36 True Friendship Quotes
Quotes that describe what true friendship is or is not. Find the thoughts of others about the qualities of a real friend.
While we may have acquaintances and friends a true friend is different. No matter what is going on, no matter how inconvenient a true friend is always willing to be there for you, both in good times and in bad.
Don’t ever take this friendship for granted. As true friendship is rare to find!
Published by: Catherine Pulsifer and Ben Gillison
- 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. Clifton Fadiman
Friend - The glory of friendship is not in the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is in the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Inspirational Quotes - I learned that a real friendship is not about what you can get, but what you can give. Real friendship is about making sacrifices and investing in people to help them improve their lives. Eric Thomas
Giving - Most of us have business associates, casual acquaintances, and occasional companions. Real friends, on the other hand, are not so easy to acquire. Friendship rests upon more than accidental relationships or even association in a common task. Its roots lie in the spiritual realm. Al Bryant
Relationship - True friendship is effortless. Saying
Inspirational Sayings - It is only the great-hearted who can be true friends; the mean and the cowardly can never know what true friendship is. Charles Kinsley
Coward - The growth of true friendship may be a lifelong affair. Sarah Orne Jewett
Growth - When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost work, but the solidest things we can know. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Famous Quotes - Friends change . . . friendships change. Real friends move with these changes and talk about them as they are happening. Anne Wilson Schaeft
Quotes about Change - Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget. Author Unknown
Quote of The Day - To like and dislike the same things, that is indeed true friendship. Sallust
Short Positive Quotes - The reward of friendship is itself. The man who hopes for anything else does not understand what true friendship is. Saint Alfred of Rievaulx
Hope - The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another’s little lapses. David Storey
Tolerance - A true friendship is a journey without an end. Author Unknown
Journey - There is no better friendship booster than the ability to listen. The ability to show genuine interest in others is an admirable quality of a true friend. Phil Callaway, Making Life Rich Without Any Money
Listening - However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship. La Rochefoucauld
Love - To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thoughts unexpressed that can make this life a garden. Goethe
Life - 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
Blessed - True friendship isn’t about being there when it’s convenient; it’s about being there when it’s not. Author Unknown
Positive - 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
Adversity - But when you are looking on anyone as a friend when you do not trust him as you trust yourself, you are making a grave mistake, and have failed to grasp sufficiently the full force of true friendship. Seneca
Trust - True friendship requires mutual submission, and a desire for the wellbeing of the other person, as well as the ability to effectively communicate. Chris Canuel, Restless In The Home
Communication - Good friendship is an intangible asset. M. K. Soni
Good - Emotional bond between two people, regardless of gender, occurs through shared experiences that involve intense, positive emotions. That is how people make good friendships. Philip Vang, Love: Relationship
Experience - True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable. David Tyson Gentry
Short Inspirational Quotes - Some friends play at friendship but a true friend sticks closer than one’s nearest kin. Proverbs 18:24 (NRSV)
Encouraging Bible Verses - A true friendship is like a fine wine. It requires a special process that is not known by everyone. Time must be spent aging and seasoning it. You cannot rush or hurry it. If you try to, you’ll spoil the end result. Steve Reed, Road Tales: A Rambling of Motorcycle Stories
Wine - True friendship is like a burning torch, always providing the necessary light to continue. Bhakti Sangeet: Digital Edition
Good Deeds - We must treat our true friends with love and honesty. We learn from each other and we reach out to each other. J.A. Coppersmith, Poetry Is Life
Honesty - Friendship, in its truest sense, is next to love the most abused of words. One may call many “friend” and be still ignorant of that sentiment, cooler than passion, warmer than respect, more just and generous than either, which recognizes a kindres spirit in another, and claiming its right, keeps it sacred by the wise reserve that is to friendship what the purple bloom is the grape, a charm which once destroyed can never be restored. J. Alcott
Respect - Sharing and experiencing another person’s joy is what true friendship is all about. Amy E. Dean
Sharing - Here’s to good friends: one of life’s greatest treasures.Ingrid Goff-Maidoff, Friendship
Short Quotes - The revelation of our heart’s secrets signifies true friendship and unity.Liz Carmichael, Friendship
Unity Quotes - Being brave enough to have true intimacy � true friendship � means being brave enough to show an “ugly” side of yourself to your beautiful friend, to talk about your jealousy.Mademoiselle
Ugly Quotes - True friendship requires that we come to know the soul of another and to acknowledge the likeness of that soul to one’s own.Stephen Gaukroger, Catherine Wilson, Descartes and Cartesianism
Acknowledgement Quotes - A true friend will challenge you to become better because he appreciates the potential inside you.Philip Freeman, How to Be a Friend
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