The Best Friendship Quotes to Share With Your Best Friend

They say friends are the family you choose, the wine to life, the yin to yang, but what does friendship mean to you?  

It may embody all the things mentioned above, or it might make you think of the ones closest to your heart. Whatever the case may be, it’s always nice to be reminded of the VIPs in your own life. By the same token, it’s nice to remind your besties just how important they are to you too.  

Famous authors, poets, and everyone in between have been trying to put friendship into words for ages. Whether you’re celebrating something special or just want to remind your BFF of how great they are, our collection of friendship quotes will help you get started.  

Quotes about friendship

We could all use a reminder of how important friendship is. Whether you’re trying to cheer someone up or add a sweet sentiment to a gift or card, the quotes below will help you craft your message. 

1. “Sometimes, being with your best friend is all the therapy you need.” – Unknown 

2. “Keep the ones that heard you when you never said a word.” – Unknown 

3. “I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.” – Helen Keller 

4. “A true friend accepts who you are, but also helps you become who you should be.” – Unknown 

5. “A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.” – Donna Roberts 

6. “Sometimes you meet a person, and you just click — you’re comfortable with them, like you’ve known them your whole life, and you don’t have to pretend to be anyone or anything.” – Unknown 

7. “Because of you, I laugh a little harder, cry a little less, and smile a lot more.” – Unknown 

8. “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 

9. “What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.” – C.S. Lewis 

10. “True friends are like diamonds — bright, beautiful, valuable, and always in style.” – Nicole Richie 

11. “A good friend knows all your stories. A best friend helped you create them.” – Unknown 

12. “A friend is someone who makes it easy to believe in yourself.” – Heidi Wills 

13. “There’s nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.” – Unknown 

14. “Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.” – Jean de La Fontaine 

15. “Some people arrive and make such a beautiful impact on your life, you can barely remember what life was like without them.” – Anna Taylor 

16. “A friend is one soul abiding in two bodies.” – Aristotle 

17. “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 

18. “Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.” – Tennessee Williams 

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

20. “A friend is one of the best things you can be and the greatest things you can have.” – Sarah Valdez 

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

22. “Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.” – Woodrow T. Wilson 

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23. “Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer.” – Ed Cunningham 

24. “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 

25. “Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world.” – John Evelyn 

26. “When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands.” – Maria Shriver 

27. “A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.” – William Shakespeare 

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

29. “The love that comes from friendship is the underlying facet of a happy life.” – Chelsea Handler 

30. “Friends…they cherish one another’s hopes. They are kind to one another’s dreams.” – Henry David Thoreau 

31. “Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.” – Joseph Addison 

32. “Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.” – Francesco Guicciardini 

33. “There are three things that grow more precious with age: old wood to burn, old books to read and old friends to enjoy.” – Henry Ford 

34. “Friendship isn’t about who you’ve known the longest. It’s about who walked into your life, said, “I’m here for you”, and proved it.” – Anonymous 

35. “Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.” – George Eliot 

36. “Good friends help you to find important things when you have lost them… your smile, your hope, and your courage.” – Doe Zantamata 

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

Cute friendship quotes

Sometimes just a few sweet words are all someone needs to put a smile on their face. These cute friendship quotes are sure to help you do just that. 

38. “When you can’t look on the bright side, I will sit with you in the dark.” – Unknown 

39. “Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.” – Eleanor Roosevelt 

40. “In the cookie of life friends are the chocolate chips.” – Unknown 

41. “Good friends are like stars, you don’t always see them, but you know they’re always there.”  – Unknown 

42. “We’ve been friends for so long I can’t remember which one of us is the bad influence.” – Unknown 

43. “One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.” – Lucius Annaeus Seneca 

44. “A true friend is someone who sees the pain in your eyes while everyone else believes the smile on your face.” – Unknown 

45. “Best friends are the people you can do anything and nothing with and still have the best time.”  – Unknown 

46. “How beautiful it is to find someone who asks for nothing but your company.” – Brigitte Nicole 

47. “I knew when I met you an adventure was going to happen” – Winnie the Pooh 

48. “I get by with a little help from my friends.” – The Beatles 

49. “Friendship is the wine of life.” – Edward Young 

50. “Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: ‘What! You too? I thought I was the only one.’” – C.S. Lewis 

51. “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. But the most important thing is, even if we are apart, I’ll always be with you.” – A.A. Milne 

52. “Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.” – Khalil Gibson 

53. “If you live to be 100, I want to live to be 100 minus one day, so I never have to live without you.” – Winnie the Pooh 

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

55. “To the world you may be just one person, but to one person you may be the world.” – Dr. Seuss 

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

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

58. “Friends are people who know you really well and like you anyway.” – Greg Tamblyn 

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

60. “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 

61. “Best friend: the one that you can be mad at only for a short period of time because you have important stuff to tell them.” – Unknown 

62. “Friends are the sailors who guide your rickety boat safely across the dangerous waters of life.” – Sare and Cate 

63. “There is not a word yet for old friends who’ve just met.” – Jim Henson 

64. “It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson 

Short friendship quotes

If you’re looking for something short and sweet to share with your bestie, look no further! These short friendship quotes will help you show your BFF how special you think they are! 

