional love, our friendship remains dear, we've shared so many moments
Catherine Pulsifer, One Of A Kind
Valentine Poems For Friends -
Let the friends around you know the love you have before they go, show it now.
Chas. R. Skinner, Now
Kindness Poems -
Thanks...for the friendship that reaches a kindly hand.
Christie Lund, Thanks
Be Thankful Poems -
The key to friendship with God is not changing what you do,
but changing your attitude toward what you do.
Brother Lawrence
Poems About God
A relationship with God changes not only your life, but the life of those around you -
In life's ups and its downs, in its crosses or crowns, you must never go back on a friend!
John Imrie, Never Go Back On A Friend
Friendship Poems -
Friendship blossoms as we play, sharing laughter along the way, with excitement, let us unfold, for personal growth is life's pure gold.
Catherine Pulsifer, Life's Pure Gold
Poems About Growth -
Forgiveness is a strange thing. It can sometimes be easier to forgive our enemies than our friends. It can be hardest of all to forgive people we love.
Fred Rogers
Forgiveness Quotes -
The relationship between husband and wife should be one of closest friends.
B. R. Ambedkar
Birthday Poems for Wife -
Should a friend be in need of advice or kind deed. Don't begrudge him your comfort to lend
John Imrie, Stand By Your Friend
Adversity Poems -
When saying "Thank you" you have an opportunity to let family or friends know how much their deed,
words, or kindness meant to you.
Robyn Freedman Spizman, The Thank You Book
Never take a friendship for granted, always express appreciation and thanks.
Thank You Friend Poems -
You realize the importance of relationships and enjoy the time in friendships.
Catherine Pulsifer, Middle Age
Roses Are Red Birthday Poems -
Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.
Woodrow T. Wilson
Famous Poems About Life
A great quote that holds much truth, think of the times in your life when you need help or support - friends are there when we need them -
For all the friends to us so dear....my heart breaks out in joy and sings
Thanksgiving.
Cobb, Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving Poems -
Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.
Jean de La Fontaine
Valentines Day Poems -
Say well has friends, some here, some there, but do well is welcome everywhere.
Unknown, Do Well
Good Poems -
July 30th is the day to celebrate love and laughter among mates - International Friendship Day, it is to cherish bonds of love and bliss.
Catherine Pulsifer, Friendship Day
July Poems -
So farewell, until we meet again, our friendship will always remain.
Catherine Pulsifer, Goodbye My Friend
Goodbye Poems For A Friend -
...a smile is always sure to bring you new friends day by day.
Edgar Nye, Keep Smiling
Smile Poems -
Love is friendship set on fire and you are my spark.
Unknown
Love Poems For Husband -
I'll be rich wherever I may go, because I've had a friend, and I have known a peaceful joy that some one trusted me
Christine Grunt Curless, Abundance
Abundance Poem -
No other friend thy place can fill - though absent we shall claim thee still
Grinnell Willis, Dear Friend
Goodbye Poems -
The roads of happiness are lined, not with the friends of royal splendor, but with the loyal friends and kind
Edgar A. Guest, The Roads of Happiness
Poems About Happiness -
"Somebody once said that love may not be any part of friendship but friendship must always exist for love to be happy."
Sydney Smith
No relationship survives without love!
Short Love Poems -
You understand me wholly and embrace the things I do, from your kind words of wisdom to being my buddy too!
Catherine Pulsifer, One Of A Kind
Valentines Quotes for Friendship -
My wife is my soul mate. I can't imagine being without her.
Matt Damon
Wife Poem -
Our bond of friendship, I cherish even when you act like a clown.
Catherine Pulsifer, Happy 21st Birthday My Friend
21st Birthday Poems -
Reading brings us unknown friends.
Honore de Belzac
Quotes about Reading -
When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.
W. Somerset Maugham
Quotes About Character -
Being grandparents sufficiently removes us from the responsibilities so that we can be friends.
Allan Frome
Quotes on Grandparents -
Narrow-minded men and women...will only give you distorted ideas of life, ideas that will change the sunniest and most healthful disposition into one morose, churlish and ill-natured. Be careful then, whom you choose for your companions.
