Top 100 Quotes About True Friendship
#1. There's a reason we'll all end up with just a handful of true friends in our life. These are the people that have taken the time to look at our heart, so despite any flaws they're forever in our lives.
Ron Baratono
#2. Friendship gives us the strength to turn from lambs into lions.
Stephen Richards
#3. You know how some people, when they're together, they somehow make you feel more hopeful? Make you feel like the world is not the insane place it really is?
Rebecca Wells
#4. We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.
C.S. Lewis
#5. An honest answer is the sign of true friendship.
E.W. Howe
#6. There is nothing to me but you. I know it's pathetic but, oh darling, it's true.
F.K. Preston
#7. Your love for your friend should be grounded in Me, and for My sake you should love whoever seems to be good and is very dear to you in this life. Without Me friendship has no strength and cannot endure. Love which I do not bind is neither true nor pure.
Thomas A Kempis
#8. I was tired of pretending that I was someone else just to get along with people, just for the sake of having friendships.
Kurt Cobain
#9. Agreement in likes and dislikes- this, and this only, is what constitutes true friendship.
Catiline
#10. They all behaved as if they were absolutely disgusted by this, and amid the ribbing and hilarity that this elaborate performance of disgust and envy produced they were able to hide their true feelings of disgust and envy.
Jonathan Lynn
#11. All friends are not for life, but if you have a true friend, you have a life.
Lois Wyse
#12. Friends disappear
or they are powerless.
This is what misfortune means
an acid test of friendship.
I wouldn't wish it on anyone.
Anne Carson
#14. Give us a man, young or old, high or low, on whom we know we can thoroughly depend, who will stand firm when others fail; the friend faithful and true, the adviser honest and fearless, the adversary just and chivalrous,-in such a one there is a fragment of the Rock of Ages.
Arthur Penrhyn Stanley
#15. 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
#16. With true love, you can move mountains, make unusual sacrifices, live a life of deprivations and still be happy.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
#17. 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
#18. 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
#19. A true friend let's you know that the door is always open, even when it's closed.
Charles F. Glassman
#20. Stick around long enough to be someone's friend. Because true friendship, once recognized, in its essence is effortless.
Vera Nazarian
#21. Only a true best friend can protect you from your immortal enemies.
Richelle Mead
#22. I thank you for my friends, for those who understand me better than I understand myself. For those who know me at my worst, and still like me. For those who have forgiven me when I had no right to expect to be forgiven. Help me to be as true to my friends as I would wish them to be to me.
William Barclay
#23. Irony of "importance": Those who deserve, don't get it; Those who don't, get it in abundance by you.
Shivam Singh
#24. The only reason a true friend won't be there to pick you up is because they are lying beneath you from trying to break your fall.
Tommy Cotton
#25. The great thing about true best friends is that when you go MIA for a few months, they inquire but they don't press. Best friends know the power of infatuation but also how quickly it dissipates. You just have to wait it out. And then afterward, tease them about it for decades.
Mindy Kaling
#26. 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
#27. You were spying on me?" I repeated, this time my tone was stern.
"Nonsense! I was making sure you were safe." He answered, fluttering his wings and landing in front of me. "That's what friends do.
Grace Fiorre
#28. They adore you beacause they think you offer up your friendship and ask for nothing in return. But that's not true-' He took a deep breath. 'You do ask for something. You ask that we never expect you to need us.
Kamila Shamsie
#29. Be true to yourself.
Make each day your masterpiece.
Help others.
Drink deeply from good books.
Make friendship a fine art.
Build a shelter against a rainy day.
Pray for guidance and give thanks for your blessings every day.
John Wooden
#31. True friendship is when two friends can walk in opposite directions, yet remain side by side.
Josh Grayson
#33. Dont judge me on my past but judge for my present,Love me as I will love you,Care for me as I will care for you' because I am your true friend as you are mine.
Michael Kedzlie
#34. 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
#35. Beware of those who speak ill of others in your presence; don't be surprised of what they say about you in your absence.
A.J. Garces
#36. 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
#37. 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
#38. We like people for their qualities, but we love them for their defects." In writing this line I meant to say that we must not simply "accept" imperfection when it is revealed to us - we must celebrate it. This, I assure you, is the true sign of friendship.
Ron Perlman
#39. The Infinity sign goes round and round without an end, and true love bears the same pattern.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#40. A friend is someone who will always be there for you, in good and hard times.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#41. It is better for a realist to bend his will and ethics to accommodate a true friend than it is for him to stick to his principles that may turn the friend into an adversary.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
#42. 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
#43. It is a friend's duty that he does not leave his friend in a difficult position but provide intimacy and support to him. In difficulty who leaves is a false and the one not quitting is a true friend.
Acharya Mahapragya
#44. True friends walks in when the rest of the world has walked out.
Walter Winchell
#45. Strangers will show you the way
But a true friend will escort you,
to your destination.
1st November, 2006
Tushar Mangl
#46. I don't know how to be anything but pretend," I replied, and it ached in me how true that really was. "But if I could be real, I'd be real for you.
R. J. Anderson
#47. 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
#50. We have been friends together
In sunshine and in shade.
Caroline Norton
#51. If a normally kind, agreeable person makes an enemy of you, you ought to ask yourself why.