65. “Friendship is another word for love.” – Unknown 

66. “Squad goals!” – Unknown 

67. “It’s the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.” – Marlene Dietrich 

68. “The only way to have a friend is to be one.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson 

69. “A friend is what the heart needs all the time.” – Henry van Dyke 

70. “The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.” – Hubert H. Humphrey 

71. “A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.” – Jim Morrison 

72. “Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave and impossible to forget.” – G. Randolf 

73. “Things are never quite as scary when you’ve got a best friend.” – Bill Watterson 

74. “A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.” – Elbert Hubbard 

75. “Friends are medicine for a wounded heart, and vitamins for a hopeful soul.” – Steve Maraboli 

76. “Life is nothing without friendship.” – Cicero 

77. “A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.” – Arnold H. Glasgow 

78. “We were together. I forget the rest.” – Walt Whitman 

79. “I will not let you go into the unknown alone.” – Bram Stoker 

80. “A true friend is a forever friend.” – George MacDonald 

81. “True friends are great riches.” – Unknown  

82. “A faithful friend loves to the end.” – Unknown 

83. “No friendship is an accident.” – O. Henry 

84. “True friends are never apart, maybe in distance but never in heart.” – Helen Keller 

85. “Friends are the family you choose.“ – Jess C. Scott 

86. “Life was meant for good friends and great adventures.” – Unknown 

87. “My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.” – Henry Ford 

88. “Time doesn’t take away from friendship, nor does separation.” – Tennessee Williams  

89. “There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.” – Thomas Aquinas 

90. “A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.” – Walter Winchell 

91. “There’s nothing like a really loyal, dependable, good friend. Nothing.” – Jennifer Aniston 

92. “Friends…they cherish one another’s hopes. They are kind to one another’s dreams.” – Henry David Thoreau 

93. “Best friend isn’t a person; it’s a tier.” – Mindy Kaling 

94. “Anything is possible when you have the right people there to support you.” – Misty Copeland 

95. “The best mirror is an old friend.” – George Herbert 

96. “True friends are always together in spirit.” – L.M. Montgomery 

97. “True friendship resists time, distance and silence.” – Isabel Allende 

98. “Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.” – Euripides 

99. “Friendship is a wildly underrated medication.” – Anna Deavere Smith 

100. “Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends.” – H. Jackson Brown, Jr. 

101. “One’s friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.” – George Santayana 

102. “The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson 

103. “A friend can tell you things you don’t want to tell yourself.” – Frances Ward Weller 

104. “Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend.” – Sarah Dessen 

105. “There are friends, there is family, and then there are friends that become family.” – Unknown 

106. “In my friend, I find a second self.” – Isabel Norton 

107. “Friends are relatives you make for yourself.” – Eustache Deschamps 

108. “Women’s friendships are like a renewable source of power.” – Jane Fonda  

109. “True friends are families which you can select.” – Audrey Hepburn 

110. “A friend may be waiting behind a stranger’s face.” – Maya Angelou 

111.  “A true friend is the greatest of all blessings.” – Francois de La Rochefoucauld 

112. “Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.” – George Eliot 

113. “A good friend remembers what we were and sees what we can be.” — Unknown 

114. “Friends are the sunshine of life.” – John Hay 

115. “Friendship is the foundation of all relationships.” – Unknown 

116. “Friends are like rainbows; they brighten your life when you’ve been through a storm.” – Unknown 

117. “I think that generosity is the essence of friendship.” – Oscar Wilde  

118. “Distance cannot matter – ours is a friendship of the heart.” – Mary Anne Radmacher
119. “You’ve Got a Friend in Me” – Randy Newman

Beautiful quotes on friendship

These quotes on friendship will remind you of what it means to have true friends, to have people love you for you and have your back no matter what. Be sure they don’t forget it!

120. “The great thing about new friends is that they bring new energy to your soul.” – Shanna Rodriguez 

121. “Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it’s all over.” – Octavia Butler 

122. “True friendship is when two friends can walk in opposite directions yet remain side by side.” – Josh Grayson 

123. “Close friends are truly life’s treasures. Sometimes they know us better than we know ourselves. With gentle honesty, they are there to guide and support us, to share our laughter and our tears. Their presence reminds us that we are never really alone.” – Vincent van Gogh 

124. “Nobody can avoid falling in love. They might want to deny it, but friendship is probably the most common form of love.” – Stieg Larsson 

125. “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 

126. “Friendship isn’t a big thing—it’s a million little things.” – Paulo Coelho 

127. “You can always tell when two people are best friends because they’re always having way more fun than it makes sense for them to be having.” – Unknown 

128. “Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.” – Henry David Thoreau 

129. “The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.” – Elisabeth Foley 

130. “A single rose can be my garden… a single friend, my world.” – Leo Buscaglia 

131. “Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare — and precious as a pearl.” – Tahar Ben Jelloun 

132. “There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first; when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.” – Paramahansa Yogananda 

133. “In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.” – Kahlil Gibran 

134. “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 

135. “Never leave a friend behind. Friends are all we have to get us through this life—and they are the only things from this world that we could hope to see in the next.” – Dean Koontz 

136. “Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.” – Richard Bach 

137. “True friends are those rare people who come to find you in dark places and lead you back to the light.” – Anonymous 

138. “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 

139. “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 

140. “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 

141. “The real test of friendship is can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?” – Eugene Kennedy 

142. “Best friends don’t necessarily have to talk every day. They don’t even need to talk for weeks. But when they do, it’s like they never stopped talking.” – Unknown 

143. “True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable.” – David Tyson 

144. “A friend who understands your tears is much more valuable than many friends who only know your smile.” – Unknown 

145.  “Friendship is the purest love. It is the highest form of love where nothing is asked for, no condition, where one simply enjoys giving.” – Osho 

146.  “Friends are the sailors who guide your rickety boat safely across the dangerous waters of life.” – Sare and Cate 

147. “A true friend is one who will be there when you need him, no matter what.” – Unknown

148. “Friendship is the rainbow between two hearts sharing seven colors: feelings, love, sadness, happiness, truth, faith, secret, and respect.” – Unknown

149. “Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art…. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.” – C.S. Lewis

150. “Lean on me, when you’re not strong. And I’ll be your friend, I’ll help you carry on. “ – Bill Withers

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