145 Friendship Quotes about Real Friends for BFF | Happy Friendship Day 2024

Friendship Day, celebrated on the first Sunday of August, is a special occasion dedicated to recognize the invaluable bonds you share with your friends. It’s a day to express gratitude, cherish memories, and create new ones.  Friendship is a relation which is deep and meaningful one, It’s greatest and most lasting relationship you will ever have. Real friends share your good times and more importantly bad times. You find them right beside you whenever you need them. Here are best friendship quotes about real friends to share with your closest and coolest friends. I am sure; it will make your BFF think and feel the essence and worth of true friendship.

Happy Friendship Day 2024 Quotes

F ~ Fight for you
R ~ Respect you
I ~  Inspire you
E ~ Encourage you
N ~ Never forget you
D ~ Deserve you
S ~ Stand by you

1. “Don’t walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don’t walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend.” ~ Albert Camus

2. “A real friend is one who believes in you, even if you yourself have stopped to believe in you.” ~ Invajy

3. “Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.” ~ Jean de la Fontaine

4. “True friend understands you better than you understand yourself” ~ Invajy

5. “Keeping score is for games, not friendships.” ~ John C. Maxwell

6. “Distance means so little, when someone means so much.” ~ Tom McNeal

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

8. “A true friend is one who stands by you; when he should have been somewhere else.” ~ Invajy

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

10. “If you can survive 11 days in cramped quarters with a friend and come out laughing, your friendship is the real deal.” ~ Oprah Winfrey

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11. “Friends are relatives you make for yourself.” ~ Eustache Deschamps

12. “Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.” ~ Euripides

13. “A good friend knows all your best stories, but a best friend has lived them with you.” ~ Anonymous

14. “Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.” ~ Elbert Hubard

15. “What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.” ~ Aristotle

16. “Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher.” ~ Oprah Winfrey

17. “Family and friendships are two of the greatest facilitators of happiness.” ~ John C. Maxwell
18. “Friends are the siblings God never gave us.” ~ Mencius
19. “Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.”~ Chanakya
20. “Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends leave footprints in your heart.” ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
21. “My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.” ~ Henry Ford
22. “Friendships are among the most fundamental of human needs.” ~ Tom Rath
23. “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
24. “Things are never quite as scary when you’ve got a best friend.” ~ Bill Watterson
25. “True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable.” ~ David Tyson
26. “Some people go to priests. Others to poetry. I to my friends.” ~ Virginia Woolfe
27. “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
28. “A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.” ~ Walter Winchell
29. “True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.” ~ Charles Caleb Colton
30. “I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.” ~ Helen Keller

Funny Friendship Quotes

31. “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
32. “The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they’re okay, then it’s you.” ~ Rita Mae Brown
33. “It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
34. “There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.” ~ Linda Grayson
35. “My friends and I are crazy. That’s the only thing that keeps us sane.” ~ Matt Schucker
36. “Most of us don’t need a psychiatric therapist as much as a friend to be silly with.” ~ Robert Brault
37. “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
38. An old friend will help you move. A good friend will help you move a dead body.” ~ Jim Hayes
39. “This the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected.” ~ Charles Lamb
40. “We are best friends. Always remember that if you fall, I will pick you up… After I finish laughing…” ~ Anonymous

BFF Quotes

41. “True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.” ~ George Washington
42. “The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
43. “A man’s friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.” ~ Charles Darwin
44. “The best mirror is an old friend.” ~ George Herbert
45. “The only way to have a friend is to be one.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
46. “There’s not a word yet for old friends who’ve just met.” ~ Jim Henson
47. “Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.” ~ Socrates
48. “Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?” ~ Abraham Lincoln
49. “Don’t make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.” ~ Thomas J. Watson
50. “Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.” ~ Richard Bach
51. “A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.” ~ Bernard Meltzer
52. “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
53. “A single rose can be my garden… a single friend, my world.” ~ Leo Buscaglia
54. “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
55. “One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.” ~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca
56. “Friends are medicine for a wounded heart, and vitamins for a hopeful soul.” ~ Steve Maraboli
57. “Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.” ~ Oscar Wilde
58. “It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
59. “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
60. “What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.” ~ Confucius

Quotes for Best Friends Forever

61. “A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.” ~ Arnold H. Glasgow
62. “I don’t need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.” ~ Plutarch
63. “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
64. “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
65. “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

66. “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
67. “In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
68. “Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer.” ~ Ed Cunningham
69. “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
70. “When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are.” ~ Donald Miller
71. “People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges.” ~ Joseph F. Newton Men
72. “Friendship is like a glass ornament, once it is broken it can rarely be put back together exactly the same way.” ~ Charles Kingsley
73. “A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.” ~ Donna Roberts
74. “It is the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.” ~ Marlene Dietrich
75. “Someone to tell it to is one of the fundamental needs of human beings.” ~ Miles Franklin
76. “It is not so much our friends’ help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.” ~ Epicurus

