100+ Inspirational Friendship Quotes to Celebrate True Bonds

"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

"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

"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched — they must be felt with the heart."

- Helen Keller

"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

"Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose."

- Tennessee Williams

"Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light."

- Albus Dumbledore

"Don’t make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up."

- Thomas J. Watson

"Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it."

- Hubert H. Humphrey

"The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart."

- Elisabeth Foley

"If you can survive 11 days in cramped quarters with a friend and come out laughing, your friendship is the real deal."

- Oprah Winfrey

"I think if I’ve learned anything about friendship, it’s to hang in, stay connected, fight for them, and let them fight for you. Don’t walk away, don’t be distracted, don’t be too busy or tired, don’t take them for granted. Friends are part of the glue that holds life and faith together. Powerful stuff."

- Jon Katz

"No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow."

- Alice Walker

"Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher."

- Oprah

"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

"Time doesn't take away from friendship, nor does separation."

- Tennessee Williams

"Friendship is born at the moment when one says to another, ‘What! You too? I thought I was the only one.’"

- C.S. Lewis

"Well, it seems to me that the best relationships - the ones that last - are frequently the ones that are rooted in friendship. You know, one day you look at the person and you see something more than you did the night before. Like a switch has been flicked somewhere. And the person who was just a friend is... suddenly the only person you can ever imagine yourself with."

- Gillian Anderson

"A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out."

- Walter Winchell

"There’s nothing like a really loyal, dependable, good friend. Nothing."

- Jennifer Aniston

"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

"A good friend is like a four-leaf clover; hard to find and lucky to have."

- Irish Proverb

"When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost work, but the solidest things we know."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Words are easy, like the wind; faithful friends are hard to find."

- William Shakespeare

"To the world you may be just one person, but to one person you may be the world."

- Dr. Seuss

"Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years."

- Richard Bach

"Growing apart doesn’t change the fact that for a long time we grew side by side; our roots will always be tangled."

- Ally Condie

"Make new friends, but keep the old; Those are silver, these are gold."

- Joseph Parry

"True friendship resists time, distance, and silence."

- Isabel Allende

"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."

- William Shakespeare

"A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same."

- Elbert Hubbard

"There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship."

- Thomas Aquinas

"Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom."

- Marcel Proust

"Friendships between women, as many women will tell you, are built of a thousand small kindnesses…swapped back and forth and over again."

- Michelle Obama

"It’s not that diamonds are a girl’s best friend, but it’s your best friends who are your diamonds."

- Gina Barreca

"Friendship is accepting a person with all their qualities—good and bad."

- Mohanlal

"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

"Two things you will never have to chase: True friends & true love."

- Mandy Hale

"Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief"

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

"True friends are like diamonds, precious and rare. Fake friends are like autumn leaves, found everywhere."

- Ari Joseph

"Friendships between women, as any woman will tell you, are built of a thousand small kindnesses... swapped back and forth and over again."

- Michelle Obama

"Silence makes the real conversations between friends. Not the saying, but the never needing to say that counts."

- Margaret Lee Runbeck

"By chance we met, by choice we become friends"

- Millie

"Friends are the family you choose."

- Jess C. Scott

"To throw away an honest friend is, as it were, to throw your life away."

- Sophocles

"Real friends are the ones you can count on no matter what. The ones who go into the forest to find you and bring you home.And real friends never have to tell you that they’re your friends."

- Morgan Matson

"If you have good friends, no matter how much life is sucking , they can make you laugh."

- P.C. Cast

"When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost work, but the solidest things we can know."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Share your smile with the world. It’s a symbol of friendship and peace."

- Christie Brinkley

"Don’t make friends who you are comfortable with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up."

- Thomas J. Watson

"Friends…they cherish one another’s hopes. They are kind to one another’s dreams."

- Henry David Thoreau

"I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let’s face it, friends make life a lot more fun."

- Charles R. Swindoll

"A friend is someone who makes it easy to believe in yourself."

- Heidi Wills

"Anything is possible when you have the right people there to support you."

- Misty Copeland

"A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down."

- Arnold H. Glasgow

"Women’s friendships are like a renewable source of power."

- Jane Fonda

"The truth of the matter is, no matter how lonely you might feel, you’re never going through anything alone. You can choose your family."

- Jennifer Lopez

"I get by with a little help from my friends."

- Ice Cube

"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

"Close friends are truly life’s treasures. Sometimes they know us better than we know ourselves. With gentle honesty, they are there to guide and support us, to share our laughter and our tears. Their presence reminds us that we are never really alone."

