Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Dalai Lama

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

Dalai Lama

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

Anthony Michael Hall

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

Anne Lamott

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

Thomas Jefferson

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

Simon Sinek

A true friend is someone with whom protocol is no longer necessary.

Suzanne Brockmann

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.

Tom Baker

A True Friend who leaves heart felt messages, can be a lighthouse to others, sharing light and truth, which comes from their heart.

Randa Abdel-Fattah

True friends are those who love you not in spite of your faults and imperfections, but because of them.

Seth Godin

Good advice is priceless. Not what you want to hear, but what you need to hear. Not imaginary, but practical. Not based on fear, but on possibility. Not designed to make you feel better, designed to make you better. Seek it out and embrace the true friends that care enough to risk sharing it. I'm not sure what takes more guts-giving it or getting it.

Teresa Medeiros

A true friend never asks you to feed their imaginary fish. Or fertilize their imaginary crops.

Theodore Roosevelt

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.

Max Lucado

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.

Meg Cabot

But as you age, you lose other, even more important things, like friends-hopefully only bad friends, who maybe weren't as good for you as you once thought. With luck, you'll be able to hang on to your true friends, the ones who were always there for you....even when you thought they weren't. Because friends like that are more precious then all the tiaras in the world

Plato

True friendship can exist only between equals.

Leonardo da Vinci

Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.

Mariella Frostrup

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

Philip Sidney

Yet sighes, deare sighes, indeeds true friends you are That do not leave your left friend at the wurst, But, as you with my breast, I oft have nurst So, gratefull now, you waite upon my care.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

What good was owning the world when he’d have no choice except to defend himself against every person in it? Personally, he’d rather be a beggar with one true friend than a prince surrounded by two-faced assassins.’ (Aiden)

Nick Vujicic

If we all could be a true friend to someone, praying and encouraging one person somehow, that's a first step in being part of making the world a better place,

Michael Card

True friends define each other.

Michael Robotham

Sometimes friends do foolish things. My father told me that true friends are like gold coins. Ships are wrecked by storms and lie for hundreds of years on the ocean floor. Worms destroy the wood. Iron corrodes. Silver turns black but gold doesn't change in sea water. It loses none of its brilliance or colour. It comes up the same. It survives shipwrecks and time.

Marla Maples

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.

Jacqueline Carey

True friendship must be akin to romance, I think. only without all the anguish and anxiety.

Hillary Clinton

I'm thrilled the president [Barack Obama] has endorsed me. We started off as fierce competitors, and we've ended up as true friends and partners and worked together on so many important issues.

Ezra Taft Benson

The fellowship of true friends who can hear you out, share your joys, help carry your burdens, and correctly counsel you is priceless.

Francis Bacon

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.

Francis Bacon

For friends... do but look upon good Books: they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble.

Francis Bacon

Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.

George Washington

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

A true friend of mankind whose heart has but once quivered in compassion over the sufferings of the people, will understand and forgive all the impassable alluvial filth in which they are submerged, and will be able to discover the diamonds in the filth.