Friendship is a relationship between two people who share close personal ties. It is a bond of trust, confidence, and mutual understanding. It is hard to find true friends. There are so many people out there who surround us and tell us how to think, but true friends will be the ones who make your life better, not worse.
True friendship is a rare thing in this world. There are so many people out there who tell you what you want to hear or use you for their benefit. They may not mean anything wrong by it, but they’ll only do it because they know that you would never say no.
The best way to find true friends is by surrounding yourself with positive people and looking for ways to influence them positively. Surround yourself with people who have high standards for themselves and others–these are the types of people that will help guide you into becoming someone better than yourself
This list of 100+ best friendship quotes to share with your BFF will make you laugh, cry, and be thankful for all the memories you’ve had together.
“Friends are the family you choose.” ― Jess C. Scott
“Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.” ― Samuel Butler
“A friend is one who overlooks your broken fence and admires the flowers in your garden.” ― Unknown
“True friends are like diamonds – bright, beautiful, valuable, and always in style.” ― Unknown
“A good friend is like a four-leaf clover; hard to find and lucky to have.” – Irish Proverb
“Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.” – Elie Wiesel
“A friend is someone who makes it easy to believe in yourself.” – Heidi Wills
“There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.” – Thomas Aquinas
“Things are never quite as scary when you’ve got a best friend.” – Bill Watterson
“Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: ‘What! You too? I thought I was the only one.” ― C.S. Lewis
“A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.” ― Elbert Hubbard
“True friendship is never serene.” – Marquise de Sevigne
“Friendship is a word, the very sight of which in print makes heart warm.” – Augustine Birrell
“Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.” ― Aristotle
“Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.” ― Henry David Thoreau
“True friendship is like sound health. The value of it is seldom known until it be lost.” ― Charles Caleb Colton
“If you have one true friend you have more than your share.” – Thomas Fuller
“I don’t need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.” ― Plutarch
“There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.” ― Linda Grayson
“F.R.I.E.N.D.S. Fight for you. Respect you. Include you. Encourage you. Need you. Deserve you. Stand by you.” ― Unknown
“Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.” – Benjamin Franklin
“I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.” ― Walt Whitman
“A friend is someone who helps you up when you’re down, and if they can’t, they lay down beside you and listen.” ― Winnie The Pooh
“Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?” ― Abraham Lincoln
“The language of friendship is not words but meanings.” ― Henry David Thoreau
“One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.” – Lucius Annaeus Seneca
“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.” ― Unknown
“The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.” – Henry David Thoreau
“Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.” – Henry David Thoreau
“My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.” – Henry Ford
“The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.” – Hubert H. Humphrey
“Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.” – Marcus Tullius Cicero
“A best friend is someone who makes you laugh even when you think you’ll never smile again.” ― Unknown
“Friends are the siblings God never gave us.” – Mencius
“Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.” – Euripides
“Sitting silently beside a friend who is hurting may be the best gift we can give.” ― Unknown
“True friends are those rare people who come to find you in dark places and lead you back to the light.” ― Unknown
“No friendship is an accident.” – O. Henry
“Sometimes being with your best friend is all the therapy you need.” ― Unknown
“True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable.” – David Tyson
“True friends stab you in the front.” – Oscar Wilde
“A sweet friendship refreshes the soul.” – Proverbs 27:9
“Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.” – Aristotle
“Friendship is delicate as a glass, once broken it can be fixed but there will always be cracks.” – Waqar Ahmed
“A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success!” – Doug Larson
“Friendship is one mind in two bodies.” – Mencius
“Everyone has a friend during each stage of life. But only lucky ones have the same friend in all stages of life.” ― Unknown
“One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.” – Euripides
“Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.” ― Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.” ― Woodrow Wilson
“The great thing about new friends is that they bring new energy to your soul.” – Shanna Rodriguez
“Friendship is inexplicable, it should not be explained if one doesn’t want to kill it.” – Max Jacob
“A friend is what the heart needs all the time.” – Henry Van Dyke
“A true friend is someone who is there for you when he’d rather be anywhere else.” – Len Wein
“A friend is one who overlooks your broken fence and admires the flowers in your garden.” ― Unknown
“Good friends are hard to find, harder to leave and impossible to forget.” ― G. Randolf
“Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.” – Epicurus
“The language of friendship is not words but meanings.” – Henry David Thoreau
“A friend is an emotional bond, just like friendship is a human experience.” – Simon Sinek
“The rules of friendship are tacit, unconscious; they are not rational. In business, though, you have to think rationally.” – Steven Pinker
“True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.” – Henry David Thoreau
“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
“True friends aren’t the ones who make your problems disappear. They are the ones who won’t disappear when your facing problems.” ― Unknown
“All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand.” – Ella Wheeler Wilcox
“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
“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 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
“Friendship is essentially a partnership.” – Aristotle
“We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we’re not alone.” – Orson Welles
“Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.” – Herodotus
“When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands.” – Maria Shriver
“A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself – and especially to feel, or not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at any moment is fine with them.” ― Jim Morrison
“The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
“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.” ― Shakespeare
“Friendship is a wildly underrated medication.” – Anna Deavere Smith
“Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.” – Francesco Guicciardini
“There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.” – William Hazlitt
“True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.” – St. Jerome
“Friends confront each other sometimes, and sometimes the friendship lasts, and sometimes it doesn’t.” – Brooke Elliott
“Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.” – Khalil Gibran
“Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.” – Eustace Budgell
“Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: ‘What! You too? I thought I was the only one.” – C.S. Lewis
“Best friends. Because of anyone else heard our conversations we’d end up in the mental hospital.” ― Unknown
“A true friend is someone who sees the pain in your eyes while everyone else believes the smile on your face.” ― Unknown
“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.” ― Unknown
“Real friendship is when your friend comes over to your house and then you both just take a nap.” ― Unknown
“A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.” – Walter Winchell
“A man’s friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.” – Charles Darwin
“You find out who your real friends are when you’re involved in a scandal.” – Elizabeth Taylor
“I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.” – Helen Keller
“I don’t like that man. I must get to know him better.” ― Abraham Lincoln
“Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.” ― Virginia Woolf
“It’s not what we have, but who we have.” ― Winnie The Pooh
“True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable.” ― David Tyson Gentry
“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
“Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.” – Baltasar Gracian
“Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.” – Virginia Woolf
“A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute. He may not seem such a good friend after telling.” ― Arthur Brisbane
“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 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
“Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.” – Thomas Aquinas
“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
“Friendship consists in forgetting what one gives and remembering what one receives.” ― Alexander Dumas
“Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm & constant.” ― Socrates
“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.”
“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 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
“Even where friendship is concerned, it takes me a long time to trust people.” – Namie Amuro
“A friend is one of the nicest things you can have and one of the best things you can be.” ― Winnie The Pooh
“One friend in a storm is worth more than a thousand friends in sunshine.” ― Matshona Dhliwayo
“Friendship is not about whom you know the longest. It is about who came and never left.” ― Paulo Coelho
“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
