Top 50 Friends Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.”

— Aristotle

Also featured in: Friendship Quotes, Loneliness Quotes, Meaningful Friendship Quotes

2. “Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.”

— John Lennon

Also featured in: Positive Quotes, Happiness Quotes, Relationship Quotes, Positive Inspirational Quotes

3. “We’re all just walking each other home.”

— Ram Dass

Also featured in: Relationship Quotes, Wellness Quotes, Life Lessons Quotes, Deep Quotes, Spirituality Quotes

4. “The only way to have a friend is to be one.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Also featured in: Positive Quotes, Relationship Quotes, Friendship Quotes, Character Quotes

5. “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

Also featured in: Relationship Quotes, Friendship Quotes, Beautiful Quotes, Uplifting Quotes

6. “I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.”

— Helen Keller

Also featured in: Relationship Quotes, Human Nature Quotes, Friendship Quotes

7. “Friendship is the purest love. It is the highest form of love where nothing is asked for, no condition, where one simply enjoys giving.”

— Osho

Also featured in: Relationship Quotes, Emotion Quotes, Friendship Quotes, Appreciation Quotes

8. “It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Also featured in: Relationship Quotes, Friendship Quotes, Meaningful Friendship Quotes

9. “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.”

— Anaïs Nin

Also featured in: Relationship Quotes, Friendship Quotes, Appreciation Quotes, Quotes About People

10. “A journey is best measured in friends, not in miles.”

— Tim Cahill

Also featured in: Relationship Quotes, Meaningful Quotes, Quotes About People, Travel Quotes

11. “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

Also featured in: Impact Quotes, Personality Quotes, Friendship Quotes, Quotes About People

12. “In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.”

— Khalil Gibran

Also featured in: Cute Quotes, Happy Quotes, Friendship Quotes, Good Morning Quotes

13. “What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.”

— C. S. Lewis

Also featured in: Friendship Quotes, Truth Quotes, Meaningful Friendship Quotes

14. “When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are.”

— Donald Miller

Also featured in: Relationship Quotes, Sweet Quotes, Appreciation Quotes, Quotes About People

15. “I don’t want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.”

— Oscar Wilde

Also featured in: Funny Quotes, Short Funny Quotes, Funny Friendship Quotes

16. “But you are the average of the five people you associate with most, so do not underestimate the effects of your pessimistic, unambitious, or disorganized friends. If someone isn’t making you stronger, they’re making you weaker.”

— Tim Ferriss

Also featured in: Motivational Work Quotes, Inspirational Business Quotes, Motivational Quotes About Life, Empowerment Quotes

17. “You cannot expect to live a positive life if you hang with negative people.”

— Joel Osteen

Also featured in: Positivity Quotes, Optimistic Quotes, Positive Life Quotes, Sunday Quotes, Personality Quotes

18. “Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find.”

— William Shakespeare

Also featured in: Meaningful Friendship Quotes

19. “The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.”

— Epictetus

Also featured in: Influence Quotes, Meaningful Friendship Quotes

20. “My friends have made the story of my life.”

— Helen Keller

Also featured in: Healing Quotes, Quotes About Stories

21. “Work hard, but make time for your love, family and friends. Nobody remembers PowerPoint presentations on your final day.”

— Chetan Bhagat

Also featured in: Love Life Quotes, Common Sense Quotes, Graduation Quotes, Family Quotes

22. “Make a conscious effort to surround yourself with positive, nourishing, and uplifting people – people who believe in you, encourage you to go after your dreams, and applaud your victories.”

— Jack Canfield

Also featured in: Cheer Quotes, Fulfillment Quotes, Mental Health Quotes, Influence Quotes

23. “If you surround yourself with positive people who build you up, the sky is the limit.”

— Joel Brown

Also featured in: Self-Care Quotes, Cheer Quotes, Happy Friday Quotes, Happy Monday Quotes

24. “Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than to be in bad company.”

— Booker T. Washington

Also featured in: Toxic People Quotes

25. “If you run around with 9 losers pretty soon you’ll be the 10th loser.”

