100 Sister Quotes That You Will Instantly Relate To

Here are 100 of the best sister quotes I could find. The goal? To inspire you and make you feel grateful for your close one. You’ll discover quotes by Oprah, Alice Walker, Maya Angelou, and more. Enjoy!

Sisters are different flowers from the same garden. Unknown

A sister is a little bit of childhood that can never be lost. Marion C. Garretty

A sister is a gift to the heart, a friend to the spirit, a golden thread to the meaning of life. Isadora James

A sister is both your mirror and your opposite. Elizabeth Fishel

A sister is worth a thousand friends. Unknown

What’s the good of news if you haven’t a sister to share it? James DeVries

She is the mother I never had, she is the sister everybody would want. She is the friend that everybody deserves. I don’t know a better person. Oprah Winfrey

We didn’t want to admit it then, but we were friends. Best friends. Shannon Celebi

There’s no better friend than a sister. Mary Engelbreit

You’re not my best friend. You’re my sister, and that’s more. Jenny Han

The greatest gift our parents ever gave us was each other. Unknown

Is solace anywhere more comforting than that in the arms of a sister? Alice Walker

The best thing about having a sister was that I always had a friend. Cali Rae Tumer

So distant yet so close. So different yet so similar. That’s why I love my sister. Maxime Lagacé

A sister is a friend you don’t have to avoid the truth with. Michelle Malm

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The Best Sister Quotes

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A sister is like yourself in a different movie, a movie that stars you in a different life. Deborah Tannen

Sweet is the voice of a sister in the season of sorrow. Benjamin Disraeli

Brothers and sisters are one of the constant things in the lives of many people. Richard Branson

You don’t love someone because they’re perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they’re not. Jodi Picoult

There is no time like the old time, when you and I were young. Oliver Wendell Holmes

You know full well as I do the value of sisters’ affections; there is nothing like it in this world. Charlotte Bronte

Sister is our first friend and second mother. Sunny Gupta

One’s sister is part of one’s essential self, an eternal presence of ones’ heart, soul and memory. Susan Cabil

Sisters are friends we have for a lifetime. Catherine Pulsifer

I sought my soul, but my soul I could not see, I sought my god, but my god eluded me; And then I sought my sisters and my brothers, and in them I found all three. Baba Amte

Friends grow up and move away. But the one thing that’s never lost is your sister. Gail Sheeny

Life’s a battlefield, and we remain loyal to those who fight for us; those who’d die for us. Crystal Woods

I’ve known every love possible, but as the years stretched out, the love I longed for the most is the one I shared with my sister. Josephine Angelini

She is your mirror, shining back at you with a world of possibilities. She is your witness, who sees you at your worst and best, and loves you anyway. Barbara Alpert

To have a loving relationship with a sister is not simply to have a buddy or a confident… it is to have a soul mate for life. Victoria Secunda

Sisters. Because we all need someone who will defend us behind our back and then call us on our shit to our face. Brooke Hampton

Parents die, daughters grow up and marry out, but sisters are for life. Lisa Lee

Part 2. Sister Quotes That Are…

The Most Famous Sister Quotes (Shakespeare, Venus Williams, Maya Angelou, etc.)

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A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves – a special kind of double. Toni Morrison

Big sisters are the crab grass in the lawn of life. Charles M. Schulz (Charlie Brown)

A ministering angel shall my sister be. William Shakespeare

My first job is big sister and I take that very seriously. Venus Williams

I’m the big sister. I want to make sure she has everything, even if I don’t have anything. I love her too much. Venus Williams

The ones that stay with you through everything – they’re your true best friends. Don’t let go of them. Also remember, sisters make the best friends in the world. Marilyn Monroe

Each one of us is responsible for the whole of humankind. We need to think of each other really as brothers and sisters and to be concerned for each other’s welfare. Dalai Lama

Until blacks and whites see each other as brother and sister, we will not have parity. It’s very clear. Maya Angelou

My sister and I truly are best friends. Solange Knowles (Beyonce’s sister)

My sisters are my favorite people on earth. Ryan Phillippe

Short Sister Quotes

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One-liners, short sister quotes, thoughts, and captions for your bio, social status, self-talk, motto, mantra, signs, posters, wallpapers, and backgrounds.

