130 Best Supportive Friends Quotes For a Strong Friendship

Hey there, friends!

You know, I’ve always been a bit of a quote collector. There’s just something special about stumbling upon a few words that can make you smile, think, or even change the way you see the world. It’s like finding a little treasure that you just have to share with others.

Over the years, I’ve gathered a bunch of these little gems about friendship, and they’ve been like cozy companions on my journey. Whether it’s been during the tough times when I needed a pick-me-up, or the happy moments that I wanted to celebrate, these quotes have been there, reminding me of the beauty of connection.

I’ve learned that the right words at the right time can feel like a warm hug from an old friend, and that’s exactly why I want to share some of my favorites with you. I hope they’ll bring a smile to your face, a new perspective to your mind, and maybe even inspire you to reach out to your pals, old and new.

So, whether you’re looking for a little inspiration, a good laugh, or just a reminder of what friendship is all about, I’ve got you covered.

Let’s dive into the wonderful world of friendship quotes together, shall we?

130 Supportive Friends Quotes

• “A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.” – Walter Winchell
• “True friends are never apart, maybe in distance but never in heart.” – Helen Keller
• “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
• “A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.” – Elbert Hubbard
• “Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.” – Mark Twain
• “A good friend is a connection to life – a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world.” – Lois Wyse
• “True friends are like diamonds—bright, beautiful, valuable, and always in style.” – Nicole Richie
• “Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.” – Woodrow Wilson
• “Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer.” – Ed Cunningham
• “A friend is one of the nicest things you can have and one of the best things you can be.” – Douglas Pagels

• “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
• “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
• “In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.” – Khalil Gibran
• “The only way to have a friend is to be one.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
• “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
• “There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.” – Thomas Aquinas
• “A single rose can be my garden… a single friend, my world.” – Leo Buscaglia
• “Friendship is a sheltering tree.” – Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• “Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.” – Aristotle
• “It’s not what we have in life, but who we have in our life that matters.” – Unknown
• “To the world, you may be just one person, but to one person you may be the world.” – Dr. Seuss
• “A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.” – Jim Morrison
• “True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable.” – David Tyson
• “Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.” – Baltasar Gracian
• “Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.” – Tennessee Williams
• “They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.” – Carl W. Buechner 17. “Friends are the siblings God never gave us.” – Mencius

• “A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.” – Arnold H. Glasow
• “Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.” – Khalil Gibran
• “Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.” – Euripides
• “The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.” – Hubert H. Humphrey
• “A friend is what the heart needs all the time.” – Henry Van Dyke
• “What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.” – Confucius
• “The language of friendship is not words but meanings.” – Henry David Thoreau
• “Friends are the family you choose.” – Jess C. Scott
• “No friendship is an accident.” – O. Henry, ‘Heart of the West’
• “Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.” – Samuel Butler
• “The best time to make friends is before you need them.” – Ethel Barrymore
• “Friends are the people who make you smile brighter, laugh louder and live better.” – Unknown
• “A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.” – Donna Roberts
• “Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world.” – John Evelyn
• “One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.” – Euripides

• “A friend to all is a friend to none.” – Aristotle
• “True friendship resists time, distance, and silence.” – Isabel Allende
• “I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.” – Helen Keller
• “Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait for the answer.” – Author Unknown
• “A true friend is someone who is there for you when they would rather be anywhere else.” – Len Wein
• “Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.” – Unknown
• “The best mirror is an old friend.”
• “A friend is one who overlooks your broken fence and admires the flowers in your garden.” – Unknown
• “A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.” – François de La Rochefoucauld
• “Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.” – Marcus Tullius Cicero
• “Friends are the sunshine of life.” – John Hay

• “It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
• “Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend’s success.” – Oscar Wilde
• “Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.” – Anaïs Nin
• “The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing… not healing, not curing… that is a friend who cares.” – Henri Nouwen
• “Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.” – Woodrow T. Wilson
• “True friends are always together in spirit.” – L.M. Montgomery
• “Friendship consists in forgetting what one gives and remembering what one receives.” – Alexander Dumas
• “Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm & constant.” – Socrates
• “Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.” – George Washington
• “No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.” – Alice Walker

