Real Friends Quotes - Page 11

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

  Nicole Richie

  Friendship, Beautiful, True Friend

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• Twice in her life she had mistaken something else for it; it was like seeing somebody in the street who you think is a friend, you whistle and wave and run after him, and it is not only not the friend, but not even very like him. A few minutes later the real friend appears in view, and then you can't imagine how you ever mistook that other person for him. Linda was now looking upon the authentic face of love, and she knew it, but it frightened her. That it should come so casually, so much by a series of accidents, was frightening.

  Nancy Mitford

  Running, Real, Thinking

  Nancy Mitford (1963). “The Nancy Mitford Omnibus”

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• The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.

  Mark Twain

  Friendship, Sweet, Money

  Pudd'nhead Wilson ch. 8, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" (1894)

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• I think if I've learned anything about friendship, it's to hang in, stay connected, fight for them, and let them fight for you. Don't walk away, don't be distracted, don't be too busy or tired, don't take them for granted. Friends are part of the glue that holds life and faith together. Powerful stuff.

  Jon Katz

  Love, Friendship, Best Friend

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• No friendship is an accident.

  O. Henry

  Friendship, Inspiring, Funny Best Friend

  O. Henry (2015). “Heart of the West”, p.21, Booklassic

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• Never leave a friend behind. Friends are all we have to get us through this life--and they are the only things from this world that we could hope to see in the next.

  Dean Koontz

  Friendship, World, Next

  Dean Koontz (2007). “Fear Nothing: A Novel”, p.234, Bantam

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• Friendships multiply joys and divide griefs.

  Thomas Fuller

  Friendship, Grief, Grieving

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• We are sometimes made aware of a kindness long passed, and realize that there have been times when our friends' thoughts of us were of so pure and lofty a character that they passed over us like the winds of heaven unnoticed; when they treated us not as what we were, but as what we aspired to be.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Kindness, Character, Wind

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “The Illustrated "A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers"”, p.259, Princeton University Press

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• Friends should be like books, few, but hand-selected.

  C.J. Langenhoven

  Friendship, Funny Best Friend, Book

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• Or perhaps in Slytherin, you'll make your real friends. Those cunning folk use any means to achieve their ends.

  J. K. Rowling

  Real, Mean, Use

  J. K. Rowling, “Sorting Hat's Song (Book 1)”

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• I decided that not talking is like a litmus test for a real friend. You can just sit there and be. Not always be filling up the air with words

  Catherine Ryan Hyde

  Real, Air, Filling Up

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• Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.

  Tony Robbins

  Inspirational, Motivational, Fun

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.606, Simon and Schuster

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• Friendship is the bestiest thing that comes to life . Friends will always be there for you don't worry about the fakes worry about the people who had your back from the start and never treated you wrong always remember they are your real friends don't never take them as granted because one day your going to lose a good friend by the way your action's are when you see a good friend stick to that person .

  Marilyn Monroe

  Friendship, Inspiring, Real

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• You know a real friend? Someone you know will look after your cat after you are gone.

  William S. Burroughs

  Real, Cat, Looks

  William S. Burroughs (2007). “Last Words: The Final Journals of William S. Burroughs”, p.226, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Because my heat was too full of appreciation for what my friends-- my real friends-- had done for me.

  Meg Cabot

  Appreciation, Real, Done

  Meg Cabot (2011). “Teen Idol”, p.202, Pan Macmillan

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• I came here looking for a Great Perhaps, for real friends and a more-than-minor life.

  John Green

  Real, Labyrinth Looking For Alaska, Live By

  John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.169, Penguin

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• Life is nothing without friendship.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Love, Inspirational, Cute

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• If you want to find out who your real friends are, sink the ship. The first ones to jump aren't your friends.

  Marilyn Manson

  Real, Want, Who Your Friends Are

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• There's not a word yet, for old friends who've just met.

  Jim Henson

  Friendship, Best Friend, Funny Friend

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• Those truly linked don't need correspondence. When they meet again after many years apart, Their friendship is as true as ever.

  Ming-Dao Deng

  Friendship, Years, Needs

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• Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Love, Best Friend, Friendship

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• One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.

  Margaret Mead

  Life, Relationship, Family

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• I spent a lot of years on the road, and what happens is you find out who your real friends are and you find out where your strengths and weaknesses lie in communication. I've had the same friends for 20 years now and I can count them on one hand.

  Sarah McLachlan

  Real, Lying, Communication

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• When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Inspirational, Friendship, Children

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• To me a real patriot is like a real friend. Who's your real friend? It's the person who tells you the truth. That's who my real friends are. So, you know, I think as far as our country goes, we need more people who will do that.

  Bill Maher

  Country, Real, Thinking

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