90 Friendship Quotes to Share with Your Bestie
Updated: Jun. 28, 2024
These sweet friendship quotes perfectly sum up the special bond you have with your bestie
Celebrate your besties with friendship quotes
It’s impossible to fully sum up what your best friends mean to you, but perfectly worded friendship quotes might be as close as you can get in a couple of sentences. Your friends have been there for you through the hard times and the good times, supported you through family drama and made you laugh until you cried, not to mention all the moments in between. Who else could have coached you through your breakups, told you when that halter top didn’t really work for you (but it was the cut—you’re perfect!) and cried proud tears of joy to rival your mom’s when you reached your life goals? Only your besties!
When it comes to romance, love quotes can put your butterflies into words, and family quotes can remind you why your loved ones are awesome (and also challenging sometimes). But best friend quotes really sum up all the feelings for an unconditional love that can last a lifetime. Whether you’re attached at the hip, live on opposite sides of the country, don’t see each other as often as you would like to or talk every single day, there’s a friendship quote on this list for everyone. After all, true best friends can always just pick up right where they left off.
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Best friendship quotes
1. “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
2. “I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.” —Robert Brault
3. “There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.” —Linda Grayson
4. “Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.” —Oscar Wilde
5. “If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you.” —A.A. Milne
6. “Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.” —Richard Bach
7. “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
8. “How much good inside a day? Depends how good you live ’em. How much love inside a friend depends how much you give ’em.” —Shel Silverstein
9. “Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.” — Dr. Seuss
10. “Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.” —Henry David Thoreau
11. “I would rather walk with a friend in the dark than alone in the light.” —Helen Keller
12. “Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend’s success.” —Oscar Wilde
13. “Don’t walk in 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
14. “It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies, but a great deal more to stand up to your friends.” —J.K. Rowling
15. “There is nothing I wouldn’t do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves; it is not my nature.” —Jane Austen
16. “‘Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respected.” —Charles Lamb
17. “I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy.” —Charles R. Swindoll
18. “Close friends are truly life’s treasures. Sometimes they know us better than we know ourselves.” —Vincent van Gogh
19. “Ooh you’re the best friend that I ever had / I’ve been with you such a long time / you’re my sunshine / and I want you to know that my feelings are true / I really love you / Oh you’re my best friend.” —Queen, “You’re My Best Friend”
20. “Some people arrive and make such a beautiful impact on your life, you can barely remember what life was like without them.” —Anna Taylor
21. “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
Share these funny friendship quotes with your bestie to get them giggling.
Quotes about the beginning of friendship
22. “Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.” —Tennessee Williams
23. “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
24. “Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.” —Socrates
25. “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
26. “The great thing about new friends is that they bring new energy into your soul.” —Shanna Rodriguez
Does your friend need some motivation? Share these inspirational quotes to lift their spirits.
Quotes about the meaning of friendship
27. “Good friends help you find important things when you have lost them … your smile, your hope and your courage.” —Doe Zantamata
28. “A friend is one who overlooks your broken fence and admires the flowers in your garden.” —Unknown
29. “A sweet friendship refreshes the soul.” —Proverbs 27:9
30. “A good friend is like a four-leaf clover: hard to find and lucky to have.” —Irish proverb
31. “Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.” —Woodrow Wilson
32. “The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.” —Samuel Johnson
33. “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
34. “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.” —Anaïs Nin
35. “A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.” —Walter Winchell
36. “Friends are medicine for a wounded heart, and vitamins for a hopeful soul.” —Steve Maraboli
37. “Friends make you smile—best friends make you giggle till you pee your pants.” —Terri Guillemets
38. “A friend is the one who comes in when the whole world has gone out.” —Grace Pulpit
39. “Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer.” —Ed Cunningham
40. “Good friends are like stars. You don’t always see them, but you know they’re always there.” —Unknown
41. “Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.” —Marcel Proust
42. “Friendship makes a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession; friendship is never anything but sharing.” —Elie Wiesel
43. “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
44. “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
45. “A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself—and especially to feel, or not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at any moment is fine with them. That’s what real love amounts to—letting a person be what he really is.” —Jim Morrison
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Quotes about childhood friendships
46. “There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.” —Sylvia Plath
47. “There’s not a word yet, for old friends who’ve just met.” —Jim Henson
48. “It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson
49. “You don’t have to have anything in common with people you’ve known since you were five. With old friends, you’ve got your whole life in common.” —Lyle Lovett
50. “What I realize now in hindsight is that there is a natural ebb and flow to friendships. There are times you think there’s nothing left between you, that you’ve hit the bottom, but the special ones survive, find ways of restoring themselves.” —Colette McBeth
51. “I still have friends from primary school. And my two best girlfriends are from secondary school. I don’t have to explain anything to them. I don’t have to apologize for anything. They know. There’s no judgment in any way.” —Emma Watson
52. “Growing apart doesn’t change the fact that for a long time we grew side by side; our roots will always be tangled.” —Ally Condie
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Quotes about true friendship
53. “Only a true friend would be that truly honest.” —Shrek
54. “True friendship is never serene.” —Marquise de Sevigne
55. “Hold a true friend with both your hands.” —Nigerian proverb
56. “A good friend will help you move, but a true friend will help you move a body.” —Steven J. Daniels
57. “True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable.” —David Tyson
58. “If you have one true friend, you have more than your share.” —Thomas Fuller
59. “A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.” —Arnold H. Glasgow
60. “True friends are always together in spirit.” —L.M. Montgomery
61. “One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.” —Lucius Annaeus Seneca
62. “Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.” —Eleanor Roosevelt
63. “If you wanna find out who’s a true friend, screw up or go through a challenging time … then see who sticks around.” —Karen Salmonsohn
64. “A true friend is someone who will always love you—the imperfect, the confused, the wrong you—because that is what people are supposed to do.” —R.J.L.
65. “True friends are like diamonds—bright, beautiful, valuable and always in style.” —Nicole Richie
66. “The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.” —Elizabeth Foley
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Short friendship quotes
67. “Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.” —Aristotle
68. “It’s the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.” —Marlene Dietrich
69. “No friendship is an accident.” —O. Henry
70. “Friends should be like books: few, but hand-selected.” —C.J. Langenhoven
71. “A friendship that can be ended didn’t ever start.” —Mellin De Saint-Gelais
72. “Friends are the siblings God never gave us.” —Mencius
73. “Friendship’s the wine of life.” —Edward Young
74. “You’ve got a friend in me.” —Toy Story
75. “A friend to all is a friend to none.” —Aristotle
76. “The only way to have a friend is to be one.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson
77. “Some people go to priests. Others go to poetry. I go to my friends.” —Virginia Woolfe
78. “I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was 12.” —Stephen King
79. “I get by with a little help from my friends.” —The Beatles
80. “Friends are relatives you make for yourself.” —Eustache Deschamps
81. “Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.” —Sicilian proverb
82. “What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.” —Aristotle
83. “In my friend, I find a second self.” —Isabel Norton
84. “Life is an ugly, awful place to not have a best friend.” —Sarah Dessen
85. “My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.” —Henry Ford
86. “Are we not like two volumes of one book?” —Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
87. “Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.” —Dorothy Parker
88. “‘You have been my friend,’ replied Charlotte. ‘That in itself is a tremendous thing.'” —E.B. White
89. “‘We’ll be friends forever, won’t we, Pooh?’ asked Piglet. ‘Even longer,’ Pooh answered.” —A.A. Milne
90. “Things are never quite as scary when you have a best friend.” —Bill Watterson
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Additional reporting by Lindsay Tigar.
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Originally Published: June 15, 2021
