Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotations on Friends

Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.
Pythagoras (570–495 BCE) Greek Philosopher

A Friendship that’s sincere are true. Gives joy like nothing else will do; That’s why glad hearts look up and send A prayer of thanks for faithful friends.
Unknown

Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.
Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924) American Head of State

When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.
Hilaire Belloc (1870–1953) British Historian, Poet, Critic

I am treating you as my friend, asking you to share my present minuses in the hope I can ask you to share my future pluses.
Katherine Mansfield (1888–1923) New Zealand-born British Author

Love is blind, but friendship closes its eyes.
Unknown

Between friends, differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.
W. H. Auden (1907–73) British-born American Poet, Dramatist

A true friend unbosoms freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.
William Penn (1644–1718) American Entrepreneur, Political leader, Philosopher

Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.
Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860) German Philosopher

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
Samuel Butler

With true friends, even water drunk together is sweet enough.
Chinese Proverb

To gather with God’s people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.
Martin Luther (1483–1546) German Protestant Theologian

So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–94) Scottish Novelist

Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity.
Chilon of Sparta (c.556 BCE) Spartan Magistrate

We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for our ability to amuse them.
Evelyn Waugh (1903–66) British Novelist, Essayist, Biographer

A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German Philosopher, Scholar, Writer

A single rose can be my garden… a single friend, my world.
Leo Buscaglia (1924–98) American Motivational Speaker

A good friend is my nearest relation.
Common Proverb

There are friendships merely for pleasure, some for the exchange of ideas. Rarest are those friends of one’s inmost self.
Baltasar Gracian (1601–58) Spanish Scholar, Prose Writer

Friendship is love without his wings.
Lord Byron (George Gordon Byron) (1788–1824) English Romantic Poet

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) American Philosopher

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
George Washington (1732–99) American Head of State, Military Leader

Camerado, I give you my hand, I give you my love more precious than money, I give you myself before preaching or law; Will you give me yourself?
Walt Whitman (1819–92) American Poet, Essayist, Journalist, American, Poet, Essayist, Journalist

Remember, the greatest gift is not found in a store nor under a tree, but in the hearts of true friends.
Unknown

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613–80) French Writer

The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
Arabic Proverb

Among true and real friends, all is common; and were ignorance and envy and superstition banished from the world, all mankind would be friend.
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) English Poet, Dramatist, Essayist, Novelist

Have friends. ‘Tis a second existence.
Baltasar Gracian (1601–58) Spanish Scholar, Prose Writer

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
Anais Nin (1903–77) French-American Essayist

We know our friends by their defects rather than their merits.
W. Somerset Maugham (1874–1965) British Novelist, Short-Story Writer, Playwright

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