97 Inspiring Friendship Quotes

It may be hard to put into words how thankful you are for your friend. A good friendship quote that resonates with both you and your friend or true friends quotes that explore all the doors you help each other might be just the thing you need. We gathered 97 friendship quotes to celebrate your best friend to help you find the ideal friendship saying to express what your best friend means to you.

Inspirational Friendship Quotes to Cheer Them On

True friendship is irreplaceable — it can motivate you to evolve into a better version of yourself. If you have a friend who inspires you, return the favor, and be his/her number one cheerleader with one of these inspirational friendship quotes.

1. “A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.”
—Walter Winchell

2. “The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.”
—Elisabeth Foley

3. “Anything is possible when you have the right people there to support you.”
— Misty Copeland

4. “A friend is one who overlooks your broken fence and admires the flowers in your garden.”
—Unknown

5. “True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable.”
—David Tyson

6. “There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends.”
—Jane Austen

7. “They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.”
—Carl W. Buechner

8. “Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt

9. “Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.”
— Tennessee Williams

10. “A single rose can be my garden… a single friend, my world.”
—Leo Buscaglia

11. “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

12. “You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.”
— Dale Carnegie

13. “Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.”
— Woodrow Wilson

14. “Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.”
— Tennessee Williams

15. “A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.”
— Bernard Meltzer

Cute Friendship Quotes to Make You Both Smile

When your friends make you smile genuinely, it’s a lovely and heartwarming thing. Sometimes lush sayings are just the thing to make your friend sense special and appreciated. These cute friendship quotes are sure to get a smile out of your friend.

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

17. “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

18. “A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.”
— Arnold H. Glasgow

19. “Here are friends, there is family, and then there are friends that become family.”
— Unknown

20. “It’s not what we have in life, but who we have in our life that matters.”
— Unknown

21. “To the world you may be just one person, but to one person you may be the world.”
—Dr. Seuss

22. “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

23. “Good friends are like stars. You don't always see them, but you know they're always there.”
— Tehzeeb Kazmi

24. “There’s nothing like a really loyal, dependable, good friend. Nothing.”
— Jennifer Aniston

25. “A friend who understands your tears is much more valuable than a lot of friends who only know your smile.”
— Unknown

26. “It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche

27. “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

28. “You can always tell a real friend: when you’ve made a fool of yourself he doesn’t feel you’ve done a permanent job.”
— Laurence J. Peter

29. “Friends are the siblings God never gave us.”
— Mencius

30. “Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, 'You too? I thought I was the only one.”
— C.S. Lewis

Short and Sweet Friendship Quotes

Even though you could go on and write on regarding how impressive your best friends are, sometimes all you require is something short and sweet. These short and beautiful quotes are ideal for friendship, crafts, bracelets, and cards alike.

31. “Friendship happens when the distance between the hearts tends to zero.”
— Amit Ray

32. “A single rose can be my garden…a single friend, my world.”
— Leo Buscaglia

33. “A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.”
— Walter Winchell

34. “Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.”
— Khalil Gibran

35. “Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.”
— Leo Buscaglia

36. “Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.”
— Woodrow T. Wilson

37. “A friend to all is a friend to none.”
— Aristotle

38. “Things are never quite as scary when you’ve got a best friend.”
— Bill Watterson

39. “Real friendship is shown in times of trouble; prosperity is full of friends.”
— Euripides

40. “I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.”
— Helen Keller

41. “What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.”
— Confucius

42. “The only way to have a friend is to be one.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

43. “Friends are the family you choose.”
— Jess C. Scott

44. “Friends are the siblings God never gave us.”
— Mencius

45. “If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone.”
— Maxwell Maltz

46. “Some friendships are so strong they can even transcend lifetimes.”
— Michael Dante DiMartino

47. “Anything is possible when you have the right people there to support you.”
— Misty Copeland

48. “One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.”
— Euripides

49. “Without friendship, there is no love. Simple. Love is friendship.”
— Karan Johar

50. “People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges.”
— Joseph F. Newton Men

Funny Best Friend Quotes to Make You Laugh

Whether it’s with inside cracks, terrible jokes, or humorous stories, your friends are the ones that make you laugh. If they’re on the identical wavelength as you when it comes to your taste of humor, you’ll love sharing hilarious quotes with them that you can laugh at together. Honor your partner in crime with these humorous best friendship quotes.

