100+ Valentine’s Day Quotes and Wishes For Friends 2025

Valentine’s Day isn’t just for couples—it’s also a perfect time to celebrate the incredible friendships that bring joy, laughter, and unwavering support into our lives. Friends are the family we choose, and showing them love on this special day can make all the difference.

Beyond the 300 Valentine’s Day quotes and journal prompts for romantic partners, we’ve curated 130 of the best Valentine’s Day quotes for friends. These heartfelt words will help you express gratitude and appreciation for those who stand by your side through every moment.

1. "A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you." – Elbert Hubbard
2. True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable.
3. "Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together." – Woodrow Wilson
4. Some people arrive and make such a beautiful impact on your life, you can barely remember what life was like without them.
5. "There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship." – Thomas Aquinas
6. Friends buy you food. Best friends eat your food.
7. "Friends are the siblings God never gave us." – Mencius
8. A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they’re not so good, and sympathizes with your problems when they’re not so bad.
9. "A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world." – Leo Buscaglia
10. It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
11. "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
12. "True friends are never apart, maybe in distance but never in heart."
13. "The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend." – Henry David Thoreau
14. "A friend is what the heart needs all the time." – Henry Van Dyke
15. "Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness." – Euripides
16. "A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out." – Walter Winchell
17. "Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another." – Eustace Budgell
18. "In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures." – Khalil Gibran
19. "A good friend is like a four-leaf clover; hard to find and lucky to have." – Irish Proverb
20. A true friend reaches for your hand and touches your heart.
21. "True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable." – David Tyson
22. The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
23. "Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer." – Ed Cunningham
24. "A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down." – Arnold H. Glasgow
25. "Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world." – John Evelyn
26. In this lifetime, if there's anything you need, it's a best friend.
27. "There's not a word yet for old friends who've just met." – Jim Henson
28. "Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears." – John Lennon
29. True friendship is when two friends can walk in opposite directions, yet remain side by side.
30. "A friend is one of the nicest things you can have and one of the best things you can be." – Douglas Pagels
31. "A sweet friendship refreshes the soul." – Proverbs 27:9
32. Good friends are like stars. You don't always see them, but you know they're always there.
33. "The only way to have a friend is to be one." – Ralph Waldo Emerson
34. "My friends are my estate." – Emily Dickinson
35. There are friends, there is family and then there are friends that become family.
36. "A good friend knows all your stories. A best friend helped you write them."
37. A friend is what the heart needs all the time.
38. The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.
39. "Friendship is like money, easier made than kept." – Samuel Butler
40. "A true friend is the greatest of all blessings." – François de La Rochefoucauld
41. "Of all possessions, a friend is the most precious." – Herodotus
42. A friend is one who overlooks your broken fence and admires the flowers in your garden,
43. "Friendship is the wine of life." – Edward Young
44. "There are friends, there is family, and then there are friends that become family." – Unknown
45. It's not what we have in life, but who we have in our life that matters.
46. "Friends are the family you choose." – Jess C. Scott
47. "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
48. "Friendship is a wildly underrated medication." – Anna Deavere Smith
49. "A friend is an emotional bond, just like friendship is a human experience." – Simon Sinek
50. 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.
51. "A true friend is someone who is there for you when they would rather be someplace else." – Len Wein
52. 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.
53. "We’ll be Friends ‘til we’re old and senile…then we’ll be new Friends!"
54. "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
55. "There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate." – Linda Grayson
56. 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.
57. "Sometimes being with your best friend is all the therapy you need."
58. "How beautiful it is to find someone who asks for nothing but your company." – Brigitte Nicole
59. Love is being stupid together.
60. "A friend to all is a friend to none." – Aristotle
61. "The language of friendship is not words but meanings." – Henry David Thoreau
62. "Friendship is the only flower that blooms in all seasons."
63. "Friends are like walls. Sometimes you lean on them, and sometimes it’s good just knowing they’re there."
64. Love is the beauty of the soul.
