100+ One Friend Quotes | InspiringQuotes.us

source: Omar Khayyam, Edward FitzGerald (1912). “Rubáiyát: English, French, German, Italian, and Dutch translations comparatively arranged in accordance with the text of Edward Fitzgerald's version, with further selections, notes, biographies, bibliographies, and other material”

topic: Friendship, Enemy, Few Friends, One Friend, Friends And Enemies

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Positive, Thinking, May, Bff, Friends Forever

Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

source: "The Beacon Book of Quotations by Women" by Rosalie Maggio, p. 130, 1992.

topic: Friendship, Relationship, Positive, Lasting Friendship, One Friend

Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

- James F. Byrnes

topic: Friendship, Beautiful, Self, Songs And Friendship, Meaningful Friendship

One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.

- George Santayana

topic: Life, Motivational, Friendship, One Friend, Party Invitations

The tender friendships one gives up, on parting, leave their bite on the heart, but also a curious feeling of a treasure somewhere buried.

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

topic: Friendship, Birthday, Giving Up, One Friend, Friends And Enemies

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

topic: Real, Two Friends, Differences, Inspiring Friends, One Friend

It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

- Mahatma Gandhi

topic: Inspirational, Friendship, Wise, World Religions, One Friend

When you sympathize with a married woman you either make two enemies or gain one wife and one friend.

- H. L. Mencken

source: H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.620, Vintage

topic: Sympathy, Women, Two, One Friend

Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.

- Dr. Seuss

source: "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

topic: Inspirational Life, Be Who You Are, Mind, Keep Smiling, Way In Life

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

- Katherine Mansfield

source: Katherine Mansfield (1987). “The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield: Volume II: 1918-September 1919”, OUP Oxford

topic: Love, Friendship, Real Friends, One Friend, Being A Good Friend

If I had only one friend left, i'd want it to be you.

- Paul Overstreet

topic: Want, Friendship Lyrics, One Friend

An act by which we make one friend and one enemy is a losing game; because revenge is a much stronger principle than gratitude

- Charles Caleb Colton

source: Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.60

topic: Gratitude, Revenge, Games, One Friend

Two are better than one,because they have a good reward for their labor. For if they fall, the one will lif' up his fellow, but woe to him that is alone when he falleth, for he hath not another to help him up.

- Solomon

source: John Steinbeck (2016). “The Grapes of Wrath”, p.338, Hamilton Books

topic: Friendship, Best Friend, Fall, Two Best Friends, Good Friendship

Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.

- Karl A. Menninger

topic: Inspirational, Friendship, Music, One Friend, Listening And Hearing

If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

- Thomas Fuller

topic: Friendship, True Friend, Cute Friendship, One Friend, More Than Friends

A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.

- Henry David Thoreau

topic: Life, Friendship, Success, One Friend, Funny Friendship

A new friend is always a miracle, but at thirty-three years old, such a bird of paradise rising in the sage-brush was an avatar. One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly

- Henry Adams

source: Henry Adams (2009). “The Education of Henry Adams”, p.480, The Floating Press

topic: Years, Two, Bird, One Friend

No rich man is a patriot, no rich man is a friend. They have all only got one fatherland the Ritz-Carlton; and one friend the mistress they're promising to divorce their wives for.

- Christina Stead

topic: Divorce, Men, Wife, One Friend, Ritz

We have a friend and protector, from whom, if we do not ourselves depart from Him, nor power nor spirit can separate us. In His strength let us proceed on our journey, through the storms, and troubles, and dangers of the world. However they may rage and swell, though the mountains shake at the tempests, our rock will not be moved: we have one friend who will never forsake us; one refuge, where we may rest in peace and stand in our lot at the end of the days. That same is He who liveth, and was dead; who is alive forevermore; and hath the keys of hell and of death.

- Reginald Heber

topic: God, Rest In Peace, Journey, One Friend, Protector

I gave up writing blurbs because you make one friend and 200 enemies.

- Leslie Fiedler

topic: Writing, Enemy, Gave Up, One Friend

In later life, as in earlier, only a few persons influence the formation of our character; the multitude pass us by like a distant army. One friend, one teacher, one beloved, one club, one dining table, one work table are the means by which one's nation and the spirit of one's nation affect the individual.

- Jean Paul

topic: Teacher, Character, Mean, One Friend, Dining Table

People would be surprised to know that I've gone to regular school my whole life, and I don't have one friend who is an actor!

- Sara Paxton

source: "Teen Talks to: Sara Paxton". Interview with Andrey Fine, www.seventeen.com. September 5, 2007.

topic: School, People, Gone, One Friend

The Divine has loved me as mother, as father, and as friend, behind all friends. I searched for that one Friend behind all friends, that one lover whom I now see glimmering in all your faces. And that friend never fails me.

- Paramahansa Yogananda

topic: Mother, Father, Faces, One Friend, That One Friend

Without one friend, above all foes, Britannia gives the world repose.

- William Cowper

source: William Cowper (1855). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Cowper: With Life, and Critical Notice of His Writings. Eight Engravings on Steel”, p.370

topic: Giving, World, England, One Friend

Have fire and spread all over. Work, work. Be the servant while leading, be unselfish, and never listen to one friend in private accusing another. Have infinite patience, and success is yours.

- Swami Vivekananda

source: Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1763, Manonmani Publishers

topic: Patience, Perseverance, Fire, One Friend

When you're scrambling to fill the void in your life and you feel like you're drowning... we all yearn to hear that one friend's voice, say: "You're going to get through this."

- Nelly Furtado

source: Source: www.macleans.ca

topic: Voice, Void, Like You, One Friend, Fill The Void

In deference to such spectacular carnage it is perhaps perverse to dwell upon one person's death, but we are creatures so constituted that the passing of one friend or one acquaintance has a profounder effect that that of 100,000 strangers. If there is any metaphorical truth in the Jewish proverb that he who saves one life saves the whole world, then there is equal metaphorical truth in the proposition that when one person dies, the whole world dies with them.

- Louis de Bernieres

topic: World, Stranger, Passing, One Friend