Quotes About Friends You Can Count On

#1. I am a karaoke purist and I don't like that. I don't think it's enough for you to just be there with your friends singing. I think you need to be in front of a crowd of hostile strangers for it to truly count.

Diablo Cody

#2. A blogger is an average person who happens to have a need to count his friends every half hour.

Robert Breault

#3. Writers seldom choose as friends those self-centered characters who are never in trouble, never make mistakes, and always count their change as it is handed to them.

Catherine Drinker Bowen

#4. I count too heavily on birthdays, though I know I shouldn't. Inevitably I begin to assess my life by them, figure out how I'm doing by how many people remember; it's like the old fantasy of attending your own funeral: You get to see who your friends are, get to see who shows up.

Lorrie Moore

#5. Count your age with friends but not with years.

Henry David Thoreau

#6. The sky is different here. I can count the stars we see upon my fingers. And as I sit beside my friends, I know I'll not be cast aside unseen.

Fox Benwell

#7. I've always been terrified of getting used to something that is actually killing me-a relationship or a job. But in those cases, you can count on a friend to say something. The Internet is different, because all my friends are in the same relationship.

Miranda July

#8. In order to be happy, every person must have:
1. Something meaningful to do.
2. Someone to love. (Friends and family and pets all count.)
3. Something to look forward to.
It's really that simple.

Mimi Strong

#9. Women rely on friends ... That's where we draw sustenance and find safety. We can count on our women friends when we need a good laugh or a good cry.

Cokie Roberts

#10. Real friends are the ones you can count on no matter what.
The ones who go into the forest to find you and bring you home.
And real friends never have to tell you that they're your friends.

Morgan Matson

#11. To my young friends out there: Life can be great, but not when you can't see it. So, open your eyes to life: to see it in the vivid colors that God gave us as a precious gift to His children, to enjoy life to the fullest, and to make it count. Say yes to your life.

Nancy Reagan

#12. I have so many friends I couldn't even count them on one hand - not even if I had six fingers. Now, if I had seven fingers, I could count on them, but I still wouldn't be able to count on my friends.

Jarod Kintz

#13. Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.

John Lennon

#14. I can't count how many of my friends are in the cemetery at Normandy, the heroes are still there, the real heroes.

Charles Durning

#15. Friends don't count the cost of favors.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#16. If at the end of the of the day you have friends that you can truly count on, consider yourself blessed.

Erin M. Garcia

#17. If you want an accounting of your worth, count your friends.

Mary Browne

#18. Most people write off their longing for friends and family as so many losses in their lives, when they should count the fact that their heart is able to long so hard and to love so much as among their greatest blessings.

Etty Hillesum

#19. Did God really say that I couldn't tell my friends what so and so did yesterday? Does that really count as gossip? No, it's just venting, and venting is healthy right? Wrong! We are supposed to think about the things that are praiseworthy, not gossip worthy.

Heather Hart

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

Bohdi Sanders

#21. So long as you are secure you will count many friends; if your life becomes clouded you will be alone.

Ovid

#22. It doesn't count if it's from friends, right?

Svetlana Chmakova

#23. It was very pleasurable and easy and it was nice to work with friends ... people I already knew, people I didn't know but I now count as friends. There is a lot of hard work that goes into the movie but I can't claim to have been any part of that.

Matt Lucas

#24. Friends come and go. But through the thick and thin, the good and bad, you can only ever count on your family. That's the heart of it. Family.

Mary Alice Monroe

#25. Count your joys instead of your woes; Count your friends instead of your foes." - Irish Saying

Cedric Kelly

#26. I don't know who this quote is by but the friends that you can call at 3am are the ones that really count and I am lucky that I have a few of those. So, I just drew on that and the people who believe in me as they lift you up. It's really important to have people around you that do that.

Emma Watson

#27. I count myself in nothing else so happy as in a soul remembering my good Friends

William Shakespeare

#28. Count not him among your friends who will retail your privacies to the world.

Publilius Syrus

#29. I don't know why you're crying, Count. I lost closer friends than you when I was deloused!

Eloisa James

#30. I put my Corvette in the carport, and met him at the kitchen door. Pike said, "Nice eye." No hello, no hey, are you all right? "Clark do that?" You can always count on your friends for humor.

Robert Crais

#31. I could not help but think how fortunate we are when we have real friends, people we can count on and turn to and who are always glad to see us when we are lonely.

Mindy Warshaw Skolsky

#32. My dad said to me growing up: 'When all is said and done, if you can count all your true friends on one hand, you're a lucky man.'

Josh Charles

#33. I count myself really fortunate that I have some lifelong friends. The best thing about a friend is when you are being your own worst enemy a friend can help snap you out of it.

