Friendship Day Quotes 2018: Heartwarming Sayings To Celebrate Your Companions

Friendship day is celebrated worldwide on the first Sunday of August. The day was originally founded in 1919 with an intention to give people an opportunity to celebrate the bond of friendship by sending cards to each other. Winnie the Pooh was named the world’s Ambassador of Friendship by the United Nations in 1998.

Though the United Nations officially recognized 30th July as International Friendship Day in April 2011, most countries continue to celebrate it on the first Sunday of August.

On this special occasion, let's look at heart-warming quotes and sayings about companionship from Good Reads and Brainy Quotes.

1. “The strong bond of friendship is not always a balanced equation; friendship is not always about giving and taking in equal shares. Instead, friendship is grounded in a feeling that you know exactly who will be there for you when you need something, no matter what or when,” — Simon Sinek, author.

2. “True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing,” — Baltasar Gracian, writer

3. “I think if I've learned anything about friendship, it's to hang in, stay connected, fight for them, and let them fight for you. Don't walk away, don't be distracted, don't be too busy or tired, don't take them for granted. Friends are part of the glue that holds life and faith together. Powerful stuff,” – Jon Katz, journalist

4. “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, boxer

5. "A true friend unbosoms freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably," — William Penn, entrepreneur

6. "Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather is one of those things that give value to survival,” — C. S. Lewis, novelist

7. "My friends have made the story of my life. In a thousand ways they have turned my limitations into beautiful privileges," — Helen Keller , author

8. “A healthy friendship is one where you share your true feelings without fearing the end of the relationship. It's also one where you sometimes have to let things that bug you slide. The tough moments will make you wiser about yourself and each other. They will also make you stronger and closer as friends,” — Rachel Simmons, author

9. “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, priest

10. “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, 3rd U.S. president