Top 100 Quotes About True Friendship
#1. We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.
C.S. Lewis
#2. An honest answer is the sign of true friendship.
E.W. Howe
#3. Agreement in likes and dislikes- this, and this only, is what constitutes true friendship.
Catiline
#5. The definition of a true friend is not someone who swoops in when you're going through a rough patch. True friendship is when someone can appreciate your happiness - celebrate your happiness, even when she's not necessarily happy herself.
Sarah Jio
#6. That, they knew, was true friendship. And they knew, if you're lucky enough to find it, you hold on to it.
Sarah Addison Allen
#7. We may never be able to pay directly for the gifts of true friendship - but pay we must, even though we make our payment to someone who owes us nothing, in some other place and at some other time.
Yousuf Karsh
#8. Stick around long enough to be someone's friend. Because true friendship, once recognized, in its essence is effortless.
Vera Nazarian
#9. Friendship is the complete explanation of what a Cheetah Girl is - if you have that true friendship, you can conquer anything you want.
Sabrina Bryan
#10. True friendship is when two friends can walk in opposite directions, yet remain side by side.
Josh Grayson
#11. Or an amicable pair," said Sam. "Sorry?" "In math, that's what we call two numbers each of which is equal to the sum of the divisors of the other. The smallest ones, 220 and 284, were regarded by the Pythagoreans as symbols of true friendship.
Reginald Hill
#12. The more we seek exclusivity in friendship, the more it becomes obligatory and the less likely it is to fulfill the wonderful vision of what true friendship can be.
Harriet Lerner
#13. A reformer cannot afford to have close intimacy with him whom he seeks to reform. True friendship is an identity of souls rarely to be found in this world.
Mahatma Gandhi
#14. Secret Saturdays ought to be required reading at middle schools everywhere. Maldonado gives us both voice and heart. His young characters navigate a challenging world with endearing earnestness, lively style, and a heartening desire for true friendship and dignity.
E.R. Frank
#16. There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.
Thomas Aquinas
#17. Sustaining true friendship is a lot more challenging than we give it credit for.
Mariella Frostrup
#18. When you train a horse on a daily basis, you're a part of the horse's movement, you're a part of his motion. Everything that the horse experiences is coming from you. There's a total connection
a true friendship
and the connection touches the soul completely.
Karen O
#19. But when you are looking on anyone as a friend when you do not trust him as you trust yourself, you are making a grave mistake, and have failed to grasp sufficiently the full force of true friendship.
Seneca.
#21. In true friendship, in which I am expert, I give myself to my friend more than I draw him to me. I not only like doing him good better than having him do me good, but also would rather have him do good to himself than to me; he does me most good when he does himself good.
Michel De Montaigne
#22. True friendship is a house where we can take off our masks.
Debasish Mridha
#23. True friendship is a promise you keep forever.
Sarah Dessen
#24. True friendship is like the asphalt of life. It fills in the potholes and makes the journey smooth.
Richard G. Scott
#25. Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to appellation.
George Washington
#26. True friendship is when you are able to build walls of protection around your friends by dismissing every back biting towards them.
Euginia Herlihy
#27. Friends don't spy; true friendship is about privacy, too.
Stephen King
#29. I'd say true friendship is worth fighting for.
L.T. Suzuki
#30. With every true friendship, we build more firmly the foundations on which the peace of the whole world rests.
Mahatma Gandhi
#31. True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
Henry David Thoreau
#32. True friendship can exist only between equals.
Plato
#33. The lust and attraction are often a given in a romance novel - I want to dig into the elements of true friendship that form a foundation for a solid, gonna-last-forever romantic relationship.
Suzanne Brockmann
#34. True friendship has no boundaries. No parameters. And certainly has no conditions.
Maya Banks
#36. True friendship is counted in memories, experiences, and troubles shared; it's a bond built up over time in person, not a virtual tally on the Internet. It finds you; you don't find it.
Connor Franta
#37. Insistence on truth can come into play when one party practices untruth or injustice. Only then can love be tested. True friendship is put to the test only when one party disregards the obligation of friendship.
Mahatma Gandhi
#38. True friendship and Pure love outweigh money, fame or power in importance and is eternal currency for those who know its value...
HaaJar Johnson
#39. True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.
St. Jerome
#40. Oh, Buenos Aires, I have traveled around the world, but I've never been separated from you," said Argentine poet Jorge Luis Borges. And Saint Thomas said, "A friendship that can end has never been a true friendship." In
Alejandro Jodorowsky
#41. True love is deemed to be the most tender of our emotions, as even the blind and deaf know; but I know, what few believe, that true friendship is more tender still.
August Von Platen-Hallermunde
#42. If you loved once, and if you cared once, you never really stop. And if you build a true foundation, a true friendship, that never really goes away.
Wilmer Valderrama
#43. True friendship is self-love at second hand; where, as in a flattering mirror we may see our virtues magnified and our errors softened, and where we may fancy our opinion of ourselves confirmed by an impartial and faithful witness.
William Hazlitt
#44. All moral relationships are indissoluble according to their concept, as one can easily convince one's self by postulating their truth. A true state, a true marriage, a true friendship, and indissoluble. But no state, no marriage, no friendship corresponds completely to its concept... (Karl Marx)
Eugene Kamenka
#45. I define friendship as a bond that transcends all barriers. When you are ready to expect anything and everything from friends, good, bad or ugly ... that's what I call true friendship.
