125 Inspiring Friendship Quotes for Men

Inspirational Quotes for Brotherhood

“The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.” – Henry David Thoreau

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

“My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.” – Henry Ford

“A friend is someone who makes it easy to believe in yourself.” – Heidi Wills

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

“Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends, for it is one of God’s greatest gifts. It involves many things, but above all the power of going out of one’s self and appreciating what is noble and loving in another.” – Thomas Hughes

“A single rose can be my garden… a single friend, my world.” – Leo Buscaglia

“Don’t make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.” – Thomas J. Watson

“Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you; spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life.” – Amy Poehler

“Anything is possible when you have the right people there to support you.” – Misty Copeland

“When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand.” – Henri Nouwen

“In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.” – Albert Schweitzer

“Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.” – Maya Angelou

“You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.” – Dale Carnegie

“The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.” – Hubert H. Humphrey

“Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.” – Francesco Guicciardini

“The best time to make friends is before you need them.” – Ethel Barrymore

“Getting to know new people and gaining new friends is one of life’s greatest pleasures. So conquer your fears and get out there.” – Tony Clark

“Each new friendship can make you a new person, because it opens up new doors inside of you.” – Kate DiCamillo

“A friend may be waiting behind a stranger’s face.” – Maya Angelou

“Don’t be afraid of new beginnings. Don’t shy away from new people, new energy, new surroundings. Embrace new chances at happiness.” – Billy Chapata

“For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.” – Audrey Hepburn

“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

“The kindest way of helping yourself is to find a friend.” – Ann Kaiser Stearns

“Keep away from those who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you believe that you too can become great.” – Mark Twain

“If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone.” – Maxwell Maltz

Heartfelt Friendship Day Quotes for Men

“Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.” – Marcel Proust

“A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.” – Elbert Hubbard

“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 Brault

“Some people arrive and make such a beautiful impact on your life, you can barely remember what life was like without them.” – Anna Taylor

“Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

“True friends are like diamonds – bright, beautiful, valuable, and always in style.” – Nicole Richie

“There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.” – Thomas Aquinas

“Friends are the siblings God never gave us.” – Mencius

“Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.” – Tennessee Williams

“I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.” – Helen Keller

“The love that comes from friendship is the underlying facet of a happy life.” – Chelsea Handler

“Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.” – Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

“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

“True friends are never apart, maybe in distance but never in heart.” – Helen Keller

“The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.” – Elisabeth Foley

“Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.” – Elie Wiesel

“I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let’s face it, friends make life a lot more fun.” – Charles R. Swindoll

“Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.” – Khalil Gibran

“In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, for in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.” – Khalil Gibran

“A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they’re not so good, and sympathizes with your problems when they’re not so bad.” – Arnold H. Glasgow

“Growing apart doesn’t change the fact that for a long time we grew side by side; our roots will always be tangled. I’m glad for that.” – Ally Condie

“When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands.” – Maria Shriver

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

Humorous Friendship Quotes for Guys

“A good friend will help you move. But a best friend will help you move a dead body.” – Jim Hayes

“The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they’re OK, then it’s you.” – Rita Mae Brown

“My friends and I are crazy. That’s the only thing that keeps us sane.” – Matt Schucker

“The capacity for friendship is God’s way of apologizing for our families.” – Jay McInerney

“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

“I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell – you see, I have friends in both places.” – Mark Twain

“A good friend will always stab you in the front.” – Oscar Wilde

“Most of us don’t need a psychiatric therapist as much as a friend to be silly with.” – Robert Brault

“‘Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respected.” – Charles Lamb

“There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.” – Linda Grayson

“Friends make you smile – best friends make you giggle ’til you pee your pants.” – Terri Guillemets

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

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

“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

“The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn’t exist.” – Aaron Machado

“Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.” – Samuel Butler

“One good reason to only maintain a small circle of friends is that three out of four murders are committed by people who know the victim.” – George Carlin

“There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.” – Sylvia Plath

“Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn’t seem to crack. Women treat it like glass, and it goes to pieces.” – Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“One sure way to lose another woman’s friendship is to try to improve her flower arrangements.” – Marcelene Cox

“It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart: the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.” – Mark Twain

“I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.” – Jane Austen

“You find out who your real friends are when you’re involved in a scandal.” – Elizabeth Taylor

“The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.” – Mark Twain

“When you’re in jail, a good friend will be trying to bail you out. A best friend will be in the cell next to you saying, ‘Damn, that was fun.’” – Groucho Marx

Sentimental and Meaningful Quotes on Brotherhood

“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

“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

“There’s not a word yet for old friends who’ve just met.” – Jim Henson

“If ever there is tomorrow when we’re not together… there is something you must always remember. You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. But the most important thing is, even if we’re apart… I’ll always be with you.” – Winnie the Pooh

“Close friends are truly life’s treasures. Sometimes they know us better than we know ourselves.” – Vincent Van Gogh

“That’s when I realized what a true friend was. Someone who would always love you – the imperfect you, the confused you, the wrong you – because that is what people are supposed to do.” – R. J. L.

“True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable.” – David Tyson

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

“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

“Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare – and precious as a pearl.” – Tahar Ben Jelloun

“A friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future and accepts you just the way you are.” – Unknown

“Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.” – Washington Irving

“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

“The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another’s little lapses.” – David Storey

“True friends are always together in spirit.” – L.M. Montgomery

“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. That’s what real love amounts to – letting a person be what he really is.” – Jim Morrison

“Real friendship or love is not manufactured or achieved by an act of will or intention. Friendship is always an act of recognition.” – John O’Donohue

“She is a friend of my mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order.” – Toni Morrison

“But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.” – Thomas Jefferson

“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 golden thread that ties the heart of all the world.” – John Evelyn

“Don’t walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don’t walk behind me; I may not lead. Just walk beside me and be my friend.” – Albert Camus

“Never leave a friend behind. Friends are all we have to get us through this life—and they are the only things from this world that we could hope to see in the next.” – Dean Koontz

“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you… I could walk through my garden forever.” – Alfred Tennyson

“Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.” – Oscar Wilde

Short Friendship Day Quotes for Men (Perfect for Instagram)

“The best mirror is an old friend.” – George Herbert

“Time doesn’t take away from friendship, nor does separation.” – Tennessee Williams

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

“Friends are the family you choose.” – Jess C. Scott

“It’s the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.” – Marlene Dietrich

“Good friends are like stars. You don’t always see them, but you know they’re always there.” – Unknown

“A good friend is like a four-leaf clover; hard to find and lucky to have.” – Irish Proverb

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

“Friendship is a wildly underrated medication.” – Anna Deavere Smith

“To the world you may be just one person, but to one person you may be the world.” – Dr. Seuss

“A friend is one who overlooks your broken fence and admires the flowers in your garden.” – Unknown

“Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.” – Woodrow T. Wilson

“No friendship is an accident.” – O. Henry

“A sweet friendship refreshes the soul.” – Proverbs 27:9

“Friendship’s the wine of life.” – Edward Young

“Friends are relatives you make for yourself.” – Eustache Deschamps

“Best friend isn’t a person; it’s a tier.” – Mindy Kaling

“Friends should be like books, few, but hand-selected.” – C.J. Langenhoven

“Awards become corroded. Friends gather no dust.” – Jesse Owens

“A faithful friend loves to the end.” – Unknown

“Some people go to priests. Others to poetry. I to my friends.” – Virginia Woolf

“Life was meant for good friends and great adventures.” – Unknown

“In the cookie of life, friends are chocolate chips.” – Salman Rushdie

“Distance means so little when someone means so much.” – Tom McNeal

“Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.” – G. Randolph

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