29 Meaningful Friendship Quotes to Warm Your Heart

Quotes about friendship can be fun, sentimental, endearing, humorous, or downright hysterical! In fact, in my article, Sassy Sister Quotes for Sisters & Girlfriends, I include all kinds of quotes. Fifty-seven sister and friendship quotes to be exact! But here you will find 29 meaningful friendship quotes to warm your heart!

For this inspirational quotes collection about friendship I selected some of my favorite quotes that are meaningful and sentimental.

The quotes come from a variety of sources, but as always, I used Canva.com to create the friendship quote images. You can find a banner at the bottom of the page that you can click on to go straight to Canva.com. It is an awesome website where you can make your own friendship quote images! Or any other graphic designs that you ever imagined!

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I hope you enjoy these meaningful inspirational quotes and will feel inspired to share them with your friends. You can also use them as special morning messages, texts messages, social media captions, or you can even do screen shots or downloads and use them on your own social media to share the LOVE:)


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Meaningful Friendship Quotes

Let these meaningful friendship quotes warm your heart and make you SMILE.

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Some people arrive and make such a beautiful impact on your life, you can barely remember what life was life without them.
~ Anna Taylor
green background with clovers at the top and bottom and a quote about good friends
A good friend is life a four leaf clover, hard to find and lucky to have! ~ Irish Proverb
two happy friends eat pizza together plus a quote about frienship
The only way to have a friend is to be one. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
lavender flowers with white overlay and a quote about friends and adventures
Every new friend is a new adventure. The start of more memories. ~ Patrice Lindsey
lavender background with red yellow and blue hearts and a true friends quote
A strong friendship doesn’t need daily conversation and doesn’t always need togetherness. As long as the relationship lives in the heart, true friends will never be apart. ~ Susan Ballinger
two friends lay in a hammock together smiling plus a quote about special friends
A friend is someone who helps you when you’re down, and if they can’t, they lay down beside you and listen. ~ Winnie the Pooh
five friends sit on the ground with arms wrapped around each other and a quote about friends
Because of you, I laugh a little harder, cry a little less, and smile a lot more. ~Unknown
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Everyone has a friend during each stage of life. But only lucky ones have the same friend in all stages of life. ~Unknown
two tan teddy bears sit at the edge of the with arms around each other and a quote about being grateful for people who make us happy
Let us be grateful for people who make us happy. They are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. ~ Marcel Proust
silly girl with a surprised look on her face and a funny quote
As soon as I saw you, I knew an adventure was going to happen. ~Winnie the Pooh
very sentimental quote about special people on a background of blue green and fushia
To the world, you may be just one person. But to one person you may be the world! ~ Dr Seuss
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Any day spent with you is my favorite day. So today is my new favorite day. ~ Winnie the Pooh
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A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words. ~ CS Lewis
happy woman looks off in the distance on a sunny day and a quote about friendship
One of the most beautiful qualities of a good friendship is to understand and be understood. ~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca
pink tulips a women in a white dress holding a yellow bag with yellow tulips in it and a quote about people who make you feel like sunshine
Stay close to people who feel like sunshine. ~Unknown
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A friend is someone who knows all your secrets and love you anyway. ~Unknown

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Definition of Friendship

The Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines friendship as “the state of being friends the relationship between friendsa friendly feeling or attitude kindness or help given to someone.”

But friendship is so much more meaningful and special than represented by those words. Before I continue with the next 13 meaningful friendship quotes, let me share 13 qualities of friendship.

13 Special Qualities of Friendship

  1. loyalty
  2. honesty
  3. trustworthiness
  4. kindness
  5. empathy
  6. humor
  7. dependable
  8. positive
  9. forgiving
  10. accepting
  11. protective
  12. genuine
  13. listens

What other qualities do you think are important in a good friendship? Did you know friendship is an essential component of a well-balanced life?


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More Meaningful Friendship Quotes to Warm Your Heart

pink background with 3 photos of 2 girlfriends having fun and laughing together and a teddy bear and flower sitting in the corner with a friendship quote
Friends are God’s way of taking care of us. ~ Unknown
pastel background with orbital images and a quote that says you're never alone I'm always rooting for you even from afar
FRIENDSHIP: You’re never alone. I’m always rooting for you, even from afar! ~ Unknown
lavender and while background with two friends ready to hug and a quote about friendship
A real friend is someone who walks in when the rest of the world walks out. ~ Unknown
pink and gray background with two photos of three happy friends hanging out together and a quote about friendship
There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship. ~ Thomas Aquinas
five photos of two happy girlfriends and a quote that says a friend is a gift you give yourself
A friend is a gift you give yourself. ~ Unknown
lavender and yellow friendship quote that says friendship is about love trust and mimosas for brunch
Friendship is about love, trust, and mimosas for brunch. ~ Unknown
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1 million memories, 1 thousand inside jokes, 1 hundred shared secrets, 1 reason: best friends ~ Unknown
two happy friends hugging with a meaningful friendship quotes from Tom McNeal
Distance means so little, when someone means so much.
~ Tom McNeal
a sweet friendship refreshes the soul quote with two photos of friends hanging out together having fun
A sweet friendship refreshes the soul. ~ Proverb 27:9
little boy and girl sitting on a wooden bench looking out over the water with a Henry Adams friendship quote
Friends are born, not made. ~ Henry Adams
photo of two friends hugging and meaningful friendship quotes by Eleanor Roosevelt
Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints on your heart. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
friends who stay together slay together meaning friendship quotes in white and teal colors
Friends who stay together slay together. ~ Unknown
lavender background with pencil drawing of hands holding with flowers and meaningful friendship quotes
Friendships are like flowers. They brighten your day. ~ Unknown

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Final Thoughts: 29 Meaningful Friendship Quotes to Warm Your Heart

I hope these meaningful friendship quotes warmed your heart and gave you pause to think about the importance of your friends. Friendships are one of the most basic needs we have in life and should never be taken for granted.

Let me share a 8 remarkable benefits of friendship:

  1. prevent isolation and loneliness
  2. give you a chance to offer needed companionship to others
  3. increase your sense of belonging and purpose
  4. boost your happiness and reduce your stress
  5. improve your quality of life
  6. improve your self-confidence and self-worth
  7. help you cope with trauma and grief
  8. encourage healthy behaviors

Don’t forget to let your friends know you love them and think of them often. Old friends, new friends, work friends, best friends. They are ALL important.

Friendships are also important to your overall health and happiness. People in Denmark are consistently ranked as the happiest people in the world, and they place a high value on the importance of friendship. You may actually be quite inspired by their hygge lifestyle.

Even the Mayo Clinic wrote a great article about how friendships enrich your life and improve your health. You can check it out here.

And finally, I encourage you to read more about FRIENDSHIP and the importance of positive social interaction to your overall health. FRIENDS CLEARLY HAVE A POSITIVE IMPACT ON YOUR LIFE!

Be sure to share these meaningful friendship quotes with your friends!

Love to All! ~ Susan

P.S. And don’t forget to visit the article about quotes for sassy sisters and friends for 57 more meaningful quotes! I really enjoyed putting that article together for Sassy Sister Stuff!


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