Top 72 Quotes About Who Your Real Friends Are
#1. 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
#2. 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
#3. 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
#4. You find out who your real friends are when you're involved in a scandal.
Elizabeth Taylor
#5. 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
#6. 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
#7. Weddings and funerals are when you figure out who your real friends are.
Amy Dickinson
#8. 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
#9. School is tough sometimes, but it's all about knowing who your real friends are.
Ariana Grande
#10. 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
#11. 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
#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. 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
#14. 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
#15. You can always make a film somehow. You can beg, borrow, steal the equipment, use credit cards, use your friends' goodwill, wheedle your way into this or that situation. The real problem is, how do you get people to see it once it is made?
Walter Murch
#16. Our whole lives, it was like we were always trying so hard to be perfect - for our families and our friends, for each other - when the funny thing was, we didn't have to. In the end, we were better than that.
Brenna Yovanoff
#17. You just...you don't take crap from anyone. But not in the fake, rebellious way that most kids do it, like they got something to prove. You're real, and people respect you a lot for that.
Christina Daley
#19. These people are real to me, and situations keep coming up where their emergence feels natural. It's like meeting old friends. I hope readers feel the same way.
Jonathan Kellerman
#20. Isn't the real scandal not that our religious leaders might be imagined walking across a road or talking as friends together in a bar, but rather that their followers are found speaking against one another as enemies, day after day in situation after situation?
Brian D. McLaren
#21. If thou wilt lend this money, lend it not
As to thy friends; for when did friendship take
A breed for barren metal of his friend?
William Shakespeare
#22. Grace began to understand. "I have friends," she protested. "I have Zaddie."
"Zaddie is just a little colored girl," Mary-Love pointed out. "It's all right to play with Zaddie, but she's not your real friend. John Robert can be your real little friend.
Michael McDowell
#23. How much good inside a day? Depends how good you live 'em.
Shel Silverstein
#24. To be a friend takes time, and time is what nobody has. Therefore, real friends are rare.
Suzanne Massie
#25. You Too? I thought I was the only one.
C.S. Lewis
#26. Friendship by its very nature consists in loving, rather than in being loved.
Henry Clay Trumbull
#27. A man has a false heart in his mouth for all the world to see, another in his breast to show all his special friends and his family, and the real one, the true one, the secret one, which is not known to anyone except himself alone.
James Clavell
#28. These were the companions who justified my principles, who gave me the strength to continue against any foe, real or imagined. These were the companions who fought the helplessness, the rage, and frustration.
These were the friends who gave me my life.
R.A. Salvatore
#29. The wicked can have only accomplices, the voluptuous have companions in debauchery, self-seekers have associates, the politic assemble the factions, the typical idler has connections, princes have courtiers. Only the virtuous have friends.
Voltaire
#30. Bethany." His quiet voice intruded.
Her heart turned over heavily. "This is real right?"
His face contorted as if he were in pain. "Yes, it's real."
Crazy people probably did things like this all the time. Asked their imaginary alien friends if they were real, and of course, they'd say yes.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#31. It's always interesting to see what the real enthusiasts think, but they're rarely representative of the tastes of the wider audience, so I tend to write for myself, for an imagined smart 14-year-old, and for a couple of friends who are still big comics fans.
Grant Morrison
#32. Old friends are best. King James used to call for his old shoes; they were the easiest for his feet.
John Selden
#33. 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
#34. We get through life and this is part of the education process also. In real life, we meet bad bosses and good bosses and good friends and bad friends. I think we should let the teachers do their work and not impose too much stuff on them.
Philippe Falardeau
#35. I actually don't hang out with any celebrities. My closest friends are old friends. And my real close friends, none of them are actors.
Denzel Washington
#36. All appointments hurt. Five friends are made cold or hostile for every appointment; no new friends are made. All patronage is perilous to men of real ability or merit. It aids only those who lack other claims to public support.
Rutherford B. Hayes
#37. Because I am afraid of commitment. This movie certainly has some bearing and is some reflection of my real feeling about relationships, because I do have commitment issues. My friends tell me I have intimacy problems, but they don't know me, so who cares what they think?
Garry Shandling
#38. The biggest hurdle is figuring out who your friends are. Your real friends.
