A friend is someone you trust and with whom you share a deep level of understanding and communication. Making a new friend is just the beginning of the journey, and you should be a better friend yourself. Inspirational new friends quotes will make you look at life differently and help you live a meaningful life.
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Most Famous New Friends Quotes
I love meeting new people; I think everyone has a story to tell. We should all listen sometimes. Kim Smith
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
Friends they cherish one another’s hopes. They are kind to one another’s dreams. Henry David Thoreau
Don’t make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up. Thomas J. Watson
We must reach out our hand in friendship and dignity both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy. Arthur Ashe
The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart. Elisabeth Foley
We meet the people we’re supposed to when the time is just right. Alyson Noel
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
There’s not a word yet for old friends who’ve just met. Jim Henson
Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose. Tennessee Williams
I know that the arms of friendship are long enough to reach from the one end of the world to the other. Michel de Montaigne
They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel. Carl W. Buechner
We need old friends to help us grow old and new friends to help us stay young. Letty Cottin Pogrebin
Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you; spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life. Amy Poehler
Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. Inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read. Groucho Marx
For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone. Audrey Hepburn
A friend may be waiting behind a stranger’s face. Maya Angelou
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched they must be felt with the heart. Helen Keller
I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones. Oscar Wilde
Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light. Dumbledore
I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new. Ralph Waldo Emerson
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out. Walter Winchell
Go out into the world today and love the people you meet. Let your presence light new light in the hearts of others. Mother Teresa
Growing apart doesn’t change the fact that for a long time we grew side by side; our roots will always be tangled. I’m glad for that. Ally Condie
Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget. G. Randolf
Shyness makes strangers of people who could have been more than friends. Amit Kalantri
Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. Marcel Proust
You can’t stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes. A. Milne
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
I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let’s face it, friends make life a lot more fun. Charles R. Swindoll
In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, for in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed. Khalil Gibran
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
To the world you may be just one person, but to one person you may be the world. Dr. Seuss
Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them. Francesco Guicciardini
A friend is one of the best things you can be and the greatest things you can have. Sarah Valdez
There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity. Samuel Johnson
Time doesn’t take away from friendship, nor does separation. Tennessee Williams
Because with true friends, no one is keeping score. But it still feels good to repay them even in the tiniest increments. Emery Lord
When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands. Maria Shriver
Friendship has always belonged to the core of my spiritual journey. Henri Nouwen
There’s not a word yet for old friends who’ve just met. Jim Henson
The essence of friendship is entireness, a total magnanimity and trust. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together. Woodrow T. Wilson
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out. Walter Winchell
A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails. Donna Roberts
Knowing how to keep a friend is more important than gaining a new one. Baltasar Gracián
A true friend is someone who is there for you when he’d rather be anywhere else. Len Wein
Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget. G. Randolf
That was what a best friend did: hold up a mirror and show you your heart. Kristin Hannah
When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands. Maria Shriver
Friends are the siblings God never gave us. Mencius
True friends are always together in spirit. L.M. Montgomery
True friends are like diamonds bright, beautiful, valuable, and always in style. Nicole Richie
It is the juvenile period of life when friendships are formed, and habits established, that will stick by one. George Washington
There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship. Thomas Aquinas
A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be. Douglas Pagels
Anything is possible when you have the right people there to support you. Misty Copeland
Each new friendship can make you a new person, because it opens up new doors inside of you. Kate DiCamillo
True friends are always together in spirit. L.M. Montgomery
Friends are born, not made. Henry Adams
There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate. Linda Grayson
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit. Aristotle
Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respected. Charles Lamb
Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare — and precious as a pearl. Tahar Ben Jelloun
A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked. Bernard Meltzer
If you are ever lucky enough to find a weirdo, never let them go. Matthew Gray Gubler
Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose. Tennessee Williams
Never let your best friends get lonely keep disturbing them. Candlelight Publications
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 essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another’s little lapses. David Storey
Strangers are just friends waiting to happen. Rod Mckuen
The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing not healing, not curing that is a friend who cares. Henri Nouwen
Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends, for it is one of God’s best gifts. It involves many things, but above all, the power of going out of ones self, and appreciating whatever is noble and loving in another. Thomas Hughes
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
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity. Khalil Gibran
Value friendship for what there is in it, not for what can be gotten out of it. H. Clay Trumbull
Friends they cherish one another’s hopes. They are kind to one another’s dreams. Henry David Thoreau
It’s not too late to develop new friendships or reconnect with people. Morrie Schwartz
False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports. Richard Burton
True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable. Dave Tyson Gentry
My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. Aristotle
A man practices the art of adventure when he breaks the chain of routine and renews his life through reading new books, traveling to new places, making new friends, taking up new hobbies and adopting new viewpoints. Wilfred Peterson
The kindest way of helping yourself is to find a friend. Ann Kaiser Stearns
A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud. I am arrived at last in the presence of a man so real and equal, that I may drop even those undermost garments of dissimulation, courtesy, and second thought, which men never put off, and may deal with him with the simplicity and wholeness with which one chemical atom meets another. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Listen, learn, and grow. Maybe after this, you will have a new friend. Xin An Lu
I love making new friends and I respect people for a lot of different reasons. Taylor Swift
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
Don’t be afraid of new beginnings. Don’t shy away from new people, new energy, new surroundings. Embrace new chances at happiness. Billy Chapata
Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare and precious as a pearl. Tahar Ben Jelloun
Maybe friendship can’t begin until someone chooses you. But that doesn’t mean you don’t get to make a choice too. You can’t do that unless you know who they are. And they can’t choose you until they know who you are. Miyoshi Tomori
But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine. Thomas Jefferson
A friend is the hope of the heart. Ralph Waldo Emerson
She is a friend of my mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. Toni Morrison
Yeah, I love doing ensemble pieces. You get to meet so many new people and make new friends. Devon Sawa
The love that comes from friendship is the underlying facet of a happy life. Chelsea Handler
New friends can often have a better time together than old friends. F. Scott Fitzgerald
Don’t be afraid of new beginnings. Don’t shy away from new people, new energy, new surroundings. Embrace new chances at happiness. Billy Chapata
When you choose your friends, don’t be short-changed by choosing personality over character. W. Somerset Maugham
Each new friendship can make you a new person, because it opens up new doors inside of you. Kate DiCamillo
Trust is hard to come by. That’s why my circle is small and tight. I’m kind of funny about making new friends. Eminem
Every new friend is a new adventure the start of more memories. Patrick Lindsay
Make new friends, but keep the old; those are silver, these are gold. Joseph Parry
Getting to know new people and gaining new friends is one of life’s greatest pleasures. So conquer your fears and get out there. Tony Clark
I’ve kept most of my friends for decades, and I continue to make new friends. John Grant
There are friendships imprinted in our hearts that will never be diminished by time and distance. Dodinsky