True Friend Quotes

I say find one true friend to help you get through the tough times.

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.

True friendshipship is like phosphorescence-it glows best when the world around you goes dark.

A true friend has your best interests at heart and the pluck to tell you what you need to hear.

A strong friendship doesn't need daily conversation or being together. As long as the relationship lives in the heart, true friends never part.

True friendship is sitting together in silence and feeling like it was the best conversation you've ever had.

True friends will pick you up when you fall. The bad friends will have been the one who made you fall in the first place.

A true friend is someone who never gets tired listening to your pointless drama over and over again.

A true friend sees the first tear, catches the second an stops the third.

A true friend is someone you can trust with all your secrets.

You long for one true friend? You have one. And because you do, you have a choice. You can... ponder the malice of your monster or the kindness of your Christ.

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.

A true friend is someone who is always there during the ups and downs. I have had a lot of positive things happen in my life, but I also have had some negative things that are not so fun to deal with, and not only do I have to hear it from my friends, but also everyone else as well, so it is nice to have my friends there to help me get through everything.

Suffering is the greatest treasure on earth; it purifies the soul. In suffering, we learn who our true friend is.

True friends... face in the same direction, toward common projects, interests, goals.

Have friends, not for the sake of receiving, but of giving.

You cannot find, make or understand true friendship without having enemies.

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.

A true friend is a sort of second self.

A true friend never asks of you what they know you would never ask of them.

My theory is that you find out who your true friends are when something good happens to you, not when something bad happens to you. Everybody loves you when something bad happens to you. Then you're easy to love.

The wise man, the true friend, the finished character, we seek everywhere, and only find in fragments.

True friends. Hardest thing to find, but you never look for them - they found you ; you just grow into each other

You find that being vulnerable is the only way to allow your heart to feel true pleasure that's so real it scares you. You find strength in knowing you have a true friend and possibly a soul mate who will remain loyal to the end.

Success makes enemies of those who would have never been true friends.

Being a person's true friend means endorsing the untruths he holds dearest.

It is above all in the present democratic age that the true friends of liberty and human grandeur must remain constantly vigilant and ready to prevent the social power from lightly sacrificing the particular rights of a few individuals to the general execution of its designs. In such times there is no citizen so obscure that it is not very dangerous to allow him to be oppressed, and there are no individual rights so unimportant that they can be sacrificed to arbitrariness with impunity.

True friends appear less moved than counterfeit.

You have had your last bad meal. But, you have also heard your last honest compliment, and you have lost your last true friend.

We need books...because we are all, in the private kingdoms of our hearts, desperate for the company of a wise, true friend.

Yet the true friend of the people should see that they be not too poor, for extreme povery lowers the character of the democracy; measures therefore should be taken which will give them lasting prosperity; and as this is equally the interest of all classes, the proceeds of the public revenues should be accumulated and distributed among its poor, if possible, in such quantities as may enable them to purchase a little farm, or, at any rate, make a beginning in trade or husbandry.

A true friend to me is someone who will be there when the chips are down.

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.

Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul.

But what is the good of friendship if one cannot say exactly what one means? Anybody can say charming things and try to please and to flatter, but a true friend always says unpleasant things, and does not mind giving pain. Indeed, if he is a really true friend he prefers it, for he knows that then he is doing good.

I don't know if I've ever been in a clique. The older I've gotten, the more I've realized what a true friend really is. So my friendship circle has changed a bit.

Well, my life hasn't really changed... I've been homeschooled for a long time. So that helped a lot because of shooting and stuff. But, I have had friends who I've been friends with for years and years and they are my true friends, you know?

I love God, Jesus Christ, my three children, mother, father, brother, sisters, family in general, my pets, my students, and true friends.

A true friend holds you accountable to your best self.

When a woman becomes her own best friend life is easier.

My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

A true friend is the one who holds your hand and touches your heart.

If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.

A true friend to me is someone that comes over for dinner, and hangs out with my daughter, someone I party with on a regular basis.

Loving, hating, having expectations: all these are attachments. Attachment prevents the growth of one's true being.

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.

The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

My mama is my best friend. We have fun, we can talk about anything, she always is on my side but really quick to tell me when I'm wrong. That's a true friend. She's loyal, smart, witty and intelligent. She loves family and loves to travel. All the things I love!

It had the effect of cementing the Anglo-American alliance. What's the good of having bases if when you want to use them you're not allowed to by the home country. It made America realise that Britain was her real and true friend, when they were hard up against it and wanted something, and that no one else in Europe was. They're a weak lot, some of them in Europe you know. Weak. Feeble.

Agreement in likes and dislikes - this, and this only, is what constitutes true friendship.