Valentine’s Day isn’t just for romantic love.
It’s also a great time to celebrate friendship and to tell your friends – or your best friend – how much they truly mean to you.
So in this post I’d like to share 101 of the best, most genuine and lovely Valentines’ Day quotes for friends.
Use one of a couple of them in a card to a long distance friend, a meaningful text or email to a dear work friend or coworker you have learned a lot from or just as a way to celebrate true friendship on social media or in a group chat with your closest friends.
I hope you’ll find something helpful here to celebrate and deepen your relationship with your friends.
Valentine’s Day Quotes for Friends
“One’s friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.”
– George Santayana
“True friends are never apart, maybe in distance but never in heart.”
– Helen Keller
“That’s when I realized what a true friend was. Someone who would always love you – the imperfect you, the confused you, the wrong you – because that is what people are supposed to do.”
– Unknown
“The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.”
– Elisabeth Foley
“Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.”
– Tennessee Williams
“Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
“There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.”
– Linda Grayson
“A friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future, and accepts you just the way you are.”
– Unknown
“Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.”
– Anais Nin
“Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.”
– Elie Wiesel
“Some people arrive and make such a beautiful impact on your life, you can barely remember what life was like without them.”
– Anna Taylor
“A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.”
– Jim Morrison
“True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.”
– St. Jerome
“The royal road to a man’s heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.”
– Dale Carnegie
“A good friend is a connection to life — a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world.”
– Lois Wyse
“True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.”
– Henry David Thoreau
“Friendship however is a plant which cannot be forced — true friendship is no gourd spring up in a night and withering in a day.”
– Charlotte Brontë
“A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
“True friends are like diamonds – bright, beautiful, valuable, and always in style.”
– Nicole Richie
“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
“Everyone has a friend during each stage of life. But only lucky ones have the same friend in all stages of life.”
– Unknown
“There’s not a word yet for old friends who’ve just met.”
– Jim Henson
“Distance means so little when someone means so much.”
– Tom McNeal
“Friends are the family you choose.”
– Jess C. Scott
“Every friendship goes through ups and downs. Dysfunctional patterns set in; external situations cause internal friction; you grow apart and then bounce back together.”
– Mariella Frostrup
“If you are ever lucky enough to find a weirdo, never let them go.”
– Matthew Gray Gubler
Valentine’s Day Quotes for Good Friends at Work
“Don’t make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to level yourself up.”
– Thomas J. Watson
“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
“Anything is possible when you have the right people there to support you.”
– Misty Copeland
“The kindest way of helping yourself is to find a friend.”
– Ann Kaiser Stearns
“Close friends are truly life’s treasures. Sometimes they know us better than we know ourselves.”
– Vincent Van Gogh
“Real friendship or love is not manufactured or achieved by an act of will or intention. Friendship is always an act of recognition.”
– John O’Donohue
“Everyone you meet knows something you don’t know but need to know. Learn from them.”
– C.G. Jung
“A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.”
– Elbert Hubbard
“The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.”
– Hubert H. Humphrey
“Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer.”
– Ed Cunningham
“The most memorable people in life will be the friends who loved you when you weren’t very lovable.”
– Aidan Chambers
“I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.”
– Robert Brault
“A friend who understands your tears is much more valuable than a lot of friends who only know your smile.”
– Unknown
“The best time to make friends is before you need them.”
– Ethel Barrymore
“When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand.”
– Henri Nouwen
“A friend is one who overlooks your broken fence and admires the flowers in your garden.”
– Unknown
“No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.”
– Alice Walker
“True friends are those rare people who come to find you in dark places and lead you back to the light.”
– Unknown
“A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.”
– Arnold H. Glasgow
Valentine’s Day Quotes for Coworkers You Respect and Like
“One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, and compassion.”
– Simone de Beauvoir
“Each new friendship can make you a new person, because it opens up new doors inside of you.”
– Kate DiCamillo
“Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by doubling our joy and dividing our grief.”
– Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Awards become corroded. Friends gather no dust.”
– Jesse Owens
“My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.”
