Inspirational Friendship Quotes

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Alice Walker

Friendship, Fake Friends, Memorable

Alice Walker (2013). “The Alice Walker Collection: Non-Fiction”, p.17, Hachette UK

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Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

A. A. Milne

Love, Inspirational, Friendship

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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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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

Jean de La Fontaine

Friendship, Best Friend, Birthday

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Be careful who you call your friends. I’d rather have four quarters than one hundred pennies.

Al Capone

Best Friend, Fake Friends, Bad Friend

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True friends visit us in prosperity only when invited, but in adversity they come without invitation.

Theophrastus

Friendship, Best Friend, True Friend

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There is an intimate laughter to be found only among friends

Maya Angelou

Laughter, Intimate, Found

FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Oct 28, 2011

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Life has no pleasure higher or nobler than that of friendship.

Samuel Johnson

Friendship, Pleasure, Higher

Samuel Johnson, William Page (1860). “Life and Writings”, p.279

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True friendship resists time, distance and silence.

Isabel Allende

True Friend, Distance, Silence

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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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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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Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.

Oprah Winfrey

Inspirational, Funny, Life

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Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.

Rabindranath Tagore

Inspirational, Friendship, Depth

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Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.

Albert Camus

Love, Friendship, Happy

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No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.

Robert Southey

Friendship, I Miss You, Missing You

Robert Southey (1836). “The Doctor, &c”

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Our friends should be companions who inspire us, who help us rise to our best.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Inspirational, Life, Friendship

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The trouble is not in dying for a friend, but in finding a friend worth dying for.

Mark Twain

Inspirational, Funny, Friendship

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The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend.

Aristotle

Friendship, Relationship, True Friend

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You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.

Dale Carnegie

Inspirational, Best Friend, Cute

Dale Carnegie (2012). “The Leader In You”, p.41, Simon and Schuster

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True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.

Charles Caleb Colton

Motivational, Friendship, Best Friend

Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.295

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A friend is a gift you give yourself.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Friendship, Holiday, Real Friends

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A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.

Donna Roberts

Best Friend, Friendship, Relationship

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In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.

Albert Schweitzer

Inspirational, Motivational, Friendship

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It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.

Marlene Dietrich

Friendship, Best Friend, Cute Relationship

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The only way to have a friend is to be one.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Inspirational, Friendship, True Friend

Essays "Friendship" (1841)

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