Best friends put us at ease and make us feel like we can take on anything. What would life be like without them?

Try imagining it – it might just make you appreciate having a best friend even more! With that in mind, here are 100 quotes about best friends, from inspiring figures from the past and present.

From funny to touching, these nuggets of wisdom speak to the true power of friendship and how special it can be when you have somebody by your side who knows exactly what you need. Enjoy!

100 Best Friend Quotes To Celebrate Your Friendship

1. A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out. – Walter Winchell
2. A man’s friendships are one of the best measures of his worth. – Charles Darwin
3. 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
4. Things are never quite as scary when you’ve got a best friend. – Bill Watterson
5. 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
6. 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
7. Don’t make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to level yourself up. – Thomas J. Watson
8. My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me. – Henry Ford
9. If you live to be a hundred, I hope I live to be a hundred minus one days, so I never have to live without you. – Winnie the Pooh 
10. A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often – just to save it from drying out completely. – Pam Brown
11. The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart. – Elisabeth Foley
12. Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together. – Woodrow Wilson
13. 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
14. If you have one true friend you have more than your share. – Thomas Fuller
15. 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
16. A day without a friend is like a pot without a single drop of honey left inside. – Winnie the Pooh
17. Don’t make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to level yourself up. – Thomas J. Watson
18. 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 destinies. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it’s all over. – Octavia Butler
19. Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose. – Tennessee Williams
20. There are three things that grow more precious with age; old wood to burn, old books to read, and old friends to enjoy. – Henry Ford
21. Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing. – Elie Wiesel
22. A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship. – Saint Francis de Sales
23. They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel. – Carl W. Buechner
24. There’s not a word yet for old friends who’ve just met. – The Muppet Movie
25. 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
26. 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
27. Of all possessions, a friend is the most precious. – Herodotus
28. Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes. – Henry David Thoreau
29.  A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down. – Arnold H. Glasgow
30. Anything is possible when you have the right people there to support you. – Misty Copeland
31. For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone. – Audrey Hepburn
32. No friendship is an accident. – O. Henry
33. Some people go to priests. Others to poetry. I to my friends. –Virginia Woolf
34. Share your smile with the world. It’s a symbol of friendship and peace. – Christie Brinkley
35. The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart. – Helen Keller
36. The greatest gift in life] is the gift of friendship, and I have received it; the greatest healing therapy is friendship. – Hubert Humphrey
37. The love that comes from friendship is the underlying facet of a happy life. – Chelsea Handler
38. A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out. – Walter Winchell
39. There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves; it is not my nature. – Jane Austen
40. As much as a BFF can make you go WTF, there’s no denying we’d be a little less rich without them. – Gossip Girl
41. A sweet friendship refreshes the soul. – Proverbs 27:9​​​
42. 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 about that. – Ally Condie
43. A friend is one soul abiding in two bodies. – Aristotle
44. Women’s friendships are like a renewable source of power. – Jane Fonda
45. It’s not that diamonds are a girl’s best friend, but it’s your best friends who are your diamonds. – Gina Barreca
46. I found out what the secret to life is – friends. Best friends. – Ninny Threadgoode
47. Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. – Marcel Proust
48. The best gift anyone can give, I believe, is the gift of sharing themselves. – Oprah Winfrey
49. Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world. – John Evelyn
50. The world is round so that friendship may encircle it. – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
51. There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature. – Jane Austen
52. There is nothing better than a friend unless it is a friend with chocolate. – Linda Grayson
53. A good friend will help you move, but a true friend will help you move a body. – Steven J. Daniels
54. Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow. Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead. Walk beside me… just be my friend. – Albert Camus

55. The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it. – Hubert H. Humphrey
56. Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light. – Helen Keller
57. Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together. – Woodrow Wilson.
58. A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself. – Jim Morrison
59. Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. – Marcel Proust
60. Friends are the siblings God never gave us. – Mencius 
61. Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship. – Dorothy Parker
62. Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. – Mark Twain
63. The only way to have a friend is to be one. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
64. Never leave a friend behind. Friends are all we have to get us through this life–and they are the only things from this world that we could hope to see in the next. – Dean Koontz
65. The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for. – Bob Marley
66. 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
67. A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you. –  Elbert Hubbard
68. Growing apart doesn’t change the fact that for a long time, we grew side by side; our roots will always be tangled. – Ally Condie
69. Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend. – Sarah Dessen, Someone Like You 
70. 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
71. One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and be understood. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca
72. I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who I do not consult his calendar. – Robert Brault
73. Only a true best friend can protect you from your immortal enemies. – Richelle Mead, Vampire Academy 
74. True friends are like diamonds–bright, beautiful, valuable, and always in style. – Nicole Richie
75. Some people arrive and make such a beautiful impact on your life, you can barely remember what life was like without them. – Anna Taylor
76. There is nothing better than a friend unless it is a friend with chocolate. – Linda Grayson
77. Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together. – Woodrow T. Wilson
78.  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
79. Home is where you are loved the most and act the worst. – Marjorie Pay Hinckley
80. A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails. – Donna Roberts
81. Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart. –  Eleanor Roosevelt
82. Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is by far the best ending for one. – Oscar Wilde
83. No person is your friend who demands your silence or denies your right to grow. – Alice Walker
84. The best time to make friends is before you need them. – Ethel Barrymore
85. A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out. – Walter Winchell
86. 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
87. 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
88. Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet them than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years. – Richard Bach
89. There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature. – P.G. Wodehouse
90. Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer. – Jean de la Fontaine
91. When all the dust is settled and all the crowds are gone, the things that matter are faith, family, and friends. – Barbara Bush
92. Align yourself with the right people, forge the right relationships and you’ll set yourself up for the long run. – Daymond John
93. A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down. – Arnold H. Glasow
94. Good friends help you find important things when you have lost them… your smile, your hope, and your courage. – Doe Zantamata
95. 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
96. A friend is one of the best things you can be and the greatest thing you can have. – Sarah Valdez
97. Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget. – G. Randolf
98. True friends are never apart, maybe in distance but never in heart. – Helen Keller
99. The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another’s little lapses. – David Storey
100. Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare – and precious as a pearl. – Tahar Ben Jelloun

Overall, these 100 quotes about best friends offer an interesting perspective on the special bond between two people that share a unique and meaningful connection.

From understanding to appreciation, these quotes are great reminders of how strong the bond of friendship can be.

Whether it’s time spent screaming with laughter in their presence or wholeheartedly lending our ears to their side of the story, there’s something special that comes with our relationship with a best friend – and we should always strive to recognize and appreciate it.