201 Meaningful Birthday Messages and Quotes for Friends (2024)

Here is a list of 201 meaningful birthday messages and quotes for friends to make them feel special on their special day.

#1 Every day is a gift with a friend as sweet and wonderful as you! Wishing you a happy birthday filled with all your favorite things.

#2 It is not often that someone comes along that you grow with through the years. I am so lucky to have you as that person. I look forward to the next several years of long talks and sharing the events of our lives with each other. Happy birthday, friend!

#3 Happy birthday, my friend. If I could create my life all over again, and pick one friend, it would be you. You are fearless, and I admire you! Thank you for being my friend. I wish you the happiest of birthdays today and an incredible, unforgettable next year of your life.

#4 On your birthday, I hope that you eat as much cake as possible! You deserve the very best and I hope that today is the best day ever. I wish that I could celebrate you every single day of the year! Happy birthday!

#5 I am so grateful that I have a friend like you in my life. I wish you the happiest of birthdays, and a wonderful next year filled with health, laughter, and accomplishments. Happy birthday, my dear friend.

#6 Happy, happy, happy birthday, to my amazing friend! You’re always there when I need you the most, and I couldn’t imagine this journey without you.

#7 Having you in my life is like having both a friend and a teacher. You are there for me when I need you, you know me for my strengths and weaknesses, but I also learn from you. I hope you know how important you are to me in my life. Happy birthday, friend.

#8 Happy birthday! What a treasure it is to have a friend like you. You deserve the very best birthday this world can offer, and I hope this next year is positively wonderful for you.

#9 Today is a day for you – focusing on the person you have become and the person you want to become in the coming years of your life. There is so much ahead of you, and I am thankful that I get to come along for the ride and see where your talent takes you! Happy birthday, dear friend.

#10 Happy birthday, to my best friend. When times have been tough, you have been tougher than nails. Thank you for being such a strong force in my life.

#11 On your special day, my hope for you is that you truly appreciate how cherished you are. You have been such a good friend to me, and not only light up my life but the lives of countless others. We are forever better because you are in our lives. Happy birthday, friend.

#12 I wish that your birthday brings with it another year of success and good times! Happy birthday to one of the best human beings I know. I cannot even think of anyone who is more deserving of true happiness than you! Happy birthday!

#13 Today is indeed a time of celebration! Happy birthday to one of the greatest people of all time. I am one of the luckiest people ever to have met someone like you. Have a truly incredible day!

#14 I will never get tired of celebrating each birthday with you! Friends like you are hard to come by, and impossible to let go of! I hope that this birthday, and every birthday to come, shows you how treasured you are by all who know you. Happy birthday!

#15 I knew it was destiny that we would be friends from the first day we met. I have enjoyed your friendship ever since. Thank you for being there for me. Happy birthday, my true friend!

#16 My wish for you on your birthday is that you never ever forget how incredible you are! I hope that the next year of your life is filled with joy, laughter and unforgettable moments of true happiness. I am really looking forward to growing alongside you. Happy birthday.

#17 You have been there for me through it all. You are in my thoughts and prayer on your birthday. I hope you truly know how wonderful of a friend, and how special of a person you are to me. Happy birthday!

#18 Happy birthday! May your birthday be filled with all of your greatest wishes come true. You’re such a great friend and I’m so thankful to have you in my life.

#19 Take a bath, get a massage, take a nap, eat something decadent…this day belongs to you! Happy birthday, my dear friend. You are the best.

#20 Sending birthday wishes to a dear friend! On this day of immense laughter and joy, I hope that all of your dreams become a concrete reality. Keep smiling and keep spreading joy everywhere you go! Have an awesome birthday!

#21 Only once a year the world gets to celebrate the unique, fabulous, fearless warrior you are. This is your day! Happy birthday, my fierce friend!

#22 I hope that you realize that you make getting older look extremely graceful! Sending my warmest wishes on your birthday. May moments of inspiration and wonder surround you, today, and always! Happy birthday!

#23 Happy birthday! Life is an epic adventure with a friend like you. Wishing you a birthday filled with nonstop fun and wishes come true.

#24 I hope this special day is a wonderful day for you to remember, full of joy and all the things that make you happy! Happy birthday, my dear friend.

#25 Happy birthday, to my AWESOME friend. I truly hope that your birthday is epic and filled with all your favorite things.

#26 Happy birthday, to my wonderful friend. May your day be filled with great food, big wishes, and lasting memories.

