Top 100 Friend Truth Quotes
#1. Never hold resentments for the person who tells you what you need to hear; count them among your truest, most caring, and valuable friends.
Mike Norton
#2. But if you are a bucker of the system, a friend of truth, an ally of love, and a believer in magic, then read on.
Cynthia Hand
#3. Live like the universe is your beloved home, love like everyone is your closest friend.
Debasish Mridha
#4. She began to see that character is a better possession than money, rank, intellect, or beauty, and to feel that if greatness is what a wise man has defined it to be, 'truth, reverence, and good will,' then her friend Friedrich Bhaer was not only good, but great.
Louisa May Alcott
#5. A true friend is a friend for whom life is worth living.
Debasish Mridha
#7. I accept everyone as a friend. In truth, we already know one another, profoundly, as human beings who share the same basic goals: We all seek happiness and do not want suffering.
Dalai Lama XIV
#8. Ish #211 Your child is your parental obligation, not friend.
Regina Griffin
#9. A real friendship is like a marriage: for richer and poorer, for better and for worse. If the moment of truth comes, and you can't bear to make a sacrifice, what kind of friend are you?
Sean Stewart
#10. Truth is a friend
that asks for loyalty
and acceptance
then it enters our hearts
dissolving the boundaries
freeing us from lonliness
Nirmala
#11. Life is beautiful in the midst of ugliness when you have a best friend.
Debasish Mridha
#12. A truth of the gospel is not a truth until you live it. You do not really believe in tithing until you pay it. The word of wisdom to you is not a truth of the gospel until you keep it. The Sabbath day is not a holy day unless you observe it ... A friend is not a friend unless you defend him.
Harold B. Lee
#13. I am a friend of Adventist people and a lover of truth.
Walter Martin
#14. When you are friendly everybody will be eager to be your friend.
Debasish Mridha
#15. Steven, my friend who came out to me my senior year, was a huge Madonna fan. So I may know all the words to 'Bedtime Stories,' 'Erotica,' and a few more of her albums - and we may have watched 'Truth or Dare' a thousand times.
Jason Mraz
#16. Friendship makes you feel as one with your friend.
Thomas Aquinas
#18. I am not a philosopher but a friend, who, with great love and care, wants to share his thoughts.
Debasish Mridha
#19. At some point I believe one has to stop holding back for fear of alienating some imaginary reader or real relative or friend, and come out with personal truth.
May Sarton
#20. It's a far greater friend, one who speaks the truth despite risk of retribution.
Dawn Jayne
#21. You can destroy an enemy in confrontation but to win a friend you have to love.
Debasish Mridha
#22. I want to be distinguished from the rest; to tell the truth, a friend to all mankind is not a friend for me.
Moliere
#23. Insistence on truth can come into play when one party practices untruth or injustice. Only then can love be tested. True friendship is put to the test only when one party disregards the obligation of friendship.
Mahatma Gandhi
#24. Learn the truth, my friend, but be careful not to make a fetish out of your truths.
Elif Shafak
#25. A sincere friend conceals all your deformities, deceives and convince others that you are extremely perfect, the insincere will tell the truth of destruction, leave you open for others to glare and laugh.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#26. Here is a truth that most teachers will not tell you, even if they know it: Good training is a continual friend and a solace; it helps you now, and assures you of help in the future. Good education is a continual pain in the neck, and assures you always of more of the same.
Richard Mitchell
#27. She realized all at once that Doon, thin, dark eyed Doon, with his troublesome temper and his terrible brown jacket, and his good heart
was the person she knew better than anyone now. He was her best friend.
City of Ember
Jeanne DuPrau
#28. The truth about love is that you don't always fall in love with whom you are supposed to fall in love with. Love just hits you. It is a transcendent thing. Sometimes it is your best friend's husband and sometimes it's your father. It's weird. But that's a fact of life.
Meg Rosoff
#29. Well?"
"Well, what?"
"Damn it, Nathan, tell me what you think."
"About what?"
"Lady Sara," Colin persisted. "What do you think of her?"
"The truth, Colin?"
His friend gave a quick nod.
Nathan's smile was slow, easy. "She'll fit through the window.
Julie Garwood
#30. I believe that if you can discover something of the truth of a person, then you will start to understand, and to understand is to move towards, if not like, then at least an empathy of some kind.
Rupert Friend
#31. Receive, dear friend, the truths I teach,
So shalt thou live beyond the reach
Of adverse Fortune's pow'r;
Not always tempt the distant deep,
Nor always timorously creep
Along the treach'rous shore.
Horace
#32. I speak, I speak, and truth at that. Writers are a curious breed: brooding, fickle, alternately loving and hating their work - and each other. You're my friend? Don't pick up that pen!