65. "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."
66. "Some souls just understand each other upon meeting." – N.R. Hart
67. "It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them." – Ralph Waldo Emerson
68. "Friends should be like books, few, but hand-selected." – C.J. Langenhoven
69. "Friends are medicine for a wounded heart and vitamins for a hopeful soul." – Steve Maraboli
70. Everyone has a friend during each stage of life. But only the lucky ones have the same friend in all stages of life.
71. "Good friends help you to find important things when you have lost them…your smile, your hope, and your courage." – Doe Zantamata
72. "The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it." – Hubert H. Humphrey
73. "A true friend accepts who you are, but also helps you become who you should be."
74. "Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose." – Tennessee Williams
75. If you wanna be my lover, you've got to get with my friends.
76. "Only a true friend would be that truly honest." – Shrek
77. "All you need is someone who joins in your weirdness."
78. "People say true friends must always hold hands, but true friends don't need to, because they know the other hand will always be there."
79. "The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you." – Elbert Hubbard
80. Friends are medicine for a wounded heart, and vitamins for a hopeful soul.
81. "We are best friends. Always remember that if you fall, I’ll pick you up…after I finish laughing." – Unknown
82. "The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart." – Elisabeth Foley
83. "There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends." – Jane Austen
84. True friendship is hating on everything together.
85. "Real friendship is when your friend comes over to your house and then you both just take a nap."
86. Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
87. "Friendship is like a perennial river which flows forever. It may change its path but will never ever dry up." – Pinaki Prasad Mohanty
88. "Some people go to priests. Others to poetry. I to my friends." – Virginia Woolf
89. "Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together." – Woodrow Wilson
90. "The only way to have a friend is to be one." – Ralph Waldo Emerson
91. "Things are never quite as scary when you’ve got a best friend." – Bill Watterson
92. "Friends are the chocolate chips in the cookie of life."
93. Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.
94. "There's not a word yet for old friends who've just met." – Jim Henson
95. "Friendship is the comfort of knowing that even when you feel alone, you aren’t."
96. "God made us best friends because he knew our moms couldn't handle us as sisters."
97. "Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you." – Elbert Hubbard
98. Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher.
99. "Best friends don’t care if your house is clean. They care if you have wine."
100. "The only way to have friends is to be one." – Ralph Waldo Emerson
101. "A friend is like an oreo, it's not always that great, but it always gets better!"
102. "Friends come and go like waves of the ocean, but the true ones stick, like an octopus on your face."
103. "A good friend is cheaper than therapy."
104. "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget."
105. "A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails." – Donna Roberts
106. "You’ve got a friend in me." – Randy Newman
107. "If you live to be a hundred, I hope to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you." – Winnie the Pooh
108. "Friends are the sunshine of life." – John Hay
109. "A friend is one of the nicest things you can have and one of the best things you can be." – Sarah Valdez
110. "A true friend reaches for your hand and touches your heart." – Heather Pryor
111. "There are big ships and small ships. But the best ship of all is friendship."
112. "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." – Jim Morrison
113. "Friends make the world beautiful."
114. Best friends can turn a horrible day into one of the best days of your life.
115. "Friendship isn't a big thing – it's a million little things."
116. "Your friendship is a gift I enjoy opening every day."
117. Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.
118. "To the world you may be just one person, but to one person you may be the world." – Dr. Seuss
119. "Friends are like rainbows, always there to cheer you up after a storm."
120. "Best friends are the people you can do anything and nothing with and still have the best time."
121. "A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails." – C.S. Lewis
122. "A real friend is someone who walks in when the rest of the world walks out." – Walter Winchell
123. "Friendship is finding that special someone you can enjoy being a dumbass with."
124. "Some people arrive and make such a beautiful impact on your life, you can barely remember what life was like without them." – Anna Taylor
125. "I get by with a little help from my friends." – The Beatles
126. "Friendship consists in forgetting what one gives and remembering what one receives." – Alexander Dumas
127. If you are ever lucky enough to find a wierdo, never let them go.
128. "It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter." – Marlene Dietrich
129. "Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend." – Bill Watterson
130. "A friend is one who overlooks your broken fence and admires the flowers in your garden."