88 Friendship Quotes Your Best Friend Will Love

Friendship Quotes

1. “ Best friends are the people in your life who make you laugh louder, smile brighter and live better. ”

— Unknown

2. “ A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out. ”

— Walter Winchell

3. “ 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

4. “ Love is friendship set on fire. ”

— Jeremy Taylor

5. “ A strong friendship doesn’t need daily conversation, doesn’t always need togetherness, as long as the relationship lives in the heart, true friends will never part. ”

— Unknown

6. “ A friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future, and accepts you just the way you are. ”

— Unknown

7. “ Friendship is accepting a person with all their qualities — good and bad. ”

— Mohanlal

8. “ Don’t make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up. ”

— Thomas J. Watson

9. “ Each new friendship can make you a new person, because it opens up new doors inside of you. ”

— Kate DiCamillo

10. “ Growing apart doesn’t change the fact that for a long time we grew side by side; our roots will always be tangled. I’m glad for that. ”

— Ally Condie

11. “ There are friendships imprinted in our hearts that will never be diminished by time and distance. ”

— Dodinsky

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

— Elisabeth Foley

13. “ The kindest way of helping yourself is to find a friend. ”

— Ann Kaiser Stearns

14. “ Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. ”

—  Marcel Proust

15. “ Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare — and precious as a pearl. ”

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

16. “ Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born. ”

— Anais Nin

17. “ That’s when I realized what a true friend was. Someone who would always love you — the imperfect you, the confused you, the wrong you — because that is what people are supposed to do. ”

— Unknown

18. “ Lots of people want 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

19. “ Distance means so little, when someone means so much. ”

— Distance means so little, when someone means so much.

20. “ Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose. ”

— Tennessee Williams

21. “ Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity. ”

— Khalil Gibran

22. “ In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, for in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed. ”

— Khalil Gibran

23. “ A friend can tell you things you don’t want to tell yourself. ”

— Frances Ward Weller

24. “ They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel. ”

— Carl W. Buechner

25. “ Best friends. Because if anyone else heard our conversations we’d end up in the mental hospital. ”

— Unknown

26. “ It’s not what we have in life, but who we have in our life that matters. ”

— Unknown

27. “ Never let your best friends get lonely…keep disturbing them. ”

— Candlelight Publications

28. “ Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you; spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life. ”

— Amy Poehler

29. “ There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship. ”

— Thomas Aquinas

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

— Dr. Seuss

31. “ A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails. ”

— Donna Roberts

32. “ For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone. ”

— Audrey Hepburn

33. “ A best friend is someone who makes you laugh even when you think you’ll never smile again. ”

— Unknown

34. “ A friend is one who overlooks your broken fence and admires the flowers in your garden. ”

— Unknown

35. “ Friendship is so weird…you just pick a human you’ve met and you’re like ‘Yep, I like this one’ and you just do stuff with them. ”

— Unknown

36. “ The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched — they must be felt with the heart. ”

— Helen Keller

37. “ We’ll be best friends forever because you already know too much. ”

— Unknown

38. “ A friend who understands your tears is much more valuable than a lot of friends who only know your smile. ”

— Unknown

39. “ 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

40. “ Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light. ”

— Dumbledore

41. “ 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

42. “ We weren’t sisters [or brothers] by birth, but we knew from the start…fate brought us together to be sisters [or brothers] by heart. ”

— Unknown

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

— Henry Ford

44. “ If there ever comes a day when we can’t be together, keep me in your heart. I’ll stay there forever. ”

— A. A. Milne

45. “ 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

46. “ The only way to have a friend is to be one. ”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

47. “ A friend is one of the best things you can be and the greatest things you can have. ”

— Sarah Valdez

48. “ False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports. ”

— Richard Burton

49. “ True friends aren’t the ones who make your problems disappear. They are the ones who won’t disappear when you’re facing problems. ”

— Unknown

50. “ Friends buy you food. Best friends eat your food. ”

— Unknown

51. “ Time doesn’t take away from friendship, nor does separation. ”

— Tennessee Williams

52. “ A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down. ”

— Arnold H. Glasgow

53. “ My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. ”

— Aristotle

54. “ There’s not a word yet for old friends who’ve just met. ”

— Jim Henson

55. “ When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands. ”

— Maria Shriver

56. “ A good friend is like a four-leaf clover; hard to find and lucky to have. ”

— Irish Proverb

57. “ If ever there is 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 but the most important thing is, even if we’re apart… I’ll always be with you. ”

— Winnie the Pooh

58. “ True friends are like diamonds — bright, beautiful, valuable, and always in style. ”

— Nicole Richie

59. “ Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together. ”

— Woodrow T. Wilson

60. “ Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget. ”

— G. Randolf

61. “ When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. ”

— Henri Nouwen

62. “ Friends are the siblings God never gave us. ”

— Mencius

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

— Ed Cunningham

64. “ If you are ever lucky enough to find a weirdo, never let them go. ”

— Matthew Gray Gubler

65. “ A part of you has grown in me, together forever we shall be, never apart, maybe in distance, but not in heart. ”

— Unknown

66. “ The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another’s little lapses. ”

— David Storey

67. “ No friendship is an accident. ”

— O. Henry

68. “ Best friends share laughs, memories and inside jokes. They will always be honest and stand by your side no matter what. They wipe your tears, pick you up when you fall, and are forever a piece of your heart. ”

— Unknown

69. “ A friend may be waiting behind a stranger’s face. ”

— Maya Angelou

70. “ Friends are the family you choose. ”

— Jess C. Scott

71. “ Sometimes being with your best friend is all the therapy you need. ”

— Unknown

72. “ You don’t have to be crazy to be my friend. I’ll train you. ”

— Unknown

73. “ God made us best friends because he knew our moms couldn’t handle us as sisters. ”

— Unknown

74. “ The love that comes from friendship is the underlying facet of a happy life. ”

— Chelsea Handler

75. “ Anything is possible when you have the right people there to support you. ”

— Misty Copeland

76. “ Every new friend is a new adventure… the start of more memories. ”

— Patrick Lindsay

77. “ She is a friend of my mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. ”

— Toni Morrison

78. “ A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.” ”

— Bernard Meltzer

79. “ True friends are always together in spirit. ”

— L.M. Montgomery

80. “ It’s hard to find a friend who’s cute, loving, generous, caring, and smart. My advice to y’all is, don’t lose me. ”

— Unknown

81. “ Life was meant for good friends and great adventures. ”

— Unknown

82. “ If you live to be 100, I hope I live to be 100 minus 1 day, so I never have to live without you. ”

— Winnie the Pooh

83. “ A single rose can be my garden…a single friend, my world. ”

— Leo Buscaglia

84. “ Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respected. ”

—  Charles Lamb

85. “ True friendship is when you walk into their house and your WiFi connects automatically. ”

— Unknown

86. “ Throughout life you will meet one person who is like no other. You could talk to this person for hours and never get bored, you could tell this person things and they will never judge you. This person is your soulmate, your best friend. Don’t ever let them go. ”

— Unknown

87. “ The great thing about new friends is that they bring new energy to your soul. ”

— Shanna Rodriguez

88. “ Best friends don’t care if your house is clean. They care if you have wine. ”

— Unknown