Top 100 A True Friend Is Quotes
#1. The definition of a true friend is not someone who swoops in when you're going through a rough patch. True friendship is when someone can appreciate your happiness - celebrate your happiness, even when she's not necessarily happy herself.
Sarah Jio
#3. A true friend is someone with whom protocol is no longer necessary.
Simon Sinek
#4. To be alone means that you avoid bad company. But to have a true friend is better than being alone.
Umar
#5. A true friend is one who likes you despite your achievements.
Arnold Bennett
#6. A true friend is a person who knows the darkest part of your life and still loves you.
Osunsakin Adewale
#8. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself - and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them.
Jim Morrison
#9. A true friend is the one who treats you and gives you advices, exactly as if he is treating himself and giving advices to himself, so if you are a true friend never ever talk about your friends behind their backs, cause you must be sure that you are talking about yourself
Mona Hanie
#10. I look back now and realize that the gift of a true friend is that she sees you not the way you see yourself or the way others see you. A true friend sees you for who you are and who you can become.
Robin Jones Gunn
#11. Prosperity makes friends and adversity tries them. A true friend is one soul in two bodies
Aristotle.
#12. That's the difference, a true friend is happy for you no matter what you do and what you have and quite frankly I didn't have the time for meaningless conversations or friendships that drained me of my energy.
Christie Barlow
#13. The older I get, the more I realize what a gift a true friend is. Especially since my mom can't make me return those.
Tyler Oakley
#14. A true friend is a friend for whom life is worth living.
Debasish Mridha
#15. Linda Tripp has shown that a true friend is an archivist, a biographer.
Mary Schmich
#17. A true friend is a gift from God. Since God doesn't exist, guess what? Neither do true friends.
Scott Dikkers
#18. A true friend is the gift of God, and He only who made hearts can unite them.
Robert South
#19. A true friend is someone who sees the pain in your eyes while everyone else believes the smile on your face.
Anonymous
#20. A true friend is someone who never gets tired listening to your pointless drama over and over again.
Lauren Conrad
#21. A true friend is like a soldier that never abandons his partner alone in the battle field".
Abdulazeez Henry Musa
#22. A true friend is a light in the dark. Viven
Kate Morton
#23. A true friend is so great an advantage, even for the greatest lords, in order that he may speak well of them, and back them in their absence, that they should do all to have one.
Blaise Pascal
#26. A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success!
Doug Larson
#27. The way to make a true friend is to be one. Friendship implies loyalty, esteem, cordiality, sympathy, affection, readiness to aid, to help, to stick, to fight for, if need be ... Radiate friendship and it will return sevenfold.
B.C. Forbes
#28. A true friend is the one who knows
everything about you and still loves you. Eventually, people will forget the things you said or did, but the feelings
you woke up in them they will never forget!
Danka V.
#29. If you'd be beloved, make yourself amiable. A true friend is the best possession.
Benjamin Franklin
#30. What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#31. A true friend is distinguished in the crisis of hazard and necessity; when the gallantry of his aid may show the worth of his soul and the loyalty of his heart.
Quintus Ennius
#32. A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.
Bernard Meltzer
#33. A true friend is one with whom you can be playful and serious at the same time. The Bible teaches that God has appointed "a time to weep, and a time to laugh
Joel R. Beeke
#34. Amicu certus in re incerta cernitur'
[A true friend is a friend when in difficulty]
Quintus Ennius
#35. A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.
Len Wein
#36. The history that one can create with a friend, a lifetime of history and shared experience, is a wonderful thing and shabbily sacrificed. And yet a true friend is a rare thing; sometimes those whom we perceive as friends are simply people with whom we spend a lot of time.
John Boyne
#38. A true friend is one soul divided into two people.
Aristotle.
#39. Every human being must find his own way to cope with severe loss, and the only job of a true friend is to facilitate whatever method he chooses.
Caleb Carr
#40. A true friend is someone you can count on no matter what.
Bohdi Sanders
#42. A True friend is one who sees a fault, gives you advice and who defends you in your absence.