Chila Woychik
#33. That one woman is capable of loving another is an historical truth; but never yet lived one who could not listen to her own praises at the expense of her adored friend.
Minna Antrim
#34. To me a real patriot is like a real friend. Who's your real friend? It's the person who tells you the truth. That's who my real friends are. So, you know, I think as far as our country goes, we need more people who will do that.
Bill Maher
#35. The nurse looked surprised. 'You're a bit high on the totem pole to be taking statements.' Carol debated momentarily how to describe her relationship with Tony. 'Colleague' was insufficient, 'landlord' somehow misleading and 'friend' both more and less than the truth. She shrugged. 'He feeds my cat.
Val McDermid
#37. I have a pastor friend who says the root of sin is the desire for control. I think there's some truth to that. And I'd add the root of control is fear.
Donald Miller
#38. One of the most common truth in live is that we all take for granted things simply are. Whether a spouse, a friend, a family, or a home, after enough time has passed that person, place, or situation becomes accepted norms of our lives. - Drizzt Do'Urden
R.A. Salvatore
#39. Happy is the soul that has a friend. Happier is the soul that trusts in the truth of the heart of a friend. Happiest is the soul that knows the solemnity of friendship and honours its laws.
Ogwo David Emenike
#41. Be a best friend. Tell the truth. Overuse 'I love you'.
Lee Brice
#42. As sure as water's wet and days are long and a friend will always disappoint you in the end.
Neil Gaiman
#43. Brandon was like a God in Healy, and I guess I was like God's best friend.
Jennifer Mathieu
#44. The truth is that every true admirer of the novels cherishes the happy thought that he alone - reading between the lines - has bcome the secret friend of their author.
Katherine Mansfield
#45. Being a person's true friend means endorsing the untruths he holds dearest.
Robert Wright
#46. Idealists are not the good friends of the truths; they create their own truth.
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#47. Darkness has the ability to cover up; light has the ability to uncover! Darkness is the enemy of truth; light is the friend of truth!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#48. That is what you love a friend for: the ability to change your angle of vision, bring back your best self when you feel worst. And speak the truth
but without malice. Loving candour is the secret of friendship.
Erica Jong
#49. Odd, she thought of him as her friend though in truth they had shared only one brief conversation.
Lois Lowry
#50. It doesn't matter how many friends I have because my best friend is God. And, he is a Super Friend. People come and people go, but God's love for you will remain the same. Embrace it, Cherish it, and Spread it everywhere you go. Let your light shine brightly for all the world to see.
Amaka Imani Nkosazana
#51. Truths are immortal, my dear friend; they are immortal like God! What we call a falsity is like a fruit; it has a certain number of days; it is bound to decay. Whereas, what we call truth is like gold; days, months, even centuries can hide gold, can overlook it but they can never make it decay.
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#52. Statesman, yet friend to truth! of soul sincere, In action faithful, and in honour clear; Who broke no promise, serv'd no private end, Who gain'd no title, and who lost no friend.
Alexander Pope
#53. Ive tried and tried and now I give up. I refuse to be the perfect friend to people that cant treat me with the same respect.
Lovely Goyal
#54. The wise words of a friend and guide rang in my head. 'How would you distinguish a true servant of God from a traitor? ... You should take especial notice of how a person speaks, not of other things, but of God.
Harry Blamires
#55. With your, love touch someone's heart, feel their soul, enjoy their bliss, share your joy, and then become their friend.
Debasish Mridha
#56. Turn your head away from the screen, my friend. It will tell you nothing more.
Jeff Buckley
#57. Happiness is about being proud of who you are. Be a good friend, be a good daughter, be reliable, be willing to laugh when things get tough, compliment other girls, care about your job, believe in yourself, be vulnerable, tell the truth, apologize when needed, forgive people ...
Erin Foster
#58. had always been like that - incapable of withholding the truth but incapable of cruelty. A rare kind of person. The best kind of friend.
Renee Ahdieh
#59. A friend is he who can feel you, adore you, understand you, and never leave you.
Debasish Mridha
#60. Love and take care of yourself because you are your best friend, and you have to live with yourself rest of the life.
Debasish Mridha
#61. A man who is a good lover to his wife is his children's best friend. ... Child care is play to a woman who is happy. And only a man can make a woman happy. In deepest truth, a father's first duty to his children is to make their mother feel fulfilled as a woman.
Barbara Ehrenreich
#62. 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
#63. Bring all your power out my friend, and throw away such Gods, such doctrines, such institutions, that impede in the path of human progress.