#27 The world would be an incredibly boring place without you in it! You light up the lives of everyone. I sincerely hope that on your birthday you are celebrated and loved immensely. Don’t ever change! Happy birthday!

#28 Happy, happy, happy birthday, to my friend. You are a rare and amazing soul who brings so much light to those around you.

#29 I can’t imagine where I would be without your friendship. Wishing you a special and happy birthday!

#30 I hope that you truly sparkle and shine on your birthday! You are becoming stronger and wiser year upon year. It is a privilege to celebrate with you today. I cannot wait to watch you blow out all of those candles (but of course, there are not A LOT of them)!

#31 Happy, happy, happy birthday, to a truly EPIC friend. I love all of our adventures. I hope your birthday is nonstop fun.

#32 You make every single day we spend together a day I cannot forget! The happiest of birthdays to you, a one-of-a-kind friend. You are so refreshingly sweet, generous and humble. Have fun today, because you really do deserve to!

#33 Wishing a very happy birthday, to a friend who’s been there through thick and thin. I don’t know where I’d be without you. I hope that your day is filled with all your favorite things.

#34 Wishing a birthday filled with magic and light, to a friend who spreads beauty everywhere she goes. Thank you for being your wonderful self.

#35 Happy birthday to a true friend! I hope that your day inspires you with its wonder and awe. Enjoy your day and remember that you deserve this amazing celebration!

#36 Every day is an adventure with a friend as silly and fun as you. You sure make life interesting in the best possible way. Happy birthday, to amazing and wonderful you.

#37 Happy birthday, my friend. The memories we share are truly treasured and priceless. I hope that on your birthday, we create even more exquisite memories together. I am certain that all of your wildest wishes will come true today! Let’s party!

#38Happy birthday, to a simply AMAZING friend. Your humor, wit, and warm spirit are such a delight each day.

#39 You’re a true friend through and through, and I’m so glad to know you. Wishing you a wonderful birthday filled with all your favorite things.

#40 Wishing a birthday of dreams, wishes, and beautiful memories to my sweet friend who does so much for others. You’re such a rare and special soul.

#41 Some friends are soul mates. Happy birthday to the friend who understands me on a deep level. I don’t know where I’d be without you.

#42 Wishing a birthday filled with sweet memories and big laughs to my amazing friend. You deserve all the best the world has to offer.

#43 To my dear friend on your birthday: We go way, way back, and I can’t imagine this journey through life without you. Happy birthday.

#44 Happy birthday, to the friend who always picks me up when I’m down, and who always has a kind word for those you meet.

#45 Wishing a very happy birthday to my friend. You have a beautiful spirit and you’re an inspiration every single day.

#46 What a gift it is to have a friend like you in my life. Wishing you a birthday filled with all of your very favorite things. You deserve all the best.

#47 I’m so thankful to have a friend in my life who understands me the way you do. Wishing you a happy birthday filled with love and laughter.

#48 Wishing a birthday filled with magic, joy, and love to my friend. You have such a beautiful spirit and I’m so thankful to know you.

#49 Happy birthday, friend! You bring a lot of happiness and fun into my life. Wishing you many more years of beautiful memories to come.

#50 Happy birthday, to the friend who has been by my side in times of joy and times of sorrow. You are a truly irreplaceable soul and I’m so lucky to have you in my life.

#51Wishing a happy birthday, to my very dear friend. We’ve been through so much together, and I wish you many more years of celebrations to come.

The Most Famous Quotes to Include with Your Birthday Message for Your Friend

“We turn not older with years, but newer every day.”
Emily Dickinson

“We have to be able to grow up. Our wrinkles are our medals of the passage of life. They are what we have been through and who we want to be.”
Lauren Hutton

“How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you are?”
Satchel Paige

“Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.”
John Lennon

“We’ll take the cake with the red cherry on top.”
Navjot Singh Sidhu

“Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.”
Jean Paul

“No wise man ever wished to be younger.”
Jonathan Swift

“Age is a case of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.”
Mark Twain

“Just remember, once you’re over the hill, you begin to pick up speed.”
Charles Schulz

“Let us celebrate the occasion with wine and sweet words.”
Plautus

“In other words, live vicariously, beautifully, and excitingly, discover, love, dare and act as there is nothing to lose.”
Andy Hertz

“Don’t regret another birthday, the good news is that you are alive and can celebrate it.”
Catherine Pulsifer

