Happy Friendship Day Wishes

At every stage of life, we need friends. They help us discover ourselves and push our limits. In times of celebration, friends share our joy and make us feel special. In times of grief, our friends lend us a shoulder for comfort. And when we are upset or confused, friends help us to see things differently.

It is easy to take friendship for granted. Over the years, complacency sets in and we forget our friends.

Friendship, like all other relationships, requires commitment. If you want to have a true friend, you have to be one. Stick by your friends when they need you. That does not mean you shower them with money and material gifts. True friendship can never be sought with money. However an act of kindness and loyalty will earn you a lifetime of true friendship.

On Friendship Day, renew your ties with long lost friends. Send out Friendship Day wishes to school friends, college buddies, ex-roommates, and office colleagues. Reach out to those friends who inspire you. Organize a get-together at your favorite restaurant or cafe, and reconnect with old ties.

• Henry David Thoreau
  The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
• George Washington
  True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.

• Kahlil Gibran
  Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.
• George Washington
  Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for ’tis better to be alone than in bad company.
• Benjamin Disraeli
  There is magic in the memory of schoolboy friendships; it softens the heart, and even affects the nervous system of those who have no heart.
• Walt Whitman
  I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don’t believe I deserved my friends.
• Anatole Broyard
  When friends stop being frank and useful to each other, the whole world loses some of its radiance.
• Tahar Ben Jelloun
  Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare — and precious as a pearl.
• Woodrow Wilson
  Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.
• John Evelyn
  Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world.
• Henry Adams
  Friends are born, not made.
• William Arthur Ward
  When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.
• Charles Dickens
  Friendship? Yes Please.
• Martin Luther King Jr.
  In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
• Chinese Proverb
  Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend’s forehead.
• Persian Proverb
  It is better to be in chains with friends, than to be in a garden with strangers.
• Francis Bacon
  This communicating of a man’s self to his friend works two contrary effects; for it redoubleth joy, and cutteth griefs in half.
• Tehyi Hsieh
  Life is partly what we make it, and partly what is made by the friends whom we choose.
• Edward Everett Hale
  The making of friends, who are real friends, is the best token we have of a man’s success in life.
• Oliver Wendell Holmes
  Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies; they are ready enough to tell them.
• Henry David Thoreau
  The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. I have no wealth to bestow on him. If he knows that I am happy in loving him, he will want no other reward. Is not friendship divine in this?
• James Fenimore Cooper
  Friendship that flows from the heart cannot be frozen by adversity, as the water that flows from the spring cannot congeal in winter.
• James Francis Byrnes
  Friendship without self interest is one of the rare and beautiful things in life.
• Anna Cummins
  Do not save your loving speeches
  For your friends till they are dead;
  Do not write them on their tombstones,
  Speak them rather now instead.
• Miguel de Cervantes
  Tell me what company thou keepst, and I’ll tell thee what thou art.
• Alexander Pope
  True friendship’s laws are by this rule express’d,
  Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.
• Jacques Delille
  Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.