– Henry Ford
“Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.”
– Benjamin Franklin
“The only way to have a friend is to be one.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Getting to know new people and gaining new friends is one of life’s greatest pleasures. So conquer your fears and get out there.”
– Tony Clark
“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
“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
Funny Valentine’s Day Quotes for Your Best Friend
“Best friends don’t care if your house is clean. They care if you have wine.”
– Unknown
“I love that our effortless friendship fits perfectly with my laziness.”
– Unknown
“Friends make you smile – best friends make you giggle ’til you pee your pants.”
– Terri Guillemets
“True friendship is when you walk into their house and your WiFi connects automatically.”
– Unknown
“One good reason to only maintain a small circle of friends is that three out of four murders are committed by people who know the victim.”
– George Carlin
“Never let your best friends get lonely… keep disturbing them.”
– Candlelight Publications
“Life was meant for good friends and great adventures.”
– Sandra Shea
“I think we’ll be friends forever because we’re too lazy to find new friends.”
– Unknown
“Most of us don’t need a psychiatric therapist as much as a friend to be silly with.”
– Robert Brault
“A friend is someone who knows all your stories. A best friend helps you create them.”
– Bob Simmons
“When you’re in jail, a good friend will be trying to bail you out. A best friend will be in the cell next to you saying, ‘Damn, that was fun.’”
– Groucho Marx
“One sure way to lose another woman’s friendship is to try to improve her flower arrangements.”
– Marcelene Cox
“A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success.”
– Doug Larson
“I love you so much. I hate everyone that isn’t you.”
– Lena Dunham
“In the cookie of life, friends are chocolate chips.”
– Salman Rushdie
“God made us best friends because he knew our moms couldn’t handle us as sisters.”
– Unknown
“F.R.I.E.N.D.S. Fight for you. Respect you. Include you. Encourage you. Need you. Deserve you. Stand by you.”
– Unknown
“We’ll be friends ’til we’re old and senile… Then we’ll be new friends!”
– Unknown
“A good friend will help you move. But a best friend will help you move a dead body.”
– Jim Hayes
“I already have a therapist. I have you.”
– Unknown
“Whatever you do in this life, it’s not legendary unless your friends are there to see it.”
– Barney Stinson (from the TV-show How I Met Your Mother)
“Boyfriends come and go (as we all by now know). But friends are forever.”
– Unknown
“Ovaries before brovaries.”
– Leslie Knope (from the TV-show Parks and Recreations)
Short Valentine’s Day Quotes for Friends
“Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.”
– Maya Angelou
“A sweet friendship refreshes the soul.”
– Proverbs 27:9
“Good friends are like stars. You don’t always see them, but you know they’re always there.”
– Christy Evans
“True friends are always together in spirit.”
– L.M. Montgomery
“Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.”
– Jacques Delille
“No road is long with good company.”
– Turkish Proverb
“Friendship is another word for love.”
– Unknown
“True friends are families which you can select.”
– Audrey Hepburn
“In this lifetime, if there’s anything you need, it’s a best friend.”
– Lea Michele
“Life is better with true friends.”
– Unknown
“Friendship is the wine of life.”
– Edward Young
“Friends are the flowers in the garden of life.”
– Unknown
“A day without a friend is like a pot without a single drop of honey left inside.”
– Winnie the Pooh
“True friendship is when silence between two people is comfortable.”
– David Tyson
“Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.”
– Jean de La Fontaine
“Friends are the siblings God never gave us.”
– Mencius
“Time doesn’t take away from friendship, nor does separation.”
– Tennessee Williams
“The love that comes from friendship is the underlying facet of a happy life.”
– Chelsea Handler
“Friendship isn’t a big thing – it’s a million little things.”
– Paulo Coelho
“A friend is what the heart needs all the time.”
– Henry Van Dyke
“Friends are medicine for a wounded heart, and vitamins for a hopeful soul.”
– Steve Maraboli
“To the world you may be just one person, but to one person you may be the world.”
– Brandi Snyder
“A true friend is forever a friend.”
– George MacDonald
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