Being A True Friend Quotes:

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.

- Paramahansa Yogananda

topic: Friendship, True Friend, Heart, Live For Others, My Friendship

Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.

- Albert Camus

topic: Love, Friendship, Happy, Bff, Songs And Friendship

True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.

- Charles Caleb Colton

source: Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.295

topic: Motivational, Friendship, Best Friend, New Friendship, Sound Doctrine

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

- George Washington

topic: Friendship, Inspiration, 4th Of July, Making Friends, Courteous

A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

- Len Wein

source: "1001 Affirmations" - by Herbert P. Windschitl - Poetry, 2003.

topic: Friendship, Best Friend, Patience, Inspirational Friendship, Lasting Friendship

Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.

- Oprah Winfrey

topic: Inspirational, Life, Friendship, Makin Money, Bff

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

- Aristotle

topic: Love, Friendship, Family, Making Friends, Not Friends

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

- Mencius

topic: Two, Mind, Body, Making Friends, Bff

The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. I have no wealth to bestow on him. If he knows that I am happy in loving him, he will want no other reward. Is not friendship divine in this?

- Henry David Thoreau

topic: Friendship, Happiness, Real Friends, Songs And Friendship, Female Friends

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.

- Henri Nouwen

topic: Friendship, Grief, Healing, Making Friends, Bff

Keep what is worth keeping and with the breath of kindness blow the rest away.

- Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

source: A Life for a Life ch. 16 (1859)

topic: Letting Go, Kindness, Blow, Making Friends, Bff

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

- William Blake

topic: Friendship, Forgiveness, Depressing, Stabbing, Making Friends

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

- Leo Buscaglia

topic: Inspirational, Best Friend, Friendship, Bff, Songs And Friendship

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

- Benjamin Disraeli

topic: Inspirational, Friendship, Success, Making A Difference In The World, Inspirational Charity

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.

- George Eliot

source: George Eliot (2016). “George Eliot's Life, Complete: Top Novelist Focus”, p.226, 谷月社

topic: Spiritual, Nature, True Friend, Inspirational Animal, Inspirational Dog

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

- Bernard Meltzer

topic: Friendship, Thank You, True Friend, Impossible To Forget, Making Friends

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

- Elbert Hubbard

topic: Life, Friendship, Real Friends, Making Friends, Female Friends

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

- George Washington

topic: 4th Of July, Patriotic, Men, New Friendship, Slender

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.

- George Eliot

topic: Friendship, Best Friend, Kindness, Making Friends, Easy Friendship

We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.

- Robert Louis Stevenson

topic: Friendship, Best Friend, Travel, True Friend Is, Being A True Friend

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

- Alexander Pope

topic: Friendship, True Friend, Law, Parting, True Friend Is

True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.

- Baltasar Gracian

topic: Friendship, Thankful, Real, Good Friendship, Good Fortune

A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.

- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

topic: Cute, Friendship, Thankful, New Friendship, True Wealth

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

- Thomas Jefferson

source: Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private : Published by the Order of the Joint Committee of Congress on the Library, from the Original Manuscripts, Deposited in the Department of State”, p.4

topic: Friendship, True Friend, Wine, New Friendship, Wine And Friends

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

- Doug Larson

topic: Friendship, True Friend, Failure, Inspirational Friendship, Lasting Friendship