Quotes About Genuine Friends

#1. Friends, genuine friends, are attracted by a warm heart, not money, not power. A genuine friend considers you as just another human being, as a brother or sister, and shows affection on that level, regardless of whether you are rich or poor, or in a high position; that is a genuine friend.

Dalai Lama

#2. Bitter truth of life. To have some genuine friends, you need to have some fake ones too.

Shikha Kaul

#3. It is a beautiful thing when folks in poverty are no longer just a missions project but become genuine friends and family with whom we laugh, cry, dream and struggle.

Shane Claiborne

#4. Friends, genuine friends, have much more to do with whether we have a warm heart, not money or power.

Dalai Lama

#5. I definitely have some colleagues that I respect, and we get together from time to time. But I actually have just like genuine friends.

Quentin Tarantino

#6. Leading fosters a working atmosphere that stimulates an open exchange of ideas and fosters dissent. People should show a genuine concern for one another and treat one another with fairness, as peers and friends. With such an atmosphere it should be a pleasure to come to work.

Marvin Bower

#7. If there is a god, the only genuine friend he has is an atheist. He does not blame him for anything.

Chapman Cohen

#8. Be genuinely interested in everyone you meet and everyone you meet will be genuinely interested in you

Rasheed Ogunlaru

#9. Friendship is only friendship when it is real. Passionate and relentless. Forgiving and joyful. Don't forget today to have real moments with your friends. Not a text, or a tweet, an Instagram
that's all deceit. Hold real hands, kiss genuine lips, be a truly strong human force.

Lady Gaga

#10. The most you can do is stand up for what you believe in. I'm much happier since coming out to my friends and family. Being genuine and honest makes me happy.

Jason Collins

#11. False friends, like weeds, try very hard to appear genuine.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#12. Friendship is genuine when two friends can enjoy each others company without speaking a word to one another.

George Ebers

#13. In the history of risk taking, had there ever been a better reason to take a chance than genuine, heart-pounding, scary-ass love?

Nicki Elson

#14. Friendship is a sacred thing and I do not extend the word lightly. I've had long-term romances in my life but few genuine friendships. I am exceedingly picky about who I let in my inner circle and because of that I have a few friends and many acquaintances.

Donna Lynn Hope

#15. She may be a bitch, but she's a genuine bitch with a heart

Emily Henry

#16. Turning your nose up at a genuine and sincere gesture of hospitality is no way to travel or to make friends around the world.

Anthony Bourdain

#17. Shine with a genuine golden heart not with a business egoistic sparkle.

Angelica Hopes

#18. True friends share genuine closeness and remain friends irrespective of fluctuating fortunes.

Dalai Lama

#19. A friend is more to be longed for than the light; I speak of a genuine one. And wonder not: for it were better for us that the sun should be extinguished, than that we should be deprived of friends; better to live in darkness, than to be without friends

John Chrysostom

#20. Showing a genuine interest in others not only wins friends for you, but may develop in its customers a loyalty to your company.

Anonymous

#21. Some comics are in it for what they can get out of it. Others are in it for a love of comedy. I think those that are in it for a genuine love of comedy find each other within the circuit and become friends.

Johnny Vegas

#22. 'Aeric!' Grayson exclaimed, with genuine delight. 'You're not dead yet?'

'Not yet,' Aeric replied, looking pleased with his continued viability. 'But I keep trying. And so do you, I hear!'

L.S. Baird

#23. Do you know what makes the prison disappear? Every deep, genuine affection. Being friends, being brothers, loving, that is what opens the prison, with supreme power, by some magic force. Without these one stays dead. But whenever affection is revived, there life revives.

Vincent Van Gogh

#24. There are friends one makes at a youthful age in whom one simply rejoices, for whom one possesses a love and loyalty mysteriously lacking in the friendships made in after-years, no matter how genuine.

William Styron

#25. I think people should be who they are. If someone is a great mother, or a great personal friend to their friends and just a loving person, that's all they should be, if that's what they want to be, 'cause it's genuine.

Teresa Heinz

#26. Do not except anything as love without truth because love and truth have always been best friends.

Shannon L. Alder

#27. It is important to me that everybody who has been hurt know that the sorrow I feel is genuine: First and most important, my family; also my friends, my staff, my Cabinet, Monica Lewinsky and her family, and the American people. I have asked all for their forgiveness.

William J. Clinton

#28. Ten minutes with a genuine friend is better than years spent with anyone less.

Crystal Woods

#29. Age simply doesn't enter into it! The older the friend, the more he is valued, particularly when he shows so visibly the characteristics that we all look for in friends. You have only to look at a genuine teddy's face to see at once the loyalty, common sense, and above all, dependability behind it.

Peter Bull

#30. When we're in that kind of childish space, we're more genuine and feel more comfortable with our friends.

Evan Spiegel

#31. We're all friends, inside the music and outside the music. I mean, we don't sound anything alike, we don't approach our music anything alike, but we come from the same genuine place. We want our music to be real and we don't want to compromise our art.

Erykah Badu

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

Dylan Thomas