Free Printable Friendship Quotes for Children and Adults

Quotes to Teach Children About Being a Good Friend

Parents and teachers, now that school is back in session, it's important to stress to children what it means to be a good friend. Too often, students are subject to ridicule and bullying because we are failing to teach our children how to treat others. We are doing them a disservice when we don't teach them how to behave. In an effort to help kids understand how treating others can affect someone, we've compiled these quotes about friendship. Adults can learn from these, too. Share them with your own friends to help spread the word about treating others well. Don't forget to check out the free printable friendship quotes at FreePrintable.com to print out some frame worthy quotes from favorite characters and famous people.

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

~Douglas Pagels

Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself - and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is.

~Jim Morrison

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

True friends will always push you towards the great possibilities of your future, false friends will always chain you to the mistakes in your past.

~Seth Brown

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

A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success!

~Doug Larson

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

~Ed Cunningham

Friendship is the only cure for hatred, the only guarantee of peace.
~Gautama Buddha

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

~Elisabeth Foley

Friend: One who knows all about you and loves you just the same.

~Elbert Hubbard

Friendship is a give and take. You have to have a strong relationship with your friend and I think you have to offer them something and they have to offer you something and that’s to always learn from it.

~Raven Symone

An acquaintance merely enjoys your company, a fair-weather companion flatters when all is well, a true friend has your best interests at heart and the pluck to tell you what you need to hear.

~E.A. Bucchianeri

It costs nothing to ask wise advice from a good friend.

~George S. Clason

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself alone. A man should keep his friendships in constant repair. 

~Samuel Johnson