There are many different types of friends that you need in life. You need a best friend, an old friend, one that makes you laugh and many more. Here are some friendship quotes that you can share with them.
What is the meaning of friendship?
A friendship is a deep, meaningful and reciprocal connection between two people.
It’s built on many foundations including trust, understanding, support as well as shared interests and experiences.
Great friends enrich our lives with companionship, a sense of belonging, unwavering support and cherished memories.
I know and love the privilege of friendship.
Where can I use the best friendship quotes?
You can add these quotes to birthday cards and thank you notes.
Share them on social media.
Or go so far as to create artwork with the quotes. And depending on their love language, maybe even gift your artwork to some of your close friends.
Real friendship quotes
Explore quotes shared by writers and thinkers awe all as ordinary people throughout history that offer guidance and encouragement on the enduring qualities of a real friendship.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up
Mark Twain
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out
Walter Winchell
Live in such a way that if someone spoke badly about you, no one would believe it
Unknown
If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude
Maya Angelou
Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose
Tennessee Williams
Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?
Abraham Lincoln
Do right. Do your best. Treat others as you want to be treated
Lou Holtz
Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious
St Thomas Aquinas
Friendships between women, as any woman will tell you, are built of a thousand small kindnesses… swapped back and forth and over again
Michelle Obama
Aziz Ansari
The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it
Hubert H. Humphrey
Be stingy with your time and spend it in spaces that fill you up
Janet Mock
Best friend quotes
Capturing the essence of the beautiful things that make a best friend, these quotes have a timeless wisdom.
A best friend is like a four-leaf clover. Hard to find and lucky to have
Irish Proverb
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
In friendship or in love, the two side by side raise hands together to find what one cannot reach alone
Khalil Gibran
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me
Henry Ford
Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend’s success
Oscar Wilde
True friendship quotes
A true friend can be hard to find. And it takes a special kind of person to develop a mutually respectful relationship with. These quotes will help you appreciate the rare people who are true friends.
A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you
Elbert Hubbard
True friends are never apart. Maybe in distance but never in heart
Helen Keller
True friends are families which you can select
Audrey Hepburn
Words are easy, like the wind; faithful friends are hard to find
William Shakespeare
Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart
Eleanor Roosevelt
Inspiring Friendship Quotes
Inspiring quotes remind us of the impact of genuine friendships and remind us to cherish these relationships.
Everyone wants 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
There’s not a word yet, for old friends who’ve just met
Jim Henson
Everyone you meet knows more than you do about something, so you might as well be quiet and learn
Eugene Nida
What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it
C. S. Lewis
Publius Syrus
Your value does not decrease based on someone’s inability to see your worth
Christine Caine
Funny quotes about friends
Laughter is often the best medicine and in friendship there is no exception.
Mark Twain
There is nothing better than a friend unless it is a friend with chocolate
Linda Grayson
It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn’t use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like “What about lunch?
A. A. Milne
Quotes for old friends
Sometimes no one understands things quite like an old friend. The memories from a long time ago create lasting connections. And these connections can feel like coming home when you get together to reminisce.
The friends you meet over forty are really juicy. They are highly emulsified and full of flavor. Now that you’re starting to have a sense of who you are, you know better what kind of friend you want and need
Amy Poehler
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The language of friendship is not words, but meanings
Henry David Thoreau
Quotes about new friends
There is something to be said about the thrill of making a new friend. Finding that you have much in common
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
Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being
Albert Schweitzer
Short friendship quotes
Sometimes all you need is a few words to get the point across. These short, yet beautiful quotes about friendship do just that.
It’s the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter
Marlene Dietrich
Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend
Sarah Dessen
Olaf
What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies
Aristotle
Seneca
Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world
John Evelyn