Amy Grant

#34. When friends abandoned him, Paul asked God not to count their actions against them. He followed the example of Jesus, who prayed for the Father to forgive His persecutors. What's your response when friends let you down? Forgiveness is the choice that pleases God every time.

Charles Stanley

#35. I spent a lot of years on the road, and what happens is you find out who your real friends are and you find out where your strengths and weaknesses lie in communication. I've had the same friends for 20 years now and I can count them on one hand.

Sarah McLachlan

#36. In times of trouble you can count on your self. In times of disaster you can count on your friends. In times of sorrow you can count on your Father.

William C. Richardson

#37. The truth is, I don't have any problem with journalists - I count some of them as friends - also some of my heroes are journalists, I'm a big fan of Robert Fisk - great people or crazy people who are prepared to stand up for what's right.

Daniel Craig

#38. Even among those who I would not count as 'friends,' I have met many people online who have simply commented on my work or are interested by what I do.

Aaron Swartz

#39. The only best friends she has ever really had, has ever wanted, could ever truly count on, is Elliott.

Jane Green

#40. How many of us count fictional characters, or those we've never met, among our closest friends? My hand's up.

Richard Bach

#41. ... If I wanna shit I am going to buy it from the shop... what I need now is a friend on which I can count on... you know the drill.

Deyth Banger

#42. "You know, Mouse," Tabby said, "a brilliant cat like me should have smart friends; people who can count to more than four." "I can count to more than four," answered Mouse, very offended. "And I can do hard sums, and I know geography and history, and I can knit and ... "

Ruth Park

#43. When I'm on my deathbed, I'll hopefully be able to count more friends than parts that I had.

Nicholas Lea

#44. A cause is a cold thing to die for. To die to protect the people you count as friends, people you have laughed with, and grown to cherish, that is a gift.

Andrea K. Host

#45. Have you felt it too? Have you seen how your best friends love everything about you- except the things that count? And your most important is nothing to them; nothing, not even a sound they can recognize.

Ayn Rand

#46. Jason, as much as I'd like to believe that we're friends, I know I can't count on you.

Amber Dermont

#47. It is very quiet. I set my chin into my palm and count my friends and wonder what else is hiding in plain sight.

Robin Sloan

#48. What is life if a man cannot count on his friends when he has gone mad?

David Gemmell

#49. That statesman is indeed happy who can count as his friends the really honest and consistent, the true Patriots, and the men of honorable thought.

Dorothea Dix

#50. She'd make them wish they were never Alison DiLaurentis's friends in the first place. She didn't know how, and she didn't know when, but at least she had one person she could count on to help her carry it out. Together, they were going to make it happen.
Even if it killed her.

Sara Shepard

#51. I am privileged to count many Muslims among my friends - some are amongst my closest friends.

Nicola Sturgeon

#52. It's not how many friends you can count, it's how many of those you can count on.

Anthony Liccione

#53. Whether it's golf or writing, you have friends, and then you have 'friends' friends. Friends who are like family. I can count my close friends on two hands, which is good, I think. That's a lot. Some are at home in Spain, others are elsewhere, and some are in golf.

Sergio Garcia

#54. You want to know why I don't have many friends here? At least not ones that count, according to your fucking standards handed down from on high, princess? Because I figured it out. What the difference is between friends and casual acquaintances. Between lovers and fuck buddies.

Amy Jo Cousins

#55. Family does not mean people with the same last name or the same DNA. It means people who care about you, who you trust, who you care about
people you can count on.

Kris Radish

#56. 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

#57. I do not outline. There are writers I know and count as my friends who certainly do it the other way, but for me, part of the adventure is not knowing how it's going to turn out.

Joyce Maynard

#58. I still have a lot of military contacts, and friends and readers who've served or are serving, and they react really strongly to G.I. Joe. I've lost count of the number who've said, 'Oh, I just loved it as a kid. I had all the figures; it really made me think.'

Karen Traviss

#59. Gays feel about popularity the same way teenage girls do. Is it that we really want friends we can count on, or do we just want guys around us whom we can share our curlers with?

Perry Brass

#60. To me, I have my friends who I've known my whole life, and I can count them on one hand. They're people I went to school with, my mum's friends' daughters. You know?

Rita Ora

#61. You can't count on friends. They will always let you down.

Rick Riordan

#62. I can count my friends on one hand.

Barry Zito

#63. When you're alone is when you can count your friends.

Stephen Richards

#64. Dreams dawn and fly: friends smile and die, Like spring flowers. Our vaunted life is one long funeral. Men dig graves, with bitter tears, For their dead hopes; and all, Mazed with doubts, and sick with fears, Count the hours.

Matthew Arnold