Best Friend Quotes

Everyone is your best friend when you are successful. Make sure that the people that you surround yourself with are also the people that you are not afraid of failing with.

~ Paula Abdul

The biggest ingredient in a best friend is someone whose actions you respect and who you can truly be yourself around.

~ Renee Olstead

My dad is my best friend, my father, and my boss. When I do something that is exciting and he likes it, it feels three times as good as you can imagine.

~ David Lauren

My dad was my best friend and greatest role model. He was an amazing dad, coach, mentor, soldier, husband and friend.

~ Tiger Woods

Failure has been my best friend as a writer. It tests you, to see if you have what it takes to see it through.

~ Markus Zusak

I believe in soulmates, yes, but I believe you also have to work at love. I happen to believe your soulmate doesn't have to be your partner - your soulmate could be your best friend, your sibling, it doesn't have to be the person you marry.

~ Cheryl Cole

Dad was a strict disciplinarian and would give us a wallop with a wooden spoon if we were out of order. But we really respected him - he didn't try to be our best friend.

~ Stephen Mangan

Picking a best friend who stands up for what she believes in, is true to herself and allows you to be yourself without judgement of how 'cool' you are? Well, now you're picking a friend for life.

~ Renee Olstead

My mom is my best friend in the entire world. She is so cool and so inspiring. I've always been able to be open with her and talk to her as a friend.

~ Jessica Lowndes

My best friend was really cool, and she went to a youth theatre in Paisley, so I thought maybe that's the way to do it. I went along, and I immediately found something I was passionate about and really enjoyed.

~ Richard Madden

My brother's my best friend, without a doubt. Me and my big sister get along so well. She moved to East London, though, so points off, but she's wicked. And then my little sister is a little genius. She's super talented and such a great person, always been far more mature and cool than me.

~ Will Poulter

The waste basket is the writer's best friend.

~ Isaac Bashevis Singer

Like my best friend, I asked for drums for Christmas, and got them. But when he moved on to guitar, I realized two things: (1) guitar is a much more expressive instrument, (2) way more girls pay attention to guitar players than to drummers.

~ Greg Iles

I grew up very differently than a lot of other people in my hometown in Mississippi. But I can't imagine my life any other way. I flew home and surprised my best friend at his graduation, and I remember turning to my mom and saying, 'My graduation was so much cooler than this.' I had Melissa Joan Hart give my commencement speech.

~ Taylor Spreitler

If you're picking your best friend based on what kind of clothes she wears or how popular she is, chances are you aren't going to stay in touch after graduation.

~ Renee Olstead

I decided to move out of the apartment I was sharing with my best friend before graduation and move back home. My parents had recently separated, and I wanted to move back home with my mom and my siblings.

~ Katherine Schwarzenegger

Your sweetheart calls you by another's name. His eyes linger too long on your best friend. He talks with excitement about a girl at work. And the fire catches. Jealousy - that sickening combination of possessiveness, suspicion, rage, and humiliation - can overtake your mind and threaten your very core as you contemplate your rival.

~ Helen Fisher

If your best friend has stolen your girlfriend, it does become life and death.

~ Ben Kingsley

My mother's death brought me to my knees. She was my hero, my role model, my very best friend. I spoke to her every single day of my life. I really tried hard when I grew up to make her proud of me.

~ Maria Shriver

People don't appreciate music any more. They don't adore it. They don't buy vinyl and just love it. They love their laptops like their best friend, but they don't love a record for its sound quality and its artwork.

~ Laura Marling

I just want to say to women, 'Be yourself - it's the inner beauty that counts. You are your own best friend, the key to your own happiness, and as soon as you understand that - and it takes a few heartbreaks - you can be happy.'

~ Cherie Lunghi

Maxi dresses are also my best friend. They take me from my morning coffee, to the beach, to nighttime.

~ Hilary Rhoda

My best friend is the most important girl, outside of family, to me. I met her when I went to college and we bonded immediately. I'd do anything for her at any time. We phone each other every day.

~ Dawn French

Google is my best friend and my worst enemy. It's fabulous for research, but then it becomes addictive. I'll have a character eating an orange, and next thing I'm Googling types of oranges, I'm visiting chat rooms about oranges, I'm learning the history of the orange.

~ Liane Moriarty

She's always there for me when I need her She's my best friend she's just my everything.

~ Ashley Olsen

Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.

~ Bill Watterson

It's not that diamonds are a girl's best friend, but it's your best friends who are your diamonds. It's your best friends who are supremely resilient, made under pressure and of astonishing value. They're everlasting; they can cut glass if they need to.

~ Gina Barreca

Technology can be our best friend, and technology can also be the biggest party pooper of our lives. It interrupts our own story, interrupts our ability to have a thought or a daydream, to imagine something wonderful, because we're too busy bridging the walk from the cafeteria back to the office on the cell phone.

~ Steven Spielberg

My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

~ Aristotle

When everything is lonely I can be my best friend.

~ Conor Oberst

Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.

~ Groucho Marx

My cell phone is my best friend. It's my lifeline to the outside world.

~ Carrie Underwood

Sports teaches you to understand the meaning of a team. You need to be able to work with everybody you don't have to be their best friend. You can experience the fun of competition and driving toward a common goal without pushing to bond in some major way with each individual on a project.

~ Kathleen Kennedy

Solitude is creativity's best friend, and solitude is refreshment for our souls.

~ Naomi Judd

My husband and I always have fun together in everything we do. Some people call me crazy, but the reality is that I enjoy spending each second with him. He is not just my husband - he is my rock and my very best friend!

~ Joyce Giraud

My brother is my best friend.

~ Erinn Smart

The monster was the best friend I ever had.

~ Boris Karloff

My very best friend died in a car accident when I was 16 years old. That was the hardest blow emotionally that I have ever had to endure. Suddenly, you realize tomorrow might not come. Now I live by the motto, 'Today is what I have.'

~ Amber Heard

I was never a pretty girl, so I wasn't the one to get the boy. I used to cast myself as a good sport. Sometimes I wonder if I do that too much with roles I play, because if I'm absolutely truthful, I quite like being the best friend, or the supporting role, and actually I ought to gear-change and make myself the leading role.

~ Celia Imrie

I married my best friend. I was still in awe after more than four years of being around her at how smart and strong and loving and caring she was. And I really hoped that her choosing me and rejecting my advice to pursue her own career was a decision she would never regret.

~ William J. Clinton