Unknown, Choose Your Companions Well
Poems For Teenagers -
A sister is a sibling who usually becomes a friend. But a friend in a stronger way than your regular friendships.
Catherine Pulsifer
Sister Poems -
Home is where the friends that love to our hearts are given
Unknown, Where Is Home?
Poems About Home -
Friends are the most important part of your life. Treasure the tears, treasure the laughter, but most importantly, treasure the memories.
Dave Brenner
Encouragement Quotes -
But now we older and friends we are - you even let me borrow your car - I couldn't ask for a better brother
Kate Summers, The Best
Brother Poems -
A daughter is a friend one who sticks with you to the end.
Catherine Pulsifer, A Daughter Is
Poems About Daughter -
Living friendly, feeling friendly, acting fairly to all men, seeking to do that to others they may do to me again.
Joseph Hobbins, You Ask Me How I Live
Words To Live By -
Saying goodbye is not the end because we will always be friends!
Catherine Pulsifer
Saying Goodbye Poem -
This day hath parted friends that ne'er before were parted; it hath knit new friendships
William Cullen Bryant, Summer Evening
Summer Poems -
That friend, and the greatest of all earthly friends is Mother
Burton A. Washburn, Mother! The Greatest Of All Earthly Friends
Mothers Day Poems -
What shall I do, my friend, when you are gone forever?
Mary Clemmer, What Shall I Do
Funeral Poems -
Empathy is about standing shoulder to shoulder with a friend, facing life together.
Tracy Wilde, Finding the Lost Art of Empathy
Poems About Life -
Our lives should be bright while we live, like these flowers, and cheer our dear friends in their sad weary hours.
Eloise A. Skimings, Our Lives Like Flowers
Only A Flower Poems -
Promise me you'll keep me in your thoughts and never forget the friendship we've wrought. Our time together has been great and I would hate to see our friendship break.
Catherine Pulsifer, Never Forget
Forget Me Not Poem -
Blessings are like friends, I hold, who love and labor near us. We ought to raise our notes of praise while living hearts can hear us.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Thanksgiving Chorus
Thanksgiving Wishes -
A sister in a friend will come and go but a friend in a sister will always remain.
Author Unknown
Sister Quotes -
My brother is a true friend of mine, he is always loyal and true. No matter what the situation he always comes through
Catherine Pulsifer, You Are The Best Brother
Brother Poems From Sister -
You are my best friend, my human diary and my other half.
Author Unknown
Birthday Poems For Her -
For friends aren't like family, they are someone you choose.
They love you not because they have to, but because they want to.
Julie Hebert
While family is important there is a difference between family and friends. As Julie states we choose our friends!
Poems About Family -
...summer friends will melt away like summer snows, but winter friends are friends forever.
George R.R. Martin
Winter Poems -
A sister is a sibling who usually becomes a friend. But a friend in a stronger way than your regular friendships.
Catherine Pulsifer
Sister Poems -
Today you're more than, just a grandmother to me. You're my friend, and someone I aspire to be.
Julie Hebert, To My Grandmother
Grandma Poems -
Though our days here now come to an end, may our friendship remain after all is said and done.
Catherine Pulsifer, Winds Of Change
Graduation Wishes For A Friend -
Love is like a friendship caught on fire.
Bruce Lee
What Is Love Poem -
Don't imagine you are wasting time for others that you spend: you can rise to wealth and glory and still pause to be a friend.
Edgar A. Guest, It Isn't Costly
Poems About Money -
I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.
Emerson, Thanksgiving For My Friends
Thanksgiving Friendship Poem -
The generous man robs none of gladness- and never scorns old friends for new.
Richard Henry Stoddard, Roses, I See The Sweetest Roses
Rose Poems -
The friend of tomorrow is the one who has remained through the swamps and quagmires of life.
Theodore W. Higgingsworth
And, we all have the swamps and quagmires in this life - true friends stick with us no matter how deep the swamp -
The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends
Shirley MacLaine
Poems About Travel -
A soulmate is someone who has locks that fit our keys,
and keys to fit our locks.
Richard Bach
Soulmate Poems -
"May laughter fill your home, relieve your stress, and strengthen your friendships."
Catherine Pulsifer
Laugh Quotes
Laughter keeps friendships strong. -
My only prayer is, while I live, - God make me worthy of my friends!
