Bonds between friends are limitless. Having a special person that you can confide in and trust leads to living a happier life. A friend is supportive, responsive, and present. To celebrate the special role these individuals play in our life, here are some of the most inspiring best friends quotes to share with your friend today.
I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.
– Helen Keller
Keep away from those who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you believe that you too can become great.
– Mark Twain
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 Fadiman
True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable.
– David Tyson
There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.
– William Hazlitt
A best friend is someone who makes you laugh even when you think you’ll never smile again.
– Unknown
To friendship every burden’s light.
– Aesop
When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are.
– Donald Miller
You don’t have to be crazy to be my friend. I’ll train you.
– Unknown
Things are never quite as scary when you’ve got a best friend.
– Bill Watterson
The best mirror is an old friend.
– George Herbert
It is not so much our friends’ help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.
– Epicurus
Remember that life’s most valuable antiques are dear old friends.
– H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
A strong friendship doesn’t need daily conversation or being together. As long as the relationship lives in the heart, true friends never part.
– Unknown
A friend is one soul abiding in two bodies.
– Aristotle
A friend who understands your tears is much more valuable than a lot of friends who only know your smile.
– Unknown
A friend is one who overlooks your broken fence and admires the flowers in your garden.
– Unknown
Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.
– Dorothy Parker
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 sheltering tree;
– Samuel – Taylor Coleridge
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
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.
– Unknown
A man’s friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
– Charles Darwin
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
Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.
– Woodrow Wilson
Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.
– Epicurus
Someone to tell it to is one of the fundamental needs of human beings.
– Miles Franklin
The royal road to a man’s heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.
– Dale Carnegie
‘Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respected.
– Charles Lamb
What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.
– Confucius
The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
A friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future, and accepts you just the way you are.
– Unknown
We’ll be best friends forever because you already know too much.
– Unknown
Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.
– Richard Bach
There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.
– Linda Grayson
That was what a best friend did: hold up a mirror and show you your heart.
– Kristin Hannah
If you are ever lucky enough to find a weirdo, never let them go.
– Matthew Gray Gubler
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.
– Khalil Gibran
Anything is possible when you have the right people there to support you.
– Misty Copeland
Don’t walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don’t walk behind me; I may not lead. Just walk beside me and be my friend.
– Albert Camus
A snowball in the fact is surely the perfect beginning to a lasting friendship.
– Markus Zusak
A friend can tell you things you don’t want to tell yourself.
– Frances Ward Weller
I don’t need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.
– Plutarch
Friendship is a word, the very sight of which in print makes heart warm.
– Augustine Birrell
A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.
– Donna Roberts
Friendship is the purest love.
– Osho
A good friend is like a four-leaf clover; hard to find and lucky to have.
– Irish Proverb
They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.
– Carl W. Buechner
Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer.
– Ed Cunningham
Good friends are like stars. You don’t always see them, but you know they’re always there.
– Unknown
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
Life was meant for good friends and great adventures.
– Unknown
No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.
– Alice Walker
A faithful friend loves to the end.
– Unknown
A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.
– Bernard Meltzer
Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm & constant.
– Socrates
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
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
Friends buy you food. Best friends eat your food.
– Unknown
There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.
– Thomas Aquinas
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
– Aristotle
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched — they must be felt with the heart.
– Helen Keller
The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.
– Elisabeth Foley
The rules of friendship are tacit, unconscious; they are not rational. In business, though, you have to think rationally.
-Steven Pinker
Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations. Don’t over-analyze your relationships. Stop playing games. A growing relationship can only be nurtured by genuineness.
– Leo F. Buscaglia
There’s not a word yet for old friends who’ve just met.
– Jim Henson
True friends are like diamonds — bright, beautiful, valuable, and always in style.
– Nicole Richie
True friendship is when you walk into their house and your WiFi connects automatically.
– 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
No friendship is an accident.
– O. Henry
True friends aren’t the ones who make your problems disappear. They are the ones who won’t disappear when you’re facing problems.