- Vincent Van Gogh

"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

"A friend can tell you things you don’t want to tell yourself."

- Frances Ward Weller

"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

"If you have one true friend you have more than your share."

- Thomas Fuller

"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

"Things are never quite as scary when you’ve got a best friend."

- Bill Watterson

"Some people arrive and make such a beautiful impact on your life, you can barely remember what life was like without them."

- Anna Taylor

"I can’t believe I’ve known you for 20 years and you’re still my favorite person to talk to."

- Jess Day

"Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud."

- Maya Angelou

"There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first; when you learn to live for others, they will live for you."

- Paramahansa Yogananda

"’Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his."

- Benjamin Franklin

"We didn’t talk about anything heavy or light. We were just there together, and that was enough."

- Stephen Chbosky

"The only way to have a friend is to be one."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"How much good inside a day? Depends how good you live ‘em. How much love inside a friend? Depends how much you give ‘em."

- Shel Silverstein

"Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies."

- Aristotle

"A true friend is the greatest of all blessings."

- François de La Rochefoucauld

"Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief."

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

"True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost."

- Charles Caleb Colton

"A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world."

- John Evelyn

"A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you."

- Elbert Hubbard

"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

"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

"Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity."

- Khalil Gibran

"What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies."

- Aristotle

"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival."

- C.S. Lewis

"Friendship is the sweetest influence."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Friendship is love without wings."

- George Gordon Byron

"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

"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

"A friend is one of the best things you can be and the greatest things you can have."

- Sarah Valdez

"Time doesn’t take away from friendship, nor does separation."

- Tennessee Williams

"When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands."

- Maria Shriver

"When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean 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

"There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort."

- Charlotte Brontë

"For it would then be true friendship, such as no hope, no fear, no self-interest can sever. That is a friendship that stays with people until they die—and that people die for."

- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

"Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends."

- Virginia Woolf

"Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together."

- Woodrow Wilson

"They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel."

- Carl W. Buechner

"And what is a friend? More than a father, more than a brother: a traveling companion, with him, you can conquer the impossible, even if you must lose it later. Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing."

- Elie Wiesel

"I always say, Lorelei Lee got it wrong in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. It's not that diamonds are a girl's best friend, but it's your best friends who are your diamonds. It's your best friends who are supremely resilient, made under pressure, and of astonishing value. They're everlasting; they can cut glass if they need to."

- Gina Barreca

"My old grandmother always used to say, summer friends will melt away like summer snows, but winter friends are friends forever."

- George R.R. Martin

"A messy house is a must - it separates your true friends from other friends. Real friends are there to visit you not your house!"

- Jennifer Wilson

"Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget."

- G. Randolf

"Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer."

- Ed Cunningham

"True friends are never apart, maybe in distance but never in heart."

- Helen Keller

"A friend may be waiting behind a stranger’s face."

- Maya Angelou

"Never leave a friend behind. Friends are all we have to get us through this life—and they are the only things from this world that we could hope to see in the next."

- Dean Koontz

"The best mirror is an old friend."

- George Herbert

"If there ever comes a day when we can’t be together, keep me in your heart. I’ll stay there forever."

- Winnie the Pooh

"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

"If you live to be 100, I hope I live to be 100 minus 1 day, so I never have to live without you."

- Winnie the Pooh

"Friendship is accepting a person with all their qualities — good and bad."

- Mohanlal

"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

"Each new friendship can make you a new person, because it opens up new doors inside of you."

- Kate DiCamillo

"There are friendships imprinted in our hearts that will never be diminished by time and distance."

- Dodinsky

"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

"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

"A real friendship should not fade as time passes, and should not weaken because of space separation."

- John Newton

"Distance means so little, when someone means so much."

- Tom McNeal

"As long as we share the same sky and breathe the same air, we’re still together."

- Donna Lynn Hope

"A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand."

- Kahlil Gibran

"Can miles truly separate you from friends…If you want to be with someone you love, aren’t you already there?"

- Richard Bach

"Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend."

- Bill Watterson

"My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me."

- Henry Ford

"A day without a friend is like a pot without a single drop of honey left inside."

- Winnie the Pooh

"Friends are the siblings God never gave us."

- Mencius

"The most important discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart."

- Elisabeth Foley

"How much good inside a day? Depends how good you live 'em. How much love inside a friend? Depends how much you give 'em."

- Shel Silverstein

"Friendship is a sheltering tree;"

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"A true friend is for ever a friend."

