No True Friend Quotes

#1. I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred
that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt ... If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

#2. Till man destroys "self" he is no true friend of God.

Rumi

#3. That is the true mingling of kinship when a man can tell someone all his thoughts; anything is better than to be fickle; he is no true friend who only says pleasant things.

Anonymous

#4. A true friend sticks with you through thick and thin no matter what.

Kayla Mueller

#5. 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

#6. Look upon good books; they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble: be you but true to yourself...and you shall need no other comfort nor counsel.

Francis Bacon

#7. My friend Erin says we all have demons inside us, voices that whisper we're no good, that if we don't make this promotion or ace that exam we'll reveal to the world exactly what kind of worthless sacks of skin and sinew we really are Maybe that's true. Maybe mine just have louder voices.

Ruth Ware

#8. A true Friendship is as wise as it is tender. The parties to it yield implicitly to the guidance of their love, and know no otherlaw nor kindness.

Henry David Thoreau

#9. Never met a man half so true as a dog. Treat a dog right and he'll treat you right - he'll keep you company, be your friend, never ask you no questions. Cats is different, but I never held that against them.

Mary Ann Shaffer

#10. Hon, when someone's a true friend, there's no need to miss 'em." She patted her chest. "'Cause they're always right here.

Kirby Larson

#11. I was a man before I was a king, and no true man walks away when a friend needs him.

David Gemmell

#12. A true friend is someone you can count on no matter what.

Bohdi Sanders

#13. If you believe in the idea of true friends,
then your heart is vulnerable to betrayal.

Toba Beta

#14. Let innocence be your mask.
Let your beauty hide your heart.
Let your enemies count you a friend.
Let no one see your true self.

Roseanna M. White

#15. True love is no game of the faint-hearted and the weak; it is born of strength and understanding.

Meher Baba

#16. 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

#17. Tom said, "You should go. You could use a friend." It was not anything I had not thought myself. Still, hearing it aloud made me feel pitiable, and I had no wish to be, and so I...set off for a luncheon I did not much want to attend." p 233

Cathy Marie Buchanan

#18. Friendship is a special kind of love. More than endless, more than true. When friends parted ways no matter the distance, expect them to keep coming back to you.

John K.

#19. Lookee here, Pip, at what is said to you by a true friend. Which this to you the true friend say. If you can't get to be on common through going straight, you'll never get to do it through going crooked. So don't tell no more on 'em, Pip, and live well and die happy.

Charles Dickens

#20. The strength and wildness and will that I found in him were more and better than all the truth and goodness in the world. I pledged myself to him as brother and friend no matter what he'd done and no matter what he was.

Gregory David Roberts

#21. To friends and eke to foes true kindness show; No kindly heart unkindly deeds will do; Harshness will alienate a bosom friend. And kindness reconcile a deadly foe.

Omar Khayyam

#22. The bond between friends cannot be broken by chance; no interval of time or space can destroy it. Not even death itself can part true friends.

John Cassian

#23. 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

#24. 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

#25. 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

#26. A true friend is someone with whom protocol is no longer necessary.

Simon Sinek

#27. 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

#28. The world feel empty without a best friend .true friends no doubt are rare in this world

Nimra

#29. What good was owning the world when he'd have no choice except to defend himself against every person in it? Personally, he'd rather be a beggar with one true friend than a prince surrounded by two-faced assassins.' (Aiden)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#30. This was no friendship, to forsake your friend, To promise your support and at the end Abandon him-this was sheer treachery. Friend follows friend to hell and blasphemy- When sorrow comes one's true friends are found; In times of joy ten thousand gather round.

Farid Al-Din Attar

#31. I have had no true friends, only lovers.

Pablo Picasso

#32. Listen, there is no way any true man is going to let children live around him in his home and not discipline and teach, fight and mold them until they know all he knows. His goal is to make them better than he is. Being their friend is a distant second to this.

Victor Devlin

#33. Either be a true friend or a mere stranger: a true friend will delight to do good
a mere stranger will do no harm.

Benjamin Whichcote

#34. 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

#35. Come into the mountains, dear friend Leave society and take no one with you But your true self Get close to nature Your everyday games will be insignificant Notice the clouds spontaneously forming patterns And try to do that with your life.

Susan Polis Schutz

#36. 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

#37. Serena's not worried her friend is gonna feel bad she's not as good at tennis as Serena is. You know why? Because in order to be as good as Serena, you have to decide that your goal is that NO ONE is going to be as good as you are at tennis.
Then you have to make it true.

Shonda Rhimes

#38. True friends are the whole world to one another; and he that is a friend to himself is also a friend to mankind. Even in my studies the greatest delight I take is of imparting it to others; for there is no relish to me in the possessing of anything without a partner.

Seneca The Younger

#39. A true friend gives you exactly what you need, even if she has no idea why you need it.

Lindsey Leavitt

#40. I never met a man half so true as a dog. Treat a dog right, and he'll treat you right. He'll keep you company, be your friend, and never ask you no questions. Cats is different, but I never held that against 'em.

Mary Ann Shaffer