– Unknown
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
True friendship is a plant of slow growth…
– George Washington
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
True friends are always together in spirit.
– L.M. Montgomery
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.
– Unknown
Friends are the siblings God never gave us.
– Mencius
Friends are the family you choose.
– Jess C. Scott
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
Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.
– Thomas Aquinas
I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.
– Katherine Mansfield
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
The tender friendships one gives up, on parting, leave their bite on the heart, but also a curious feeling of a treasure somewhere buried.
– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone.
– Maxwell Maltz
Friends…they cherish one another’s hopes. They are kind to one another’s dreams.
– Henry David Thoreau
God made us best friends because he knew our moms couldn’t handle us as sisters.
– Unknown
In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
It’s the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.
– Marlene Dietrich
My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
– Aristotle
We’ll be the old ladies causing trouble in the nursing home.
– Unknown
To the world you may be just one person, but to one person you may be the world.
– Brandi Snyder
A true friend is for ever a friend.
– George MacDonald
I think we’ll be friends forever because we’re too lazy to find new friends.
– Unknown
If you go looking for a friend, you’re going to find they’re very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you’ll find them everywhere.
– Zig Ziglar
It’s not what we have in life, but who we have in our life that matters.
– Unknown
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 compliment that was ever paid me was when someone asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.
– Henry David Thoreau
True friends are great riches.
– Unknown
True friends are never apart, maybe in distance but never in heart.
– Helen Keller
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
Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
– Marcel Proust
Never let your best friends get lonely…keep disturbing them.
– Candlelight Publications
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 marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.
– Elie Weisel
Best friends are the people in your life who make you laugh louder, smile brighter and live better.
– Unknown
A single rose can be my garden… a single friend, my world.
– Leo Buscaglia
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 sweet friendship refreshes the soul.
– Proverbs 27:9
Don’t make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.
– Thomas J. Watson
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
I love that our effortless friendship fits perfectly with my laziness.
– Unknown
Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
– Tennessee Williams
Friendship’s the wine of life.
– Edward Young
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
One good friendship will outlive forty average loves.
– Unknown
Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow.
– Swedish Proverb
The best time to make friends is before you need them.
– Ethel Barrymore
Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.
– Oscar Wilde
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
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
– Friedrich Nietzsche
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
Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
– Virginia Woolf
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
There are friends, there is family, and then there are friends that become family.
– Unknown
‘Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respected.
– Charles Lamb
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.
– Unknown
When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands.
– Maria Shriver
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
– Henry Ford
Time doesn’t take away from friendship, nor does separation.
– Tennessee Williams
Sometimes being with your best friend is all the therapy you need.
– Unknown
One’s friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.
– George Santayana
Everyone hears what you say. Friends listen to what you say. Best friends listen to what you don’t say.
– Unknown
Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by, the doubling of our joy, and diving of our grief;
– Joseph Addison
All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand.
– Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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.’
– Unknown
Whenever you’re in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.
– William James
Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.
– G. Randolf
A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.
– Arnold H. Glasgow
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
Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?
– Abraham Lincoln
Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.
– Dumbledore
In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.
– John Churton Collin
If it’s very painful for you to criticize your friends — you’re safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that’s the time to hold your tongue.
– Alice Duer Miller
Life is an ugly, awful place to not have a best friend.
– Sarah Dessen
Women’s friendships are like a renewable source of power.
– Jane Fonda
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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
A friend is one of the best things you can be and the greatest things you can have.
– Sarah Valdez
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
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
Best friends. Because if anyone else heard our conversations we’d end up in the mental hospital.
– Unknown
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
People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges.
– Joseph F. Newton
A day without a friend is like a pot without a single drop of honey left inside.
– Winnie the Pooh
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
– Walter Winchell
Best friends don’t care if your house is clean. They care if you have wine.
– Unknown
Friendship is like a glass ornament, once it is broken it can rarely be put back together exactly the same way.
– Charles Kingsley
I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.
– Ernest Hemingway
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
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.
