In India, Friendship Day arrives every first Sunday of August. In 2025 that falls on 3 August. Internationally, the United Nations has set 30 July as International Friendship Day to highlight how friendships across cultures can foster peace and understanding.
The concept was first proposed in the 1930s by Joyce Hall, founder of Hallmark Cards, as a day to send greeting cards to friends. It never quite stuck in the U.S., but gathered momentum in countries such as India, Bangladesh and parts of South America. The UN officially recognised the date in 2011, giving it global resonance.
Siblings often evolve into our earliest and most enduring friends. If your brother or sister fits that role—they're as much a friend as they are family. On Friendship Day, it makes sense to honour them too.
On 3 August 2025, just send a message. It doesn’t need to be deep or clever. Something simple like, “Thanks for being the kind of friend who makes the hard days easier.”
That’s what this day’s about—telling people they matter while they’re still around to hear it.
The concept was first proposed in the 1930s by Joyce Hall, founder of Hallmark Cards, as a day to send greeting cards to friends. It never quite stuck in the U.S., but gathered momentum in countries such as India, Bangladesh and parts of South America. The UN officially recognised the date in 2011, giving it global resonance.
Happy Friendship Day 2025: Why the day matters
Friends shape who we become. They offer support when everything feels shaky. They stay even after arguments. They make the laughter count.Siblings often evolve into our earliest and most enduring friends. If your brother or sister fits that role—they're as much a friend as they are family. On Friendship Day, it makes sense to honour them too.
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Friendship Day is more than just a hashtag—it’s a reminder to celebrate the people who light up your life.
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On the first Sunday in August, the US celebrates National Friendship Day to encourages people across the world to connect with friends.
Happy Friendship Day 2025: Friendship Day is celebrated on the first Sunday of August in India, and this year the beautiful day falls on August 3.
Happy Friendship Day 2025: 100 heartfelt friendship quotes
Here are 100 quotes to elevate your Friendship Day messages. Each one captures something true—something worth sending.- It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- My best friend is the man who, in wishing me well, wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow. Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead. Walk beside me… just be my friend. — Albert Camus
- Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. — Mark Twain
- Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another: "What! You too? I thought I was the only one." — C. S. Lewis
- There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. — Jane Austen
- 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. — A. A. Milne
- Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival. — C. S. Lewis
- A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you. — Elbert Hubbard
- Friends are the family you choose. — Jess C. Scott
- Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together. — Woodrow Wilson
- Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil. — Baltasar Gracián
- There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate. — Linda Grayson
- A single rose can be my garden… a single friend, my world. — Leo Buscaglia
- No friendship is an accident. — O. Henry
- In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. — Khalil Gibran
- Friendship is a sheltering tree. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- It’s not what we have in life, but who we have in our life that matters. — J. M. Laurence
- I would rather walk with a friend in the dark than alone in the light. — Helen Keller
- True friends are always together in spirit. — L. M. Montgomery
- There are no strangers here; only friends you haven’t yet met. — William Butler Yeats
- A true friend is forever a friend. — George MacDonald
- Of all possessions a friend is the most precious. — Herodotus
- Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive. — Anaïs Nin
- It takes a long time to grow an old friend. — John Leonard
- A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they’re not so good, and sympathises with your problems when they’re not so bad. — Arnold H. Glasow
- Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait to hear the answer. — Ed Cunningham
- Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose. — Tennessee Williams
- Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world. — John Evelyn
- A true friend is someone who thinks you’re a good egg even though they know you’re slightly cracked. — Bernard Meltzer
- The best mirror is an old friend. — George Herbert
- Women’s friendships are like a renewable source of power. — Jane Fonda
- Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends. — Virginia Woolf
- Things are never quite as scary when you’ve got a best friend. — Bill Watterson
- A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails. — Donna Roberts
- A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out. — Walter Winchell
- What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness. — Euripides
- The only way to have a friend is to be one. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant. — Socrates
- One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives. — Euripides
- To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world. — Brandi Snyder
- I get by with a little help from my friends. — The Beatles
- Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship. — Dorothy Parker
- Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit. — Aristotle
- A snowball in the face is surely the perfect beginning to a lasting friendship. — Markus Zusak
- Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow. — Swedish Proverb
- Keep the ones that heard you when you never said a word. — Unknown
- A friend is one who overlooks your broken fence and admires the flowers in your garden. — Unknown
- There’s not a word yet for old friends who’ve just met. — Jim Henson
Happy Friendship Day 2025: How to use these quotes
- Pair them with a photo on Instagram.
- Drop one in a birthday message.
- Use them in a note to a sibling you’re close with.
- Put one in your WhatsApp status.
- Write one in a card, especially if you struggle to say things out loud.
On 3 August 2025, just send a message. It doesn’t need to be deep or clever. Something simple like, “Thanks for being the kind of friend who makes the hard days easier.”
That’s what this day’s about—telling people they matter while they’re still around to hear it.
