Quotes about Friendship
The people that are my friends and are easy to get along with, they make me feel like I'm a boss at loving people.
— Bob Goff
To see my brother, see my friends, I think it builds character for me, just being accountable for myself.
— Frances Tiafoe
When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost work, but the solidest things we can know.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed. When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost work but the solidest things we know.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Better be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Let us even bid our dearest friends farewell, and defy them, saying, Who are you? Unhand me: I will be dependent no more. Ah! seest thou not, O brother, that thus we part only to meet again on a higher platform, and only be more each other's, because we are more our own?
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
If we are related, we shall meet. It was a tradition of the ancient world, that no metamorphosis could hide a god from a god; and there is a Greek verse which runs, The Gods are to each other not unknown. Friends also follow the laws of divine necessity; they gravitate to each other, and cannot otherwise.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Let the soul be assured that somewhere in the universe it should rejoin its friend, and it would be content and cheerful alone for a thousand years.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
My friends have come to me unsought. The great God gave them to me.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson