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Please enjoy these Maxwell Maltz quotes on Friendship from my collection of Friendship quotes.
We are injured and hurt emotionally,
not so much by other people
or what they say and don't say,
but by our own attitude and our own response.
- Maxwell Maltz
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An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.
- Thomas Jefferson
Forgive those who have injured you -
not because they deserve your forgiveness,
but because you can never be happy
until you release your anger and grant forgiveness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
One who is injured ought not to return the injury,
for on no account can it be right to do an injustice;
and it is not right to return an injury,
or to do evil to any man,
however much we have suffered from him.
- Socrates
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The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear.
- Maya Angelou
The finest kind of friendship is between people
who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it.
- Anonymous
The meeting of two personalities is
like the contact of two chemical substances:
if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
- Carl Jung
A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer 
The greatest compliment that was ever paid me
was when one asked me what I thought,
and attended to my answer.
- Henry David Thoreau
The easiest kind of friendship for me
is with ten thousand people.
The hardest is with one.
- Joan Baez
The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that
they can grow separately without growing apart.
- Elisabeth Foley
Our chief want is someone who will inspire us
to be what we know we could be.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard
The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which
it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters.
- Thomas Jefferson
The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
It is an intelligence above language.
- Henry David Thoreau
Better to be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A true friend is the one who
walks in when others walk out.
- Walter Winchell
A true friend is a rock upon whom you can depend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Everyone has a "best friend" during each stage of life,
but only a precious few have the same one.
- Anonymous
The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.
- Henry David Thoreau
A friend is a present you give yourself.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
The best mirror is an old friend.
- Proverb
You are my friend when you can guard my failure,
challenge my thought and celebrate my success.
- Anonymous
A new friend is like new wine;
when it has aged you will drink it with pleasure.
- Ecclesiastes 9:10
Throw your dreams into space like a kite,
and you do not know what it will bring back,
a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
- Anais Nin
It is a great confidence in a friend
to tell him your faults;
greater to tell him his.
- Benjamin Franklin
A friend encourages your dreams and offers advice -
but when you don't follow it,
they still respect and love you.
- Doris Wild Helmering
So long as we are loved by others,
I would almost say that we are indispensable;
and no man is useless while he has a friend.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A best friend is like a four leaf clover,
hard to find and lucky to have.
- Anonymous
The only thing to do is to hug one's friend tight and do one's job.
- Edith Wharton
A friend knows the song in my heart
and sings it to me when my memory fails.
- Donna Roberts
A brother is a friend given by Nature.
- Jean Baptiste Legouve
This communicating of a man's self to his friend
works two contrary effects;
for it redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half.
- Francis Bacon
When you part from your friend, you grieve not;
For that which you love most in him may be
clearer in his absence,
as the mountain to the climber
is clearer from the plain.
- Khalil Gibran
The best friend is the man who in wishing me well
wishes it for my sake.
- Anonymous
If I mayn't tell you what I feel,
what is the use of a friend?
- William Makepeace Thackeray
A single rose can be my garden...
a single friend, my world.
- Leo Buscaglia
A friend is one who walks in when others walk out
- Walter Winchell
Life without a friend is like death without a witness.
- Spanish proverb
A friend is one before whom I can think aloud.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Your friend is the man who knows all about you,
and still likes you.
- Elbert Hubbard
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
- Jerome Cummings
I choose you as my friend, and rejoice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
He's my friend that speaks well of me behind my back.
- Thomas Fuller
Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend,
but it requires a very fine nature
to sympathize with a friend's success.
- Oscar Wilde
The only reward of virtue is virtue;
the only way to have a friend is to be one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A friend to all is a friend to none.
- Aristotle
A true friend is one who believes in you
when you have ceased to believe in yourself.
- Anonymous
An insincere and evil friend is more
to be feared than a wild beast;
a wild beast may wound your body,
but an evil friend will wound your mind.
- The Buddha
A friend or co-worker shares a political,
religious, economic, or social opinion
that is opposite to yours -
does that drive a wedge between your hearts?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
In my friend, I find a second self.
- Isabel Norton
A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
There is danger that we lose sight of
what our friend is absolutely,
while considering what she is to us alone.
- Henry David Thoreau
An old friend will help you move.
A good friend will help you move a dead body.
- Jim Hayes
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
A true friend sees the good in everything,
and brings out the best in the worst of things.
- Sasha Azevedo
The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand,
nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship;
it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one
when he discovers that someone else believes in him
and is willing to trust him with his friendship.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
What is a friend? I will tell you ...
it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.
- Frank Crane
A friend is someone who won't stop
until he finds you and brings you home.
- Fraser Sr. in the movie Due South
It takes a long time to grow an old friend.
- John Leonard
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
- Henry Ford
A friend is someone who understands my past,
believes in my future,
and accepts me just the way I am.
- Anonymous
Go oft to the house of thy friend,
for weeds choke the unused path.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship,
we must love our friend for their sakes
rather than for our own.
- Charlotte Bronte
A real friend is one who walks in
when the rest of the world walks out.
- Walter Winchell
In everyone's life, at some time,
our inner fire goes out.
It is then burst into flame
by an encounter with another human being.
We should all be thankful for those people
who rekindle the inner spirit.
- Albert Schweitzer
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You only meet your once in a lifetime friend ...
once in a lifetime.
- Little Rascals
One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
- Euripides
I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar,
but I cherish the friend who for me
does not consult his calendar.
- Robert Brault
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