Quotes About Friends When You Need Them

#1. If you're looking for friends when you need them ... it's too late.

Mark Twain

#2. I still love things that you don't even need to pay for. Going to the beach and being around five of your friends and having a good time means so much more than going out and spending hundreds of dollars.

Maria Sharapova

#3. It's wisest always to be so clad that our friends need not ask us for our names.

James Fenimore Cooper

#4. There are three types of friends: those like food without which you can't live those like medicine which you need occasionally and those like an illness which you never want.

Solomon Ibn Gabirol

#5. Meanwhile, I find comfort in my faith in God, in the wonderful family and friends He's placed in my path. On my lowest days, something will happen that lets me know He's watching out for me, that He sends just the right person to minister to me and to comfort my heart when I need it most." ***

Lionel Fisher

#6. Now, the people that helped get Obama elected, who think Israel is a good idea, need to wake up and tell him they're our friends, let's preserve them. And then it would happen. Because that's the only kind of thing he responds to. But he throws our friends under the bus and rewards our enemies.

Louie Gohmert

#7. I think a lot of people feel like they need other people to help identify themselves, whether that's friends or relationships or whatever that may be. But it's you who identifies yourself and you need to take time to do that.

Lights

#8. Basketball is my passion, I love it. But my family and friends mean everything to me. That's what's important. I need my phone so I can keep in contact with them at all times.

LeBron James

#9. A lot of my friends are getting married, but I don't think that is what I need. I am under no such pressure that if everybody is having a boyfriend, I too should have one.

Kangana Ranaut

#10. It's about empowering girls, You're gonna have bad boyfriends and best friends-turned-enemies. You need to be yourself, you need to work hard, and you'll get there.

Lauren Conrad

#11. I very often compare relations between states to relations with people. Sometimes we are nicer to those we don't know well, who are not our friends, than we are to our friends, because with our friends we don't need to be nice all the time.

Jose Manuel Barroso

#12. I didn't need to be liked. I didn't need friends, and I centrainly didn't need the kid trying to guild me into being something I wasn't. I was fine. Just a little cold.

Alexandra Bracken

#13. The boy knew a lot of people in the city. That was was what made traveling appeal to him
he always made new friends, and he didn't need to spend all if his time with them.

Paulo Coelho

#14. When I'm writing a song, it's just me and the songwriters. Then when the song is done, there are publishers that hear it, then people in my management, then my wife and my boys and my friends, and if they're all lovin' it, it's kind of withstanding all the criticism I need.

Luke Bryan

#15. He wasn't antisocial - he always had friends, and everybody liked him - but he could go off and entertain himself for hours. He didn't seem to need toys or friends. He could be alone without being lonely.

Carine McCandless

#16. Lord, help my children to make godly friends. I know that You brought us here and You will not leave my children forsaken. I'm concerned that in their need for acceptance they'll end up with friends whose moral standards are not as high as Yours. Bring godly role models into their lives.

Stormie O'martian

#17. You could live it up and be successful, but it wouldn't mean anything without love and friends. I could go broke and still be happy because love is all I need.

Omarion

#18. The best time to make friends is
before you need them.

Ethel Barrymore

#19. Friends should be like books, easy to find when you need them, but seldom used.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#20. If people aren't there for you now, when you really need them, they never will be, and it's time to move on. You'll be amazed by how many new friends you have in the after. They'll be the ones who aren't afraid of sorrow, who know we can't avoid it. The best we can do is face it together.

Alice Hoffman

#21. I hate to say this, but one of the biggest distractions can be friends and family. You want them to be there and support you, but when you need to get your rest or focus, you need to communicate that to them.

Swin Cash

#22. Humans are interdependent by choice. You have a burden of guilt, and it's brave of you to want to carry it yourself. But it's foolish not to let others help you. Give some of it away to your parents and your friends. And when they need your help, you'll be strong enough to support them, too.

Sarina Bowen

#23. You can't live with literary characters no matter how much you might like to. You can have them as imaginary friends that you can call up when you need to. One of the tasks of art is to provide people with companions.

Henning Mankell

#24. The thing about friends is, you never know when you might need them. It's always best to keep them imprisoned nearby.

Heidi Schulz

#25. I knew these people were genuinely sad, and that I wasn't really mad at them. I was mad a the universe. Even so, it infuriated me: You get all these friends just when you don't need friends anymore. -Hazel, The Fault in Our Stars

John Green

#26. All the things that you said when you thought I wasn't there,
I just tell them to my corner, 'cause no one else would care.
That way, when I'm with you, I can keep a cheerful face,
But for the moment, I really just need some space.

Margo T. Rose

#27. friends are like books you use them when you need them but u will always remember them

Yasmine Gooneratne

#28. I like friends who, when you tell them you need a moment alone, know enough not to stray too far.