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
#43. A true friend is like an umbrella that opens her heart to protect you on those rainy days.
Debasish Mridha
#44. Shushtari proverb "Any gift from a true friend is valuable, even if it's a hollow walnut shell." It's fair to say that the Shushtari floating in my house
Firoozeh Dumas
#45. A true friend is the most precious of all possessions and the one we take the least thought about acquiring.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#46. A true friend is one you can go extended periods without seeing or talking to, yet the moment that you are back in touch, it's like no time has passed at all.
Ellie Wade
#47. A true friend is a person that will shout at you when you're wrong, hold your hand when you fall down, dance with you during the good times, and stay with you during your ups and downs.
Debasish Mridha
#48. A true friend is a person who loves and accepts you without judging you.
Debasish Mridha
#50. A true friend is someone who knows what you want before you ask for it.
Vinita Kinra
#52. Any gift from a true friend is valuable, even if it's a hollow walnut shell.
Firoozeh Dumas
#53. A true friend is not angry when you insult. Instead they think of more insulting words to you.
Sphencer Perales
#54. A true friend is someone who is always there for you, with no agenda other than the friendship itself. We rely on our friends to lift us up in bad times, to keep us grounded in good times, but most importantly, to be there for us when we need nothing at all.
Tonya Hurley
#55. Being a true friend is giving of the one thing you can NOT get back; Time
Angel Dust
#56. A true friend is like a good book, the inside is better than the cover.
Anonymous
#57. Your love for your friend should be grounded in Me, and for My sake you should love whoever seems to be good and is very dear to you in this life. Without Me friendship has no strength and cannot endure. Love which I do not bind is neither true nor pure.
Thomas A Kempis
#58. The Voice
There is a voice inside of you
That whispers all day long,
"I feel this is right for me,
I know that this is wrong."
No teacher, preacher, parent, friend
Or wise man can decide
What's right for you
just listen to
The voice that speaks inside.
Shel Silverstein
#59. What is true is that I have at times earned my own crust of bread, and at other times a friend has given it to me out of the goodness of his heart. I have lived whatever way I could, for better or for worse, taking things just as they came.
Vincent Van Gogh
#60. Give us a man, young or old, high or low, on whom we know we can thoroughly depend, who will stand firm when others fail; the friend faithful and true, the adviser honest and fearless, the adversary just and chivalrous,-in such a one there is a fragment of the Rock of Ages.
Arthur Penrhyn Stanley
#61. A dog is adorable and noble, a dog is a true and loving friend. A dog is also a hedonist.
Mary Oliver
#62. Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man!
Charles Eastman
#63. Sir 25:12 Blessed is he that findeth a true friend,
Various
#64. Winckelmann wished to live with a work of art as a friend. The saying is true of pen and pencil. Fresh lustre shoots from Lycidas in a twentieth perusal. The portraits of Clarendon are mellowed by every year of reflection.
Robert Aris Willmott
#65. A true friend let's you know that the door is always open, even when it's closed.
Charles F. Glassman
#66. The only reason a true friend won't be there to pick you up is because they are lying beneath you from trying to break your fall.
Tommy Cotton
#67. You kind of need to weed through who is wanting to be a true friend.
AJ Michalka
#68. A friend is someone who will always be there for you, in good and hard times.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#69. It is better for a realist to bend his will and ethics to accommodate a true friend than it is for him to stick to his principles that may turn the friend into an adversary.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
#70. It is a friend's duty that he does not leave his friend in a difficult position but provide intimacy and support to him. In difficulty who leaves is a false and the one not quitting is a true friend.
Acharya Mahapragya
#71. To have as one's ever-present friend, and to be conscious that one has as his ever-present friend, the Holy Spirit and to surrender one's life in all it's departments entirely to His control - this is true Christian living.
R.A. Torrey
#72. Remember, a friend does not need you to impress him. A friend loves you because you are true to yourself, not because you agree with him. Beware of grand gestures; the real mettle of friendship is forged in life's daily workings.
Ethan Hawke
#73. True genius is a complete stranger to most, a momentary acquaintance to others, a lasting friend to few.
