Best Friend Quotes that Prove the Essence of Loyal Connection

Friends hold a special place in our lives. They have seen us at our most successful and the deepest pits of despair, yet they remain. We all have best friends from childhood and college, those we meet through our children, and friends who have weaved their way to an important role in our lives without us even noticing. We are truly blessed because of and through all of these people. It’s always an appropriate time to let them know how we feel.

Whether we feel the need to share ourselves or think that they could use a word from us, sharing our feelings with them can brighten everyone’s days. Just think of getting a note from your friend. That same feeling could be shared from your end, as well. So, if it is their birthday, a holiday, or just any day of the week, go ahead and tell them how you feel. Give them a call, write them a letter, or send an email or text. All are appropriate and all will be greatly appreciated. Don’t waste any more time, do it today!

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Famous Best Friend Quotes

• Friendship is like a glass ornament, once it is broken it can rarely be put back together exactly the same way. Charles Kingsley
• If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone. Maxwell Maltz
• If you wanna find out who’s a true friend, screw up or go through a challenging time … then see who sticks around. Karen Salmonsohn

• A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow. William Shakespeare
• A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself  –  and especially to feel, or not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at any moment is fine with them. That’s what real love amounts to – letting a person be what he really is. Jim Morrison
• A friend is someone who makes it easy to believe in yourself. Heidi Wills
• A friend to all is a friend to none. Aristotle
• A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill requires only our silence; which costs us nothing. John Tillotson
• 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
• 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
• A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out. Walter Winchell
• A single rose can be my garden… a single friend, my world. Leo Buscaglia
• A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked. Bernard Meltzer
• A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down. Arnold H. Glasgow

• An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind. Buddha
• 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
• Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm & constant. Socrates
• Dear George: Remember no man is a failure who has friends. It’s a Wonderful Life
• Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends? Abraham Lincoln
• Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer. Ed Cunningham
• A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails. Donna Roberts
• Friends should be like books, few, but hand-selected. C.J. Langenhoven
• 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
• Don’t make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up. Thomas J. Watson
• 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 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
• 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
• 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
• 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

• Friends are medicine for a wounded heart, and vitamins for a hopeful soul. Steve Maraboli
• 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 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
• Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together. Woodrow T. Wilson
• Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing. Elie Wiesel
• 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

• 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
• I don’t need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better. Plutarch
• I get by with a little help from my friends. The Beatles
• I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen. Ernest Hemingway
• I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was 12. Stand by Me
• I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light. Helen Keller
• 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
• 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
• 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

• 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
• Friendship is delicate as a glass, once broken it can be fixed but there will always be cracks. Waqar Ahmed
• 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
• In my friend, I find a second self. Isabel Norton
• In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. Martin Luther King, Jr.
• 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
• It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages. Friedrich Nietzsche
• It is not so much our friends’ help that helps us, as the confidence of their help. Epicurus
• It is the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter. Marlene Dietrich
• It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies, but a great deal more to stand up to your friends. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone

• 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
• Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. Marcel Proust
• Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose. Tennessee Williams
• 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
• 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
• 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
• No friendship is an accident. O. Henry, “Heart of the West”
• No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow. Alice Walker
• Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes. Henry David Thoreau
• 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
• One’s friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human. George Santayana
• Only a true friend would be that truly honest. Shrek
• People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges. Joseph F. Newton Men
• 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
• Some people arrive and make such a beautiful impact on your life, you can barely remember what life was like without them. Anna Taylor
• Some people go to priests. Others to poetry. I to my friends. Virginia Woolfe
• Some souls just understand each other upon meeting. N.R. Hart
• Someone to tell it to is one of the fundamental needs of human beings. Miles Franklin
• 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
• 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
• The best mirror is an old friend. George Herbert
• The best time to make friends is before you need them. Ethel Barrymore
• True friendship is never serene. Marquise de Sevigne
• The great thing about new friends is that they bring new energy to your soul. Shanna Rodriguez
• The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when someone asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer. Henry David Thoreau
• The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart. Elizabeth Foley
• The only way to have a friend is to be one. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• 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 royal road to a man’s heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.”- Dale Carnegie
• 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
• 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
• There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate. Linda Grayson
• There is nothing I wouldn’t do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves; it is not my nature. Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
• There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends. Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
• There’s not a word yet for old friends who’ve just met. Jim Henson, “I’m Going To Go Back There Someday”
• They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel. Carl W. Buechner
• Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respected. Charles Lamb
• To the world you may be just one person, but to one person you may be the world. Brandi Snyder
• True friends are like diamonds –  bright, beautiful, valuable, and always in style. Nicole Richie
• True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable. David Tyson
• Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation. Oscar Wilde
• We’ll be friends forever, won’t we, Pooh?” Asked Piglet. “Even longer,” Pooh answered. Winnie The Pooh
• When a woman becomes her own best friend, life is easier. Diane von Furstenburg
• When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are. Donald Miller
• 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
• Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit. Aristotle
• 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
• 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
• You have been my friend,” replied Charlotte. “That in itself is a tremendous thing. E.B. White “Charlotte’s Web”
• You’ve got a friend in me. Toy Story