• “Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.” – Virginia Woolf
• “Friendship is a wildly underrated medication.” – Anna Deavere Smith
• “The real test of friendship is can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?” – Unknown
• “In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends.” – Unknown
• “A friend is someone who makes it easy to believe in yourself.” – Heidi Wills
• “Friendship is delicate as glass, once broken it can be fixed but there will always be cracks.” – Waqar Ahmed
• “Friends are the bacon bits in the salad bowl of life.” – Unknown
• “A friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future, and accepts you just the way you are.” – Unknown
• “True friendship is when two friends can walk in opposite directions, yet remain side by side.” – Josh Grayson
• “Friendship is not about whom you have known the longest… It is about who came, and never left your side.” – Unknown
• “Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
• “A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.” – William Shakespeare

• “True friends are those rare people who come to find you in dark places and lead you back to the light.” – Unknown
• “Friendship is the purest love.” – Osho
• “It’s not that diamonds are a girl’s best friend, but it’s your best friends who are your diamonds.” – Gina Barreca
• “In my friend, I find a second self.” – Isabel Norton
• “The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend.” – Aristotle
• “Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.” – Aristotle
• “True friends aren’t the ones who make your problems disappear. They are the ones who won’t disappear when you’re facing problems.” – Unknown
• “Friends are medicine for a wounded heart, and vitamins for a hopeful soul.” – Steve Maraboli
• “The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.” – Elisabeth Foley
• “A friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success!” – Doug Larson
• “Friends are the anchors of our life.” – Unknown
• A good friend is like a four-leaf clover; hard to find and lucky to have.” – Irish Proverb
• “True friendship is never serene.” – Marquise de Sevigne
• “Friends are those rare people who ask how we are, and then wait to hear the answer.” – Ed Cunningham
• “You can always tell a real friend: when you’ve made a fool of yourself, he doesn’t feel you’ve done a permanent job.” – Laurence J. Peter
• “It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
• “There’s not a word yet for old friends who’ve just met.” – Jim Henson
• “Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art… It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.” – C.S. Lewis

• “Friends are the most important ingredient in this recipe of life.” – Unknown
• “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.” – Helen Keller
• “A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself—and especially to feel, or not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at any moment is fine with them.” – Jim Morrison
• The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when someone asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.” – Henry David Thoreau
• “There is nothing better than a friend unless it is a friend with chocolate.” – Linda Grayson
• “A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.” – Shania Twain
• “Friendship is the wine of life.” – Edward Young
• “Friends are the chocolate chips in the cookies of life.” – Unknown
• “A true friend is someone who sees the pain in your eyes while everyone else believes the smile on your face.” – Unknown

• “Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, ‘What! You too? I thought I was the only one.'” – Unknown
• “Good friends are like stars. You don’t always see them, but you know they’re always there.” – Unknown
• “In the cookie of life, friends are the chocolate chips.”- Unknown
• “A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.” – Unknown
• “Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.” – Unknown
• “A true friend is someone who listens, understands your tears, and holds your hand through the darkest times.” – Unknown
• “The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.” – Unknown
• “Friends are the family we choose for ourselves.” – Unknown
• “A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.” – Unknown
• “Friendship is not about who you’ve known the longest, it’s about who walked into your life and said, ‘I’m here for you’ and proved it.” – Unknown
• “Friends are like walls, sometimes you lean on them, and sometimes it’s good just knowing they’re there.” – Unknown

• “True friends are like diamonds – bright, beautiful, valuable, and always in style.” – Unknown
• “A good friend knows all your best stories, but a best friend has lived them with you.” – Unknown
• “Friends are the siblings God never gave us.” – Unknown
• “A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.” – Unknown
• “A true friend is one soul in two bodies.” – Unknown
• “Friendship isn’t about whom you have known the longest. It’s about who came and never left your side.” – Unknown
• “A friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future, and accepts you just the way you are.” – Unknown
• “Friends are the sunshine of life.” – Unknown
• “True friends are like rare gems, precious and hard to find.” – Unknown

• “A true friend is someone who is always there for you, no matter what.” – Unknown
• “Friendship is the comfort of knowing that even when you feel alone, you’re not.” – Unknown
• “A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.” – Unknown
• “Friends are like stars, you don’t always see them, but you know they’re always there.” – Unknown
• “A friend is someone who gives you a shoulder to cry on when everyone else has left you alone.” – Unknown
• “True friends are never apart, maybe in distance but never in heart.” – Unknown
• “A friend is someone who knows the song of your heart and can sing it back to you when you forget the words.” – Unknown
• “Friends are like stars in the sky; you may not always see them, but you know they’re always there.” – Unknown
• “A true friend is someone who brings out the best in you, even on your worst days.” – Unknown

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