Quotes About Real Friends

#1. What I have found is that real friends stand by you.

Jeffrey Archer

#2. Better to have 3 real friends than 100,000 digital ones.

Robin Sharma

#3. 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

#4. George Klein says that Elvis had five real friends outside of his circle, and I was blessed to be one of them. I spent a lot of time with Elvis in Vegas and at Graceland.

Bill Medley

#5. It's always hard to find the best friends in the locker room because we are all competing against each other - but the real friends you are going to definitely find off the court because we are competitors in between.

Tomas Berdych

#6. To be a friend takes time, and time is what nobody has. Therefore, real friends are rare.

Suzanne Massie

#7. Someone you considered a friend will kick you to the curb because you stop hanging out so much with the fellas to be with your girlfriend. Prioritize your relationships and you will discover who your real friends are.

T.D. Jakes

#8. Among real friends there is no rivalry or jealousy of one another, but they are satisfied and contented alike whether they are equal or one of them is superior.

Plutarch

#9. Real friends don't care if you're gay, bisexual, pansexual or just plain weird. They stand by you always and help you up if you fall ...

Anonymous

#10. If we merely try to impress people and get people interested in us, we will never have many true, sincere friends. Friends, real friends, are not made that way.

Dale Carnegie

#11. I'm always on the market for a new friend, period. As your success continues to grow, you start to see who your real friends are. But I'm always looking for wonderful people to have in my life that have no agenda and aren't fake friends.

Lady Gaga

#12. Thirteen is hard. You don't know who you are yet. Who your real friends are. Who you can trust. You don't yet know what you are capable of.

Jessica Brody

#13. True friends never turn you away when all you need is someone to talk to. Ever. It's not the only thing that helps, but it's the only thing that works. Real friends never walk away, letting you slip deeper into the pit of despair.

Northern Adams

#14. As life goes on, don't you find that all you need is about two real friends, a regular supply of books, and a Peke?

P.G. Wodehouse

#15. Two hungry people should never make friends. If they do, they eat each other up. It is the same with one person who is hungry and another who is full: they cannot be real, real friends because the hungry one will eat the full one. You understand?

Helen Oyeyemi

#16. Your imaginary friend isn't the problem, Amanda. The problem is that you don't seem to have any real friends.

Rebecca McNutt

#17. After Hollywood, you know if people are interested in you or in the fact that you've been in a movie. You know who your real friends are.

Emily Browning

#18. Real friends don't say goodbye.

Anonymous

#19. This is a terrible place to spend your life in. Nobody in Hollywood is normal. Absolutely nobody. And they have such a vicious attitude toward one another. They say much worse things about each other than outsiders say about them, and nobody has any real friends.

Gary Cooper

#20. Fake friends believe in rumors, real friends believe in you.

Anonymous

#21. Fans can sometimes develop a false sense of relationship with celebrities simply because they know so much about them. But real friends are more than just fans. And real disciples have an actual relationship with the Lord. They know his voice.

Richard Jacobson

#22. With everyone else, you put up this facade so you can hide the crud and make them like you. But with real friends, you show them the crud-and that makes them care. When we get rid of the facade, we connect more.

Harlan Coben

#23. I have a lot more real friends, than friends that I'm talking to on the Internet. That's not cool, not safe, not fun and most likely not real. Everything is just better when you're not so wrapped up in that. I just think it's lame.

Miley Cyrus

#24. People see me as a person who can make them some money, which makes it hard to make real friends. I'm asked to do a lot of stuff for free - to wear certain clothes, turn up to events - people use you to make money. I think that's why I tend to jump into relationships.

Sophie Monk

#25. Remind me why I'm doing this again?" I whispered back.
"For your real friends, of course: Me, Caleb, and Chad."
"That's sweet of you to say, but I'm not sure we're all friends. Mr. Darcy over here," I indicated Caleb with a nod, "finds me barely tolerable.

Amy Helmes

#26. Real friends, are really hard to come by.

Anthony Liccione

#27. My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.

Lee Iacocca

#28. Just because someone's older and you think they're cooler doesn't mean you should abandon your real friends.

Alex Mack

#29. There will always be real friends and fake friends. It is difficult to distinguish the two because both will appear the same in the beginning but so different at the end.

Rita Zahara

#30. As a person, I'm pretty much the same except that I've come to terms with who my real friends and supporters are. I don't get particularly friendly with new people at first go.

Sanjay Dutt

#31. If you want to find out who your real friends are, sink the ship. The first ones to jump aren't your friends.

Marilyn Manson

#32. Internet friends are real friends

Wilson Rawls

#33. I came here looking for a Great Perhaps, for real friends and a more-than-minor life..

