80 Meaningful Friendship Quotes For Your Best Friends

Looking for meaningful quotes for your close and best friends? We have rounded up the best collection of heart-touching, meaningful friendship quotes, sayings, captions, messages, taglines, status, (with images and pictures) to appreciate your bond with your friends and celebrate your friendship.

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Good friends are like stars. You don’t always see them, but you know that they are always there. A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be.

Having a true friend who you can trust in all situations of life, is a blessing. Let your bestie know how strong your bond is and how special they mean to you.

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These deep meaningful quotes are a mix of short, long, funny, emotional, simple, and powerful.

Express your feeling of love and gratitude to your friends with these emotional messages and quotes. Don’t forget to read our quotes about enjoying good company with friends.

Top 10 Meaningful Friendship Quotes

“Friends are the family you choose.” — Jess C. Scott
“The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend.” — Aristotle
“Friendship is a sheltering tree.” — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.” — Friedrich Nietzsche
“What a thing friendship is, world without end.” — Robert Browning
“There’s not a word yet for old friends who’ve just met.” — Jim Henson
“In the cookie of life, friends are the chocolate chips.” — Salman Rushdie
“Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.” — Khalil Gibran
“Hell will be Heaven with Friends, Heaven will be Hell without them.” — Aman Jassal
“Some people arrive and make such a beautiful impact on your life, you can barely remember what life was like without them.” — Anna Taylor

Friendship Meaningful Quotes

“Keep the ones that heard you when you never said a word.” — Unknown
Meaningful Quotes for Best Friends
“Similarities create friendship, while differences hold them together.” — Unknown
Deep Meaningful Friendship Quotes
“A true friend is someone who sees the pain in your eyes while everyone else believes the smile on your face.” — Unknown
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“It is the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.” — Marlene Dietrich
“A man’s friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.” — Charles Darwin
“Friendship gives us the strength to turn from lambs into lions.” — Stephen Richards
“A friend can tell you things you don’t want to tell yourself.” — Frances Ward Weller
“Friendship isn’t about how long you know someone. It’s about who walks into your life, says ‘I’m here for you,’ and then proves it.” — Nicholas Sparks
“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.” — Oscar Auliq-Ice
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“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.” — Octavia E. Butler

Short Meaningful Friendship Quotes

“Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.” — Euripides
“The better part of one’s life consists of his friendships.” — Abraham Lincoln
“A single rose can be my garden… a single friend, my world.” — Leo Buscaglia
“If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone.” — Maxwell Maltz
“The best time to make friends is before you need them.” — Ethel Barrymore
“Somewhere on this planet is your best friend. Find that person.” — Omar Kiam
“Are we not like two volumes of one book?” — Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
“Things are never quite as scary when you have a best friend.” — Bill Watterson
“A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.” — Elbert Hubbard
“Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.” — Czech. Proverb
“The language of friendship is not words but meanings.” — Henry David Thoreau
“A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.” — Elbert Hubbard
“A friend is the one who comes in when the whole world has gone out.” — Grace Pulpit
“We have been friends together In sunshine and in shade.” — Caroline Sheridan Norton
“A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.” — Walter Winchell
“‎Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.” — G. Randolf
Meaningful Best Friends Quotes
“There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.” — Linda Grayson

Meaningful Quotes About Friendship

“It is not so much our friends’ help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.” — Epicurus
“True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable.” — David Tyson
“Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.” — Socrates
“Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.” — Woodrow T. Wilson
“A true friend is someone who is there for you when he’d rather be anywhere else.” — Len Wein
“In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.” — John Churton Collins
“A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.” — Arnold H. Glasgow
“A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.” — Donna Roberts
“No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.” — Alice Walker
“Best friends can turn a horrible day into one of the best days of your life.” — Nathanael Richmond
“One’s friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.” — George Santayana
“Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respected.” — Charles Lamb
“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.” — Friedrich Nietzsche
“One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.” — Seneca
“Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer.” — Ed Cunningham
“A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be.” — Douglas Pagels
“Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.” — Tennessee Williams
“Best friends are like diamonds, precious and rare. False friends are like leaves, found everywhere.” — Unknown
“A mirror reflects a man’s face, but what what he is really like is shown by the kind of friends he chooses.” — Unknown
“A friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future, and accepts you just the way you are.” — Bernard Meltzer
“Friendship is like a glass ornament, once it is broken it can rarely be put back together exactly the same way.” — Charles Kingsley
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“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.
“It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Many people will walk in and out of your life but only true friends leave footprints in your heart.” — Eleanor Roosevelt
“The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.” — Elisabeth Foley
“I believe in angels, the kind that heaven sends. I’m surrounded by angels, and I call them my best friends.” — Pamela Daranjo
“I don’t need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.” — Plutarch
“Friendship is a package of feelings. Nobody can make it, nobody can break it, and nobody can explain it, only we can feel it.” — Unknown
“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
“If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.” — A. A. Milne (Winnie The Pooh)

Deep Meaningful Quotes For Friends

“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
“A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.” — Bernard Meltzer
“Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.” — Eustace Budgell
“Good friends help you to find important things when you have lost them…your smile, your hope, and your courage.” — Doe Zantamata
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.” — Elie Wiesel
“Friendship that flows from the heart cannot be frozen by adversity, as the water that flows from the spring cannot congeal in winter.” — James Fennimore Cooper
“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
“In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasure. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and its refreshed.” — Khalil Gibran
“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
“I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let’s face it, friends make life a lot more fun.” — Charles R. Swindoll
“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