“It’s sad to grow old, but nice to ripen.”
Brigitte Bardot

“When you wake up every day, it’s like a new birthday: it’s a new chance to be great again and make great decisions.”
Poo Bear

“The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.”
Oprah Winfrey

“It’s not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.”
Gabriel G. Marquez

“Our hope this year, for you my dear, is a year of happiness and joy. May the coming year bring all you dream of and more!”
Catherine Pulsifer

“We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.”
George Bernard Shaw

“Every birthday is a gift. Every day is a gift.”
Aretha Franklin

“Youth has no age.”
Pablo Picasso

“Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.”
Chili Davis

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
Mahatma Gandhi

“When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.”
Cherokee Expression

“To me – old age is always ten years older than I am.”
Bernard Baruch

“We should celebrate every year that we made it through and every year that we’re happier and healthier.”
Ellen DeGeneres

“Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been.”
Mark Twain

“The great thing about getting older is that you don’t lose all the other ages you’ve been.”
Madeleine L’Engle

“Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new.”
Sammy Hagar

“You don’t get older, you get better.”
Jean Paul

“Life really does begin at forty. Up until then, you are just doing research.”
Carl Gustav Jung

“Let us never know what old age is. Let us know the happiness time brings, not count the years.”
Ausonius

“The old believe everything; the middle-aged suspect everything; the young know everything.”
Oscar Wilde

“God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.”
Voltaire

“Your birthday is my pleasure. You are my sweetest treasure.”
Danny Demeersseman

“Today is the oldest you have been, and the youngest you will ever be. Make the most of it!”
Nicky Gumbel

“Don’t just count your years, make your years count.”
George Meredith

“Let them eat cake.”
Marie Antoinette

“It takes a long time to become young.”
Pablo Picasso

“Like many women my age, I am 28 years old.”
Mary Schmich

“With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.”
William Shakespeare

“Today you are You; that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.”
Dr. Seuss

“May your years be counted not by your age but by how you spend your days.”
Catherine Pulsifer

“To me a birthday means celebrating the presence of an individual in our lives.”
Meena Bajaj

“You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.”
Woody Allen

“Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.”
Herodotus

“No friendship is an accident.”
O. Henry

“Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.”
Jean de La Fontaine

“I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.”
Helen Keller

“In a friend you find a second self.”
Isabelle Norton

“A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success!”
Doug Larson

“Friends are the siblings God never gave us.”
Mencius

“You find out who your real friends are when you’re involved in a scandal.”
Elizabeth Taylor

“Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.”
Samuel Butler

“Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.”
Jacques Delille

“A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.”
Bernard Meltzer

“I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let’s face it, friends make life a lot more fun.”
Charles R. Swindoll

“There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation, of one’s self, the very meaning of one’s soul.”
Edith Wharton

“Friendship consists in forgetting what one gives and remembering what one receives.”
Alexander Dumas

“A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be.”
Douglas Pagels

“I don’t need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.”
Plutarch

“One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.”
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“Do not save your loving speeches for your friends till they are dead; do not write them on their tombstones, speak them rather now instead.”
Anna Cummins

“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

“Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.”
Friedrich Nietzsche

“Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.”
Thomas Aquinas

“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

“A friend is someone who makes it easy to believe in yourself.”
Heidi Wills

“Friendship is the purest love.”
Osho

“Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend.”
Sarah Dessen

“A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.”
Elbert Hubbard

“Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.”
Helen Keller

“A friend is what the heart needs all the time.”
Henry Van Dyke

“A single rose can be my garden…a single friend, my world.”
Leo Buscaglia

“I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don’t believe I deserved my friends.”
Walt Whitman

“Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.”
Benjamin Franklin

“For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.”
Audrey Hepburn

“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art…It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.”
C. S. Lewis

“Friendship is delicate as a glass, once broken it can be fixed but there will always be cracks.”
Waqar Ahmed

“Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.”
Khalil Gibran

“It is not so much our friends’ help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.”
Epicurus

“If you go looking for a friend, you’re going to find they’re very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you’ll find them everywhere.”
Zig Ziglar

“True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.”
St. Jerome

“Friends should be like books, few, but hand-selected.”
C.J. Langenhoven

“Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.”
Francesco Guicciardini

“Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.”
Euripides

“I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.”
Robert Brault

“Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm & constant.”
Socrates

“Don’t walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don’t walk behind me; I may not lead. Just walk beside me and be my friend.”
Albert Camus

“A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.”
Arnold H. Glasgow

“A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.”
Donna Roberts

“One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.”
Euripides

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