— Les Brown

Also featured in: Hard Hitting Quotes

26. “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

Also featured in: Be Kind Quotes, Grateful Quotes, I Appreciate You Quotes, Meaningful Friendship Quotes

27. “Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”

— Marcel Proust

Also featured in: Sunday Quotes, Cute Quotes, Grateful Quotes, Love Is Quotes

28. “If you hang out with chickens, you’re going to cluck and if you hang out with eagles, you’re going to fly.”

— Steve Maraboli

Also featured in: Influence Quotes

29. “Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.”

— Victor Borge

Also featured in: Cute Quotes, Happy Friday Quotes, Hilarious Quotes, Funny Best Friend Quotes

30. “Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.”

— Izaak Walton

Also featured in: Journey Quotes

31. “To be alone means that you avoid bad company. But to have a true friend is better than being alone.”

— Umar

Also featured in: Meaningful Friendship Quotes, True Friendship Quotes

32. “Friends don’t spy; true friendship is about privacy, too.”

— Stephen King

33. “True friendship can exist only between equals.”

— Plato

Also featured in: True Friendship Quotes

34. “It’s great when two strangers become best friends but not when best friends become two strangers.”

— Drake

Also featured in: Best Friend Quotes, Fake Friends Quotes

35. “If you fall, I will catch you. I will be waiting, time after time.”

— Cyndi Lauper

Also featured in: Music Quotes, Romantic Quotes, Good Morning Quotes for Her, Best Friend Quotes

36. “Those who love you are not fooled by mistakes you have made or dark images you hold about yourself. They remember your beauty when you feel ugly; your wholeness when you are broken; your innocence when you feel guilty; and your purpose when you are confused.”

— Alan Cohen

Also featured in: Empathy Quotes, Recovery Quotes, Grace Quotes, True Love Quotes

37. “The one who has a good friend doesn’t need any mirror.”

— Rumi

Also featured in: True Friendship Quotes, Best Friend Quotes

38. “A True friend is one who sees a fault, gives you advice and who defends you in your absence.”

— Ali ibn Abi Talib

Also featured in: True Friendship Quotes

39. “So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.”

— Helen Keller

Also featured in: Missing Someone Quotes, True Friendship Quotes

40. “There is nothing more beautiful than someone who goes out of their way to make life beautiful for others.”

— Mandy Hale

Also featured in: Love Life Quotes, Motivational Quotes for Women, Quotes About Giving, Happy Monday Quotes

41. “If you want enemies, excel your friends; but if you want friends, let your friends excel you.”

— Dale Carnegie

42. “Well, a friend in need is a friend indeed.”

— Edgar Bergen

Also featured in: True Friendship Quotes

43. “Life is short and we never have enough time for the hearts of those who travel the way with us. O, be swift to love! Make haste to be kind.”

— Henri-Frédéric Amiel

Also featured in: Love Life Quotes, Beautiful Good Morning Quotes, Sympathy Quotes, Thinking of You Quotes

44. “You’ll need coffee shops and sunsets and road trips. Airplanes and passports and new songs and old songs, but people more than anything else. You will need other people and you will need to be that other person to someone else, a living breathing screaming invitation to believe better things.”

— Jamie Tworkowski

Also featured in: You Are Loved Quotes, I Appreciate You Quotes, Life is Beautiful Quotes, Making Memories Quotes

45. “The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

46. “I’m only me when I’m with you.”

— Taylor Swift

Also featured in: True Love Quotes, Soulmate Quotes, Quotes About Songs

47. “Friendships multiply joys and divide griefs.”

— Thomas Fuller

Also featured in: I Appreciate You Quotes, Meaningful Friendship Quotes, Best Friend Quotes

48. “You are who you are by virtue of the company you keep.”

— T. B. Joshua

49. “Supposing a tree fell down, Pooh, when we were underneath it?? ‘Supposing it didn’t,’ said Pooh after careful thought. Piglet was comforted by this.”

— A. A. Milne

Also featured in: Cute Quotes, Silly Quotes, Quotes About Children

50. “I want everyone to meet you. You’re my favorite person of all time.”

— Rainbow Rowell

Also featured in: Romantic Quotes, You Are Amazing Quotes, Thinking of You Quotes, Best Friend Quotes