Top 100 True Friendship Is Quotes
#1. 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
#2. True friendship is when two friends can walk in opposite directions, yet remain side by side.
Josh Grayson
#3. 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
#4. Sustaining true friendship is a lot more challenging than we give it credit for.
Mariella Frostrup
#5. True friendship is a house where we can take off our masks.
Debasish Mridha
#6. True friendship is a promise you keep forever.
Sarah Dessen
#7. True friendship is like the asphalt of life. It fills in the potholes and makes the journey smooth.
Richard G. Scott
#8. 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
#9. True friendship is when you are able to build walls of protection around your friends by dismissing every back biting towards them.
Euginia Herlihy
#10. Friends don't spy; true friendship is about privacy, too.
Stephen King
#11. I'd say true friendship is worth fighting for.
L.T. Suzuki
#13. 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
#14. 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
#15. 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
#16. 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
#17. Emily, Megan, Jack, Luna, Patrick ... they helped me learn what true friendship is. It's never perfect, but it is important.
Sarah Ockler
#18. True friendship is as rare as twin lotuses on a single stalk.
Lauren Bjorkman
#19. 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
#20. 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
#21. A true friendship is one that is strong enough to travel the two-lane highway of honesty! EL
Evinda Lepins
#22. 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
#23. As rare as true love actually is, true friendship is still harder to find.
Jason Lloyd
#24. 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
#25. One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
#26. The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.
David Storey
#27. A true friendship is one where you share both Philosophies and Vulnerabilities.
Philip McKernan
#28. 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
#30. 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
#31. A true friendship is a love without expectations but with fair a share of contribution.
Debasish Mridha
#32. 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
#34. True friendship is rare. Don't let a little dispute ruin a friendship.
Steve Maraboli
#36. 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
#37. 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
#38. The reward of friendship is itself. The man who hopes for anything else does not understand what true friendship is.
Aelred Of Rievaulx
#40. 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
#41. There is nothing to me but you. I know it's pathetic but, oh darling, it's true.
F.K. Preston
#42. 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
#43. Agreement in likes and dislikes- this, and this only, is what constitutes true friendship.
Catiline
#44. Stick around long enough to be someone's friend. Because true friendship, once recognized, in its essence is effortless.
Vera Nazarian
#45. 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
#46. 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
#47. 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
#48. 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
#50. 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
#51. 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
#52. 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
#53. There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.
Thomas Aquinas
#54. It is hard to have a true friend, and it is harder to be the one ...
Tran Dai Nghia
#55. Ten minutes with a genuine friend is better than years spent with anyone less.
Crystal Woods
#56. 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
#57. 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
#58. The most valuable gift you can receive is an honest friend.
Stephen Richards
#59. Demons run when a good man goes to war
Night will fall and drown the sun
When a good man goes to war
Friendship dies and true love lies
Night will fall and the dark will rise
When a good man goes to war
Demons run, but count the cost
The battle's won, but the child is lost
Steven Moffat
#60. Sometimes being a friend is enough in its own right to inspire someone on to victory.
Stephen Richards
#61. The friend that always finds time to spend with you without consulting his or her calendar is a true friend.
Ellen J. Barrier
#62. It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.
E.B. White
#63. 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
#65. It's true: lives do drift apart for no obvious reason. We're all busy people,we can't spend our time simply trying to stay in touch. The test of a friendship is if it can weather these inevitable gaps.
William Boyd
#66. Love is the most precious gift in life. Be grateful for all the love and support you get from your parents, your family and friends. Because nothing is as precious as receiving true and devoted love" - Monsieur Jac Couture
Lily Amis
#67. 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
#68. One man has one great true thing in his life. One great good thing that is true!
Tennessee Williams
#69. 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
#70. 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
#71. True sacrifice is the offering of self so that God can realize the power of creativity, compassion and friendship in and through your life.
Keith Ward
#72. The true way and the sure way to friendship is through humility-being open to each other, accepting each other just as we are, knowing each other.
Mother Teresa
#73. 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
#74. Despite I may be surrounded by many friends, there is not one that interests me as much as you do
Auliq Ice
#75. We love everything on our own account; we even follow our own taste and inclination when we prefer our friends to ourselves; and yet it is this preference alone that constitutes true and perfect friendship.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#76. ... helping each other to have a true gaze on reality, on the circumstances we are living in, is the first gesture of friendship we can offer each other for living like human beings in the presence of the needs of the world.
Julian Carron
#77. No, the true face is wretchedly simple and empty. The absolute joy in life, in friendship, in love, is learning about a person, deciphering them, taking each and every mask off to find a new one, waiting to be explored and understood.
Tarun Shanker
#78. I once heard a preacher say, "The reason we sometimes connect so quickly with a complete stranger is because the friendship is not of this life, but is the resumption of a friendship from another." I do not know if this is true, but sometimes it feels true.
Richard Paul Evans
#79. Your true friends dont shy away from keeping you in check because your wellbeing is more important to them than even your friendship and they'd rather risk offending you than watch you harm yourself.
Omar Suleiman
#81. A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success!
Doug Larson
#82. If you'd be beloved, make yourself amiable. A true friend is the best possession.
Benjamin Franklin
#83. What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#84. A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.
Bernard Meltzer
#85. I am one whose faith is, that love and friendship, with ardent natures, are like those trees of the torrid zone which yield fruit but once, and then die.
Edward John Trelawny
#87. 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
#89. As you go through life's rich tapestry, you realize that most people you meet aren't fit to shine your shoes. It's a sad fact, but it's true. A good friend is someone who'd hide you if you were on the run for murder. How many of them do you know?
Lemmy Kilmister
#90. He can hardly be a true friend to another, who is an enemy to himself.
James Howell
#91. I loved you as a boy and fell in love with you as a man. You're in here so deep that there is no you, no me. Only us.
Kelly Moran
#93. There's that moment every day when you look in the mirror: Are you committed, or are you not?
Commitment is a big part of what I am and what I believe. How committed you are to winning? How committed you are to being a good friend? To being successful?
Ebelsain Villegas
#94. I'd had a little feeling of destiny. Because, you see, what I mean about affinities is true from friendships down to even the accidental glance at someone on the street-there's always a definite reason somewhere. I think even the poets would agree with me.
Patricia Highsmith
#96. This is the only badge of true friendship I'm sure of: not to be curious.
Richard Ford
#97. Oh, a friend! How true is that old saying, that the enjoyment of one is sweeter and more necessary than that of the elements of water and fire!
Michel De Montaigne
#98. It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.
Charles Kingsley
#99. A single spark is not enough to warm a room nor is a single seed enough to grow a fruitful crop. Deep love - true heart love - must grow
Lisa See
#100. A good friend will warn me if danger is in my path. I cannot see with my eyes, so I must use my other senses and the white cane to help me navigate safely. But, help from a sighted friend is always appreciated.
Gretchen Preston