John Green

#34. We and others have done a bunch of work to show that if your real friends online say or do something, it affects you. But if your acquaintances online say or do something, it does not. People on average have about 106 Facebook friends, but only 5 or 6 real friends.

Nicholas A. Christakis

#35. Everyone has weaknesses, including vampires, werewolves, and witches. But real friends don't care about those weaknesses. They stand together and help each other overcome them'~~~~ Ladon to Gage.

Nicole Storey

#36. Cutting out drama... Healthy mind and body choices... Intent followed by action... Keeping real friends and letting go of the pretends... Livin' clean for Twenty Seventeen!

Steve Maraboli

#37. Real Friends' are someone who are right next to you when you got in emergency, not in only parties.

Hiroko Sakai

#38. Because the best kind of friendships never really ended. They could be put on pause for a short while or divided by space and time. But real friends - the truest ones - always waited and never missed a beat.

Bethany-Kris

#39. Real friends are our greatest joy and our greatest sorrow. It were almost to be wished that all true and faithful friends should expire on the same day.

Francois Fenelon

#40. Real friends were the kind where you pick up where you'd left off, whether it be a week since you'd seen each other or two years.

Jojo Moyes

#41. School is tough sometimes, but it's all about knowing who your real friends are.

Ariana Grande

#42. The making of friends who are real friends, is the best token we have of a man's success in life.

Edward Everett Hale

#43. Or perhaps in Slytherin, you'll make your real friends. Those cunning folk use any means to achieve their ends.

J.K. Rowling

#44. People always say, and my family has said it to me, that you know who your real friends are when you're at your lowest point and you don't have a job or whatever.

LaDainian Tomlinson

#45. Because my heat was too full of appreciation for what my friends
my real friends
had done for me.

Meg Cabot

#46. You have to be strong. You have to know how you are, and you have to know who your partner is and you have to know who your friends, who your real friends are.

Fergie

#47. Friends tell you what you want to hear," Dani said. "Real friends tell you what you need to hear.

Brenda Rothert

#48. Weddings and funerals are when you figure out who your real friends are.

Amy Dickinson

#49. Real friends are very special, but you have to be careful because sometimes you have a friend and you think they are made of rock, then suddenly you realise they're only made of sand.

Maria Callas

#50. The biggest hurdle is figuring out who your friends are. Your real friends.

Eleanor Mondale

#51. The road will be one long, I'm sure at that. So far the real friends are few, but few more challanges and few of them will gone also, won't they?

Deyth Banger

#52. Real friends ... don't give you heroin and cocaine." He took a step closer. "And they don't stand by and do nothing if they think one of their buddies is doing drugs.

Karen Kingsbury

#53. Most people have friends, but no money. I have the opposite. I don't have a chance to talk to my real friends, the ones I've had since I was 5 years old. Sometimes I wish I could bring Czechoslovakia to America. Then I would be the happiest guy in the world.

Jaromir Jagr

#54. Real friends offer both hard truths and soft landings and realize that it's sometimes more important to be nice than to be honest.

Anna Quindlen

#55. Those are some of the most powerful people in the world, and you swamped them in sewage! If you had real friends, they'd have told you that you're an idiot for even thinking about doing that!"

Tom bristled, indignant. "My friends do tell me I'm an idiot. All the time!

S.J. Kincaid

#56. 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

#57. I told him he wasn't my friend. Before he could protest I said that real friends don't wake up other friends in the middle of the night for money for drugs. (Even as I said it I thought of at least half a dozen occasions when that has happened to me, but that wasn't the point.)

Peter Moore

#58. Among true and real friends, all is common; and were ignorance and envy and superstition banished from the world, all mankind would be friend.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#59. Far as I'm concerned, friendship between black and white don't mean that much 'cause it usually ain't on a equal basis ... Maybe one day whites and blacks can be real friends, but right now the country ain't built that way.

Mildred D. Taylor

#60. It used to be you had real friends on the other side of the aisle. It's not like that anymore. Society has changed. The public is to blame as well. I think the people have gotten dumber.

Gary Ackerman

#61. To make real friends you have to put yourself out there. Sometimes people will let you down, but you can't let that stop you. If you get hurt, you just pick yourself up, dust off your feelings, and try again.

Kristin Hannah

#62. You have only three real friends: Jesus Christ, Sears Roebuck, and Gene Talmadge.

Eugene Talmadge

#63. We never needed best friend gear because I guess with real friends you don't have to make it official. It just is.

Mindy Kaling

#64. I don't think real friends would be jealous. -Primrose

Kathryn Lasky

#65. Real friends are hard to come by, and as annoying as Henry is, he'd throw himself in front of dragon's fire for you."
"And that's the definition of a real friend?"
"Oh, yes, just ask Owain." He laughed.

