Do you love quotes as much as I do? I love to read them, use them and, well – quote them. If you’re looking for that perfect quote to write on a card, to read at an event or something else entirely, we’ve got you covered with this great list of 50 friendship quotes for your best friend. You’re sure to find something that works for you!
And let’s talk about friendship for a minute, shall we? Friends are arguably some of the most important people in our lives. Most of us start making friends at a pretty young age. Often, those first friends are those rowdy little cousins. Sometimes they’re the kiddos that belong to our parents’ friends. They’re not necessarily people we’ve CHOSEN to be friends with.
As we grow older, we’re taught how to make our own friends and choose friends with traits that are important to us. But, there ARE lots of different types of friends, aren’t there? I bet you have some of each, just like I do!
- Acquaintances – These are people you’ve met or maybe talk to every once in a while. You’re happy to visit when you see them, but you don’t spend time talking with them or making plans with them when you’re not together.
- The Socials – Your social media friends obviously! Maybe you’ve known them since high school and you like and comment on one another’s posts on social media. But you don’t really hang out anymore. You do, however, have a shared history that’s still an important part of your own story.
- Friends of Necessity – People you’ve become friends with out of convenience or even necessity. I’m talking about parents from your kids’ sports teams, someone from church, a coworker or someone from a club you’re involved with.
- Best Friends – These are your people. The ones who know all of your secrets and your history. These are the friends who are there for the good, the bad and everything in between. They know us as love us no matter what.
We’ve got you covered with 50 friendship quotes for your best friend regardless of the type of quote you’re looking for!
Friendship Quote Categories
- Meaningful Friendship Quotes
- Cute & Funny Friendship Quotes
- True Friendship Quotes
- Short & Sweet Friendship Quotes
Meaningful Friendship Quotes
“Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.”
– Thomas Acquinous
“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
“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
“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves; it is not my nature.”
– Jane Austen
“Friendship is an art, and very few persons are born with a natural gift for it.”
– Kathleen Norris
“Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.”
– George Eliot
“A friend is one that knows you as you are, understand where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.”
– William Shakespeare
“I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.”
– Thomas Jefferson
“No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.”
– Alice Walker
“Friends – they cherish one another’s hopes. They are kind to one another’s dreams.”
– Henry David Thoreau
Cute & Funny Friendship Quotes
“Some people go to priests. Others to poetry. I to my friends.”
– Virginia Wolfe
“A good friend will always stab you in the front.”
– Oscar Wilde
“In the cookie of life, friends are the chocolate chips.”
– Unknown
“There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.”
– Sylvia Plath
“There is nothing better than a friend unless it is a friend with chocolate.”
– Linda Grayson
“A true friend is someone who things that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.”
– Bernard Meltzer
“If you can survive 11 days in cramped quarters with a friend and come out laughing, your friendship is the real deal.”
– Oprah Winfrey
“Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, “What! You too? I thought I was the only one.”
– CS Lewis
True Friendship Quotes
“You can’t make old friends. You either have them or you don’t.”
– Unknown
“Old friends are memories personified.”
– Richard Paul Evans
“My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.”
– Henry Ford
“A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.”
– Arnold H. Glasow
“True friends are those rare people who come to find you in dark places and lead you back to the light.”
– Anonymous
“You’re such an inseperable part of my life that I can’t picture it without you. Let’s grow old together, best friend.”
– Unknown
“I believe in angels, the kind that heaven sends. I’m surrounded by angels, and I call them my best friends.”
– Pamela Daranjo
“A good friend knows all your best stories, but a best friend has lived them with you.”
– Anonymous
“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
“If you have two friends in your lifetime, you’re lucky. If you have one good friend, you’re more than lucky.”
– S.E. Hinton
“Sustaining true friendship is a lot more challenging than we give it credit for.”
– Mariella Frostrup
“The best mirror is an old friend.”
– George Herbert
“Remember that life’s most valuable antiques are dear old friends.”
– Jackson Brown, Jr.
“Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.”
– Dorothy Parker
Short & Sweet Friendship Quotes
“The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.”
– Hubert H. Humphrey
“Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.”
– Jean de la Fontaine
“My friends are my estate.”
– Emily Dickinson
“A sweet friendship refreshes the soul.”
– Proverbs 27:9
“A friend may be waiting behind a stranger’s face.”
– Maya Angelou
“Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.”
– Herodotus
“A good friend is like a four-leaf clover: hard to find and lucky to have.”
– Irish Proverb
“A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.”
– Walter Winchell
“Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.”
– Woodrow Wilson
“Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.”
– Aristotle
“I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.”
– Helen Keller
“Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
– Mark Twain
“Friendship multiples the good of life and divides the evil.”
– Baltasar Gracian
“Wherever we are, it is our friends that make our world.”
– Henry Drummond
“A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
– Elbert Hubbard
“Friends are the siblings God never gave us.”
– Mencius
“The language of friendship is not words but meanings.”
– Henry David Thoreau
“The only way to have a friend is to be one.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
8 thoughts on “50 Friendship Quotes for your Best Friend”
So many wonderful quotes. I enjoyed reading, thank you for sharing.
Thanks so much. Love having quotes at my fingertips š
What a great list of friendship quotes! Friendships are so important in life and for our well-being. The bond you create will not be found in any other relationship. Thank you for sharing!
Thank you! And I agree, friendships are some of the most important relationships we can possibly have! I consider myself very blessed in that department š
I love the Thoreau quote–it’s so true! The best friends I have in my life are the people who make space for my dreams and aspirations and hold that space for as long as I need.
You can always count on Thoreau for some great quotes, I think. I agree though, those are the types of friends we all need in our lives.
I love this, especially since Iām always awful at writing in cards. Some of these may come in handy!
Right there with you! It’s funny that I’m a writer, but can NEVER figure out what to say on a card š Hopefully you’ll make good use of a few of these – I know I will.