Friendship is an important part of a child's development and life. True friendship is a special bond that is built on mutual trust, understanding, and support.
It is a relationship that can help children learn, grow, and navigate the challenges of the world around them.
At times, we may forget the value of a good friend, but the right words can help remind us of the power of true friendship.
In this collection of friendship quotes for kids, you will find a range of funny, inspiring, and thoughtful sayings that capture the essence of what it means to be a friend.
From wishing for a lifetime of laughter and fun to reminding us that the world walks with us when we have a friend by our side, these quotes are perfect for sharing with young children and teaching them about the value of friendship.
Positive Friendship Quotes For Kids
Discover inspiring and uplifting quotes about the value of friendship for children. These positive messages will encourage kids to cherish their friendships and treat others with kindness and respect.
“Friends are relatives you make for yourself.” - Eustache Deschamps
“The best mirror is an old friend.” - George Herbert
“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
“One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.” - Euripides
“A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.” - Jim Morrison
“The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. I have no wealth to bestow on him. If he knows that I am happy in loving him, he will want no other reward. Is not friendship divine in this?” - Henry David Thoreau
“The only way to have a friend is to be one.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The making of friends, who are real friends, is the best token we have of a man's success in life.” - Edward Everett Hale
“A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.” - Arnold H Glasgow
“Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.” - Thomas J. Watson
“Friendship that flows from the heart cannot be frozen by adversity, as the water that flows from the spring cannot congeal in winter.” - James Fennimore Cooper
“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
“To the world you may be just one person, but to one person you may be the world.” - Unknown
“Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.” - Hellen Keller
“Your friends will know you better in the first minute they meet you than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.” - Richard Bach
“The love that comes from friendship is the underlying facet of a happy life.” - Chelsea Handler
“All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand.” - Ella Wheeler Wilcox
“A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.” - Walter Winchell
“A real friend is the one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.” - Walter Winchell
“Hold a true friend with both your hands.” - Nigerian Proverb
“Can miles truly separate us from friends? If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?” - Richard Bach
“There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.” - Thomas Aquinas
“A true friend is the greatest of all blessings.” - Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.” - Laurence J.
“A friend is one of the best things you can be and the greatest things you can have.” - Sarah Valdez
“My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.” - Lee Iacocca
“A true friend stabs you in the front, not the back.” - Oscar Wilde
“The most beautiful discovery that true friends can make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.” - Unknown*
“True friends are always together in spirit!” - Unknown*
“Life is partly what we make it, and partly what is made by the friends whom we choose.” - Tehyi Hsieh
“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.” - Anas Nin
Short Friendship Quotes For Kids
Find the perfect words to express your friendship with our collection of short friendship quotes for kids. These short, sweet, and simple messages are perfect for young friends to share with each other.
“Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world.” - John Everyn
“The death of a friend is equivalent to the loss of a limb.” - German proverb
“In friendship we find nothing false or insincere; everything is straight forward, and springs from the heart.” - Cicero
“Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.” - Jean de la Fontaine
“Few delights can equal the mere presence of someone we utterly trust.” - George MacDonald
“Of all possessions, a friend is the most precious.” - Herodotus
“Some people go to priests. Others to poetry. I go to my friends.” - Virginia Woolf
“The distance cannot matter. Ours is a friendship of the heart.” - Mary Anne Radmacher
“Where there are friends, there is wealth.” - Titus Maccius Plautus
“It's not what we have in life, but who we have in our life that matters.” - Unknown*
“A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson
“A good friend like a four-leaf clover, hard to find and lucky to have!” - Unknown*
“In a friend you find a second self.” - Isabelle Norton
“The friendship that can cease has never been real.” - Saint Jerome
“Best friends make good times better and hard times easier!” - Unknown*
“A good friend knows all your stories, but a best friend has lived them with you.” - Unknown*
“True enemies are better than false friends.” - Matshona Dhliwayo
“A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.” - Unknown*
“The language of friendship is not words but meanings.” - Henry David Thoreau
“I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.” - Hellen Keller
“Be slow to fall into friendship, but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.” - Socrates
“Sitting silently beside a friend who is hurting may be the best gift we can give.” - Unknown*
“Friends are medicine for a wounded heart and vitamins for a hopeful soul.” - Steve Maraboli
“Friends are the angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.” - Lorraine K.Mitchell
“Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.” - Plautus
“A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.” - Jerome Cummings
“Friendship doubles your joys, and divides your sorrows.” - Unknown*
“It is not that diamonds are a girl's best friend, but it is your best friend who is your diamonds.” - Unknown*
“A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.” - Elbert Hubbard
“Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness…” - Richard Bach
“Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait to hear the answer.” - Unknown*
“A guitar is like an old friend that is there with me.” - B. B. King
“What is a friend? I will tell you…it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.” - Frank Crane
“Friendship without self interest is one of the rare and beautiful things in life.” - James Francis Byrnes
“There's no friend like someone who has known you since you were five” - Anne Stevenson
“A good friend remembers what we were and sees what we can be.” - Unknown*
“A friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be somewhere else.” - Unknown*
“A friend is someone who reaches out for your hand and touches your heart.” - Unknown*
Funny Friendship Quotes For Kids
Looking for some laughs? Check out these funny friendship quotes for kids. Perfect for parents, teachers, and anyone looking for a good giggle.
