Quotes of friendship day wishes from Facebook

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

“I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.”
– Ernest Hemingway

“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

“True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable.”
– David Tyson

“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’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

“Don’t make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.”
– Thomas J. Watson 

“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

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

“What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.”
– Confucius

“Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.”
– Oscar Wilde

“How many slams in an old screen door? Depends how loud you shut it. How many slices in a bread? Depends how thin you cut it. 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

“A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.”
– Arnold H. Glasgow

“I don’t need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.”
– Plutarch

“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

“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 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

“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche

“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

“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

“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

“One’s friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.”
– George Santayana

“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

“Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm & constant.”’
– Socrates

“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

“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

“In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
– Marcel Proust

“Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respected.”
– Charles Lamb

“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

“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

“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

“Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you. Love me and I may be forced to love you.”
– William Arthur Ward

“No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.”
– Alice Walker

“Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.”
– Woodrow T. Wilson 

“Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer.”
– Ed Cunningham

“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

“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 most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.”
– Elisabeth Foley

“There’s one sad truth in life I’ve found
While journeying east and west –
The only folks we really wound
Are those we love the best.
We flatter those we scarcely know,
We please the fleeting guest,
And deal full many a thoughtless blow
To those who love us best.”
– Ella Wheeler Wilcox

“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

“Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone — but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming.”
– William Hazlitt

“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

“Many a person has held close, throughout their entire lives, two friends that always remained strange to one another, because one of them attracted by virtue of similarity, the other by difference.”
– Emil Ludwig

“A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill requires only our silence; which costs us nothing.”
— John Tillotson

“When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are.”
– Donald Miller

“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 make friends with yourself you will never be alone.”
– Maxwell Maltz

“A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.”
– Bernard Meltzer

“The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when someone asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.”
— Henry David Thoreau

“People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges.”
— Joseph F. Newton Men

“Friendship is like a glass ornament, once it is broken it can rarely be put back together exactly the same way.”
– Charles Kingsley

“A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.”
– Donna Roberts

“There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate. “
– Linda Grayson

“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.”
– Gloria Naylor

“It is the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.”
– Marlene Dietrich

“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

“Someone to tell it to is one of the fundamental needs of human beings.”
— Miles Franklin

“It is not so much our friends’ help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.”
– Epicurus

“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

“Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.”
– Tennessee Williams

“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

“Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?”
– Abraham Lincoln

“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

“The best time to make friends is before you need them.”
– Ethel Barrymore

“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

“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

“Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.”
– Unknown

“They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.”
— Carl W. Buechner

“The royal road to a man’s heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.”
— Dale Carnegie

“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

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Inspirational Friendship Quotes to Cheer Them On

A great friendship is irreplaceable — it can inspire you to grow into a better version of yourself. If you have a friend who motivates you, return the favor and be their number one cheerleader with one of these motivational friendship quotes.

1. “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
2. “Don’t make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.” — Thomas J. Watson
3. “The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.” — Elisabeth Foley
4. “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
5. “Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.” — Tennessee Williams
6. “They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.” — Carl W. Buechner
7. “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
8. “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
9. “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched — they must be felt with the heart.” — Helen Keller
10. “Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.” — Dumbledore

Cute Friendship Quotes to Make You Both Smile

When your friends make you genuinely smile, it’s a beautiful and heartwarming thing. Sometimes sappy sayings are just the thing to make your friend feel special and appreciated. These adorable friendship quotes are sure to get a smile out of your friend.

