True Friend Quotes - Page 9

• 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.

  Ryan Miller

  Player, Care, Chance

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• A true friend is one who likes you despite your achievements.

  Arnold Bennett

  Achievement, Likes, Accomplish

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• Success makes enemies of those who would have never been true friends.

  Vanna Bonta

  Friends, Enemy

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• We think it would be wise in you to try to git [sic] influence by offering to print a paper in favor of the government as you know we are all friends to the Constitution yea true friends to that Country for which our fathers bled.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Wise, Country, Freedom

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• It is organized as a fellowship of men, a system of morals, a philosophy taught by degrees through the use of symbol, story, legend, pictures, and drama. It has served as a center of union among differing backgrounds, cultures, and countries. It serves as the means of conciliating true friendship among persons, who, because of differences, must have otherwise remained at a perpetual distance.

  Harry S. Truman

  Country, Philosophy, Distance

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• Perfectionism is a mean, frozen form of idealism, while messes are the artist's true friend.

  Anne Lamott

  Mean, Artist, Frozen

  Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.32, Anchor

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• The horse must understand and accept any demands made by rider without any resistance. Reward the horse each time he does what is asked of him. Never ask for more than he is capable of giving. Make him a COMPANION, and not a slave, then you will see what a true friend he is.

  Nuno Oliveira

  Horse, Giving, Doe

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• You have had your last bad meal. But, you have also heard your last honest compliment, and you have lost your last true friend.

  Abraham Flexner

  Meals, Lasts, Honest

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• The definition of a true friend is not someone who swoops in when you're going through a rough patch. True friendship is when someone can appreciate your happiness - celebrate your happiness, even when she's not necessarily happy herself.

  Sarah Jio

  Appreciate, Rough Patches, Definitions

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

  Laurence J. Peter

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

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Two, People, Silence

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• A true friend is forever a friend.

  George MacDonald

  Forever, True Friend Is

  George MacDonald (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated)”, p.6029, Delphi Classics

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• Let us remember that desires dictate our priorities, priorities shape our choices, and choices determine our actions. In addition, it is our actions and our desires that cause us to become something, whether a true friend, a gifted teacher, or one who has qualified for eternal life.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Teacher, Choices, Priorities

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• Probably the most neglected friend you have is you. And yet every man, before he can be a true friend to the world, must first become a friend to himself.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Men, World, Firsts

  L. Ron Hubbard (1987). “Self Analysis”, p.13, Bridge Publications, Inc.

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• We may never be able to pay directly for the gifts of true friendship - but pay we must, even though we make our payment to someone who owes us nothing, in some other place and at some other time.

  Yousuf Karsh

  May, Pay, Able

  Yousuf Karsh (2003). “Karsh: A Biography in Images”, Museum of Fine Arts Boston

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• Your true friends dont shy away from keeping you in check because your wellbeing is more important to them than even your friendship and they'd rather risk offending you than watch you harm yourself.

  Omar Suleiman

  Offending, Risk, Important

  FaceBook post by Omar Suleiman from Jan 28, 2013

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• We are all, in the private kingdom of our hearts, desperate for the company of a wise, true friend. Someone who isn’t embarrassed by our emotions, or her own, who recognizes that life is short and all that we have to offer, in the end, is love.

  Steve Almond

  Wise, Heart, Life Is Short

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• But what is the good of friendship if one cannot say exactly what one means? Anybody can say charming things and try to please and to flatter, but a true friend always says unpleasant things, and does not mind giving pain. Indeed, if he is a really true friend he prefers it, for he knows that then he is doing good.

  Oscar Wilde

  Pain, Mean, Giving

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.346, Wordsworth Editions

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• Just as the dawn is the forerunner of the arising of the sun, so true friendship is the forerunner of the arising of the noble eightfold path.

  Gautama Buddha

  Dawn, Noble, Path

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• Sometimes friends do foolish things. My father told me that true friends are like gold coins. Ships are wrecked by storms and lie for hundreds of years on the ocean floor. Worms destroy the wood. Iron corrodes. Silver turns black but gold doesn't change in sea water. It loses none of its brilliance or colour. It comes up the same. It survives shipwrecks and time.

  Michael Robotham

  Father, Lying, Ocean

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• This above all; to thine own self be true.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Graduation

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 3, l. 58

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• I have a million acquaintances but just two or three true friends. I can't hide anything from them.

  Ian Somerhalder

  Friends, Two, Three

  FaceBook post by Ian Somerhalder from Jan 21, 2015

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• A true friend will go with the instagram filter that flatters you.

  Whitney Cummings

  Women, Filters, Instagram

  Twitter post from Nov 21, 2013

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• True friends are those who really know you but love you anyway.

  Edna Buchanan

  Friendship, Relationship, Falling In Love

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• True friends don’t spend time gazing into each other’s eyes. They may show great tenderness towards each other but they face in the same direction - toward common projects, goals - above all, towards a common Lord.

  C. S. Lewis

  Eye, Goal, Gazing

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