Friendship is one of the most wonderful things in life.
It brings so much joy and memorable moments. It brings support when times are tough. And it simply makes life more fun and meaningful.
So in today’s post I’d like to share 125 of the most powerful, funny, heartwarming and true short friendship quotes.
I hope you’ll find something helpful here to appreciate and deepen your own friendships even more and to give thanks to someone special in your life via a text or maybe a card if they have a birthday coming up soon.
Short and Inspirational Friendship Quotes
“Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.”
– Woodrow T. Wilson
“Friends are the siblings God never gave us.”
– Mencius
“A single rose can be my garden… a single friend, my world.”
– Leo Buscaglia
“Each new friendship can make you a new person because it opens up new doors inside of you.”
– Kate DiCamillo
“True friendship is when two friends can walk in opposite directions, yet remain side by side.”
– Josh Grayson
“Don’t make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever 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
“Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.”
– Oscar Wilde
“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
“No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.”
– Alice Walker
“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
“True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable.”
– David Tyson
“A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.”
– Elbert Hubbard
“A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.”
– Jim Morrison
“Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
“To the world you may be just one person, but to one person you may be the world.”
– Dr. Seuss
“Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.”
– Elie Wiesel
“The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when someone asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.”
– 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
“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
“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
Aesthetic Short Friendship Quotes for Best Friends
“Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare — and precious as a pearl.”
– Tahar Ben Jelloun
“Friendship is the wine of life.”
– Edward Young
“A friend is one of the best things you can be and the greatest things you can have.”
– Sarah Valdez
“Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world.”
– John Evelyn
“True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides the evil.”
– Baltasar Gracian
“What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.”
– Confucius
“Friends are those rare people who ask us how we are and wait to hear the answer.”
– Ed Cunningham
“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
“Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?”
– Abraham Lincoln
“Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.”
– Maya Angelou
“All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand.”
– Ella Wheeler Wilcox
“Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.”
– Euripides
“Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by doubling our joys and dividing our grief.”
– Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Some people arrive and make such a beautiful impact on your life, you can barely remember what life was like without them.”
– Anna Taylor
“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
“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
“A friend who understands your tears is much more valuable than a lot of friends who only know your smile.”
– Unknown
“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
Cute Short Friendship Quotes
“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
“I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.”
– Ernest Hemingway
“Because of you, I laugh a little harder, cry a little less, and smile a lot more.”
– Unknown
“Anything is possible when you have the right people there to support you.”
– Misty Copeland
“A sweet friendship refreshes the soul.”
– Proverbs 27:9
“Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer.”
– Ed Cunningham
“Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.”
– Aristotle
“Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.”
– Anais Nin
“When you can’t look on the bright side, I will sit with you in the dark.”
– Unknown
“If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone.”
– Maxwell Maltz
“A day without a friend is like a pot without a single drop of honey left inside.”
– Winnie The Pooh
“There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.”
– Linda Grayson
“The only rose without thorns is friendship.”
– Unknown
“Life is the best when it’s got plenty of good friends and great adventures.”
– Sandra Shea
“The royal road to a man’s heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.”
– Dale Carnegie
“My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.”
– Henry Ford
“A good friend is like a four-leaf clover; hard to find and lucky to have.”
– Irish Proverb
“True friends are never apart, maybe in distance but never in heart.”
– Helen Keller
“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
“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
Funny Short Friendship Quotes
“In the cookie of life, friends are chocolate chips.”
– Salman Rushdie
“Friendship is like peeing in your pants. Everyone can see it, but only you can feel a warm feeling inside.”
– Unknown
“I love that our effortless friendship fits perfectly with my laziness.”
– Bob Simmons
“The best memories come from bad ideas done with best friends.”
– Unknown
“I was an innocent being, then my best friends came along.”
– Sarah Kelly
“Friends make you smile – best friends make you giggle ’til you pee your pants.”
– Terri Guillemets
“As soon as I saw you, I knew an adventure was going to happen.”
– Winnie The Pooh
“Best friends don’t care if your house is clean. They care if you have wine.”
– Unknown
“If you are ever lucky enough to find a weirdo, never let them go.”
– Matthew Gray Gubler
“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
“I think we’ll be friends forever because we’re too lazy to find new friends.”
– Unknown
“A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success.”
– Doug Larson
“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
“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
“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
“Friendship is a wildly underrated medication.”
– Anna Deavere Smith
“One sure way to lose another woman’s friendship is to try to improve her flower arrangements.”
– Marcelene Cox
“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
“Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respected.”
– Charles Lamb
“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
“A good friend will help you move. But a best friend will help you move a dead body.”
– Jim Hayes
Short and Deep Quotes on True Friendship for Women
“It is the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.”
– Marlene Dietrich
“I would rather walk with a friend in the dark than alone in the light.”
– Helen Keller
“When a woman becomes her own best friend, life is easier.”
– Diane von Furstenburg
“The love that comes from friendship is the underlying facet of a happy life.”
– Chelsea Handler
“For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness.”
– Audrey Hepburn
“Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.”
– Virginia Woolf
“It’s not that diamonds are a girl’s best friend, but it’s your best friends who are your diamonds.”
– Gina Barreca
“Time doesn’t take away from friendship, nor does separation.”
– Tennessee Williams
“Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.”
– Jean de La Fontaine
“Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.”
– Rabindranath Tagore
“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
“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
“Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends, for it is one of God’s greatest gifts.”
– Thomas Hughes
“Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn’t seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.”
– Anne Morrow Lindbergh
“False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.”
– Richard Burton
“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.”
– Albert Schweitzer
“A friend is one who overlooks your broken fence and admires the flowers in your garden.”
– Unknown
“The most memorable people in life will be the friends who loved you when you weren’t very lovable.”
– Aidan Chambers
“One of the tasks of true friendship is to listen compassionately and creatively to the hidden silences.”
– John O’Donohue
“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
“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.”
– Henri Nouwen
“We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we’re not alone.”
– Orson Welles
“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
Short and Simple Friendship Quotes
“Friends are medicine for a wounded heart, and vitamins for a hopeful soul.”
– Steve Maraboli
“Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.”
– Khalil Gibran
“A friend to all is a friend to none.”
– Aristotle
“Awards become corroded. Friends gather no dust.”
– Jesse Owens
“Friends are the family you choose.”
– Jess C. Scott
“Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you.”
– Amy Poehler
“There is magic in long-distance friendships. They let you relate to other human beings in a way that goes beyond being physically together.”
– Diana Cortes
“Someone to tell it to is one of the fundamental needs of human beings.”
– Miles Franklin
“Everyone hears what you say. Friends listen to what you say. Best friends listen to what you don’t say.”
– Unknown
“Friendship is accepting a person with all their qualities – good and bad.”
– Mohanlal
“The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.”
– Hubert H. Humphrey
“Friends are the flowers in the garden of life.”
– Unknown
“No friendship is an accident.”
– O. Henry
“A faithful friend is a strong defense.”
– Louisa May Alcott
“One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.”
– Simone de Beauvoir
“The kindest way of helping yourself is to find a friend.”
– Ann Kaiser Stearns
“Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.”
– Socrates
“There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.”
– Thomas Aquinas
“The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.”
– Henry David Thoreau
Want more timeless inspiration about friendship? Then have a look at this post with plenty of quotes on friendship, this one with many quotes on good teamwork and also this one with Valentine’s Day quotes for friends.