11. “A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.” — Walter Winchell
12. “A friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future, and accepts you just the way you are.” — Unknown
13. “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
14. “Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.” — Marcel Proust

15. “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
16. “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
17. “It’s not what we have in life, but who we have in our life that matters.” — Unknown
18. “To the world you may be just one person, but to one person you may be the world.” — Dr. Seuss
19. “A friend is one who overlooks your broken fence and admires the flowers in your garden.” — Unknown
20. “A friend who understands your tears is much more valuable than a lot of friends who only know your smile.” — Unknown
21. “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
22. “A friend is one of the best things you can be and the greatest things you can have.” — Sarah Valdez
23. “Best friends are the people in your life who make you laugh louder, smile brighter and live better.” — Unknown
24. “Time doesn’t take away from friendship, nor does separation.” — Tennessee Williams
25. “When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands.” — Maria Shriver

Short and Sweet Friendship Quotes

Even though you could go on and on about how awesome your best friends are, sometimes all you need is something short and sweet. These concise and charming quotes are perfect for friendship bracelets, crafts and cards alike.

26. “There’s not a word yet for old friends who’ve just met.” — Jim Henson
27. “A single rose can be my garden…a single friend, my world.” — Leo Buscaglia
28. “Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.” — Woodrow T. Wilson

29. “Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer.” — Ed Cunningham
30. “A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.” — Donna Roberts
31. “It’s the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.” — Marlene Dietrich
32. “Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.” — G. Randolf
33. “A good friend is like a four-leaf clover; hard to find and lucky to have.” — Irish Proverb
34. “I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.” — Helen Keller
35. “True friends are never apart, maybe in distance but never in heart.” — Helen Keller
36. “No friendship is an accident.” — O. Henry
37. “Sometimes being with your best friend is all the therapy you need.” — Unknown
38. “Friends are the siblings God never gave us.” — Mencius
39. “True friends are like diamonds — bright, beautiful, valuable, and always in style.” — Nicole Richie
40. “There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.” — Thomas Aquinas
41. “Friends are the family you choose.“ — Jess C. Scott
42. “Anything is possible when you have the right people there to support you.” — Misty Copeland
43. “A sweet friendship refreshes the soul.” — Proverbs 27:9
44. “Life was meant for good friends and great adventures.” — Unknown
45. “True friends are always together in spirit.” — L.M. Montgomery

Funny Best Friend Quotes to Make You Laugh

Whether it’s with inside jokes, terrible puns, or funny stories, your friends are the ones that make you laugh the hardest. If they’re on the same wavelength as you when it comes to your sense of humor, you’ll love sharing hilarious quotes with them that you can laugh at together. Celebrate your partner in crime with these humorous best friendship quotes.

46. “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
47. “You don’t have to be crazy to be my friend. I’ll train you.” — Unknown
48. “There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.“ — Linda Grayson
49. “‘Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respected.” — Charles Lamb
50. “A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.” — Bernard Meltzer
51. “A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.” — Arnold H. Glasgow
52. “A best friend is someone who makes you laugh even when you think you’ll never smile again.” — Unknown
53. “Best friends. Because if anyone else heard our conversations we’d end up in the mental hospital.” — Unknown
54. “Best friends don’t care if your house is clean. They care if you have wine.” — Unknown
55. “If you are ever lucky enough to find a weirdo, never let them go.” — Matthew Gray Gubler
56. “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
57. “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
58. “I think we’ll be friends forever because we’re too lazy to find new friends.” — Unknown
59. “Friends buy you food. Best friends eat your food.” — Unknown
60. “God made us best friends because he knew our moms couldn’t handle us as sisters.” — Unknown
61. “We’ll be the old ladies causing trouble in the nursing home.” — Unknown
62. “We’ll be best friends forever because you already know too much.” — Unknown
63. “True friendship is when you walk into their house and your WiFi connects automatically.” — Unknown
64. “Never let your best friends get lonely…keep disturbing them.” — Candlelight Publications
65. “I love that our effortless friendship fits perfectly with my laziness.” — Unknown

True Friendship Quotes for Your Dependable Friend

True friends will never leave your side, during the best and the worst times. Oftentimes, your most loyal friends are also the ones who know how to bring out the best in you. Show your appreciation of their dependability and constant support with these friendship quotes fit for your true blue friend.

