True Friend Quotations

The best time to make friends is before you need them.

Friends are the siblings God never gave us.

A friend is what the heart needs all the time.

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.

A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.

A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.

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

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

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

Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.

The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.

There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water.

A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.

Overall I think that the most important thing is to have true friends, and always to stay true to yourself and never try to be somebody that you're not.

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.

It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.

A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success.

Every story was being made up. My true friends weren't the ones speaking. It was people who never knew me, making up stories. Even my local paper put a $1,000 bounty out for information about my whereabouts.

Sustaining true friendship is a lot more challenging than we give it credit for.

Candor is a compliment; it implies equality. It's how true friends talk.

The two most misused words in the entire English vocabulary are love and friendship. A true friend would die for you, so when you start trying to count them on one hand, you don't need any fingers.

If you're going to think mean things about me or not be a true friend, then we don't need to be friends.

It is true I gained muscular vigour, but with it a prodigious appetite, which I was compelled to indulge, and consequently increased in weight, until my kind old friend advised me to forsake the exercise.

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?

Every human being must find his own way to cope with severe loss, and the only job of a true friend is to facilitate whatever method he chooses.

I don't want anyone to feel sorry for me because of the fact I haven't got any true friends! I'm fine the way I am.

It's OK to argue with your friends. Guys can do it better than girls, usually, but if you ever get into a fight with a true friend or a spouse or a boyfriend, get it out, fight, be angry for five minutes, and then move past it. Don't let it fester; don't hold a grudge. If you do, that's when it will get worse and worse.

Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.

My dad said to me growing up: 'When all is said and done, if you can count all your true friends on one hand, you're a lucky man.'

The president has been a true friend of the ag industry, because he continues to invest large amounts of money at a time when savings is really the goal of the federal government to deal with the deficit.

The lust and attraction are often a given in a romance novel - I want to dig into the elements of true friendship that form a foundation for a solid, gonna-last-forever romantic relationship.

I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let's face it, friends make life a lot more fun.

If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first; when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.

When you face a crisis, you know who your true friends are.

I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.

Bulgaria is a true friend of Israel, that stood up to save the Jewish people 70 years ago in Europe, and who stood by throughout the terror attack that took place in Burgas last July.

Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. Like friends, too, we should return to them again and again for, like true friends, they will never fail us - never cease to instruct - never cloy.

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

The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing... not healing, not curing... that is a friend who cares.

I guess I have friends around me but when you're paying them can they ever really be true friends?

It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.

One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention.

I have a million acquaintances but just two or three true friends. I can't hide anything from them.

A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.

A true friend encourages us, comforts us, supports us like a big easy chair, offering us a safe refuge from the world.

Linda Tripp has shown that a true friend is an archivist, a biographer.

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

A true friend is someone who is always there during the ups and downs, I actually have a song called 'True Friend'.

Silence is a true friend who never betrays.

True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.

True friendships don't fade in Hollywood, as so many myths about show business would have you insist.

I need more friends. It's kind of like my quest right now just to have more true friends.

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

Seek always to do some good, somewhere. Every man has to seek in his own way to realize his true worth. You must give some time to your fellow man. For remember, you don't live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here too.

He will never have true friends who is afraid of making enemies.

Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble.

If fear is the great enemy of intimacy, love is its true friend.

A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.

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.

My friend James Cameron and I made three films together - True Lies, The Terminator and Terminator 2. Of course, that was during his early, low-budget, art-house period.

Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

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.

There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.

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.

The WORK 1.Is it true? 2.Can you absolutely know that it's true? 3.How do you react when you think that thought? 4.Who would you be without the thought?

You know who your true friends are when things go wrong for you, but the opposite is also true. When things go well, the people who really love you are happy.

How rare were the tears of a dragon. We once lived in paradise and because of the corruption of an angel disgused as a dragon, all the world was cast into darkness. Now, as humans, we shed many tears-for what was lost, for what might of been, and for the end of friendships. Goodbye my true friends.

Two people who are true friends are like two bodies with one soul

Reuven listen to me. The Talmud says that a person should do two things for himself. One is to acquire a teacher. Do you remember the other." "Choose a friend," I said. "Yes. You know what a friend is, Reuven? A Greek philosopher said that two people who are true friends are like two bodies with one soul." I nodded. "Reuven, if you can, make Danny Saunders your friend." "I like him a lot, abba." "No. Listen to me. I am not talking about only liking him. I am telling you to make him your friend and to let him make you his friend.

A friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future, and accepts you just the way you are. Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget. A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.

Either be a true friend or a mere stranger: a true friend will delight to do good--a mere stranger will do no harm.

A true friend is one who likes you despite your achievements.

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

Instead of looking for a true friend become a true friend.

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.

The best part about having true friends is that you can go months without seeing them and they'll still be there for you and act as if you'd never left!

It is a miracle if you can find true friends, and it is a miracle if you have enough food to eat, and it is a miracle if you get to spend your days and evenings doing whatever it is you like to do, and the holiday season - like all the other seasons - is a good time not only to tell stories of miracles, but to think about the miracles in your own life, and to be grateful for them, and that's the end of this particular story.

The way to make a true friend is to be one. Friendship implies loyalty, esteem, cordiality, sympathy, affection, readiness to aid, to help, to stick, to fight for, if need be. ... Radiate friendship and it will return sevenfold.

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.

True friendship is like the asphalt of life. It fills in the potholes and makes the journey smooth.

A foe to God ne'er was true friend to man, Some sinister intent taints all he does.

Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love.

When a dog is balanced, you are going to enjoy a true friend.

Do as little harm to others as you can; make any sacrifice for your true friends; be responsible for yourself and ask nothing of others; and grab all the fun you can. Don't give much thought to yesterday, don't worry about tomorrow, live in the moment, and trust that your existence has meaning even when the world seems to be all blind chance and chaos. When life lands a hammer blow in your face, do your best to respond to the hammer as if it had been a cream pie.

The greatest medicine is a true friend.

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.

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

True friends are a single soul divided between different bodies.

A True friend is one who sees a fault, gives you advice and who defends you in your absence.

I don't believe that there is any true friendship without a bond of honor, and the honor in friendship is the respect you give the other that she also gives you.

Wilbur never forgot Charlotte. Although he loved her children and grandchildren dearly, none of the new spiders ever quite took her place in his heart. She was in a class by herself. It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer. Charlotte was both.

A true friend is someone who says nice things behind your back.

Perfectionism is a mean, frozen form of idealism, while messes are the artist's true friend.