Top 100 True Friend Is Quotes
#1. An honest answer is the sign of true friendship.
E.W. Howe
#2. 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
#3. As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relationships with this best and truest friend of mankind that death's image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
#4. I always wanted to know what it is right. Maybe we know each other from time immemorial, if you know that in you is the eternal energy of goodness, which is most important for you.
Gregor Golob
#5. Agreement in likes and dislikes- this, and this only, is what constitutes true friendship.
Catiline
#6. The Voice
There is a voice inside of you
That whispers all day long,
"I feel this is right for me,
I know that this is wrong."
No teacher, preacher, parent, friend
Or wise man can decide
What's right for you
just listen to
The voice that speaks inside.
Shel Silverstein
#7. What is true is that I have at times earned my own crust of bread, and at other times a friend has given it to me out of the goodness of his heart. I have lived whatever way I could, for better or for worse, taking things just as they came.
Vincent Van Gogh
#8. 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
#9. A dog is adorable and noble, a dog is a true and loving friend. A dog is also a hedonist.
Mary Oliver
#10. Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man!
Charles Eastman
#11. 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
#12. While it is often true that the enemy of my enemy is my friend, it seems like Yahoo's almost obsessive focus on Google is taking away from its other businesses.
Kara Swisher
#13. Sir 25:12 Blessed is he that findeth a true friend,
Various
#14. Winckelmann wished to live with a work of art as a friend. The saying is true of pen and pencil. Fresh lustre shoots from Lycidas in a twentieth perusal. The portraits of Clarendon are mellowed by every year of reflection.
Robert Aris Willmott
#15. A true friend let's you know that the door is always open, even when it's closed.
Charles F. Glassman
#16. Stick around long enough to be someone's friend. Because true friendship, once recognized, in its essence is effortless.
Vera Nazarian
#18. A true friend is someone with whom protocol is no longer necessary.
Simon Sinek
#19. 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
#20. To be alone means that you avoid bad company. But to have a true friend is better than being alone.
Umar
#21. You kind of need to weed through who is wanting to be a true friend.
AJ Michalka
#22. 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
#23. A friend is someone who will always be there for you, in good and hard times.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#24. 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
#25. 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
#26. To have as one's ever-present friend, and to be conscious that one has as his ever-present friend, the Holy Spirit and to surrender one's life in all it's departments entirely to His control - this is true Christian living.
R.A. Torrey
#27. The little black dress is the true friend ... she travels with you ... is patient and constant ... you go to her when you don't know where else to go and she is ALWAYS reliable and timeless.
Diane Von Furstenberg
#29. A true friend is one who likes you despite your achievements.
Arnold Bennett
#30. 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
#31. Be you.
That, my friend,
is the change you want
to become in the world.
Frederick Espiritu
#32. Who is the true friend of the people? Fascism is. Who has done the most for the working man? The USSR or Hitler? Hitler has ... Who has done the most for the small businessman? Not Thorez but Hitler!
Louis-Ferdinand Celine
#33. 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
#34. If fear is the great enemy of intimacy, love is its true friend.
Henri Nouwen
#35. True genius is a complete stranger to most, a momentary acquaintance to others, a lasting friend to few.
Dan Groat
#36. 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
#37. 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
#38. A writer friend who was born in England summed up her feelings for the semicolon in a remark worthy of Henry James: "There is no pleasure so acute as that of a well-placed semicolon." I guess the opposite of that is that there is no displeasure so obtuse as that of an ill-placed semicolon.
Mary Norris
#39. The only true test of friendship is the time your friend spends on you.
John Marsden
#40. A true friend is a person who knows the darkest part of your life and still loves you.
Osunsakin Adewale
#41. True love is finding your soulmate in your best friend
Faye Hall
#42. It is hard to have a true friend, and it is harder to be the one ...
Tran Dai Nghia
#43. Ten minutes with a genuine friend is better than years spent with anyone less.
Crystal Woods
#44. 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
#45. It is true that I have sent six bullets through the head of my best friend, and yet I hope to show by this statement that I am not his murderer.
H.P. Lovecraft
#46. We are all, in the private kingdom of our hearts, desperate for the company of a wise, true friend. Someone who isn't embarrassed by our emotions, or her own, who recognizes that life is short and all that we have to offer, in the end, is love.
Steve Almond
#47. True friendship is like the asphalt of life. It fills in the potholes and makes the journey smooth.
Richard G. Scott
#48. Women will always choose the man over the best friend. This is a sad but true fact of life, and it's only this certitude that makes me unashamed to admit it.
Megan McCafferty
#49. They say that dog is man's best friend, and I think it's true. My dog does a lot of the same stuff my best friend does, like drool on my couch, mooch my food and hump my wife.
Brad Wilkerson
#51. A real friend is one with whom you can be silent.
Anonymous
#52. New technology is the true friend of full employment; the indispensable ally of progress; and the surest guarantee of prosperity.
Margaret Thatcher
#53. Finding a best friend is like finding a true love: when you meet yours, you just know.
Lynn Weingarten
#54. Every true friend is a glimpse of God.
Lucy Larcom
#55. You know that you're a true friend when somebody says "But what about that wart on the end of his nose?" and your honest response is "What wart?". You see true friends accept you for what you are, wart and all.
Jeffrey Michael
#56. The most valuable gift you can receive is an honest friend.
Stephen Richards
#57. It is true that you can't choose your family, but you can choose your friends.
It is also true that you can choose your partner and in doing so, you end up choosing the family you've always wanted.
J.R. Rim
#58. Sometimes being a friend is enough in its own right to inspire someone on to victory.
