Friendship is one of life’s greatest gifts, and it deserves to be celebrated! We all need those special people in our lives who provide us with support, comfort, and laughter. From the heart, here are 90+ of the best friendship quotes to celebrate friendship in our lives. These quotes are sure to bring a smile to your face and remind you of the special bonds we form with those closest to us. Whether it’s an old friend or a new one, these quotes will remind you of the unique bond that only comes with true friendship.
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Best Friendship Quotes to Celebrate Friendship
- A friend is one who overlooks your broken fence and admires the flowers in your garden. — Unknown
- 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
- Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together. — Woodrow T. Wilson
- Don’t make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up. — Thomas J. Watson
- A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails. — Donna Roberts
- A sweet friendship refreshes the soul. — Proverbs 27:9
- A friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future, and accepts you just the way you are. — Unknown
- Friends are the family you choose. — Jess C. Scott
- The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another’s little lapses. — David Storey
- Best friends. Because if anyone else heard our conversations we’d end up in the mental hospital. — Unknown
- True friends are like diamonds — bright, beautiful, valuable, and always in style. — Nicole Richie
- 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
- 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
- There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship. — Thomas Aquinas
- Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer. — Ed Cunningham
- A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked. — Bernard Meltzer
- 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
- Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose. — Tennessee Williams
- A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down. — Arnold H. Glasgow
- 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
- 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
- Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light. — Dumbledore
- The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart. — Elisabeth Foley
- There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate. — Linda Grayson
- Friends…they cherish one another’s hopes. They are kind to one another’s dreams. — Henry David Thoreau
- Anything is possible when you have the right people there to support you. — Misty Copeland
- We’ll be best friends forever because you already know too much. — Unknown
- Everyone hears what you say. Friends listen to what you say. Best friends listen to what you don’t say. — Unknown
- Everyone has a friend during each stage of life. But only lucky ones have the same friend in all stages of life. — Unknown
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Short Friendship Quotes to Celebrate Friendship
- You don’t have to be crazy to be my friend. I’ll train you. — Unknown
- A good friend is like a four-leaf clover; hard to find and lucky to have. — Irish Proverb
- Friends are the siblings God never gave us. — Mencius
- There’s not a word yet for old friends who’ve just met. — Jim Henson
- A friend who understands your tears is much more valuable than a lot of friends who only know your smile. — Unknown
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light. — Helen Keller
- To the world you may be just one person, but to one person you may be the world. — Dr. Seuss
- A friend can tell you things you don’t want to tell yourself. — Frances Ward Weller
- Sometimes being with your best friend is all the therapy you need. — Unknown
- We’ll be the old ladies causing trouble in the nursing home. — Unknown
- A strong friendship doesn’t need daily conversation or being together. As long as the relationship lives in the heart, true friends never part. — Unknown
- Time doesn’t take away from friendship, nor does separation. — Tennessee Williams
- A best friend is someone who makes you laugh even when you think you’ll never smile again. — Unknown
- 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
- If you are ever lucky enough to find a weirdo, never let them go. — Matthew Gray Gubler
- 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
- My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me. — Henry Ford
- I love that our effortless friendship fits perfectly with my laziness. — Unknown
- 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
- 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
- A friend is one of the best things you can be and the greatest things you can have. — Sarah Valdez
- When it hurts to look back and you’re afraid to look ahead, you can look beside you and your best friend will be there. — Unknown
- A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud. I am arrived at last in the presence of a man so real and equal, that I may drop even those undermost garments of dissimulation, courtesy, and second thought, which men never put off, and may deal with him with the simplicity and wholeness with which one chemical atom meets another. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Never let your best friends get lonely…keep disturbing them. — Candlelight Publications
- 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
- 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
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Cool Friendship Quotes to Celebrate Friendship
- No friendship is an accident. — O. Henry
- Best friends don’t care if your house is clean. They care if you have wine. — Unknown
- The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched — they must be felt with the heart. — Helen Keller
- Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare — and precious as a pearl. — Tahar Ben Jelloun
- In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit. — Albert Schweitzer
- Best friends understand when you say, ‘forget it.’ Wait forever when you say, ‘just a minute.’ Stay when you say, ‘leave me alone.’ And open the door before you can say, ‘come in.’ — Unknown
- True friendship is when you walk into their house and your WiFi connects automatically. — Unknown
- God made us best friends because he knew our moms couldn’t handle us as sisters. — Unknown
- Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget. — G. Randolf
- A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out. — Walter Winchell
- 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
- True friends are always together in spirit. — L.M. Montgomery
- Friends buy you food. Best friends eat your food. — Unknown
- When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands. — Maria Shriver
- Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation. — Oscar Wilde
- Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity. — Khalil Gibran
- 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
- It’s the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter. — Marlene Dietrich
- A single rose can be my garden…a single friend, my world. — Leo Buscaglia
- It’s not what we have in life, but who we have in our life that matters. — Unknown
- Life was meant for good friends and great adventures. — Unknown
- Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. — Marcel Proust
- 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
- I think we’ll be friends forever because we’re too lazy to find new friends. — Unknown
- They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel. — Carl W. Buechner
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Best friends are the people in your life who make you laugh louder, smile brighter and live better. — Unknown
- True friends are never apart, maybe in distance but never in heart. — Helen Keller
- ‘Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respected. — Charles Lamb
- 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
- The only way to have a friend is to be one. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- 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
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