Top 84 Best Friend And True Friend Quotes
#1. 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
#2. A true friend has your best interests at heart and the pluck to tell you what you need to hear.
E.A. Bucchianeri
#3. It is true that I have sent six bullets through the head of my best friend, and yet I hope to show by this statement that I am not his murderer.
H.P. Lovecraft
#4. A true friend sees the good in everything, and brings out the best in the worst of things.
Sasha Azevedo
#5. A true friend sees past your excuses to the real reason it's not your fault.
Robert Breault
#6. If fear is the great enemy of intimacy, love is its true friend.
Henri Nouwen
#7. I had an imaginary friend. I don't know when I stopped having an imaginary friend, but my mom and everybody in my family remembers it pretty good. It's definitely true.
CC Sabathia
#8. Your true friend is the one who will never walk away in your time of need.
Regardless of the situation, time or location, your true friend will stand by you
Ellen J. Barrier
#9. Who is the true friend of the people? Fascism is. Who has done the most for the working man? The USSR or Hitler? Hitler has ... Who has done the most for the small businessman? Not Thorez but Hitler!
Louis-Ferdinand Celine
#10. Be you.
That, my friend,
is the change you want
to become in the world.
Frederick Espiritu
#11. The true friends of the people are neither revolutionaries, nor innovators, but traditionalists.
Pope Pius X
#12. 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
#13. You'd be hard-pressed to find an old person who would trade in a true friend for any amount of popularity or fame. You'd also be hard-pressed to find a young person who wouldn't.
Dan Pearce
#14. A true friend is one who likes you despite your achievements.
Arnold Bennett
#15. We have been friends together
In sunshine and in shade.
Caroline Norton
#16. I've fallen for the one person I shouldn't have. For the boy who broke Mary's heart. For Rennie's one true love. For Alex's best friend.
It has to end here. Now.
Jenny Han
#18. The little black dress is the true friend ... she travels with you ... is patient and constant ... you go to her when you don't know where else to go and she is ALWAYS reliable and timeless.
Diane Von Furstenberg
#19. 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
#20. True friends are a single soul divided between different bodies.
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
#21. A True Friend who leaves heart felt messages, can be a lighthouse to others, sharing light and truth, which comes from their heart.
Tom Baker
#22. A friend is someone to whom you can tell all your secrets, someone whom you can trust without reservation, a person who is not overawed when you are at your best, and is not turned away when you are at your worst.
Steven J. Carroll
#23. The word friend is a label anyone can try on. You decide who is best suited to wear it. Choose wisely. The most dangerous among us come dressed as angels and we learn too late they are the devil in disguise.
Carlos Wallace
#24. Ooh you're the best friend that I ever had
I've been with you such a long time
You're my sunshine and I want you to know
That my feelings are true
I really love you
Oh you're my best friend
Queen Elizabeth II
#25. It is so good to have friends who understand how there is a time for crying and a time for laughing, and that sometimes the two are very close together.
Lois Lowry
#26. The best part about having true friends is that you can go months without seeing them and they'll still be there for you and act as if you'd never left!
Ariana Grande
#27. I don't feel I'm angry. I feel as though I'm describing something true. If I had stabbed my husband, I could understand being called "angry." If I had an affair with my husband's best friend and written about that experience, I could see the anger. But I'm not doing that.
Jamaica Kincaid
#28. True love is no game of the faint-hearted and the weak; it is born of strength and understanding.
Meher Baba
#29. My love, you know you are my best friend . You know that I'd do anything for you, and my love, let nothing come between us. My love for you is strong and true.
Sarah McLachlan
#30. You know who you are, he said-
that intimidates boys but oneday a man will come along and value that exact part in you.
- Wise words from my best friend.
Nikki Rowe
#31. Look, it's true that I think there are a lot of people to blame for all of this, but I'm one of them." For a second, my mind flashed back to the party, to the last words I'd ever said to him. Fuck you, Hayden. Some kind of best friend I was. "And it's not my job to decide who should pay.
Michelle Falkoff
#32. It's the person that calls you up because they're eating at 'our favorite spot,' and it made them think of you and miss being there with you. That's a friend, to me.
Crystal Woods
#33. Strangers will show you the way
But a true friend will escort you,
to your destination.
1st November, 2006
Tushar Mangl
#34. If your dog, your best friend turns on you, take a good look at yourself. You may have a serious personality disorder.
Will Leamon
#35. My true inspirations are my kids and my husband. I'm also inspired by stories of my extended family, friends, and even strangers who cause me to look at my life and behavior and encourage me to be the best person, mother, daughter, and friend that I can be.