Alexandra Bracken

#66. 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

#67. It doesn't matter how many friends you have on Facebook or twitter, if you have no real friends means you have nothing in your life.

Nash

#68. That's sad. How plastic and artificial life has become. It gets harder and harder to find something ... real." Nin interlocked his fingers, and stretched out his arms. "Real love, real friends, real body parts ...

Jess C. Scott

#69. I'm always depressed when a book ends, because those are my friends for however long the book takes to write. Since I spend so many hours with these fictional people, I sometimes see them more than my real friends. And then they're gone, and we'll never be together like that again.

Seanan McGuire

#70. I have a really grounded group of friends, and they like me no matter what. I think it's really important to know who your real friends are.

Jackson Guthy

#71. Here's champagne for our real friends, and real pain for our sham friends.

Mardy Grothe

#72. You must therefore love me, myself, and not my circumstances, if we are to be real friends.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#73. The real friends are out there on you won, on your lost and on your special days. If they aren't there, take it like they aren't your friends, find other friends. This are fake!

Deyth Banger

#74. Real men are real friends, showing their real commitment.

KRS-One

#75. The artist's work constitutes the only satisfactory relationship he can have with his fellow men since he seeks his real friends among the dead and the unborn.

Lawrence Durrell

#76. While friendship has been by far the chief source of my happiness, acquaintance or general society has always meant little to me, and I cannot quite understand why a man should wish to know more people than he can make real friends of.

C.S. Lewis

#77. I just feel so fortunate, A, that I'm able to talk to people and B, keep in contact with my real friends.

Kirby Bliss Blanton

#78. L.A. just doesn't seem real to me. Chicago does. My real friends are there. It's home.

Chris O'Donnell

#79. Even at age 10, I already knew that I was different from most people. My anxiety disorder was still years from being diagnosed, but it affected me quite deeply. I was too afraid to speak out in class, too nervous to make real friends.

Jenny Lawson

#80. Truly honest people don't have many friends, but they do have real friends

Steven Aitchison

#81. Most people don't have real friends. You have people in your life waiting for opportunities to see what YOU can do for them.

Brandi L. Bates

#82. It is expressions of affection rather than money and power that attract real friends.

Dalai Lama

#83. It's definitely a dream come true to be recognized and to be able to sign autographs. But, it's also a lot of hard work and can be draining. If you don't know already, you will quickly learn who your real friends are.

Christina Aguilera

#84. The real friends of the space voyager are the stars. Their friendly, familiar patterns are constant companions, unchanging, out there.

Jim Lovell

#85. The only good thing about times of adversity is that you realize who your real friends and fans are - and the rest go away - which in my mind is an OK thing.

Pete Wentz

#86. If you can't tell your friends to fuck off with a smile and know they aren't going anywhere, then you don't have real friends.

Brooke Blaine

#87. Going home and spending time with your family and your real friends keeps you grounded.

Jennifer Ellison

#88. Real friends. The kind that don't purposely hurt your feelings or stop liking you for no reason.

Kristin Hannah

#89. I am convinced that we as adults must constantly cling to, affirm, and celebrate with our children those things we love, sunsets, laughter, the taste of a good meal, the warmth of a hickory fire shared by real friends, the joy of discovery and accomplishment, the constant surprises of life.

Eliot Wigginton

#90. You find out who your real friends are when you're involved in a scandal.

Elizabeth Taylor

#91. We need to strengthen such inner values as contentment, patience and tolerance, as well as compassion for others. Keeping in mind that it is expressions of affection rather than money and power that attract real friends, compassion is the key to ensuring our own well-being.

Dalai Lama

#92. People come and go in this lifetime. Some merely pass us by. Some stay with us for a little while. Some leave as quickly as they come. However, when real friends come, they stay and never leave.

Kcat Yarza

#93. 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

#94. Real friends tell you the truth ... even when you want them to shut up.

Wes Fesler

#95. When you 'make good,' you find out who your real friends are. You find out pretty quick. And it's a very ambivalent feeling, because you're, like, happy you found out that people are [jerkfaces], but you're kinda sad because you think, 'Wow, I wasted so much time being this person's friend.'

Greg Camp

#96. Love the people that wanna see you be successful and help you expecting nothing in return. That's priceless. Those are real friends.

Mark Patterson

#97. Real friends require honesty, openness, and even vulnerability. They also require attention and simple acts of kindness.

Mary Pipher

#98. Every once in a while, I hear somebody call me Tracy to try to let me know that they know me, you know, personally. But most of my real friends will call me Trey, or 'Ice' was basically short for Iceberg. So they would call me - some of my boys call me Berg.

Ice-T

#99. Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends.

Tom Waits

#100. Family over friends, because real friends are family

Drake