Frank Dempster Sherman, Joy In Life
Poems About Joy -
My books, my friends in solitude...whose silent voices gently speak in the great thoughts I love to seek.
Unknown, Friends In Solitude
Poems About Books -
Are you willing... To stop asking how much your friends love you, and to ask yourself if you love them enough
Henry VanDyke, Ready To Keep Christmas
Christmas Card Poem -
Best friendships are roots.
Jerry Jenkins, Twelve Things I Want my Kids to Remember
Best Friend Poems
The closeness we develop with people happens over time. -
... a friend's face when seen again sets the heart-pulses ringing
Arthur Linton, Rain
Nature Poems -
A great friend gives expecting nothing in return
Jennifer Price
Desiderata Poem
This quote reflects a key to success in friendship. -
Let us seek friends that will stir up our prayers, our Bible reading, our use of time, and our salvation.
J. C. Ryle
Quotes About The Bible -
Hope as you may for the dearest of friends is not given to you unless you at first are that dear friend to someone else.
Byron R. Pulsifer
Poems About Hope -
Life is woven with the threads of friendship, creating a masterpiece that reflects God's grace and love.
Author Unknown
Quotes About God's Grace -
Friends should be like books, easy to find when you need them, but seldom used.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Book Quotes
A famous Emerson quote that holds much truth. Never use a friend, it can destroy a relationship. -
The generous man robs none of gladness. And never scorns old friends for new.
Richard Henry Stoddard, Roses, I See The Sweetest Roses
Rose Poems -
May good and faithful friends be yours, wherever you may roam.
Irish Saying
Irish Blessing -
True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable.
David Tyson
Meaningful Poems
The intimacy and closeness among people can be felt even when there is no verbal communication. -
Sharing what is real about you is the key to building real relationships with others.
Michelle Tillis Lederman, The Connector’s Advantage
Poems For Women -
"Close friends become family and family is the true center of the universe."
Dave Marinaccio
Thinking Of You Poems -
So, another year passes, another year older
Be happy, be joyful, don't let your heart get colder Catherine Pulsifer, Birthday Wishes
Birthday Poems For A Friend -
My prayers shall first be upward sent for those dear friends of mine who lent
Encouragement.
Douglas Malloch, Encouragement
Famous Poets -
Through good luck or woe, the sweetest pal I know, my Mother!
Tiny Stoufer, My Mother
Poems About Mothers -
"Friendship is, strictly speaking, reciprocal benevolence,
which inclines each party to be solicitous for the welfare of the
other as for his own. This equality of affection is created and preserved
by a similarity of disposition and manners."
Plato
Appreciation Quotes - Though distance may keep us apart, our friendship will forever live in my heart. Catherine Pulsifer, Bid You Adieu
- In today's harried world of instant gratification and hundreds of pseudo-friends on social media, it is worth remembering and exercising the simple truth that sincere, deep, friendship is a holistic joy. A joy that, long-term, will do more for your well-being than the next promotion at work. Heidi Tempest, New Day New Way
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Planning a successful vacation with friends can be an enjoyable wonderful bonding experience.
Deanna Williams, Planning a Vacation with Friends
Vacation Quotes
can conquer life's stormy weather
Short but Meaningful
While these friendship quotations may be short, they contain significant words that are indicative of what a friendship means. Many time you will find the wisest and deepest words can also be the briefest number of words!
but with one who is dear!
never goes out of style
Inspirational And Uplifting
Be motivated and inspire others by these inspirational and uplifting quotations. Quotations expressing heartfelt affection that shows the comfort and relationship between companions."A true friend is someone who thinks that
you are a good egg even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked."
But you my friend are truly a treasure!
As famous words state:
"To the world you may be just one person, but to one person you may be the world."
With a friend by your side
Friendship Poems
We hope these meaningful friendship quotes are ones that you will share with your friends. The mutual affection shared and felt between friends is comforting and rewarding in a relationship between people. Friends could be people we have known since childhood or it could be relationships developed at work, and for many friendships are family members. No matter who your friends are we see meaningful relationships having a positive impact on our lives! We hope the quotations and sayings are ones that you will share with others.
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