My Best Friend Quotes

• My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

  Aristotle

  Friendship, Best Friend, Fake Friends

  Aristotle (1953). “Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics”

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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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• To find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Friendship, True Friend, Real

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• A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.

  William Penn

  Friendship, True Friend, Adventure

  Benjamin Franklin, William Penn (2008). “Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims”, p.33, Courier Corporation

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• True friends never apart maybe in distance but never in heart

  Helen Keller

  Best Friend, Long Distance Relationship, True Friend

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• Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

  C. S. Lewis

  Friendship, Best Friend, Relationship

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• It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Best Friend, Friendship, Positive

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.195, Harvard University Press

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• Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Love, Friendship, Best Friend

  The Motto Book (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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• You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Friendship, Best Friend, Jobs

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• The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Life, Friendship, True Friend

  Elbert Hubbard, Bert Hubbard (1923). “Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work”

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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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• 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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  Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

  Marcel Proust

  Friendship, Happiness, Happy

  Marcel Proust (1957). “Pleasures and days: and other writings”

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• Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Friendship, Best Friend

  In Diogenes Laertius 'Lives of Eminent Philosophers' bk. 5, sect. 20

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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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• The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Friendship, Best Friend, Happiness

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Thoreau on Nature: Sage Words on Finding Harmony with the Natural World”, p.29, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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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 I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Love, Friendship, Romantic

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• It is your friends who make your world.

  William James

  Meaningful, Short Best Friend, Inspirational Friendship

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• It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Love, Motivational, Friendship

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• Friends are part of the glue that holds life and faith together. Powerful stuff.

  Jon Katz

  Friendship, Powerful, True Friend

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• When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving much advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a gentle and tender hand.

  Henri Nouwen

  Love, Friendship, Pain

  "Kindness Can Open Hearts and Unexpected Opportunities" by Kare Anderson, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 17, 2015.

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• Never forget me, because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.

  A. A. Milne

  Best Friend, Goodbye, Thinking Of You

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• A true friend is one who overlooks your failures
  and tolerates your success.

  Doug Larson

  Funny, Friendship, Patience

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