Joyce Rachelle
#52. You'd be hard-pressed to find an old person who would trade in a true friend for any amount of popularity or fame. You'd also be hard-pressed to find a young person who wouldn't.
Dan Pearce
#53. Remember, a friend does not need you to impress him. A friend loves you because you are true to yourself, not because you agree with him. Beware of grand gestures; the real mettle of friendship is forged in life's daily workings.
Ethan Hawke
#55. Your true friend is the one who will never walk away in your time of need.
Regardless of the situation, time or location, your true friend will stand by you
Ellen J. Barrier
#56. Though the trials of life are never easy, someone to stand with you and help you with your burdens is one of the true essences of living. It is well that two should join together to face life as friends as well as lovers.
Micheal Rivers
#57. There should be no inferiors and no superiors for true world friendship.
Carlos P. Romulo
#58. Hatred or disliking for someone is something that doesn't come easily but once it comes, it make sure not to leave your heart and mind and stay there either for ever or a long time.
Shivam Singh
#59. True friends are those who really know you but love you anyway.
Edna Buchanan
#60. A strong friendship doesn't need daily conversation, doesn't always need togetherness, as long as the relationship lives in the heart, true friends will never part.
Auliq Ice
#61. 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
#62. A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute. He may not seem such a good friend after telling.
Arthur Brisbane
#63. There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.
Thomas Aquinas
#64. Everyone keeps saying i've changed nah i've jus separated was real and was fake
Blanco Vandam
#65. The only true test of friendship is the time your friend spends on you.
John Marsden
#66. A true friend is a person who knows the darkest part of your life and still loves you.
Osunsakin Adewale
#67. Sustaining true friendship is a lot more challenging than we give it credit for.
Mariella Frostrup
#68. A true best friend loves you even when it seems like you've gone off the deep end.
Liz Fenton
#69. It is hard to have a true friend, and it is harder to be the one ...
Tran Dai Nghia
#70. Ten minutes with a genuine friend is better than years spent with anyone less.
Crystal Woods
#71. True Love can be no deeper than your capacity for friendship, no higher than your ideals, and no broader than the scope of your vision.
Helen Rowland
#72. We are going to have that thing everyone talks about, that indescribable, indefinable thing that everybody wants to find...Here's to endless stargazing.
Ella Harper
#73. 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
#74. Friendship is like a rose ... opening one petal at a time, only as it unfolds ... day by day it reveals its true beauty.
Joan Walsh Anglund
#75. 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.
#77. Rid your body of its impurities, let your speech be true and sweet, feel friendship for the world, and with humility seek wealth and knowledge.
Tirumalai Krishnamacharya
#78. 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
#79. True heroes and ideas never fall in the final sense of the word. They can only encounter temporary setbacks in their difficult journey to progress and success,
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
#80. It is not easy to stop thinking ill of others.Usually one must enter into a friendship with a person who has accomplished that great feat himself.Then something might start to rub off on you of that true elegance.
Hafez
#81. True friendship is a house where we can take off our masks.
Debasish Mridha
#82. True friendship is a promise you keep forever.
Sarah Dessen
#83. True friendship is like the asphalt of life. It fills in the potholes and makes the journey smooth.
Richard G. Scott
#84. A true friend has your best interests at heart and the pluck to tell you what you need to hear.
E.A. Bucchianeri
#85. Often people that criticise your life are usually the same people that don't know the price you paid to get where you are today. True friends see the full picture of your soul.
Shannon L. Alder
#86. Cousin Jimmy thinks I did perfectly right. Cousin Jimmy would think I had done perfectly right if I had murdered Andrew and buried him in the Land of Uprightness. It's very nice to have one friend like that, though too many wouldn't be good for you.
L.M. Montgomery
#87. 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
#88. Only a true friend would try to get someone she cared about to become princess over herself.
Kiera Cass
#89. I miss your silent stature, your avoided days of disaster, your present state of distress.
I'm cinnamon, cloves and fire, you are the rested cedarwood of desire.
Coco J. Ginger
#90. When twilight drops her curtain down And pins it with a star Remember that you have a friend Though she may wander far.
L.M. Montgomery
#91. I consider myself to be a true friend of the Israeli people. But I define friendship as someone who takes care of a friend, who just doesn't use or exploit a friend. And, you know, there's that old adage: 'Friends don't let friends drive drunk'.
Scott Ritter
#92. True friendship is when you are able to build walls of protection around your friends by dismissing every back biting towards them.
Euginia Herlihy
#93. If you don't find the right set of eyes to see through your bull, you will always be surrounded by friends that will tell you white lies because they like your company and don't want to ruin the evening.
Shannon L. Alder
#94. The mind of man can only teach what he has learned from others. It is how you use that knowledge that will decide who you are.
Micheal Rivers
#95. True happiness
Consists not in the multitude of friends,
But in the worth and choice.
Ben Jonson
#96. Friends don't spy; true friendship is about privacy, too.
Stephen King
#98. This was no friendship, to forsake your friend, To promise your support and at the end Abandon him-this was sheer treachery. Friend follows friend to hell and blasphemy- When sorrow comes one's true friends are found; In times of joy ten thousand gather round.
Farid Al-Din Attar
#100. True friends are like diamonds. They shine for you even on the darkest days.
Charles F. Glassman
