These sweet friendship quotes perfectly sum up the special bond you have with your bestie
90 Friendship Quotes to Share 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 cutāyou’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. āNever leave a friend behind. Friends are all we have to get us through this lifeāand they are the only things from this world that we could hope to see in the next.ā āDean Koontz
2. āI value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.ā āRobert Brault
3. āThere is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.ā āLinda Grayson
4. āLaughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.ā āOscar Wilde
5. āIf 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.ā āA.A. Milne
6. āYour friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.ā āRichard Bach
7. āLots 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.ā āOprah Winfrey
8. āHow much good inside a day? Depends how good you live āem. How much love inside a friend depends how much you give āem.ā āShel Silverstein
9. āBe who you are and say what you feel because those who mind donāt matter and those who matter donāt mind.ā ā Dr. Seuss
10. āNothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.ā āHenry David Thoreau
11. āI would rather walk with a friend in the dark than alone in the light.ā āHelen Keller
12. āAnybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friendās success.ā āOscar Wilde
13. āDonāt walk in behind me; I may not lead. Donāt walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.ā āAlbert Camus
14. āIt takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies, but a great deal more to stand up to your friends.ā āJ.K. Rowling
15. āThere is nothing I wouldnāt do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves; it is not my nature.ā āJane Austen
16. “‘Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respected.ā āCharles 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.ā āCharles R. Swindoll
18. “Close friends are truly lifeās treasures. Sometimes they know us better than we know ourselves.ā āVincent van Gogh
19. āOoh youāre the best friend that I ever had / Iāve been with you such a long time / youāre my sunshine / and I want you to know that my feelings are true / I really love you / Oh youāre my best friend.ā āQueen, “You’re My Best Friend”
20. āSome people arrive and make such a beautiful impact on your life, you can barely remember what life was like without them.ā āAnna Taylor
21. “If you have two friends in your lifetime, you’re lucky. If you have one good friend, you’re more than lucky.” āS.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.ā āTennessee Williams
23. āFriendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: āWhat, you too? I thought I was the only one!'” āC.S. Lewis
24. āBe slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.ā āSocrates
25. āFind a group of people who challenge and inspire you; spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life.ā āAmy Poehler
26. āThe great thing about new friends is that they bring new energy into your soul.ā āShanna Rodriguez
Does your friend need some motivation? Share these inspirational quotes to lift their spirits.
Quotes about the meaning of friendship
27. āGood friends help you find important things when you have lost them ā¦ your smile, your hope and your courage.ā āDoe Zantamata
28. āA friend is one who overlooks your broken fence and admires the flowers in your garden.ā āUnknown
29. “A sweet friendship refreshes the soul.ā āProverbs 27:9
30. āA good friend is like a four-leaf clover: hard to find and lucky to have.ā āIrish proverb
31. āFriendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.ā āWoodrow Wilson
32. āThe feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.ā āSamuel Johnson
33. āA loyal friend laughs at your jokes when theyāre not so good, and sympathizes with your problems when theyāre not so bad.ā āArnold 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.” āAnaĆÆs Nin
35. “A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.” āWalter Winchell
36. āFriends are medicine for a wounded heart, and vitamins for a hopeful soul.ā āSteve Maraboli
37. āFriends make you smileābest friends make you giggle till you pee your pants.ā āTerri Guillemets
38. āA friend is the one who comes in when the whole world has gone out.ā āGrace Pulpit
39. “Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer.ā āEd Cunningham
40. “Good friends are like stars. You don’t always see them, but you know they’re always there.” āUnknown
41. “Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.ā āMarcel Proust
42. āFriendship makes a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession; friendship is never anything but sharing.ā āElie Wiesel
43. āFriendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. Itās not something you learn in school. But if you havenāt learned the meaning of friendship, you really havenāt learned anything.ā āMuhammad Ali
44. āA 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.ā āWilliam Shakespeare
45. āA friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourselfāand especially to feel, or not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at any moment is fine with them. Thatās what real love amounts toāletting a person be what he really is.ā āJim Morrison
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Quotes about childhood friendships
46. āThere is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.ā āSylvia Plath
47. āThereās not a word yet, for old friends whoāve just met.ā āJim Henson
48. “It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.ā āRalph 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.” āLyle 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.” āColette 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.” āEmma Watson
52. āGrowing apart doesnāt change the fact that for a long time we grew side by side; our roots will always be tangled.ā āAlly Condie
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Quotes about true friendship
53. āOnly a true friend would be that truly honest.ā āShrek
54. āTrue friendship is never serene.ā āMarquise de Sevigne
55. āHold a true friend with both your hands.ā āNigerian proverb
56. āA good friend will help you move, but a true friend will help you move a body.” āSteven J. Daniels
57. “True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable.ā āDavid Tyson
58. “If you have one true friend, you have more than your share.” āThomas Fuller
59. “A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.” āArnold H. Glasgow
60. “True friends are always together in spirit.” āL.M. Montgomery
61. “One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.” āLucius Annaeus Seneca
62. “Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.ā āEleanor Roosevelt
63. āIf you wanna find out whoās a true friend, screw up or go through a challenging time ā¦ then see who sticks around.ā āKaren Salmonsohn
64. āA true friend is someone who will always love youāthe imperfect, the confused, the wrong youābecause that is what people are supposed to do.ā āR.J.L.
65. āTrue friends are like diamondsābright, beautiful, valuable and always in style.ā āNicole Richie
66. āThe most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.ā āElizabeth Foley
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Short friendship quotes
67. āWishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.ā āAristotle
68. “It’s the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.ā āMarlene Dietrich
69. āNo friendship is an accident.ā āO. Henry
70. āFriends should be like books: few, but hand-selected.ā āC.J. Langenhoven
71. āA friendship that can be ended didnāt ever start.ā āMellin De Saint-Gelais
72. “Friends are the siblings God never gave us.” āMencius
73. “Friendship’s the wine of life.” āEdward Young
74. āYouāve got a friend in me.ā āToy Story
75. āA friend to all is a friend to none.ā āAristotle
76. āThe only way to have a friend is to be one.ā āRalph Waldo Emerson
77. āSome people go to priests. Others go to poetry. I go to my friends.ā āVirginia Woolfe
78. āI never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was 12.ā āStephen King
79. āI get by with a little help from my friends.ā āThe Beatles
80. āFriends are relatives you make for yourself.ā āEustache Deschamps
81. āOnly your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.ā āSicilian proverb
82. āWhat is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.ā āAristotle
83. āIn my friend, I find a second self.ā āIsabel Norton
84. “Life is an ugly, awful place to not have a best friend.” āSarah Dessen
85. “My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.” āHenry Ford
86. āAre we not like two volumes of one book?ā āMarceline Desbordes-Valmore
87. āConstant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.ā āDorothy Parker
88. āāYou have been my friend,ā replied Charlotte. āThat in itself is a tremendous thing.'” āE.B. White
89. āāWeāll be friends forever, wonāt we, Pooh?ā asked Piglet. āEven longer,ā Pooh answered.ā āA.A. Milne
90. āThings are never quite as scary when you have a best friend.ā āBill Watterson
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Additional reporting by Lindsay Tigar.
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