Stephen Richards
#59. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself - and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them.
Jim Morrison
#60. Picking a best friend who stands up for what she believes in, is true to herself and allows you to be yourself without judgement of how 'cool' you are? Well, now you're picking a friend for life.
Renee Olstead
#61. I am told by my toad, Treacle, that Pangur Ban is the true lord of Wychwoode and a great friend of Gwydion. Has the cat not told you this himself yet?
Robert Carter
#62. The friend that always finds time to spend with you without consulting his or her calendar is a true friend.
Ellen J. Barrier
#63. That I might live alone once with my gold!
O, 'tis a sweet companion! kind and true:
A man may trust it when his father cheats him,
Brother, or friend, or wife. O wondrous pelf!
That which makes all men false, is true itself.
Ben Jonson
#64. It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.
E.B. White
#65. A true friend is the one who treats you and gives you advices, exactly as if he is treating himself and giving advices to himself, so if you are a true friend never ever talk about your friends behind their backs, cause you must be sure that you are talking about yourself
Mona Hanie
#66. The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.
Elbert Hubbard
#67. Mouse was the truest friend I ever had. And if there is such a thing as true evil, he was that too.
Walter Mosley
#68. There is nothing more glorious - nothing that does more honour to true virtue, than the confidence with which one approaches a friend of tried integrity.
Antoine Francois Prevost D'Exiles
#69. True friendshipmultiplies the good in life and divides its evils. strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island ... to find one real friend in a lifetime is a good fortune;to keep him is a blessing
Baltasar Gracian
#70. I have a friend whose theory is that you're from wherever you went to high school. I think that's mostly true.
Steven Soderbergh
#71. The horse must understand and accept any demands made by rider without any resistance. Reward the horse each time he does what is asked of him. Never ask for more than he is capable of giving. Make him a COMPANION, and not a slave, then you will see what a true friend he is.
Nuno Oliveira
#72. Being there when things are easy is one of the benefits of being a good friend. Being there when things get difficult is one of the tests.
Nina Guilbeau
#73. Should anyone attempt to deceive you by false expressions, and not be a true friend at heart, act in the same manner, and thus art will defeat art. [If you would catch a man let him think he is catching you.]
Cato The Younger
#74. 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
#75. There is no better friendship booster than the ability to listen. The ability to show genuine interest in others is an admirable quality of a true friend.
Phil Callaway
#76. I look back now and realize that the gift of a true friend is that she sees you not the way you see yourself or the way others see you. A true friend sees you for who you are and who you can become.
Robin Jones Gunn
#77. Dogs are easier to love than people; they're certainly more dependable. Once they love you, that's it. A true friend in life is a dog.
Joan Rivers
#78. True friendshipship is like phosphorescence-it glows best when the world around you goes dark.
Denise Martin
#79. The flatterer's object is to please in everything he does; whereas the true friend always does what is right, and so often gives pleasure, often pain, not wishing the latter, but not shunning it either, if he deems it best.
Plutarch
#80. He, that noble prize possessing He that boasts a friend that's true, He whom woman's love is blessing, Let him join the chorus too!
Friedrich Schiller
#81. Friend is a very small word,
A little sound we make,
For one who is true, one who will do,
Great deeds for friendship's sake.
Brian Jacques
#82. I wanted to tell it like it is, that they were right: it's nerve-wracking being a teenager. But instead, I explained to them the importance of being a trusted friend, and that friendship made the teenage years fun, when true camaraderie grew and developed.
Oddny Eir
#83. Prosperity makes friends and adversity tries them. A true friend is one soul in two bodies
Aristotle.
#84. You find out who your true friends are not when you are on top of the world, but when the world is on top of you.
Richard M. Nixon
#85. That is the true mingling of kinship when a man can tell someone all his thoughts; anything is better than to be fickle; he is no true friend who only says pleasant things.
Anonymous
#86. Probably the most neglected friend you have is you. And yet every man, before he can be a true friend to the world, must first become a friend to himself.
L. Ron Hubbard
#87. But we may go further, and affirm most truly, that it is a mere and miserable solitude to want true friends; without which the world is but a wilderness.
Francis Bacon
#88. That's the difference, a true friend is happy for you no matter what you do and what you have and quite frankly I didn't have the time for meaningless conversations or friendships that drained me of my energy.
Christie Barlow
#89. The true measure of a best friend is where they are when you "make" the biggest decision of your life, not where they were during the decision process.
Shannon L. Alder
#90. If you find one true friend in life, you're richer than most. If that one true friend is your husband, you're blessed.
Mitch Albom
#91. The older I get, the more I realize what a gift a true friend is. Especially since my mom can't make me return those.
Tyler Oakley
#92. 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
#93. The sickness of a family member, friend or neighbor is a call to Christians to demonstrate true compassion, that gentle and persevering sharing in another's pain.
Pope John Paul II
#94. A true friend is a friend for whom life is worth living.
Debasish Mridha
#95. Linda Tripp has shown that a true friend is an archivist, a biographer.
Mary Schmich
#96. The one who praises you is a thief. The one who criticizes you is your true friend.
Seungsahn
#97. The most beautiful is to see the joy in your eyes.
Gregor Golob
#98. For my boyhood's friend hath fallen, the pillar of my trust,
The true, the wise, the beautiful, is sleeping in the dust.
George Stillman Hillard
#100. Serena's not worried her friend is gonna feel bad she's not as good at tennis as Serena is. You know why? Because in order to be as good as Serena, you have to decide that your goal is that NO ONE is going to be as good as you are at tennis.
Then you have to make it true.
Shonda Rhimes
