Inspiring Friends Quotes

• Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.

  Washington Irving

  Friendship, Inspiring, Goodbye

  Washington Irving, William Irving (1824). “Salmagundi”, p.151

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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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• Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Relationship, Playing Games, Expectations

  "Loving Each Other: The Challenge of Human Relationships". Book by Leo Buscaglia, 1984.

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• Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

  Tennessee Williams

  Life, Friendship, Birthday

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• The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.

  Dale Carnegie

  Relationship, Communication, Heart

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• One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible.

  Henry Adams

  Friendship, True Friend, Two

  The Education of Henry Adams ch. 20 (1907)

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• Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

  Anais Nin

  Love, Inspirational, Friendship

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• Many a person has held close, throughout their entire lives, two friends that always remained strange to one another, because one of them attracted by virtue of similarity, the other by difference.

  Emil Ludwig

  Friendship, Real, Two

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• Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

  Samuel Butler

  Friendship, Best Friend, Money

  Samuel Butler (1951). “Samuel Butler's notebooks”

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• My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Friendship, Best Friend

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• I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Inspirational, Relationship, Peace

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• Making it look easy is the hardest thing in the world to do.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Friendship, Best Friend, Real Friends

  Sarah Ban Breathnach (1999). “Something More: Excavating Your Authentic Self”, G K Hall & Company

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• Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.

  Maya Angelou

  Life, Travel, Laughter

  Maya Angelou (2011). “Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now”, p.8, Bantam

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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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• 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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• I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.

  Plutarch

  Friendship, Change, Philosophy

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• A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Inspirational, Best Friend, Friendship

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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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• If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone.

  Maxwell Maltz

  Inspirational, Friendship, Love Yourself

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• In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.

  Khalil Gibran

  Inspirational, Friendship, Good Morning

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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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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• A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

  Walter Winchell

  Friendship, Sympathy, True Friend

  Walter Winchell (1975). “Winchell exclusive: "things that happened to me--and me to them”

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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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• Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

  Helen Keller

  Best Friend, Friendship, True Friend

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• In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Friendship, Wisdom, Kings

  "The Trumpet of Conscience". Martin Luther King, Jr.'s steeler lecture at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama, November 17, 1957.

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