Inspirational Friendship Quotes - Page 4

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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However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Love, Friendship, Patience

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Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

Virginia Woolf

Best Friend, Friendship, Real Friends

Virginia Woolf (2005). “The Waves”, p.228, Collector's Library

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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

Friendship, Fun, True Friend

Charles R. Swindoll (2010). “Laugh Again / Hope Again: Two Books to Inspire a Joy-Filled Life”, p.96, Thomas Nelson Inc

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Never forget the days I spent with you. Continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.

Ludwig van Beethoven

Friendship, True Friend, Real Friends

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A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Inspirational, Friendship, Best Friend

'Essays' (1841) 'Friendship'

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Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.

George Eliot

Best Friend, Friendship, Relationship

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We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.

Albert Schweitzer

Friendship, Thanksgiving, Thank You

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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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A friend is a gift you give yourself.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Friendship, Holiday, Real Friends

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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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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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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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I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

Thomas Jefferson

Friendship, Sad, Philosophy

Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: 1799-1803”, p.130, Cosimo, Inc.

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To be alone means that you avoid bad company. But to have a true friend is better than being alone.

Umar

Friendship, True Friend, Islamic

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If we merely try to impress people and get people interested in us, we will never have many true, sincere friends. Friends, real friends, are not made that way.

Dale Carnegie

Friendship, Best Friend, Real

Dale Carnegie (2016). “How to win friends & influence people”, p.53, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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No medicine is more valuable , none more efficacious, none better suited to the cure of our temporal ills than a friend to whom we may turn for consolation in time of trouble, and with whom we may share happiness in time of joy.

Aelred of Rievaulx

Friendship, Happiness, Happy

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Friends are those rare people who ask how we are, and then wait to hear the answer.

Ed Cunningham

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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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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Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.

Rabindranath Tagore

Inspirational, Friendship, Depth

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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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