Eleanor Mondale
#39. 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
#40. 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
#41. Don't hate people who show you what's wrong with you. They are your mirror, they are your true friends.
C. JoyBell C.
#42. 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
#43. To me, being popular means I've got more friends. You've got to watch who your friends are, if you want to get close to them, but I've got a lot of acquaintances. And then, you've got to be real careful who your friends are, because you never know why they're your friend.
Reba McEntire
#44. I read and write for most of the day, but I do let myself be interrupted by real life. I enjoy going out with friends and try not to take myself too seriously.
William T. Vollmann
#46. Everybody has unattainable crushes too and imaginary friends. Some part of their mind that they talk to when they can't deal with talking to real people.
Kate Hattemer
#47. Make an effort with tenacity to make real impact that works and don't just create an impression with deception
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#48. When we are young, friends are, like everything else, a matter of course. In the old days we know what it means to have them.
Edvard Grieg
#49. I like to write about people who are real and likeable. I like to write about people who tell their stories in that close and intimate voice we use with best friends. I love the closeness and honesty and vulnerability that come from characters who can talk that way.
Katherine Center
#50. When I talk football with my friends, I don't talk about Tom Brady's hair. I talk about how he handles the blitz, or how he runs his offense. I talk as a fan. I don't want pink jerseys, and I don't want dumbed-down content. I want to be treated as a real fan - because I am proud to be one.
Indra Nooyi
#51. I used to write things for friends. There was this girl I had a crush on, and she had a teacher she didn't like at school. I had a real crush on her, so almost every day I would write her a little short story where she would kill him in a different way.
Stephen Colbert
#52. When the writing fit came on, she gave herself up to it with entire abandon, and led a blissful life, unconscious of want, care, or bad weather, while she sat safe and happy in an imaginary world, full of friends almost as real and dear to her as any in the flesh.
Louisa May Alcott
#53. I think that one of the things about music is it's supposed to be spontaneous, it's supposed to be real human beings bouncing off of each other whether its from the stage or to the audience, or jamming with friends.
Tod Machover
#54. It's a saying they have, that a man has a false heart in his mouth for the world to see, another in his breast to show to his special friends and his family, and the real one, the true one, the secret one, which is never known to anyone except to himself alone, hidden only God knows where.
James Clavell
#56. I don't even do anything in real life. I just sit in my studio and write, I call my friends, I watch television. I don't do anything.
Lana Del Rey
#57. What I have found is that real friends stand by you.
Jeffrey Archer
#58. Friends, much as in real life, are often more trouble than their worth.
Scott Meyers
#59. 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
#60. I don't live in Hollywood. I don't have celebrities as friends. I like them, but I don't pal around with them. I just live in the Midwest, a real normal world.
Jerry Springer
#61. Our friends through cables and computer screens are as real as the light and sound waves we alter through thought.
Belinda Subraman
#62. I watch people, friends of mine, and see how they portray themselves online and I find interesting that it's kind of a hyper-real version of yourself, how you'd like to be seen, in a way.
Trent Reznor
#63. Better to have 3 real friends than 100,000 digital ones.
Robin Sharma
#64. I'm a mechanic; I fix things that are broken. I turn into a thirty-five pound coyote. I have powerful friends. But when it comes right down to it, my real superpower is chaos." -Mercy
Patricia Briggs
#65. A real friend or mentor isn't on your payroll.
Prince
#66. I don't go and ask my friends for favours. They are real, true, incredible amazing human beings with good hearts. They have evolved as human beings. I have evolved as a human being and I have let this wall down that I had.
Shane Bunting
#67. 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
#68. I was a huge 'Friends' fan. I had a very small part. I played a real-estate agent in the very last season.
Jane Lynch
#69. Fame invades your private life. It takes away from the time that you spend with friends, and the time that you can work. It tends to isolate you from the real world.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#70. We're lucky, real lucky. Our friends lost their house. We just had some burning embers put holes in the screens.
George Martin
#71. For such a long time, when you're a writer, you really are just writing for yourself, and maybe a few friends. So it's really amazing when your book gets out there and more people are reading and responding to it. It really makes the world of the books feel real.
Cassandra Clare
#72. The real and most pressing question raised by any social problem is: How do I appear concerned and compassionate to all my friends, colleagues, and peers?
Anthony Daniels
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