Good Friend Quotes

• A good friend is a connection to life - a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world.

  Lois Wyse

  Life, Friendship, Best Friend

  Lois Wyse (1996). “Women Make the Best Friends: A Celebration”

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• Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Life, Friendship

  Mark Twain (2015). “Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend”, p.28, St. Martin's Press

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  We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Friendship, Best Friend, Travel

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• A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults.

  Charles Kingsley

  Love, Friendship, Best Friend

  Charles Kingsley (2008). “Daily Thoughts (EasyRead Comfort Edition)”, p.47, ReadHowYouWant.com

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  Being honest may not get you a lot of friends but it’ll always get you the right ones

  John Lennon

  Inspirational, Friendship, Best Friend

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• A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute. He may not seem such a good friend after telling.

  Arthur Brisbane

  Friendship, True Friend, Real Friends

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• 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 saying, 'Damn, that was fun.'

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Friendship, Witty

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• Friends, genuine friends, are attracted by a warm heart, not money, not power. A genuine friend considers you as just another human being, as a brother or sister, and shows affection on that level, regardless of whether you are rich or poor, or in a high position; that is a genuine friend.

  Dalai Lama

  Brother, Heart, Rich Or Poor

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• Silence is a true friend who never betrays.

  Confucius

  Friendship, True Friend, Silence

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• Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Love, Friendship, Best Friend

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• Making a hundred friends is not a miracle. The miracle is to make a single friend who will stand by your side even when hundreds are against you.

  John Spence

  Best Friend, Single, Thinking

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• Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.

  Tahar Ben Jelloun

  Friendship, Best Friend, Real

  "Voice of the Maghreb". Interview with Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. May 5, 2006.

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• Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Book, Healing, Next

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• I'm a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him down.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Friendship, Best Friend

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• There is no possession more valuable than a good and faithful friend.

  Socrates

  Inspirational, Friendship, Best Friend

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• A good friend is my nearest relation.

  Thomas Fuller

  Friendship, Family, Real Friends

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• Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.

  Margaret Walker

  Love, Inspirational, Friendship

  Margaret Walker (2016). “Jubilee (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.496, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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  Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

  George Washington

  Friendship, Best Friend, Confidence

  George Washington (1852). “The Life of General Washington: First President of the United States”, p.94

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• As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.

  Diogenes

  Friendship, Men, Self

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• Friends are an indispensable part of a meaningful life. They are the ones who share our burdens and multiply our blessings. A true friend sticks by us in our joys and sorrows. In good times and bad, we need friends who will pray for us, listen to us, and lend a comforting hand and an understanding ear when needed.

  Beverly LaHaye

  Life, Friendship, Meaningful

  Beverly LaHaye (1995). “The Desires of a Woman's Heart”, Tyndale House Publishers

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• There are only two people who can tell you the truth about yourself - an enemy who has lost his temper and a friend who loves you dearly.

  Antisthenes

  Love, Friendship, Dream

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• It's always hard to wrap up a series. The longer I spend with the characters, the more they become like friends.

  Rick Riordan

  Book, Writing, Character

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• When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.

  Henri Nouwen

  Life, Motivational, Friendship

  "Out of Solitude: Three Meditations on the Christian Life". Book by Henri Nouwen, 1974.

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• Good friends must not always be together; It is the feeling of oneness when distant That proves a lasting friendship.

  Susan Polis Schutz

  Cute, Friendship, Oneness

  Susan Polis Schutz (1974). “Peace flows from the sky”, Blue Mountain Press

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• I think if I've learned anything about friendship, it's to hang in, stay connected, fight for them, and let them fight for you. Don't walk away, don't be distracted, don't be too busy or tired, don't take them for granted. Friends are part of the glue that holds life and faith together. Powerful stuff.

  Jon Katz

  Love, Friendship, Best Friend

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