Always my sister, forever my friend. Unknown

A true sister will stand by your side. Unknown

A family is a gift that lasts forever. Unknown

Happiness is being with my sister. Unknown

My sister, my friend. Unknown

Being sisters means you always have backup. Unknown

All you need is love… and a sister. Unknown

Sisterhood is powerful. Robin Morgan

Shoulder to shoulder, sister. Brené Brown

Unconditional love; the definition of sister. Alicia Cook

Inspirational Sister Quotes (Some Are Hearth-Touching)

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As long as they were together, there was nothing to be afraid of. Kristen Ciccarelli

A sister is one who reaches for your hand and touches your heart. Unknown

Sweet, crazy conversations full of half sentences, daydreams and misunderstandings more thrilling than understanding could ever be. Toni Morrison

Sisters take care of each other, watch out for each other, comfort for each other and are there for each other through thick and thin. Unknown

Sometimes we need someone to simply be there. Not to fix anything, or to do anything in particular, but just to let us feel that we are cared for and supported. Unknown

When life’s hills become too steep to climb on my own, my sister takes my hand and reminds me that I didn’t have to climb it alone to begin with. Unknown

Sisters are like flowers in the garden of life. Unknown

Always have something to look forward to, someone to share it with and always try to make a difference. Rosemary Conley

A sister is someone who loves you from the heart. No matter how much you argue you cannot be drawn apart. She is a joy that cannot be taken away. Once she enters your life, she is there to stay. Shiva Sharma

The best sibling you can have is a brother or sister who pushes you to 10X levels of success! Grant Cardone

But most are like my sister and me… linked by volatile love, best friends who make other best friends ever so slightly less best. Patricia Volk

A toast once heard: “To my big sister, who never found her second Easter egg until I’d found my first”. Robert Brault

A sister is a special type of angel on earth who brings out your best qualities. Unknown

Funny Sister Quotes

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When I say I won’t tell anyone, my sister doesn’t count. Unknown

In the cookies of life, sisters are the chocolate chips. Unknown

Five sisters. That must have been hell. Amy McAuley

More than Santa Claus, your sister knows when you’ve been bad and good. Linda Sunshine

Sisters don’t need words. They have perfected their own secret language of smiles, sniffs, sighs, gasps, winks and eye rolls. Unknown

The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation. Oscar Wilde

A sister is everything you wish you could be and everything you wish you weren’t. M. Molly Backes

As anybody with two older sisters can tell you, a closed door is like a red rag to a bull. It cannot go unchallenged. Alan Bradley

My sister is a mess. I love her to death, but she is a mess. RJ Mitte

“Do you forget that I am your sister?”. “No; I’ve never been granted the opportunity to forget it.” Georgette Heyer

Related: 9 Life Skills We Learn From Having Siblings (huffpost.com)

Deep Sister Sayings

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There’s nobody in the world that knows me better than my sister. Tia Mowry

In thee my soul shall own combined the sister and the friend. Catherine Killigrew

The only thing better than having you as my sister is my children having you as their aunt. Unknown

She is your teacher, your defense attorney, your personal press agent, even your shrink. Some days, she’s the reason you wish you were an only child. Barbara Alpert

You can kid the world, but not your sister. Charlotte Gray

If you have a sister and she dies, do you stop saying you have one? Or are you always a sister, even when the other half of the equation is gone? Jodi Picoult

Sisters, as you know, also have a unique relationship. This is the person who has known you your entire life, who should love you and stand by you no matter what, and yet it’s your sister who knows exactly where to drive the knife to hurt you the most. Lisa See

The two sisters didn’t come wailing. They came quietly, holding on to each other. As if they needed no one’s comfort but the other’s. Kristen Ciccarelli

Every woman is, or, at some time, has been a sister or daughter. Unknown

It is strange how sisters can be saviors or strangers and sometimes a bit of both. Amanda Lovelace

I wanted only a familiar voice, someone who knew me. Not some earlier, larval version of myself. Jennifer Haigh

A sister is often a mentor, a guide, and a best friend especially at a time of need. Debasish Mridha

You can’t think how I depend on you, and when you’re not there the colour goes out of my life. Virginia Woolf

A sister takes in pride with you. She is like a girl you can trust with all of your secrets. Kortney Cobbley

We are sisters. We will always be sisters. Our differences may never go away, but neither, for me, will our song. Elizabeth Fishel

Her heart was like a great road with room for everyone. Lisa See

Part 3. Conclusion

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Blood can help make family, but family often transcends blood. DaShanne Stokes

Further Readings

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What’s your favorite sister quote? And remember: words can transform your life, if you find the right ones.