66. “The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another’s little lapses.” — David Storey
67. “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
68. “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
69. “A friend can tell you things you don’t want to tell yourself.” — Frances Ward Weller
70. “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
71. “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
72. “Everyone hears what you say. Friends listen to what you say. Best friends listen to what you don’t say.” — Unknown

73. “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
74. “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
75. “Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.” — Khalil Gibran
76. “Friends…they cherish one another’s hopes. They are kind to one another’s dreams.” — Henry David Thoreau
77. “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
78. “The only way to have a friend is to be one.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
79. “My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.” — Aristotle
80. “My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.” — Henry Ford

Deep Friendship Quotes for Tight Bonds

There are some friends that have been there for you since day one, through the best and worst times. Celebrate those especially close friends with these profound friendship quotes. Find the perfect quote to warm your friend’s heart below.

81. “Everyone has a friend during each stage of life. But only lucky ones have the same friend in all stages of life.” — Unknown
82. “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
83. “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.” — Unknown
84. “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
85. “Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.” — Oscar Wilde
86. “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
87. “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
88. “Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare — and precious as a pearl.” — Tahar Ben Jelloun
89. “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
90. “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.” — Henri Nouwen

Friendship Quotes for Your Significant Other

One of your best friends in life might also be your significant other. A lot of the time people forget to tell their S/Os how much their support and friendship means to them. If you’re lucky enough to be in love with your best friend, let them know how much they mean to you with these friendship quotes for your partner.

91. “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.” — Unknown
92. “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
93. “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
94. “Love is friendship set on fire.” — Jeremy Taylor
95. “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
96. “The love that comes from friendship is the underlying facet of a happy life.” — Chelsea Handler
97. “Friendship is accepting a person with all their qualities — good and bad.” — Mohanlal
98. “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
99. “It’s not being in love that makes me happy. It is the person that I am in love with that does.” — Unknown

New Friendship Quotes for Building Connections

The friends you currently know like the back of your hand were once complete strangers to you. Strange to think about, right? As you know, the first step to finding a best friend is to meet new people and build connections. These new friendship quotes can inspire you to turn acquaintances into friends.

100. “A friend may be waiting behind a stranger’s face.”  — Maya Angelou
101. “Everyone you meet knows something you don’t know but need to know. Learn from them.”  — C.G. Jung
102. “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
103. “Each new friendship can make you a new person, because it opens up new doors inside of you.” — Kate DiCamillo
104. “Be genuinely interested in everyone you meet and everyone you meet will be genuinely interested in you.” — Rasheed Ogunlaru
105. “Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.” — Francesco Guicciardini
106. “Every new friend is a new adventure… the start of more memories.” — Patrick Lindsay
107. “The great thing about new friends is that they bring new energy to your soul.” — Shanna Rodriguez
108. “The kindest way of helping yourself is to find a friend.” — Ann Kaiser Stearns
109. “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

Long Distance Friendship Quotes to Bring You Closer Together

Friendship is a powerful force that can span across any distance. Whether your friend is across the state, country, or world, you can make them feel a little closer with these long-distance friendship quotes.

110. “There are friendships imprinted in our hearts that will never be diminished by time and distance.” — Dodinsky
111. “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
112. “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
113. “A part of you has grown in me, together forever we shall be, never apart, maybe in distance, but not in heart.” — Unknown
114. “A real friendship should not fade as time passes, and should not weaken because of space separation.” — John Newton
115. “Distance means so little, when someone means so much.” — Tom McNeal
116. “If there ever comes a day when we can’t be together, keep me in your heart. I’ll stay there forever.” — A. A. Milne
117. “As long as we share the same sky and breathe the same air, we’re still together.” — Donna Lynn Hope
118. “A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand.” — Kahlil Gibran
119. “Can miles truly separate you from friends…If you want to be with someone you love, aren’t you already there?”— Richard Bach
120. “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.” — Unknown