28 Short Quotes About Friends (True Friends)

Are you looking for a short quote about friendship? A quote that quickly helps to articulate just how much they mean to you? Well, you’re in the right place, because the following collection of short quotes about friends all highlight how grateful we are to have true friends around us to share our journey in life.

Quotes like these can help us to put in simple words, just how important true friends are.

Whether they are old or new friends, friends ‘for a season’ or friends ‘for a reason’, special friendships are definitely part of the highlights in our lives. They add fun and laughter, allow us to bounce ideas off and support us in times of need.

Short Friendship Quotes

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

The only way to have a friend is to be one. Ralph Waldo Emerson

The best mirror is an old friend. Peter Nivio Zarlenga

I don’t need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better. Plutarch

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

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. Unknown

Friends are those rare people who ask how we are, and then wait to hear the answer. Ed Cunningham

A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails. Donna Roberts

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them. Ralph Waldo Emerson

One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim. Henry Adams

A heart makes a good home for the friend. Yunus Emre

A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked. Bernard Meltzer

Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness. Richard Bach

You cannot get me to be disloyal to a friend. You just can’t do it. Loyalty is a part of what I live by. I didn’t say I was going to be loyal to my friend because he was right. I’m going to be loyal to my friend because he’s, my friend. Jim Brown

A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself. Jim Morrison

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend. William Blake

It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered. Aeschylus

No person is your friend who demands your silence or denies your right to grow. Alice Walker

A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have. Abraham Lincoln

I think a good friend, to me, is all about trust and loyalty. You don’t ever want to second-guess whether you can tell your friend something. Lauren Conrad

When a friend is in trouble, don’t annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it. E. W. Howe

Of all possessions a friend is the most precious. Herodotus

Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend – or a meaningful day. Dalai Lama

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer. Jean de La Fontaine

A true friend is someone who is there for you when he’d rather be anywhere else. Len Wein

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light. Helen Keller

If you go looking for a friend, you’re going to find they’re very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you’ll find them everywhere. Zig Ziglar

We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence. Joseph Roux

There is no doubt that friends are a true treasure in our lives. When we practice gratitude, we will (hopefully) notice just how luckily we are to have great friends by our side. If you’re interested in more inspiring words about friendships, be sure to check out: