True Friend Quotations | Page 3

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

A true friend will tell you the truth to your face - not behind your back.

A true friend sees the good in everything, and brings out the best in the worst of things.

The growth of true friendship may be a lifelong affair.

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.

When true friends meet in adverse hour; 'Tis like a sunbeam through a shower. A watery way an instant seen, The darkly closing clouds between.

A true friend will go with the instagram filter that flatters you.

Those who decided to stick with her would be her true friends. The others would just be scenery.

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.

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.

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.

True friendship is self-love at second-hand.

To set a gloss on faint deeds, hollow welcomes, Recanting goodness, sorry ere 'tis shown; But where there is true friendship, there needs none.

A high character might be produced, I suppose, by continued prosperity, but it has very seldom been the case. Adversity, however it may appear to be our foe, is our true friend; and, after a little acquaintance with it, we receive it as a precious thing - the prophecy of a coming joy. It should be no ambition of ours to traverse a path without a thorn or stone.

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.

True friends are like stars; you can only recognize them when it's dark around you.

True friends are families which you can select.

If you'd be beloved, make yourself amiable. A true friend is the best possession.

A true friend is the greatest possesion.

To find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.

True friends don’t spend time gazing into each other’s eyes. They may show great tenderness towards each other but they face in the same direction - toward common projects, goals - above all, towards a common Lord.

Friends make life a lot more fun.

Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart

The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

Prosperity makes friends and adversity tries them. A true friend is one soul in two bodies

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.

The true friend of the people should see that they be not too poor, for extreme poverty lowers the character of the democracy.

A true friend is one soul divided into two people.

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge.

The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend.

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

True friendship's laws are by this rule express'd, Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.

True friends share genuine closeness and remain friends irrespective of fluctuating fortunes.

True friendship develops not as a result of money or power but on the basis of genuine human affection.

Silence is the true friend that never betrays.

True friends never apart maybe in distance but never in heart

A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

One good reason to only maintain a small circle of friends is that three out of four murders are committed by people who know the victim.

True friendship is a plant of slow growth.

Faint heart never won true friend. O my friend, may it come to pass, once, that when you are my friend I may be yours.

Hold a true friend with both your hands.

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.

New technology is the true friend of full employment; the indispensable ally of progress; and the surest guarantee of prosperity.

If you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.

There is little favorable to be said about poverty, but it was often an incubator of true friendship. Many people will appear to befriend you when you are wealthy, but precious few will do the same when you are poor. If wealth is a magnet, poverty is a kind of repellent. Yet, poverty often brings out the true generosity in others.

A prince is also esteemed when he is a true friend and a true enemy.

I have had no true friends, only lovers.

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.

The true friend of property, the true conservative, is he who insists that property shall be the servant and not the master of the commonwealth; who insists that the creature of man’s making shall be the servant and not the master of the man who made it. The citizens of the United States must effectively control the mighty commercial forces which they have called into being. There can be no effective control of corporations while their political activity remains. To put an end to it will be neither a short nor an easy task, but it can be done.

True friendship can exist only between equals.

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.

With every true friendship, we build more firmly the foundations on which the peace of the whole world rests.

People say true friends must always hold hands, but true friends don't need to hold hands because they know the other hand will always be there.

In friendship let there be laughter and sharing of pleasures.

Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend.

Friends share our pain and touch our wounds with a gentle and tender hand.

That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is.

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.

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.

With every true friendship we build more firmly the foundations on which the peace of the whole world rests. Thought by thought and act by act, with every breath we build more firmly the kingdom of non-violence that is the true home of the spirit of humanity.

Our true friends are those who are with us when the good things happen. They cheer us on and are pleased by our triumphs. False friends only appear at difficult times, with their sad, supportive faces, when, in fact, our suffering is serving to console them for their miserable lives.

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.

Don't expect your friend to be a perfect person. Help your friend to become a perfect person. That is true friendship

True friends are two people who are comfortable sharing silence together.

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

It is one of the biggest blessing that you can be stupid with your true friends and behave like you shame to do elsewhere

True friends, like ivy and the wall Both stand together, and together fall.

I find friendship to be like wine, raw when new, ripened with age, the true old man's milk and restorative cordial.

Till man destroys "self" he is no true friend of God.

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

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.

The hard times make a true friend afraid to ask.

A true friend knows your weaknesses but shows you your strenghs; feels your fears but fortifies your faith; sees your anxieties but frees your spirit; recognizes your disabilities but emphasizes your possibilities.