Robert Breault

#29. Be careful in your relations with those in power; they draw you close or allow you to approach them only when they need you. They are your friends when your friendship is useful to them and affords them pleasure, but they forget you when you are in trouble.
Elie Wiesel quoting Rabban Gamliel

Elie Wiesel

#30. Adivce from a horse
Take life's hurdels in stride.
Loosen the reins.
Be free sprited.
Keep the burrs from under your saddle.
Carry your friends when they need it.
Keep stable.
Gallop to greatness.

Ilan Shamir

#31. All you need is coffee, some cigarettes, and a Twitter account and your writing career begins! How far you go is determined by the followers you call friends.

Stanley Victor Paskavich

#32. I love and in a way need, a private secret place. It's a kind of deep obsession, but I also love to need and be with friends and the two things often need to be together ... it's a painful conflict that will never be smoothly resolved.

Morris Graves

#33. Would it not be well this Christmas to give first to the Lord, directly through obedience, sacrifice, and love, and then to give to him indirectly through gifts to friends and those in need as well as to our own? Should we do this, perhaps many of us would discover a new Christmas joy.

John Andreas Widtsoe

#34. You know, Roland and I were just talking about how we don't have any pyromaniac friends. And everyone knows you need a good pyro to pull off any reform school prank worth the effort.

Lauren Kate

#35. The starting point for building great relationships is making wise decisions about who we allow close to us. We need people who will build us up and take us forward, and good friends will do just that.

Brian Houston

#36. All business is personal ... Make your friends before you need them.

Robert Johnson

#37. No matter how much money you make or don't, how many friends you think you have or lack or how much you know you are loved - or not, we all cherish one thing above all else, the intrinsic need to connect

Lisa Bloom

#38. I want to be affirmatively proud of what I have made my way through. And to do that, in the same way I had to tell my father and my family and my friends that I was gay, I need to not hide this anymore.

Christine Quinn

#39. Stories don't need to be new to bring you joy. Some stories are like familiar friends. Some are dependable as bread.

Patrick Rothfuss

#40. I like to think I am confident and secure and mature enough to know Nick loves me without him constantly proving it. I don't need pathetic dancing monkey
scenarios to repeat to my friends, I am content with letting him be himself.
I don't know why women find that so hard.

Gillian Flynn

#41. The touchstone of false friends is the day of need: by way of proof, ask a loan from your friends.

Saib Tabrizi

#42. I don't need friends. All they do is eat your food, drink your beer, then spew your secrets the first time you do something that displeases them. No offense, but when you have as many enemies as I do, you keep your secrets under lock and key. (Solin)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#43. Ah,' said Zultan. 'I, too. I keep many books at my home.' He gestured to the books in the tent. 'These are only a few. Those I think might need on this trip, and those I have yet to read and might want, and those old friends that I cannot bear to leave behind.

T. Kingfisher

#44. I did not like formal meetings, because they took away my freedom. I just liked to spend time with my friends, where I could be myself and did not need to don a mask.

Bidzina Ivanishvili

#45. The last thing Jews need is to create tension with their best friends. And the last thing Christians need is a renewal of Christian hatred toward Jesus' people.

Dennis Prager

#46. 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

#47. I do not need any friends. I prefer enemies. They are better company and their feelings towards you are always genuine.

Dylan Thomas

#48. The bracelet says 'Fear Nothing.' It was given to me by my friends, and it was made for me and my friends during the period of time that I was going through chemotherapy. And I still wear it, because it's a great reminder of friendship and how my buddies and others came together in my time of need.

Joseph J. Lhota

#49. Papa taps on the skylight and I look up. He waves at me and smiles. I smile back. For now, I don't need to know what lies ahead. For now it's enough just to be here, safe aboard the Morning Star with my family and friends. For now, it's enough to be home.

Heather Vogel Frederick

#50. The crying need today is not for more laws, but for fewer. The world must be saved from its saviors. If the friends of liberty and law could have only one slogan it should be: Stop the remedies!

Henry Hazlitt

#51. I realized I was trying to be friends with somebody who I used to be with but who I didn't get along with. I'm really big on that. I need to be friends with everyone that I've ever had a relationship with.

Fiona Apple

#52. I need to see my friends or I'm gonna go crazy. I'm not gonna stay home and work.

Kathleen Hanna

#53. Where we learned we could make each other laugh, and sometimes that's all you need to know about a person to know that being friends is a good idea.

Sara Bareilles

#54. If i would ever fall in love ... I'm sure I would want that person to belong to me. I'd make them all mine ... but I might ruin them in the process. So I'm never going to fall in love. I don't need love right now. I have friends with the same purpose as me. I have all of you. -Rei

Naoko Takeuchi

#55. True friends may only speak several times a year and visit even less. But when life's challenges leave one of them vulnerable and in need of compassion, time and distance are no obstacles.

Shane Eric Mathias

#56. That was what made traveling appeal to him - he always made new friends, and he didn't need to spend all of his time with them.

Paulo Coelho