100 Happy Valentine's Day Quotes for Friends 2025

Valentine's Day isn't just for romantic partners—it's also a wonderful opportunity to celebrate the friendships that fill our lives with joy, laughter, and unwavering support. Friends are often the family we choose, and recognizing them on this special day can be a meaningful gesture.

In addition to the top 200 Valentine's Day quotes for romantic partners, here are 100 of the best Valentine's Day quotes for friends to help you express appreciation and love for those who stand by you through thick and thin.

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

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Celebrating Valentine's Day with friends allows you to honor the unique bonds and experiences you share. It's a chance to remind your friends just how much they mean to you. So, pick a quote that resonates with your friendship, pen it down on a card, or text it to your friends and let them know how much you treasure their presence in your life. Whether near or far, great friendships are a beautiful testament to love of all kinds.