These Friendship Quotes Will Make You Feel Grateful for Your Bestie
We can all agree that life is a whole lot better when you have a best friend along for the ride! There's nothing like sharing your favorite desserts with your sidekick, or having someone to binge watch the best Netflix shows with. Even Ree Drummond has her longtime bestie, Hyacinth, whom she shares so many fun memories with!
Odds are, you've got your very own "Hyacinth," and this list of friendship quotes is intended to pay tribute to that person. These sweet sayings speak to the very heart of what it means to be a friend—and are just the thing to remind you how lucky you are to have them in your life. There are weighty, serious friend quotes here, like Isabel Norton's words about finding a "second self" in her friends, but there are plenty of funny friend quotes, too. Take this Linda Grayson quote, for instance: "There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate." Truer words were never spoken!
Whether you're on the hunt for something to throw in their birthday card or simply want to make your friend's day, these happy quotes will help you make it happen. There's really no better best friend gift out there. (Besides chocolate. 😂)
Sarah Dessen
“Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost work, but the solidest things we can know.”
P.G. Wodehouse
“There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.”
O. Henry
“No friendship is an accident.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.”
Thomas J. Watson
“Don’t make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.”
Dr. Seuss
“To the world you may be just one person, but to one person you may be the world.”
Anais Nin
“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.”
Sarah Valdez
“A friend is one of the best things you can be and the greatest things you can have.”
Tennessee Williams
“Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.”
Tennessee Williams
“Time doesn’t take away from friendship, nor does separation.”
Ally Condie
“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.”
Maria Shriver
“When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands.”
Thomas J. Watson
"Don’t make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up."
Dr. Seuss
"To the world you may be just one person, but to one person you may be the world."
Anais Nin
"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."
Sarah Valdez
"A friend is one of the best things you can be and the greatest things you can have."
Tennessee Williams
"Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose."
Tennessee Williams
"Time doesn’t take away from friendship, nor does separation."
Ally Condie
"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."
Maria Shriver
"When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands."
Khalil Gibran
"In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, for in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed."
Leo Buscaglia
"A single rose can be my garden… a single friend, my world."
Ninny Threadgoode, 'Fried Green Tomatoes'
"I found out what the secret to life is—friends. Best friends."
John Evelyn
"Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world."
Linda Grayson
"There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate."
Misty Copeland
"Anything is possible when you have the right people there to support you."
Isabel Norton
"In my friend, I find a second self."
Elizabeth Taylor
"You find out who your real friends are when you’re involved in a scandal."
Clarence Odbody, 'It's a Wonderful Life'
"Remember, George: No man is a failure who has friends."
Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend."
Jean de La Fontaine
"Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer."
Elisabeth Foley
"The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart."
Jane Austen
"Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love."
Oprah Winfrey
"Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"Friendship is a sheltering tree."
Socrates
"Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant."
Hubert H. Humphrey
"The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love."
Woodrow Wilson
"Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together."
St. Jerome
"True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The only way to have a friend is to be one."
Winnie the Pooh
"If you live to be a hundred, I hope I live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you."
Jim Henson
"There’s not a word yet for old friends who’ve just met."
Frances Ward Weller
"A friend can tell you things you don’t want to tell yourself."
L.M. Montgomery
"True friends are always together in spirit."
Walter Winchell
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out."
Meghan Markle
"If we treated ourselves as well as we treated our best friend, can you imagine?"
Henry David Thoreau
"The language of friendship is not words but meanings."
Marlene Dietrich
"It’s the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter."
Jesse Owens
"Awards become corroded. Friends gather no dust."
Eleanor Roosevelt
"Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart."
Jennifer Aniston
"There’s nothing like a really loyal, dependable, good friend. Nothing."
Helen Keller
"I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light."
Gina Barreca
It’s not that diamonds are a girl’s best friend, but it’s your best friends who are your diamonds."
Jane Austen
"There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends."
Khalil Gibran
"Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity."
Octavia Butler
"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."
Donna Roberts
"A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails."
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