What qualities do you look for in a friend? These relationship quotes demonstrate how unique excellent friends are.
Having wonderful friends with whom to share your life is a rare privilege, and having a “best friend” is one of life’s most valuable possessions.
A true friend is a partner who will always be there for you. You may be completely yourself around them without fear of being judged, and they will love and support you no matter what.
We hope you appreciate these beautiful friendship quotes, whether you want to recognize your friendships or just recall why you love your friends so much.
So share them with your closest friends while also making new ones.
100+ Friendship Quotes to Recall the Love of your Friend
Friendship is the purest love. – Osho
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.___Aristotle
Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.___Woodrow Wilson
Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
Walk beside me… just be my friend.― Albert Camus
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.___Samuel Butler
A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.― Elbert Hubbard
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?__Eugene Kennedy
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
Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.― Mark Twain
Friendship is a word, the very sight of which in print makes heart warm.___Augustine Birrell
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.___Khalil Gibran
Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.___Friedrich Nietzsche
The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.― Bob Marley
There are big ships and small ships. But the best ship of all is friendship.___Unknown
There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.― Jane Austen
Friendship is like a glass ornament, once it is broken it can rarely be put back together exactly the same way.___Charles Kingsley
Friendship is one mind in two bodies. – Mencius
If I had a flower for every time I thought of you…I could walk through my garden forever.― Alfred Tennyson
Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.___Thomas Aquinas
Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm & constant.___Socrates
Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.__Marcus Tullius Cicero
Friendship is a sheltering tree. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Oil and perfume make the heart glad, and the sweetness of a friend comes from his earnest counsel.___Proverbs 27:9, ESV
Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn’t seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.____Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.___Dorothy Parker
One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention.___Clifton Faidman
Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.___Ellie Weisel
When someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and comfortable.― Jess C. Scott
Friendship is delicate as a glass, once broken it can be fixed but there will always be cracks.___Waqar Ahmed
Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow.___Swedish Proverb
The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.___Hubert H. Humphrey
There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.― Linda Grayson
Every friendship travels at sometime through the black valley of despair. This tests every aspect of your affection. You lose the attraction and the magic.___John O’Donohue
A snowball in the face is surely the perfect beginning to a lasting friendship.___Markus Zusak
Friendship is like a rainbow between two hearts.– Anonymous
Friendship isn’t about who you’ve known the longest, it’s about who walked in to your life, said ‘I’m here for you’ and PROVED it.___Anonymous
Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend.― Sarah Dessen
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
Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.___George Washington
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
Friendship is a wildly underrated medication. – Anna Deavre Smith
We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over.___Ray Bradbury
You can’t stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.― A.A. Milne
Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.___Oscar Wilde
Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing___Elie Weisel
No matter how tired I am, I get dinner at least once a week with my girlfriends. Or have a sleepover. Otherwise my life is just all work.__Jennifer Lawrence
Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can’t have too many friends because then you’re just not really friends.___Truman Capote
Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.___Epicurus
There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.___William Hazlitt
When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands.___Maria Shriver
Why did you do all this for me?’ he asked. ‘I don’t deserve it. I’ve never done anything for you.’ ‘You have been my friend,’ replied Charlotte. ‘That in itself is a tremendous thing.― E.B. White
The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, not the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship.____Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friendship my definition is built on two things. Respect and trust. Both elements have to be there. And it has to be mutual. You can have respect for someone, but if you don’t have trust, the friendship will crumble.___Stieg Larsson
I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.___Katherine Mansfield
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
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
Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.___Balthasar Gracian
A man’s friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.___Charles Darwin
A friendship that can end never really began. – Publilius Syrus
Only a true best friend can protect you from your immortal enemies.― Richelle Mead
Women’s friendships are like a renewable source of power.___Jane Fonda
Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, ‘You too? I thought I was the only one.’___C.S. Lewis
There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.― P.G. Wodehouse
All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand.___Ella Wheeler Wilcox
No friendship is an accident.– O. Henry, Heart of the West
The rules of friendship are tacit, unconscious; they are not rational. In business, though, you have to think rationally.___Steven Pinker
Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world.___John Evelyn
Every friendship goes through ups and downs. Dysfunctional patterns set in; external situations cause internal friction; you grow apart and then bounce back together.___Mariella Frostrup
Friendship’s the wine of life.___Edward Young, Night Thoughts
If you can survive 11 days in cramped quarters with a friend and come out laughing, your friendship is the real deal.___Oprah Winfrey
Friendship isn’t a big thing. It’s a million little things.__Anonymous
Friendship consists in forgetting what one gives and remembering what one receives.___Alexandre Dumas
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
Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend’s success.___Oscar Wilde
Why is it,” he said, one time, at the subway entrance, “I feel I’ve known you so many years?”
“Because I like you,” she said, “and I don’t want anything from you.― Ray Bradbury
The only way to have a friend is to be one. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
I may not always be there with you, but I will always be there for you.___Anonymous
A 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.__Jim Morrison
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
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.__Martin Luther King, Jr.
A friend is someone who makes it easy to believe in yourself.___Heidi Wills
The great thing about new friends is that they bring new energy to your soul.___Shanna Rodriguez
A friend can tell you things you don’t want to tell yourself.___Frances Ward Weller
If you have two friends in your lifetime, you’re lucky. If you have one good friend, you’re more than lucky.― S.E. Hinton
Some people arrive and make such a beautiful impact on your life, you can barely remember what life was like without them.___Anna Taylor
Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.___Henry David Thoreau
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
Some people go to priests, others to poetry, I to my friends.___Virginia Woolf
There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.___Sylvia Plath
I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was 12.___Steven King, Stand by Me
Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.___Tennessee Williams
Friends are medicine for a wounded heart, and vitamins for a hopeful soul.__Steve Maraboli
A friend is an emotional bond, just like friendship is a human experience.___Simon Sinek
Friends are the siblings God never gave us. – Mencius
A day without a friend is like a pot without a single drop of honey left inside.___Winnie the Pooh
I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don’t believe I deserved my friends.__Walt Whitman
You’ve got a friend in me.___Randy Newman, Toy Story
Friends should be like books, few, but hand-selected.___C. J. Langenhoven
Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends, for it is one of God’s greatest gifts. It involves many things, but above all the power of going out of one’s self and appreciating what is noble and loving in another.___Thomas Hughes
Don’t be dismayed at good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends.__Richard Bach
There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.__Linda Grayson
A friend accepts us as we are yet helps us to be what we should.__Anonymous
Friends are the family you choose. – Jess C. Scott
We come from homes far from perfect, so you end up almost parent and sibling to your friends – your own chosen family. There’s nothing like a really loyal, dependable, good friend. Nothing.___Jennifer Aniston
One friend with whom you have a lot in common is better than three with whom you struggle to find things to talk about.___Mindy Kaling
Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.___Margaret Lee Runbeck, Answer Without Ceasing
An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.___Buddha
I don’t need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.___Plutarch
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.____Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friends are the sailors who guide your rickety boat safely across the dangerous waters of life.___Sare and Cate
Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.___Richard Bach
In a friend you find a second self. – Isabelle Norton
Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.___Sicilian Proverb
Friends are like stars, they come and go, but the ones that stay are the ones that glow.___Roxy Quicksilver
Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.____Euripides