104 Friendship Quotes to Celebrate Your Best Friend

Having friends isn't just good for the heart, it's also good for your health. It's true—research shows that strong social connections are associated with lower blood pressure, less inflammation, and a reduced risk of diabetes across all ages. You can also thank them for helping reduce stress and anxiety. To help express your gratitude, we've put together a long list of friendship quotes you can pepper into your next chat. Whether you want to say something funny, something deep, or something for friends far away, we've got you covered. Read on below to get started!

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Friendship Quotes to Celebrate Those Closest To You

Look to the quotes listed below the next time you want to tell your friends just how much they mean to you.

Cute Friendship Quotes

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1. "Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world." — John Evelyn
2. "Anything is possible when you have the right people there to support you." — Misty Copeland
3. "A sweet friendship refreshes the soul." — Proverbs 27:9
4. "It's not that diamonds are a girl's best friend, but it's your best friends who are your diamonds." — Gina Barreca
5. "A friend is one who overlooks your broken fence and admires the flowers in your garden." — Anonymous
6. "There’s not a word yet for old friends who’ve just met." — Jim Henson
7. "A good friend is like a four-leaf clover: hard to find and lucky to have." — Irish Proverb
8. "Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together." — Woodrow Wilson
9. "A friend is someone who makes it easy to believe in yourself." — Heidi Wills
10. "A friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future, and accepts you just the way you are." — Unknown
11. "Women's friendships are like a renewable source of power." — Jane Fonda
12. "If you live to be a hundred, I hope I live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you." — A.A. Milne
13. "A single rose can be my garden… a single friend, my world." — Leo Buscaglia
14. "A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails." — Donna Roberts
15. "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." — G. Randolf
16. "Some people arrive and make such a beautiful impact on your life, you can barely remember what life was like without them." — Anna Taylor

Deep Quotes Only True Friends Will Understand

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17. "Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend." — Friedrich Nietzsche
18. "A good friend is a connection to life—a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world." — Lois Wyse
19. "Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts." — Margaret Lee Runbeck
20. "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
21. "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
22. "The great thing about new friends is that they bring new energy to your soul." – Shanna Rodriguez
23. "Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom." — Marcel Proust
24. "Awards become corroded. Friends gather no dust." — Jesse Owens
25. "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

Best Friend Quotes

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26. "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
27. "My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me." — Henry Ford
28. "Things are never quite as scary when you’ve got a best friend." — Bill Watterson
29. "A good friend knows all your stories. A best friend helped you create them." — Unknown
30. "That was what a best friend did: Hold up a mirror and show you your heart." — Kristin Hannah
31. "Friends make you smile—best friends make you giggle ’til you pee your pants." — Terri Guillemets
32. "Sometimes, being with your best friend is all the therapy you need." — Unknown
33. "Never let your best friends get lonely… keep disturbing them." — Annonymous
34. "Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend." ― Sarah Dessen
35. "When you’re in jail, a good friend will be trying to bail you out. A best friend will be in the cell next to you saying, ‘Damn, that was fun.'" — Groucho Marx
36. "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

Beautiful Friendship Quotes

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37. "In my friend, I find a second self." — Isabel Norton
38. "A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out." — Walter Winchell
39. "Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant." — Socrates
40. "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
41. "I would rather walk with a friend in the dark than alone in the light." — Helen Keller
42. "Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends leave footprints in your heart." — Eleanor Roosevelt
43. "A true friend never gets in the way unless you happen to be going down." — Arnold H. Glasow
44. "Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend." — Martin Luther King, Jr.
45. "Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher." — Oprah Winfrey
46. "Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love." — Jane Austen
47. "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
48. "What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies." — Aristotle
49. "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 E. Butler
50. "Nobody can avoid falling in love. They might want to deny it, but friendship is probably the most common form of love." — Stieg Larsson
51. "Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity." — Kahlil Gibran

Simple and Short Friendship Quotes

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52. "A friend is what the heart needs all the time." — Henry van Dyke, Jr.
53. "Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer." — Jean de La Fontaine
54. "The only way to have a friend is to be one." — Ralph Waldo Emerson
55. "The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it." — Hubert H. Humphrey
56. "Friendship is a sheltering tree." — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
57. "There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends." — Jane Austen
58. "Friendship isn’t a big thing—it’s a million little things." — Paulo Coelho
59. "Friends are the siblings God never gave us." — Mencius
60. "No friendship is an accident." — O. Henry
61. "Life is nothing without friendship." — Cicero
62. "Friends are the family you choose." — Jess C. Scott
63. "We were together. I forget the rest." — Walt Whitman
64. "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." — Jim Morrison
65. "I will not let you go into the unknown alone. — Bram Stoker
66. "One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives." — Euripides
67. "Friendship is a wildly underrated medication." —Anna Deavere Smith

Quotes About Friends Who've Moved Away

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68. "If there ever comes a day when we can’t be together, keep me in your heart. I’ll stay there forever." — A.A. Milne
69. "A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand." — Kahlil Gibran
70. "The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart." — Elizabeth Foley
71. "True friendship is when two friends can walk in opposite directions, yet remain side by side." — Josh Grayson
72. "True friends are always together in spirit." — L.M. Montgomery
73. "Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes." — Henry David Thoreau
74. "No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other’s worth." — Robert Southey
75. "There is magic in long-distance friendships. They let you relate to other human beings in a way that goes beyond being physically together and is often more profound." — Diana Cortes
76. "I don’t cry because we’ve been separated by distance, and for a matter of years. Why? Because for as long as we share the same sky and breathe the same air, we’re still together." — Donna Lynn Hope
77. "A part of you has grown in me, together forever we shall be, never apart, maybe in distance, but not in heart." — Hakan Massoud Nawabi
78. "True friendship resists time, distance, and silence." — Isabel Allende
79. "Though miles may lie between us, we’re never far apart, for friendship doesn’t count the miles, it’s measured in the heart." — Rozina Hasham
80. "Can miles truly separate you from friends… If you want to be with someone you love, aren’t you already there?" — Richard Bach

Friendship Quotes From Movies

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81. "I found out what the secret to life is—friends. Best friends." — Fried Green Tomatoes
82. "Remember, George: No man is a failure who has friends." — It's a Wonderful Life
83. "There's nothing like the deep breaths after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore stomach for all the right reasons." — The Perks of Being a Wallflower
84. "An old friend is never an extra guest." — Notorious
85. "It’s an insane world but in it, there is one sanity, the loyalty of old friends."— Ben Hur
86. "Let the rest of the world beat their brains out for a buck. It’s friends that count. And I got friends." — All About Eve
87. "Only a true friend would be that truly honest."— Shrek
88. "Alone, bad. Friend, good." — Bride of Frankenstein
89. "What will I do without a best friend?" —Beaches
90. "I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was twelve."— Stand by Me
91. "Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship." — Casablanca

Funny Friendship Quotes

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92. "There is nothing better than a friend unless it is a friend with chocolate." — Linda Grayson
93. "True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable." — David Tyson
94. "You find out who your real friends are when you’re involved in a scandal." — Elizabeth Taylor
95. "Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer." — Ed Cunningham
96. "Friends are people who know you really well and like you anyway." — Greg Tamblyn
97. "A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked." — Bernard Meltzer
98. "A good friend will help you move. But a best friend will help you move a dead body." — Jim Hayes
99. "There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends." — Sylvia Plath
100. "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
101. "Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respected." — Charles Lamb
102. "To like and dislike the same things, that is what makes a solid friendship." — Sallust
103. "A good friend will always stab you in the front." — Oscar Wilde
104. "It’s the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter." — Marlene Dietrich