51. “We are best friends. Always remember that if you fall , I will pick you up… after I finish laughing.”
— Unknown

52. “It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn’t use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like ‘What about lunch?”
— A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

53. “Best friends. Because if anyone else heard our conversations we’d end up in the mental hospital.”
— Tehzeeb Kazmi

54. “I’d take a bullet for you. Not in the head. But like in the leg or something.”
— Unknown

55. “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

56. “Friends buy you food. Best friends eat your food.”
— Unknown

57. “Real friendship is when you friend comes over to your house and then you both just take a nap.”
— Unknown

58. “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.”
— Unknown

59. “I love that our effortless friendship fits perfectly with my laziness.”
— Unknown

60. “You don’t have to be crazy to be my friend. I’ll train you.”
— Unknown

61. “You can always tell a real friend: when you’ve made a fool of yourself he doesn’t feel you’ve done a permanent job.”
— Laurence Sterne

61. “Love is blind; friendship tries not to notice.”
— Otto von Bismarck

62. “I don’t know what’s tighter: our jeans or our friendship.”
— Unknown

63. “An old friend will help you move. A good friend will help you move a dead body.”
— Otto Jim Hayes

64. “The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.”
— Mark Twain

65. “True friends don’t judge each other, they judge other people together.”
— Otto von Bismarck

66. “True friendship is when you walk into their house and your WiFi connects automatically.”
— Unknown

67. “Never let your best friends get lonely…keep disturbing them.”
— Candlelight Publications

68. “Marriage is a sort of friendship recognized by the police.”
— Robert Louis Stevenson

69. “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

70. “Best friends don’t care if your house is clean. They care if you have wine.”
— Unknown

Deep Friendship Quotes for Tight Bonds

Some friends have been there for you since day one, through the stablest and unfortunate times. Celebrate those remarkably close friends with these deep friendship quotes. Find the ideal quote to warm your friend’s heart below.

71. “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

72. “A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill requires only our silence; which costs us nothing.”
— John Tillotson

73. “Some of the biggest challenges in relationships come from the fact that most people enter a relationship in order to get something: they’re trying to find someone who’s going to make them feel good. In reality, the only way a relationship will last is if you see your relationship as a place that you go to give, and not a place that you go to take.”
— Anthony Robbins

74. “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

75. “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

76. “Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.”
— Henry David Thoreau

77. “Some people arrive and make such a beautiful impact on your life, you can barely remember what life was like without them.”
— Anna Taylor

78. “Many a person has held close, throughout their entire lives, two friends that always remained strange to one another, because one of them attracted by virtue of similarity, the other by difference.”
— Emil Ludwig

79. “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

80. “A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill requires only our silence; which costs us nothing.”
— John Tillotson

81. “Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.”
— Henry David Thoreau

82. “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

83. “When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are.”
— Donald Miller

84. “Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.”
— Washington Irving

85. “If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone.”
— Maxwell Maltz

New Friendship Quotes for Building Connections

The friends you know now like the back of your hand were once strangers to you. Strange to think about, right? The first step to finding a best friend is to meet new people and develop links. These new friendship quotes can inspire you to turn familiarities into friends.

86. “Everyone you meet knows something you don’t know but need to know. Learn from them.”
— C.G. Jung

87. “I love meeting new people; I think everyone has a story to tell. We should all listen sometimes.”
— Kim Smith

88. “Don’t be afraid of new beginnings. Don’t shy away from new people, new energy, new surroundings. Embrace new chances at happiness.”
— Billy Chapata

89. “Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them. ”
— Francesco Guicciardini

90. “Be genuinely interested in everyone you meet and everyone you meet will be genuinely interested in you. ”
— Rasheed Ogunlaru

91. “Every new friend is a new adventure… the start of more memories.”
— Patrick Lindsay

92. “You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.”
— Dale Carnegie

93. “Getting to know new people and gaining new friends is one of life’s greatest pleasures. So conquer your fears and get out there.”
— Tony Clark

94. “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

95. “The kindest way of helping yourself is to find a friend.”
— Ann Kaiser Stearns

96. “We need old friends to help us grow old and new friends to help us stay young.”
— Letty Cottin Pogrebin

97. “Every new friend is a new adventure… the start of more memories.”
— Patrick Lindsay

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