Harbhajan Singh
#46. There is little to be said in favour of poverty, but it was often an incubator of true friendship. Many people will appear to befriend you when you are wealthy, but precious few will do the same when you are poor
Nelson Mandela
#47. Emily, Megan, Jack, Luna, Patrick ... they helped me learn what true friendship is. It's never perfect, but it is important.
Sarah Ockler
#48. True friendship is as rare as twin lotuses on a single stalk.
Lauren Bjorkman
#49. I am not capable of true friendship. One of the two friends is always the slave of the other, although, often, neither of the two admits this to himself.
Mikhail Lermontov
#50. No true friendship takes account of credit and debt. It gives freely, without thought of compensation or reward.
Una McCormack
#51. I don't believe that there is any true friendship without a bond of honor, and the honor in friendship is the respect you give the other that she also gives you.
Dorothy Allison
#52. All friendships experiences challenges, periods of difficulty. But true friendships also endure. True friendships heal. ask yourself if this is a true friendship and I hope you'll agree that is what we have.
Stephen Lloyd Jones
#53. You cannot find, make or understand true friendship without having enemies.
Frank Moore Colby
#54. Friendship however is a plant which cannot be forced
true friendship is no gourd spring up in a night and withering in a day.
Charlotte Bronte
#55. Just as the dawn is the forerunner of the arising of the sun, so true friendship is the forerunner of the arising of the noble eightfold path.
Gautama Buddha
#56. A true friendship is one that is strong enough to travel the two-lane highway of honesty! EL
Evinda Lepins
#57. The worst solitute is to be destitute of true friendship.
Francis Bacon
#58. 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
#59. To desire the same things and to reject the same things, constitutes true friendship.
[Lat., Idem velle et idem nolle ea demum firma amicitia est.]
Sallust
#61. You don't unconditionally adore your friends every moment of every day. They can unintentionally hurt your feelings, or make you mad, or upset you by doing something you consider totally inappropriate. You take what they dish out because accepting they're not perfect is part of a true friendship.
Linda Welch
#62. As rare as true love actually is, true friendship is still harder to find.
Jason Lloyd
#64. True Friendship is a bliss that no person should miss,As there can be only a handful in your life who can bestow it upon you no matter Who you are? Where you are? What you are? How you are? Always Hold on Tightly to them with the Ropes of Truth,Honesty and Trust
Abhishek Sundarraman
#65. One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
#66. The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.
David Storey
#67. True friendship must be akin to romance, I think; only without all the anguish and anxiety.
Jacqueline Carey
#69. A true friendship is one where you share both Philosophies and Vulnerabilities.
Philip McKernan
#70. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.
George Washington
#71. True friendship exists when silence between two people is comfortable.
Nicholas Sparks
#73. True friendship is an unconditional, unselfish, reciprocal service not by lips, but heart to never let its in-built trust to ever fall apart.
Anuj
#75. Don't expect your friend to be a perfect person. Help your friend to become a perfect person. That is true friendship
Mother Teresa
#76. Don't forget to be your wife's best friend as well as her husband. True friendship in marriage does away with all sorts of trouble.
Blanche Ebbutt
#77. Now another illusion has been stripped from my eyes and I feel as if there wasn't such a thing as real true friendship in the world.
L.M. Montgomery
#78. False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.
Richard Burton
#79. This is the only badge of true friendship I'm sure of: not to be curious.
Richard Ford
#80. A true friendship is a love without expectations but with fair a share of contribution.
Debasish Mridha
#81. What joy to fully know and feel the bond of true friendship.
Jaye L. Knight
#82. It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.
Charles Kingsley
#83. He accepted him for what he was. And that Data concluded, was true friendship.
John Corey Whaley
#84. He was also terrified that he hadn't properly read the small print of their relationship. He forgot that true friendship is a contract in which there can be no small print.
Gilbert Adair
#87. True friendship is rare. Don't let a little dispute ruin a friendship.
Steve Maraboli
#88. The process of falling in love at first sight is as final as it is swift in such a case, but the growth of true friendship may be a lifelong affair.
Sarah Orne Jewett
#90. One of the tasks of true friendship is to listen compassionately and creatively to the hidden silences. Often secrets are not revealed in words, they lie concealed in the silence between the words or in the depth of what is unsayable between two people.
John O'Donohue
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Mark Vernon
#92. When friends grow cold, and the converse of intimates languishes into vapid civility and commonplace, these only continue the unaltered countenance of happier days, and cheer us with that true friendship which never deceived hope, nor deserted sorrow.
Washington Irving
#93. The end of the World depends on us. True friendship is the end of the World, the beginning of our play together. The secret is to begin at the end.
Anonymous
#94. True friendship resists time, distance and silence.
Isabel Allende
#95. The reward of friendship is itself. The man who hopes for anything else does not understand what true friendship is.
Aelred Of Rievaulx
#97. Sometimes in life, people get closer, but their bonds wither in no time like the vapor. It takes just a moment to know somebody and it takes just a second to connect with somebody, but the journey there on is the ultimate thing! The true meaning of true friendship is always given by the friends!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#98. True friendship, the kind the whims of life cannot break, cannot stop or limit, true friendship of this sort, you will probably find only once, and then only if you're lucky.
Emil Ostrovski
#99. To set a gloss on faint deeds, hollow welcomes,
Recanting goodness, sorry ere 'tis shown;
But where there is true friendship, there needs none.
William Shakespeare
#100. True friendship develops not as a result of money or power but on the basis of genuine human affection.
Dalai Lama