Abhijit Naskar
#64. I will blame no enemy that is a good man, nor yet praise a friend that is bad
Theognis
#65. Read not books alone, but men, and amongst them chiefly thyself. If thou find anything questionable there, use the commentary of a severe friend, rather than the gloss of a sweet-lipped flatterer there is more profit in a distasteful truth than in deceitful sweetness.
Francis Quarles
#67. If we learn to know that there is no enemy but we only have friend with misunderstanding then peace will be there.
Debasish Mridha
#69. Come out my friend. Come out from the narrow lanes of darkness into the vivacious light of the day.
Abhijit Naskar
#70. In the shop we buy and sell them, but in truth books have no owner. Every book you see here has been somebody's best friend.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#71. Think of, at the moment of dying, is there will be any enemy for you? None! Everyone will be the best friend. So win all your enemies with your divine love when you are living.
Debasish Mridha
#72. Sometimes we are looked upon as people who speak only of prohibitions. Nothing could be further from the truth! Authentic Christian discipleship is marked by a sense of wonder. We stand before the God we know and love as a friend, the vastness of his creation, and the beauty of our Christian faith.
Pope Benedict XVI
#73. A best friend is he who hurts you with their love and feels you when you're hurt.
Debasish Mridha
#74. Jesus is more than a friend. He is a teacher of truth and life who shows us the way that leads to happiness.
Pope Francis
#75. An Eastern poet, Ali Ben Abu Taleb, writes with sad truth,
He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare,
And he who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#76. And make no mistake, my friend, your pointless life will end; but before you go, can you look at the truth?
Morrissey
#77. One 'Magic Formula' is for you to become your own best friend and your own biggest critic SIMULTANEOUSLY.
Shay Dawkins
#78. A friend tells you what you want to hear;a best friend tells you the truth.
Marilyn Monroe
#80. Being perfect is about being able to look your friend in the eye and know that you didn't let them down, because you told them the truth.
Heidi Ayarbe
#81. If you want the truth, I will tell you the truth: Friend, listen: the God whom I love is inside.
Robert Bly
#82. Speaking truth will rarely earn you friends, but it will reveal who your true friends are and who are true friends of Christ.
Mark Hart
#83. Rise to become human again, my friend. Become the human, that talks humans, acts humans and lives human.
Abhijit Naskar
#84. There must be Someone in heaven who knows the truth about me, in highest heaven, some Attorney who can clear my name - My Champion, my Friend, while I'm weeping my eyes out before God. I appeal to the One who represents mortals before God as a neighbor stands up for a neighbor.
Eugene H. Peterson
#85. In raining bullets on those silent faces, already turned away from this world, you think you are disfiguring the face of our truth.
Albert Camus
#86. Anyone can become your best friend when you spend time together and share your feelings about life. However, not every best friend can free you from yourself. This is when you reconsider the word "best" and decide to expand your circle to include others.
Shannon L. Alder
#87. You want a friend who's going to tell you the truth. That's what it's about. If you don't have a friend who's going to tell you the truth every time something comes up, you feel like he's not a true friend.
Donald Driver
#88. There are only two people who can tell you the truth about yourself, an enemy who has lost his temper and a friend who loves you dearly.
Antisthenes Pinto
#89. Let us love and respect each other as a friend, not stranger.
Debasish Mridha
#90. We know when we have had enough of a friend, and we know when a friend has had enough of us. The first truth is no more palatable than the second.
Agnes Repplier
#91. A best friend is he who can emulate a dog but still can talk.
Debasish Mridha
#92. It is impossible to say all that we think, even to our truest Friend. We may bid him farewell forever sooner than complain, for our complaint is too well grounded to be uttered.
Henry David Thoreau
#93. But in truth,' said Bull, 'we are going nowhere. That my friend, is the irony of our constant movement.
Kate DiCamillo
#94. Oh my lover, oh my friend forever,
if I am not with you for any reason,
You will be in my heart every moment,
every day, every month and season.
Debasish Mridha
#96. It is not our responsibility to fix every mess. If someone steps onto the scary ledge of truth, it is enough to acknowledge her courage and make this promise: I am here with you as your friend...
Jen Hatmaker
#97. Say to them, O father, O mother, O wife, O brother, O friend, I have lived with you after appearances hitherto. Henceforward I am the truth's.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#98. So, that's what I'm doing until I meet a friend here. I was hoping that the kid who told the truth could become a friend of mine, but I think he was just being a good guy by telling.
Stephen Chbosky
#99. A true friend has your best interests at heart and the pluck to tell you what you need to hear.
E.A. Bucchianeri
#100. I want to live with that sense with the music I make, with the art I make, with the way I love my kids, with the way I am a father and a husband and a friend and a follower of Christ, I want to live with reckless abandonment to the truth of the Gospel.
Steven Curtis Chapman
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