Eleanor Roosevelt
Political Activist, Diplomat
"Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart"
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Best Friend
233 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
John Lennon
Musician, Activist
"Being honest may not get you a lot of friends but it’ll always get you the right ones"
Socrates
Philosopher
"There is no possession more valuable than a good and faithful friend."
Helen Keller
Author, Activist
"Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light."
Oscar Wilde
Writer
"I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there."
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"The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend."
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"A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself."
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"Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and a richness to life that nothing else can bring."
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"A true friend is the one who holds your hand and touches your heart."
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"Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence."
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"A Brother may not be a Friend, but a Friend will always be a Brother."
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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."
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"You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you."
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"We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend."
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"Friendship is one mind in two bodies."
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"Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years."
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"Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway."
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"It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter."
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"Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness."
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"My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me."
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"Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity."
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"May God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies."
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"My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake."
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"I didn't find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me."
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"Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies."
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