"Quotes" for Teachers: Friendship

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

A friend is one who knows all about you and loves you just the same.

-Elbert Hubbard

Friendship is like health. It's value is seldom known until it is lost.

-author unknown

Go often to the house of thy friend, for weeds soon choke up the unused path.

-Scandinavian Proverb

A friend is one who walks in when others walk out.

-Walter Winchell

A friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

-Len Wein

A friend is one who believes in you when you have ceased to believe in yourself.

-author unknown

Friends are the bacon bits in the salad bowl of life.

-on a Pizza Place sign

Friendship with oneself is all important because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

-Eleanor Roosevelt

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.

-Henry Ford

A good friend is hard to fine, hard to lose, and impossible to forget.

-author unknown

Everyone hears what you say. Friends listen to what you say. Best friends listen to what you don't say.

-author unknown

To the world you may be just one person, but to one person, you may be the world.

-Brandi Snyder

A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be.

-Douglas Pagels

If 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.

-Edgar Watson Howe

The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.

-Elisabeth Foley

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

-Donna Roberts

Our most difficult ask as a friend is to offer understanding when we don't understand.

-Robert Brault

Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.

-Shirley Maclaine

The best times to make friends is before you need them.

-Ethel Barrymore

If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. but if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue.

-Alice Miller

You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.

-Indira Gandhi

One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of this life.

-E.M. Forster

"Stay" is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.

-Louisa May Alcott

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

-Abraham Lincoln

We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.

-Robert Louis Stevenson

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

-Alice Walker

Remember, no man is a failure who has friends.

-It's a Wonderful Life

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.