 

The Best Original Friendship Quotes

• Some people say best friends are hard to find. I say, best friends are all around. It is up to us to notice when they arrive and never let them go.
• You are more than a friend; you are a blessing in my life for which I am thankful.
• Friends may come and go, yet they are placed in our lives at a specific time for a very specific purpose. Let us always keep our eyes open and hearts ever grateful for this fabulous blessing that is friendship.
• You mean the world to me. You are my confidante, my partner, my friend.
• Here’s to you, my dear friend, the most fabulous and caring woman I know!
• People gain friendships in the most random of ways. Each day I thank the Lord for blessing me with you and your compassionate heart.
• A dear friend who knows your innermost dreams and naughtiest secrets is the best kind of friend to have!
• Thinking of the years of memories with you warms my heart and feeds my soul. Here’s to more adventures and fun times to come!

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• Friends are like a favorite song. You can go days without hearing from them but when you do, you hop out of your seat and bam, party time!
• You and I are going to be friends forever, so get ready for some fun and thrilling times!
• Amazed as I already am by you, I have a feeling more awe is to come with you!
• Before we met, skies were dull and days were slow. Now, with a friend like you, the sun has come out and excitement abounds!
• Call me whenever you need a friend. It may be the day I need a friend, too.
• Dearest friend, thank you for everything you are to me. Not only do you know my deepest self, but you also hold a very special place in my heart.
• Everyone asks if we are sisters. I guess some friends are just blessed like that. Thank you for being my best friend.
• Fear not, for not only I am your friend, I am also your protector.
• Give me your weakest days and I show you the inner strength you cannot see. This is what true friends do.
• Hand in hand, we walk together over the bumps and through the mazes in life. Friends are the truest blessing to keep us safe along the way.
• I am honored, blessed, and humbled by having your friendship in my life. Without you, I do not know where I would be or what I would have become. It is because of you that I am the success I am today.
• Just as I knew the day I met you, you have become an integral part in my life and family. Here’s to dear friends and bright futures!
• Keep dreaming, keep living. This is the motto from which true friends arise.
• Love comes in many forms, but the steadiest is that of friendship. Thank you for the love you give to me.
• Mother always told me I would find a friend like you, someone with whom I can have fun, tell secrets, and set goals. Praise the Lord that Mom was always right!

• Never before have I appreciated a friend more than you. You mean so much to me and reflect all of the good qualities I want to achieve as well. Keep leading well and I will keep following in your footsteps.
• Only friends know our true hearts. Only friends see deep within and look ahead at the same time. Friends are our confidants, coaches, and comforters. Thank you for being all for me.
• Perfect friendship isn’t designed. It is developed and worked upon each and every day. You are my perfect friend and for you I am extremely thankful
• Quiet yourself and realize the power and blessing behind true friendship. It is from above and should never be taken for granted. Praise the heavens for this great gift!
• Rise up and lead one another in friendship and prayer, for together you are more powerful than alone.
• Roses are red. Violets are blue. There is no other friend truer than you.
• Roses are red. Violets are blue. You are thankful for me and I am thankful for you.
• Roses are red. Violets are blue. Let me thank the heavens for you, too!
• Roses are red. Violets are blue. Once again, let us start our friendship anew.
• Yesterday, I was alone. Today, I am blessed and gifted with your friendship. Thank you!

Wrap-up

What did you think of these unique sentiments? As you can see, you can use them individually or combine a few for the absolutely perfect statement! Some friends appreciate a quicker note, and others a longer and more serious remark. Some are more old-fashioned, preferring snail mail, while others want a quick text. Either way, think of your friend and choose away. Here’s to you and your dear friends!

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