Trista Sutter
#36. I get out my hairbrush and wish for her - the real Lillian, and not the worst, most selfish parts of her. I wish for a warm, true best friend, one who didn't die.
Brenna Yovanoff
#37. My best chosen friend, companion, guide, to walk through life, Linked hand-in-hand, two equal, loving friends, true husband and true wife.
Charles Gavan Duffy
#38. The flatterer's object is to please in everything he does; whereas the true friend always does what is right, and so often gives pleasure, often pain, not wishing the latter, but not shunning it either, if he deems it best.
Plutarch
#39. I know I have an incredibly amazing family that loves and supports me unconditionally. I have a best friend I consider to be a sister, and I've recently discovered my true love.
Melanie Iglesias
#40. 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
#41. A true friend honors and encourages our best self, and they will work at aaving us from self destruction, even if that means being difficult.
Karuna Cayton
#42. 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
#43. 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
#44. People say true friends must always hold hands, but true friends don't need to hold hands because they know the other hand will always be there.
Mahatma Gandhi
#45. 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
#46. Sir 25:12 Blessed is he that findeth a true friend,
Various
#47. While it is often true that the enemy of my enemy is my friend, it seems like Yahoo's almost obsessive focus on Google is taking away from its other businesses.
Kara Swisher
#48. 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
#49. 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
#50. A dog is adorable and noble, a dog is a true and loving friend. A dog is also a hedonist.
Mary Oliver
#51. 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
#52. A true friend never asks you to feed their imaginary fish. Or fertilize their imaginary crops.
Teresa Medeiros
#53. The hard times make a true friend afraid to ask.
Tupac Shakur
#54. We may never be able to pay directly for the gifts of true friendship - but pay we must, even though we make our payment to someone who owes us nothing, in some other place and at some other time.
Yousuf Karsh
#55. 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
#56. All friends are not for life, but if you have a true friend, you have a life.
Lois Wyse
#57. Agreement in likes and dislikes- this, and this only, is what constitutes true friendship.
Catiline
#58. I always wanted to know what it is right. Maybe we know each other from time immemorial, if you know that in you is the eternal energy of goodness, which is most important for you.
Gregor Golob
#59. As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relationships with this best and truest friend of mankind that death's image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
#60. 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
#61. An honest answer is the sign of true friendship.
E.W. Howe
#62. Friendship gives us the strength to turn from lambs into lions.
Stephen Richards
#63. And it's true. It's so true. All those years of loving Zik because he never asked about Eve ... I never realized, I never understood. It was his job as my best friend not to ask.
But it was my job as his best friend to tell him without being asked.
Barry Lyga
#64. To be alone means that you avoid bad company. But to have a true friend is better than being alone.
Umar
#65. True friends walks in when the rest of the world has walked out.
Walter Winchell
#66. 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
#67. For a shield from the storm, for a friend, for a love to keep me safe and warm ... I turn to you. For the strength to be strong, for the will to carry on ... for everything you do, for everything thats true, I turn to you.
Christina Aguilera
#68. 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
#69. You won't hear a character's friend say this in a romantic comedy. Taylor Swift won't sing this, Eminem won't rap it, and Suzanne Collins won't write it, but it's true: just because you're "in love" with someone doesn't mean you should seriously consider marrying them.
Gary L. Thomas
#70. A friend is someone who will always be there for you, in good and hard times.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#71. The more we seek exclusivity in friendship, the more it becomes obligatory and the less likely it is to fulfill the wonderful vision of what true friendship can be.
Harriet Lerner
#72. You kind of need to weed through who is wanting to be a true friend.
AJ Michalka
#73. Dont judge me on my past but judge for my present,Love me as I will love you,Care for me as I will care for you' because I am your true friend as you are mine.
Michael Kedzlie
#75. Life ain't all burritos and strippers, my friend. - TRUE FACT
Darynda Jones
#76. If we all could be a true friend to someone, praying and encouraging one person somehow, that's a first step in being part of making the world a better place,
Nick Vujicic
#77. We seek opinions that are likely to support what we want to be true.
Thomas Gilovich
#78. 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
#79. A true friend is someone with whom protocol is no longer necessary.
Simon Sinek
#81. She truly became our 'fair lady.' The children of the world have lost a true friend, and an important and eloquent advocate.
James P. Grant
#82. Only a true best friend can protect you from your immortal enemies.
Richelle Mead
#83. Stick around long enough to be someone's friend. Because true friendship, once recognized, in its essence is effortless.
Vera Nazarian
#84. A true friend let's you know that the door is always open, even when it's closed.
Charles F. Glassman
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