Great& Inspiring Quotes About ...
Friends
Recognizing, Making & Keeping Friends
Looking for some great and inspiring quotes about making and keeping friends? Looking for a few hints about how to recognize, make and keep more friends? If so, these inspiring quotes, along with the hundreds in my online quote collection will help you.
Friendship Quotes
Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.
- Muhammad Ali
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
– Aristotle (contrast know them by their fruits)
Friendliness is considered to be justice (key 11) in the fullest sense.
- Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics (book)
Friendship is essentially a partnership.
– Aristotle
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
– Aristotle
Love is friendship on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor
A friend is someone who walks in when others walk out.
- Walter Winchell
People say true friends must always hold hands, but true friends don't need to hold hands because they know the other hand will always be there.
- unknown
Critical Tasks
Choose your friends by their character and your socks by their color. Choosing your socks by their character makes no sense, and choosing your friends by their color is unthinkable.
- Anonymous
We are all travelers in the wilderness of the world, and the best that we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Challenges
No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.
- Alice Walker
Giving friendship is more rewarding than giving luxuries.
- unknown
True friendship consists not in the multitude of friends, but in their worth and value.
- Ben Jonson
Ex Friends
I see myself as a huge fiery comet, a shooting star. Everyone stops, points up and gasps “Oh look at that!” Then -- whoosh, and I'm gone. And they'll never see anything like it ever again. And they won't be able to forget me -- ever.
- Jim Morrison
Sometimes you have to get to know someone really well to realize you're really strangers.
- Mary Richards