- George MacDonald

"True friendship is when two friends can walk in opposite directions, yet remain side by side."

- Josh Grayson

"True friendship is a plant of slow growth…"

- George Washington

"The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by, the doubling of our joy, and diving of our grief;"

- Joseph Addison

"I would rather walk with a friend in the dark than walk alone in the light."

- Helen Keller

"That was what a best friend did: hold up a mirror and show you your heart."

- Kristin Hannah

"If you live to be a 100, I want to live to be 100 minus one day so I never have to live without you."

- Winnie the Pooh

"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

"Friendship's the wine of life."

- Edward Young

"What I realize now in hindsight is that there is a natural ebb and flow to friendships. There are times you think there's nothing left between you, that you've hit the bottom, but the special ones survive, find ways of restoring themselves."

- Colette McBeth

"There are three things that grow more precious with age; old wood to burn, old books to read, and old friends to enjoy."

- Henry Ford

"Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes."

- Henry David Thoreau

"[The greatest gift in life] is the gift of friendship, and I have received it; the greatest healing therapy is friendship."

- Hubert Humphrey

"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

"There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends."

- Sylvia Plath

"There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature."

- P.G. Wodehouse

"I still have friends from primary school. And my two best girlfriends are from secondary school. I don't have to explain anything to them. I don't have to apologize for anything. They know. There's no judgment in any way."

- Emma Watson

"Remember that life's most valuable antiques are dear old friends."

- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

"Life is an ugly, awful place to not have a best friend."

- Sarah Dessen

"One friend with whom you have a lot in common is better than three with whom you struggle to find things to talk about. We never needed best friend gear because I guess with real friends you don't have to make it official. It just is."

- Mindy Kaling

"Growing apart doesn't change the fact that for a long time we grew side by side; our roots will always be tangled."

- Ally Condie

"You don't have to have anything in common with people you've known since you were five. With old friends, you've got your whole life in common."

- Lyle Lovett

"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."

- Toni Morrison

"The kindest way of helping yourself is to find a friend."

- Ann Kaiser Stearns

"The great thing about new friends is that they bring new energy to your soul."

- Shanna Rodriguez

"Every new friend is a new adventure… the start of more memories."

- Patrick Lindsay

"Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them."

- Francesco Guicciardini

"Everyone you meet knows something you don’t know but need to know. Learn from them."

- C.G. Jung

"'Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respected."

- Charles Lamb

"Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship."

- Marilyn Monroe

"Love is friendship set on fire."

- Jeremy Taylor

"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

"I don't know what I would have done so many times in my life if I hadn't had my girlfriends. They have literally gotten me up out of bed, taken my clothes off, put me in the shower, dressed me, said, 'Hey, you can do this,' put my high heels on and pushed me out the door!"

- Reese Witherspoon

"A good friend is like a four-leaf clover: hard to find and lucky to have."

- Irish Proverb

"Be genuinely interested in everyone you meet and everyone you meet will be genuinely interested in you."

- Rasheed Ogunlaru

"No road is long with good company."

- Turkish proverb

"The love that comes from friendship is the underlying facet of a happy life."

- Chelsea Handler

"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

"A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself."

- Josh Billings

"Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell."

- Emily Dickinson

"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."

"Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend."

"True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable."

"No friendship is an accident."

"Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil."

"To friendship every burden's light."

"Good friends are like stars. You don’t always see them, but you know they’re always there."

- Unknown

"A friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future, and accepts you just the way you are."

"It’s not what we have in life, but who we have in our life that matters."

"A friend who understands your tears is much more valuable than a lot of friends who only know your smile."

"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."

"Best friends are the people in your life who make you laugh louder, smile brighter and live better."

"Good friends are like stars. You don't always see them, but you know they're always there."

"A friend is one who overlooks your broken fence and admires the flowers in your garden."

"Best friends are the people in your life who make you laugh louder, smile brighter, and live better."

"Throughout life you will meet one person who is like no other. You could talk to this person for hours and never get bored, you could tell this person things and they will never judge you. This person is your soulmate, your best friend. Don’t ever let them go."

"There's not a word yet for old friends who've just met."

"One good friendship will outlive forty average loves."

"A part of you has grown in me, together forever we shall be, never apart, maybe in distance, but not in heart."

"A best friend us someone who makes you laugh even when you think you'll never smile again."

- Unknown

"It’s not being in love that makes me happy. It is the person that I am in love with that does."

"True friends are great riches."

"A strong friendship doesn’t need daily conversation, doesn’t always need togetherness, as long as the relationship lives in the heart, true friends will never part."