“Only your real friends tell you when your face is dirty.” - Sicilian Proverb
“A friend is like an oreo, it's not always that great, but it always gets better!” - Erin Westbrook
“There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.” - Linda Grayson
“It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.” - Confucius
“It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.” - Marlene Dietrich
“Never let your best friends get lonely…keep disturbing them.” - Candlelight Publications
“Friends buy you food. Best friends eat your food.” - Unknown*
“Sometimes me think, 'What is friend?' Then me say, ‘Friend is someone to share the last cookie with.’ ” - Cookie Monster
“A messy house is a must—it separates your true friends from other friends. Real friends are there to visit you not your house!” - Jennifer Wilson
“There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.” - Sylvia Plath
“Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass, and it goes to pieces.” - Anne Morrow Lindbergh
“When you're in jail, a good friend will be trying to bail you out. A best friend will be in the cell next to you …” - Groucho Marx
“One good reason to only maintain a small circle of friends is that three out of four murders are committed by people who know the victim.” - George Carlin
“A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows you are slightly cracked.” - Bernard Meltzer
“Friends are the chocolate chips in the cookie of life.” - Unknown*
“To like and dislike the same things, that is what makes a solid friendship.” - Sallust
“Marriage: a friendship recognized by the police.” - Robert Louis Stevenson
“Friendship is a wildly underrated medication.” - Anna Deavere Smith
“It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart: the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.” - Mark Twain
“She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.” - Gabriel García Márquez
“Everyone is a complicated human being, and everyone is strong and weak and funny and scared.” - Laverne Cox
“Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine.” - Charles Dickens
“Don't look at me in that tone of voice.” - Dorothy Parker
“You find out who your real friends are when you're involved in a scandal.” - Elizabeth Taylor
“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
“I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.” - Jane Austen
“Friendship is being there when someone's feeling low and not being afraid to kick them.” - Randy K. Milholland
“Every man should have a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.” - Henry Brooks Adams
“Let us be elegant or die!” - Louisa May Alcott
“No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether depraved.” - Thomas Carlyle
“A friend is someone who knows all about you and loves you just the same.” - Elbert Hubbard
“All you need to do to be my friend is like me.” - Taylor Swift
“I'll stick to finding the funny in the ordinary because my life is pretty ordinary and so are the lives of my friends—and my friends are hilarious.” - Issa Rae
“Best friend isn't a person; it's a tier.” - Mindy Kaling
“It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like 'What about lunch?'” - A. A. Milne
“Love is friendship that has caught fire.” - Ann Landers
“Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.” - La Fontaine
“She was the kind of person who never gave you enough time to miss her.” - Zadie Smith
Kindergarten Friendship Quotes For Kids
Looking for some inspiration to teach your little ones about the importance of friendship? These quotes will help your child understand the value of having good friends and the joy of spending time with them.
“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
“My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.” - Henry Ford
“Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.” - Aristotle
“Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends.” - H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
"A sweet friendship refreshes your soul." - Unknown*
“Friendship is like a beautiful garden, the more you put into it, the more it grows.” - Unknown*
“What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.” - Aristotle
“No road is long with good company.” - Turkish proverb
“Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.” - Woodrow T. Wilson
“Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?” - Abraham Lincoln
“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
“Good friends are like stars, you don't always see them but they are always there.” - Unknown*
“Ten minutes with a genuine friend is better than years spent with anyone less.” - Crystal Woods
“I look to the sea, reflections in the waves spark my memory. Some happy, some sad, I think of childhood friends, and the dreams we had in our world.” - Styx
“Kind people are my kinda people.” - Unknown*
“A friend in need is a friend indeed.” - Latin proverb
“There are friends, there is family, and then there are friends that become family.” - Unknown*
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