107+ Best New Friends Quotes: Exclusive Selection

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