True Friend Quotes

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

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

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

True friends are never forgotten, they live within our hearts and souls.... forever , and always , dancing on our stage of memories.

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

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.

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.

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

…You see, my dear friend, I am made up of contradictions, and I have reached a very mature age without resting upon anything positive, without having calmed my restless spirit either by religion or philosophy. Undoubtedly I should have gone mad but for music. Music is indeed the most beautiful of all Heaven's gifts to humanity wandering in the darkness. Alone it calms, enlightens, and stills our souls. It is not the straw to which the drowning man clings; but a true friend, refuge, and comforter, for whose sake life is worth living

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

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

Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.

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

The true friends of the people are neither revolutionaries, nor innovators, but traditionalists.

...the great movement of apostasy being organized in every country for the establishment of a One-World Church which shall have neither dogmas, nor hierarchy, neither discipline for the mind, nor curb for the passions, and which, under the pretext of freedom and human dignity, would bring back to the world (if such a Church could overcome) the reign of legalized cunning and force, and the oppression of the weak, and of all those who toil and suffer. [...] Indeed, the true friends of the people are neither revolutionaries, nor innovators: they are traditionalists.

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

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.

Never forget the days I spent with you. Continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.

This was no friendship, to forsake your friend, To promise your support and at the end Abandon him-this was sheer treachery. Friend follows friend to hell and blasphemy- When sorrow comes one's true friends are found; In times of joy ten thousand gather round.

Cherish the friend who tells you a harsh truth, wanting ten times more to tell you a loving lie.

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.

Silence is a true friend who never betrays.

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

The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend.

A friend is what the heart needs all the time.

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

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!

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

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

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

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 curing, not healing...that is a friend who cares.

True friends are like diamonds – bright, beautiful, valuable, and always in style.

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

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

True friends are like bright sunflowers that never fade away, even over distance and time

You wanna Know who your true friends are? Screw up and see who’s still there.

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

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

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

To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

True friends are a single soul divided between different bodies.

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.

True friends visit us in prosperity only when invited, but in adversity they come without invitation.

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!

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.

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

The bond between friends cannot be broken by chance; no interval of time or space can destroy it. Not even death itself can part true friends.

You can never lose a true friend.

We need old friends to help us grow old and new friends to help us stay young.