Dan Groat
#74. A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute. He may not seem such a good friend after telling.
Arthur Brisbane
#75. A writer friend who was born in England summed up her feelings for the semicolon in a remark worthy of Henry James: "There is no pleasure so acute as that of a well-placed semicolon." I guess the opposite of that is that there is no displeasure so obtuse as that of an ill-placed semicolon.
Mary Norris
#76. It is hard to have a true friend, and it is harder to be the one ...
Tran Dai Nghia
#77. Ten minutes with a genuine friend is better than years spent with anyone less.
Crystal Woods
#78. When you train a horse on a daily basis, you're a part of the horse's movement, you're a part of his motion. Everything that the horse experiences is coming from you. There's a total connection
a true friendship
and the connection touches the soul completely.
Karen O
#79. We are all, in the private kingdom of our hearts, desperate for the company of a wise, true friend. Someone who isn't embarrassed by our emotions, or her own, who recognizes that life is short and all that we have to offer, in the end, is love.
Steve Almond
#80. Women will always choose the man over the best friend. This is a sad but true fact of life, and it's only this certitude that makes me unashamed to admit it.
Megan McCafferty
#81. They say that dog is man's best friend, and I think it's true. My dog does a lot of the same stuff my best friend does, like drool on my couch, mooch my food and hump my wife.
Brad Wilkerson
#82. A real friend is one with whom you can be silent.
Anonymous
#83. Finding a best friend is like finding a true love: when you meet yours, you just know.
Lynn Weingarten
#84. Every true friend is a glimpse of God.
Lucy Larcom
#85. You know that you're a true friend when somebody says "But what about that wart on the end of his nose?" and your honest response is "What wart?". You see true friends accept you for what you are, wart and all.
Jeffrey Michael
#86. Sometimes being a friend is enough in its own right to inspire someone on to victory.
Stephen Richards
#87. Picking a best friend who stands up for what she believes in, is true to herself and allows you to be yourself without judgement of how 'cool' you are? Well, now you're picking a friend for life.
Renee Olstead
#88. I am told by my toad, Treacle, that Pangur Ban is the true lord of Wychwoode and a great friend of Gwydion. Has the cat not told you this himself yet?
Robert Carter
#89. The friend that always finds time to spend with you without consulting his or her calendar is a true friend.
Ellen J. Barrier
#90. That I might live alone once with my gold!
O, 'tis a sweet companion! kind and true:
A man may trust it when his father cheats him,
Brother, or friend, or wife. O wondrous pelf!
That which makes all men false, is true itself.
Ben Jonson
#91. It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.
E.B. White
#92. Mouse was the truest friend I ever had. And if there is such a thing as true evil, he was that too.
Walter Mosley
#93. There is nothing more glorious - nothing that does more honour to true virtue, than the confidence with which one approaches a friend of tried integrity.
Antoine Francois Prevost D'Exiles
#94. True friendshipmultiplies the good in life and divides its evils. strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island ... to find one real friend in a lifetime is a good fortune;to keep him is a blessing
Baltasar Gracian
#95. I have a friend whose theory is that you're from wherever you went to high school. I think that's mostly true.
Steven Soderbergh
#96. The horse must understand and accept any demands made by rider without any resistance. Reward the horse each time he does what is asked of him. Never ask for more than he is capable of giving. Make him a COMPANION, and not a slave, then you will see what a true friend he is.
Nuno Oliveira
#97. Being there when things are easy is one of the benefits of being a good friend. Being there when things get difficult is one of the tests.
Nina Guilbeau
#98. Should anyone attempt to deceive you by false expressions, and not be a true friend at heart, act in the same manner, and thus art will defeat art. [If you would catch a man let him think he is catching you.]
Cato The Younger
#99. There is no better friendship booster than the ability to listen. The ability to show genuine interest in others is an admirable quality of a true friend.
Phil Callaway
#100. Dogs are easier to love than people; they're certainly more dependable. Once they love you, that's it. A true friend in life is a dog.
Joan Rivers
