Bring a Smile to Your Bestie's Face with These Meaningful Quotes About True Friendship
It's often said the best things in life are free and at the top of the list is friendship. Having a close friend to walk through all of the seasons of life is a blessing! Best friends get to see us at our absolute best, worst, and in-between. Whether you're hosting a casual lunch with your girlfriends, searching for a special gift for your favorite dog mom, sampling decadent cream treats at an ice cream festival together, or packing the car up for a road trip with your inner circle, these shared experiences make life even sweeter. The joy of having honest, supportive, loving, funny and kind friends can be hard to put into words. In the spirit of true friendship, we've pulled together 80 best friend quotes to help you verbalize those intense feelings for your beloved besties.
From long and short to funny and sweet, we rounded up a collection that speaks to the heart about unconditional friendship and the priceless ways close companions impact our lives. Whether reading a personal birthday card message from your best bud or laughing about funny jokes at your favorite cafe together, having these close connections make life worth living. Eleanor Roosevelt wrote, “Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends leave footprints in your heart.” We wholeheartedly agree with Roosevelt's sentiments and hope you'll read all of the best friend quotes included in this thoughtful roundup.
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C. S. Lewis
“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.”
Len Wein
“A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.”
Oprah Winfrey
“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.”
Thomas Aquinas
“There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.”
Khalil Gibran
“In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.”
Carlos Barquero Perez
“Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.”
Eugene Kennedy
“The real test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?”
Baltasar Gracian
“Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.”
Chelsea Handler
“The love that comes from friendship is the underlying facet of a happy life.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“Friendship is a sheltering tree.”
Tahar Ben Jelloun
“Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.”
Jennifer Lopez
“The truth is, no matter how lonely you might feel, you’re never going through anything alone....You can choose your family.”
Maya Angelou, Letter to My Daughter
“A friend may be waiting behind a stranger’s face.”
Toni Morrison, Beloved
“She is a friend of my mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order.”
Edward Young
“Friendship is the wine of life.”
The Beatles
“I get by with a little help from my friends.”
Marlene Dietrich
“It’s the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.”
Amy Poehler
“Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you; spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life.”
Nicole Richie
“True friends are like diamonds—bright, beautiful, valuable, and always in style.”
Donna Roberts
“A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.”
Winnie The Pooh
“I knew when I met you an adventure was going to happen.”
Octavia Butler
“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.”
Bill Watterson
“Things are never quite as scary when you’ve got a best friend.”
Walt Whitman
“We were together. I forget the rest.”
Vincent Van Gogh
“Close friends are truly life’s treasures. Sometimes they know us better than we know ourselves.”
Unknown
“A friend is one who overlooks your broken fence and admires the flowers in your garden.”
Cicero
“Life is nothing without friendship.”
Paulo Coelho
“Friendship isn’t a big thing—it’s a million little things.”
Sarah Dessen, Someone Like You
“Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend.”
Maya Angelou
“Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud.”
Proverbs 27:9
“A sweet friendship refreshes the soul.”
Jim Henson
“There’s not a word yet for old friends who’ve just met.”
Oprah Winfrey
“The best gift anyone can give, I believe, is the gift of sharing themselves.”
Unknown
“A friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future, and accepts you just the way you are.”
David Tyson
“True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable.”
Ally Condie
“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.”
Jesse Owens
“Awards become corroded. Friends gather no dust.”
Jane Austen
“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends.”
Woodrow Wilson
“Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.”
Anna Taylor
“Some people arrive and make such a beautiful impact on your life, you can barely remember what life was like without them.”
Leo Buscaglia
“A single rose can be my garden… a single friend, my world.”
Ed Cunningham
“Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer.”
Bernard Meltzer
“A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.”
Mindy Kaling
“One friend with whom you have a lot in common is better than three with whom you struggle to find things to talk about.”
Eustache Deschamps
“Friends are relatives you make for yourself.”
Marcel Proust
“Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
John Evelyn
“Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world.”
Unknown
“A good friend knows all your best stories, but a best friend has lived them with you.”
Meghan Markle
"If we treated ourselves as well as we treated our best friend, can you imagine?”
Eleanor Roosevelt
“Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends leave footprints in your heart.”
Hubert H. Humphrey
“The greatest gift of life is friendship.”
Muhammad Ali
“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.”
Reese Witherspoon
“I don't know what I would have done so many times in my life if I hadn't had my girlfriends.”
Henry Ford
“My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.”
Arnold H. Glasgow
“A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.”
Jane Fonda
“Women's friendships are like a renewable source of power.”
Jean de la Fontaine
“Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.”
Maya Angelou
“Friendship takes work. Finding friends, nurturing friendships, scheduling face time, it all take a tremendous amount of work. But it’s worth it. If you put in the effort, you’ll see the rewards of positive friends who will make your life extraordinary.”
Aristotle
“What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.”
Irish Proverb
“A good friend is like a four-leaf clover: hard to find and lucky to have.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The only way to have a friend is to be one.”
Gina Barreca
“It’s not that diamonds are a girl’s best friend, but it’s your best friends who are your diamonds.”
L.M. Montgomery
“True friends are always together in spirit.”
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
“One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and be understood.”
Linda Grayson
“There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.”
Walter Winchell
“A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.”
Mencius
“Friends are the siblings God never gave us.”
Elbert Hubbard
“A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
Anais Nin
“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.”
C.S. Lewis
“Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, 'You too? I thought I was the only one.”
Elisabeth Foley
“The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.”
Misty Copeland
“Anything is possible when you have the right people there to support you.”
Isabel Allende
“True friendship resists time, distance, and silence.”
Helen Keller
“Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.”
Winnie the Pooh
“It seems they had always been, and always would be, friends. Time could change, but not that.”
Jim Morrison
“A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.”
Unknown
“I may not always be there with you, but I will always be there for you.”
Michelle Obama, Becoming
“Friendships between women, as any woman will tell you, are built of a thousand small kindnesses... swapped back and forth and over again,”
Jennifer Aniston
“There’s nothing like a really loyal, dependable, good friend. Nothing.”
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