Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chaim Potok

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

Bernard Meltzer

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.

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.

Isabel Allende

True friendship resists time, distance and silence.

Mariella Frostrup

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

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.

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.

Randa Abdel-Fattah

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

Plato

True friendship can exist only between equals.

Leonardo da Vinci

Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.

Laurence J. Peter

A true friend will see you through when others see that you are through.

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,

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.

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.

Mike Johanns

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.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

True friends are two people who are comfortable sharing silence together.

Shimon Peres

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.

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.

Reem Acra

My friends are my inspiration, and all of them are true friends that support me. On a daily basis, I know that I have my friends to rely on.

Kobe Bryant

Michael Jackson? He was something more (than one of my favorite entertainers), a true friend. He wasn't just a genius. Above all, he was a good person, who gave so much. He gave people values, he encouraged them to better themselves all the time. He was far deeper and more authentic than people could see. He was misunderstood too many times

Kent McCord

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

Kelly Osbourne

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

Kelly Osbourne

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

Scott Ritter

I consider myself to be a true friend of the Israeli people. But I define friendship as someone who takes care of a friend, who just doesn't use or exploit a friend. And, you know, there's that old adage: 'Friends don't let friends drive drunk'.

Ryan Miller

From the coaches on down, especially Jim Corsi whose been a great supporter, a true friend who really cares about his players and allowed me the chance to develop.

Quintus Ennius

A true friend is tested in adversity.

Quintus Ennius

A true friend is a friend when in difficulty

Mike Glenn

A true friend holds you accountable to your best self.

Mother Teresa

Don't expect your friend to be a perfect person. Help your friend to become a perfect person. That is true friendship

Robin McKinley

[Gonturan] is a true friend, but a friend with thoughts of her own, and the thoughts of others are dangerous.