True Friend Quotes - Page 17

• It is hard to have a true friend, and it is harder to be the one.

  Tran ?ai Nghia

  Friendship, Harder, Hard

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

  Mariella Frostrup

  Giving, Challenges, Credit

  "Should I cut an old friend out of my life?" by Mariella Frostrup, www.theguardian.com. November 17, 2013.

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• Israel is a true friend. It is our greatest ally in the region. And if Israel is attacked, America will stand with Israel. I've made that clear throughout my presidency.

  Barack Obama

  Israel, America, Allies

  Source: genius.com

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• When you train a horse on a daily basis, you're a part of the horse's movement, you're a part of his motion. Everything that the horse experiences is coming from you. There's a total connection -- a true friendship -- and the connection touches the soul completely.

  Karen O

  Horse, Soul, Connections

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• It costs to be a friend or to have a friend. There is nothing else in life except motherhood that costs so much. It not only costs time, affection, patience, love, but sometimes a man must even lay down his life for his friends. There is no true friendship without self-abnegation, self-sacrifice.

  Anna Robertson Brown Lindsay

  Sacrifice, Motherhood, Men

  Anna Robertson Brown Lindsay (1803). “What is Worth While?”, p.27

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• True friendshipship is like phosphorescence-it glows best when the world around you goes dark.

  Denise Martin

  Real, Dark, World

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• Being a person's true friend means endorsing the untruths he holds dearest.

  Robert Wright

  Mean, Persons, Endorsing

  Robert Wright (1994). “The Moral Animal: Evolutionary Psychology and Everyday Life”, Pantheon

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• As long as the Children of Israel saw Pharaoh as a friend, they could not see Moses and Jehovah as their true friend. As they came into consciousness - by the wicked things that Pharaoh continued to do against them - that Pharaoh was indeed their enemy, then Moses and Jehovah's call to them to separate from Pharaoh to build a nation of their own became a reality.

  Louis Farrakhan

  Children, Reality, Israel

  Source: www.finalcall.com

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• The greatest medicine is a true friend.

  William Temple

  Friendship, Medicine

  Sir William Temple, Jonathan Swift, Lady Martha Giffard (1740). “The life and character of Sir William Temple, written by a particular friend [his sister Lady Giffard] Observations upon the United provinces of the Netherlands. Miscellanea. Memoirs, the third part, from the peace concluded 1679 to the time of the author's retirement from publick business. Memoirs of what past in Christendom from the war begun 1672, to the peace concluded 1679”, p.309

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• True love is deemed to be the most tender of our emotions, as even the blind and deaf know; but I know, what few believe, that true friendship is more tender still.

  August von Platen-Hallermunde

  True Love, Believe, Love Is

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• You have to stay true to your true friends and your family.

  Dakota Fanning

  Stay True, Our Family

  "Dakota Fanning on Why It's Good to Be a "Weird Person"". Interview by Alexandra Schwartz, www.glamour.com. August 9, 2016.

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• The Work: 1. Is it true? 2. Can you absolutely know that it’s true? 3. How do you react, what happens, when you believe that thought? 4. Who would you be without the thought?

  Byron Katie

  Thinking, Workplace, Knows

  "Creating Leadership Calm During Chaos: Interview with International Speaker and Best-Selling Author, Byron Katie". Interview with Ann Marie MacDougall, www.linkedin.com. June 18, 2017.

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• A true friend is the greatest possesion.

  Benjamin Franklin

  True Friend Is

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• 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.

  Hillary Clinton

  Issues, President, Together

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• True friends are like bright sunflowers that never fade away, even over distance and time

  Unknown

  Distance, Sunflower, Never Fade

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• A person is only complete when she has a true friend to understand her, to share all her passions and sorrows with, and to stand by her throughout her life.

  J. Lynn

  Passion, Sorrow, Share

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• True friendship is sitting together in silence and feeling like it was the best conversation you've ever had.

  Unknown

  Silence, Feelings, Together

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• With every true friendship we build more firmly the foundations on which the peace of the whole world rests. Thought by thought and act by act, with every breath we build more firmly the kingdom of non-violence that is the true home of the spirit of humanity.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Home, Humanity, Foundation

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• ...the great movement of apostasy being organized in every country for the establishment of a One-World Church which shall have neither dogmas, nor hierarchy, neither discipline for the mind, nor curb for the passions, and which, under the pretext of freedom and human dignity, would bring back to the world (if such a Church could overcome) the reign of legalized cunning and force, and the oppression of the weak, and of all those who toil and suffer. [...] Indeed, the true friends of the people are neither revolutionaries, nor innovators: they are traditionalists.

  Pope Pius X

  Country, Powerful, Passion

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• Should anyone attempt to deceive you by false expressions, and not be a true friend at heart, act in the same manner, and thus art will defeat art. [If you would catch a man let him think he is catching you.]

  Cato the Younger

  Art, Thinking, Men

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• As uncommon a thing as true love is, it is yet easier to find than true friendship.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Love, Friendship, Easier

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• Instead of looking for a true friend become a true friend.

  Deepak Chopra

  True Friend Is

  FaceBook post by Deepak Chopra from Mar 18, 2011

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• 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.

  Suzanne Brockmann

  Forever, Romance, Lust

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• 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.

  Reem Acra

  Inspiration, Support, Bases

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• Sometimes, with luck, we find the kind of true friend, male or female, that appears only two or three times in a lucky lifetime, one that will winter us and summer us, grieve, rejoice, and travel with us.

  Barbara Holland

  Friendship, Summer, Winter

  Barbara Holland (1996). “One's Company: Reflections on Living Alone”

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