77. “Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.” ~ Tennessee Williams
78. “The best time to make friends is before you need them.” ~ Ethel Barrymore
79. “They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.” ~ Carl W. Buechner
80. “Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.” ~ Anonymous

True Friends Quotes

81. “To the world you may be just one person, but to one person you may be the world.” ~ Brandi Snyder
82. “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
83. “Friendships born on the field of athletic strife are the real gold of competition. Awards become corroded. Friends gather no dust.” ~ Jesse Owens
84. “Some people arrive and make such a beautiful impact on your life, you can barely remember what life was like without them.” ~ Anna Taylor
85. “In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.” ~ John Churton Collins

86. “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
87. “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
88. “There’s nothing like a really loyal, dependable, good friend. Nothing.” ~ Jennifer Aniston
89. “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
90. “Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.” ~ Aristotle
91. “There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation, of one’s self, the very meaning of one’s soul.” ~ Edith Wharton
92. “Some souls just understand each other upon meeting.” ~ NR Hart
93. “The only good thing about times of adversity is that you realize who your real friends and fans are – and the rest go away – which in my mind is an OK thing.” ~ Pete Wentz
94. “Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.” ~ Aristotle
95. “In a friend you find a second self.” ~ Isabelle Norton
96. “A true friend stabs you in the front.” ~ Oscar Wilde
97. “One friend with whom you have a lot in common is better than three with whom you struggle to find things to talk about.” ~ Mindy Kaling
98. “Where there are friends, there is wealth.” ~ Titus Maccius Plautu
99. “Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.” ~Henry David Thoreau
100. “My friends are my estate.” ~ Emily Dickinso

Quotes about Friendship

101. “A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be.” ~ Douglas Pagels
102. “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
103. “Real friendship is when your friend comes over to your house and then you both just take a nap.” ~ Anonymous
104. “Never let your best friends get lonely…keep disturbing them.” ~ Anonymous
105. “A friend can tell you things you don’t want to tell yourself.” ~ Frances Ward Weller
106. “True friends are like diamonds — bright, beautiful, valuable, and always in style.” ~ Nicole Richie
107. “Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend.” ~ Sarah Dessen
108. “Select your friendships carefully. Gather people around you who will reinforce your lifestyle.” ~ Dan Buettner
109. “It’s not what we have in life, but who we have in our life that matters.” ~ Anonymous
110. “No friendship is an accident.” ~ O. Henry
111. “A friend is one of the best things you can be and the greatest things you can have.” ~ Sarah Valdez
112. “Time doesn’t take away from friendship, nor does separation.” ~ Tennessee Williams
113. “When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands.” ~ Maria Shriver
114. “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
115. “Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world.” ~ John Evelyn
116. “Anything is possible when you have the right people there to support you.” ~ Misty Copeland
117. “In my friend, I find a second self.” ~ Isabel Norton
118. “You find out who your real friends are when you’re involved in a scandal.” ~ Elizabeth Taylor
119. “Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.” ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
120. “The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.” ~ Elisabeth Foley
121. “Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.” ~ Jane Austen
122. “Friendship is a sheltering tree.” ~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
123. “The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.” ~ Hubert H. Humphrey
124. “True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.” ~ St. Jerome
125. “There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends.” ~ Jane Austen
126. “If you live to be a hundred, I hope I live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you.” ~ Winnie the Pooh
127. “Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.” ~ Baltasar Gracian
128. “Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world.” ~ John Evelyn
129. “Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.” ~ Helen Keller
130. “Women’s friendships are like a renewable source of power.” ~ Jane Fonda
131. “Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which strengthens with the setting sun of life.” ~ La Fontaine
132. “When you’re in jail, a good friend will try to bail you out. A best friend will be in the cell next to you saying, damn, that was fun.” ~ Groucho Marx
133. “A hug is worth a thousand words. A friend is worth more.” ~ Anonymous
134. “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
135. “Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find.” ~ William Shakespeare
136. “Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.” ~ Woodrow Wilson
137. “A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.” ~ Anonymous
138. “Two may talk together under the same roof for many years, yet never really meet; and two others at first speech are old friends.” ~ Mary Catherwood
139. “Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art… It has no survival value; rather is one of those things that give value to survival.” ~ C.S. Lewis
140. “I might give my life for my friend, but he had better not ask me to do up a parcel.” ~ Logan Pearsall Smith
141. “Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.” ~ Marcel Proust
142. “There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven’t yet met.” ~ William Butler Yeats
143. “There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.” ~ Thomas Aquinas
144. “You only need three or four BFF, and remeber three or four only, not more than that.” ~ Invajy
145. “A true friend is someone who thinks of you as you think of yourself.” ~ C.S. Lewis

Over to you now, which friendship quote is your favorite? What other quotes about friendship would you add to the list. Best friends are one of life’s most precious gifts. Share the above friendship quotes with your BFF to warm their heart. Let them feel the essence and worth of true friendship with these golden Friendship Day Quotes.