50 Inspirational Quotes to Celebrate Friendship

"A friend knows the song in my heart and signs it to me when my memory fails."

- Donna Roberts

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

- Thomas J. Watson

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

- Elisabeth Foley

"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

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

- Tennessee Williams

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

- Carl W. Buechner

"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

"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

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

- Helen Keller

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

- Albus Dumbledore

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

- Walter Winchell

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

- Rasheed Ogunlaru

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

- Francesco Guicciardini

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

- Patrick Lindsay

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

- Shanna Rodriguez

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

- Ann Kaiser Stearns

"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

"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

"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

"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

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

- John Evelyn

"The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Hubert H. Humphrey

"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

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

- Mohanlal

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

- Oprah

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- Jennifer Aniston

"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

"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

"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

"The only thing old about you is our friendship, which makes us ancient..."

- Nanette L. Avery

"It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read."

- Francis Bacon

"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

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

- Joseph Parry

"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

"Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is no 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 Butler

"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

"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."

- R. J. L.

"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

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

- Heidi Wills

"Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another."

- Eustace Budgell

"Friends are people who know you really well and like you anyway."

- Greg Tamblyn

"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

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

- Thomas Fuller

"One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood."

- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

"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

"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 Butler

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

- Benjamin Franklin

"Come at once if convenient. If inconvenient, come all the same."

- Arthur Conan Doyle

"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

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

- Marcel Proust

"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

"In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, for in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed."

- Kahlil Gibran

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

- Dr. Seuss

"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

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

- Jim Henson

"A single rose can be my garden…a single friend, my world."

- Leo Buscaglia

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

- Woodrow Wilson

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

- Ed Cunningham

"It’s the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter."

- Marlene Dietrich

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

- G. Randolf

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

- Irish proverb

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

- Helen Keller

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

- Helen Keller

"Friends are the siblings God never gave us."

- Mencius

"True friends are like diamonds — bright, beautiful, valuable, and always in style."

- Nicole Richie

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

- Thomas Aquinas

"Friends are the family you choose."

- Jess C. Scott

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

- Misty Copeland

"A sweet friendship refreshes the soul."

- Proverbs 27:9

"There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate."

- Linda Grayson

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

- Charles Lamb

"A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked."

- Bernard Meltzer

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

- Arnold H. Glasgow

"If you are ever lucky enough to find a weirdo, never let them go."

- Matthew Gray Gubler

"Never let your best friends get lonely…keep disturbing them."

- Candlelight Publications

"The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another’s little lapses."

- David Storey

"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

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

- Frances Ward Weller

"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

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

- Kahlil Gibran

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

- Henry David Thoreau

"False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports."

- Richard Burton

"My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake."

- Aristotle

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

- Henry Ford

"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

"Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation."

- Oscar Wilde

"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

"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

"Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare — and precious as a pearl."

- Tahar Ben Jelloun

"But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine."

- Thomas Jefferson

"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

"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

"Love is friendship set on fire."

- Jeremy Taylor

"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

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

- Chelsea Handler

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

- Mohanlal

"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

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

- Maya Angelou

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

- C.G. Jung

"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

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"A single rose can be my garden; a single friend, my world."

- Leo Buscaglia

"Good friends make everything easier."

- Aesop

"A friend is someone with whom you dare to be yourself."

- Frank Crane

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

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

"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 friend is one who walks in when others walk out."

- Walter Winchell

"A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails."

- Donna Roberts

"Friendship is the wine of life."

- Edward Young

"Friendship's the wine of life."

- Edward Young

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"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 love without wings."

- George Gordon Byron

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

- Sarah Dessen

"True friendship is a plant of slow growth."

- George Washington

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

"God made us best friends because he knew our moms couldn’t handle us as sisters."

"When it hurts to look back and you’re afraid to look ahead, you can look beside you and your best friend will be there."

"A strong friendship doesn’t need daily conversation or being together. As long as the relationship lives in the heart, true friends never part."

"True friends are always together in spirit."

"No friendship is an accident."

"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."

"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."

"Life was meant for good friends and great adventures."

"Best friend: the one that you can be mad at only for a short period of time because you have important stuff to tell them."

"You don’t have to be crazy to be my friend. I’ll train you."

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

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

"Best friends. Because if anyone else heard our conversations we’d end up in the mental hospital."

"Best friends don’t care if your house is clean. They care if you have wine."

"We’ll be best friends forever because you already know too much."

"True friendship is when you walk into their house and your WiFi connects automatically."

"I love that our effortless friendship fits perfectly with my laziness."

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

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

"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."

"True friends aren’t the ones who make your problems disappear. They are the ones who won’t disappear when you’re facing problems."

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

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

"Best friends understand when you say, ‘forget it.’ Wait forever when you say, ‘just a minute.’ Stay when you say, ‘leave me alone.’ And open the door before you can say, ‘come in.’"

"Friendship isn’t about who you’ve known the longest. It’s about who walked into your life, said, ‘I’m here for you,’ and proved it."

"Everyone hears what you say. Friends listen to what you say. Best friends listen to what you don’t say."

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

"Sometimes being with your best friend is all the therapy you need."

"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."

"Everyone has a friend during each stage of life. But only lucky ones have the same friend in all stages of life."

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

"Friendship is so weird…you just pick a human you’ve met and you’re like ‘Yep, I like this one’ and you just do stuff with them."

"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."

"I think we’ll be friends forever because we’re too lazy to find new friends."

"Friends buy you food. Best friends eat your food."

"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."

"We’ll be the old ladies causing trouble in the nursing home."

"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."