Cool Quotes about Friendship and Best Friends

Friendship quotes are a fantastic way to show you just how special your true friends are to you in life. Let these cool quotes about friendship and best friends make you want to reach out and remind yours just how much they mean to you.

Why are we drawn to certain people and not others?

Specifically, what is the difference between the people who will be our friends for life, and those who will pass through our lives for a reason or a season?

Hopefully, these quotes about friends can give you some inspiration about the people you surround yourself with and why.

Below is our collection of inspirational, wise, and warm best friends quotes, friendship sayings, and friendship proverbs, collected from a variety of sources over the years.


1. “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

2. “The only way to have a friend is to be one.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

3. “There’s not a word yet for old friends who’ve just met.” – Jim Henson

4. “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

5. “Friendship is delicate as a glass, once broken it can be fixed but there will always be cracks.” — Waqar Ahmed

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

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

8. “Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.”―Elie Wiesel

9. “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

10. “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

11. “No friendship is an accident.” ―O. Henry, Heart of the West

12. “Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.” ― Socrates

13. “A single rose can be my garden… a single friend, my world.” – Leo Buscaglia

14. “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 Buscaglia

15. “Only a true friend would be that truly honest.” — Shrek

16. “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

17. “A good friend can tell you what the matter with you is in a minute. He may not seem such a good friend after telling.” – Arthur Brisbane

18. “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

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

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

Which friendship quote was your favorite? What other quotes about friendship would you add to the list? Let us know in the comment section below.

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