70 Quotes About Friendship For Children

Quotes About Friendship This page contains a large list of quotes about friends that school teachers can use to remind their students about the importance of being kind and thoughtful friends to all of their classmates.

If you are looking for inspiring friendship quotes to use for educational publications and social media purposes, you'll discover some touching quotes below.

Below you will find 70 quotes about friendship.
There are 9 FREE posters to download on this page.

For your convenience, my list of friendship quotes is in alphabetical order.

On this page, you will find more than 70 quotes about friendship for children.

For some of the quotes on this page, I have designed a one page printable poster that you can download for free.

You can print these free posters and display them on a chalkboard, whiteboard, or a bulletin board in your classroom. You may also want to display these inspiring quotes in the staff room at your school.

I will be designing more graphics for these quotes about friendship for children during the school year and adding them to this page, so please check back here from time to time.

"A best friend is a sister that destiny forgot to give you."

~ Author Unknown

"A brother is not always a friend, but a friend is always a brother."

~ Author Unknown

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"A circle is round and has no end, that's how long I want to be your friend."

~ Author Unknown

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

~ Jim Morrison

"A friend is someone who reached for your hand and touched your heart."

~ Author Unknown

"A friend may be waiting behind a stranger's face."

~ Maya Angelou

"A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature."

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

"A good friend remembers what we were and sees what we can be."

~ Author Unknown

"Aim to make a positive difference in someone's life every single day ... including your own."

~ Doe Zantamata

"A little consideration, a little thought for others, makes all the difference."

~ A. A. Milne
Pooh's Little Instruction Book

"Always hold your head up, but be careful to keep your nose at a friendly level."

~ Max L. Forman

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

~ Abraham Lincoln

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"A true friend is one who thinks you are a good egg even if you are half-cracked."

~ Author Unknown

"Be grateful for friends who make you smile without even saying a word."

~ Doe Zantamata

"Being honest may not get you a lot of friends, but it'll always get you the right ones."

~ John Lennon

"Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself."

~ Henry James

"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

Quotes About Friendship Just walk beside me and be my friend.

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I may not lead.
Don't walk in front of me;
I may not follow.
Just walk beside me
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I may not follow.
Just walk beside me
and be my friend."
Albert Camus

"Even the smallest act of service, the simplest act of kindness, is a way to honor those we lost, a way to reclaim that spirit of unity that followed 9/11."

~ President Barack Obama

"Everyone, no matter how big and strong, could use a little help sometimes. Never be afraid to ask for help when you need it. What are we here for, if not for each other?

~ Doe Zantamata

"Everyone wants 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

"Friends are kisses blown to us by angels."

~ Author Unknown

"Friends are the angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly."

~ Lorraine K. Mitchell

"Friends are the chocolate chips in the cookie of life."

~ Author Unknown

"Friends buy you lunch. Best friends eat your lunch."

~ Author Unknown

"Friendship is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything."

~ Muhammad Ali

"Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together."

~ Woodrow Wilson

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"If ever there is a 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."

~ A. A. Milne
Christopher Robin to Winnie the Pooh

"If you can't feed a hundred people, then just feed one."

~ Mother Teresa

"If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you."

~ A.A. Milne, Winnie the Pooh

"It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like "What about lunch?"

~ A. A. Milne
Pooh's Little Instruction Book

"It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice."

~ Author Unknown

"It's so much more friendly with two."

~ A. A. Milne
Pooh's Little Instruction Book

"It takes a long time to grow an old friend."

~ John Leonard

"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

"I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light."

~ Helen Keller

"Like the ripple effect of a pebble tossed into a pond, your smile will spread far beyond the first person who receives it."

~ Danielle Cearbaugh

"Many people will walk in and out of your life but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart."

~ Eleanor Roosevelt

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

~ Henry Ford

"No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another."

~ Author Unknown

"No road is long with good company."

~ Author Unknown

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"Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it."

~ Thomas Jefferson

"Peace begins with a smile."

~ Mother Teresa

"Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think."

~ A.A. Milne

"T.E.A.M. = Together Everyone Achieves More!"

~ Author Unknown

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"The best thing about having a sister was that I always had a friend."

~ Cali Rae Turner

"The best time to make friends is before you need them."

~ Ether Barrymore

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

~ Elisabeth Foley

"The only people with whom you should try to get even are those who have helped you."

~ John E. Southard

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

~ Author Unknown

"There are good ships and wood ships, ships that sail the sea, but the best ships are friendships, may they always be!"

~ Irish Proverb

"There are no strangers in here, just friends you haven't met."

~ Roald Dahl

"The world is round so that friendship may encircle it."

~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

"Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third is to be kind."

~ Henry James

"To deny anyone else's special brilliance is to deny your own. Rejoice in others' light and you shine more brightly."

~ Jacob Nordby

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

~ Author Unknown

"True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable."

~ Dave Tyson Gentry

"Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget."

~ G. Randolf

"We'll be friends forever, won't we, Pooh?" asked Piglet. "Even longer," Pooh answered.

~ A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

"We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do."

~ Mother Teresa

"What is a friend? I will tell you...it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself."

~ Frank Crane

"What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal."

~ Albert Camus

"Whenever ideas are shared, the result is always greater than the sum of the parts."

~ Rich Willis

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Rich Willis

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the result is always greater
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"When I see you through my eyes, I think that we are different. When I see you through my heart, I know we are the same."

~ Doe Zantamata

"Whoever is happy will make others happy too."

~ Anne Frank

"Why did you do all this for me?" he asked.
"I don't deserve it. I've never done anything
for you."

"You have been my friend," replied Charlotte. "That in itself is a tremendous thing."

~ E.B. White, Charlotte's Web

"Why fit in when you were born to stand out?"

~ Dr. Seuss

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"You become like the five people you spend the most time with. Choose carefully."

~ Author Unknown

"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

"You can't stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes."

~ A. A. Milne
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