True Friend Quotes

True friendship is a precious gift that enriches our lives with love, laughter, and support. It’s a bond that withstands the test of time and challenges, offering comfort and companionship through life’s ups and downs.

These quotes celebrate the beauty of true friendship, reminding us of its importance and impact. Whether you’re looking for words to express your gratitude for a friend or seeking inspiration on what it means to be a true friend, these quotes will resonate with you. Explore our collection and cherish the true friends in your life who make it brighter and more meaningful.

Linda Tripp has shown that a true friend is an archivist, a biographer. Mary Schmich

If you have one true friend you have more than your share. Thomas Fuller

It takes effort to be a real friend and to find a true friend. Peyton List

The two most misused words in the entire English vocabulary are love and friendship. A true friend would die for you, so when you start trying to count them on one hand, you don’t need any fingers. Larry Flynt

A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably. William Penn

You kind of need to weed through who is wanting to be a true friend. AJ Michalka

A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success! Doug Larson

Every human being must find his own way to cope with severe loss, and the only job of a true friend is to facilitate whatever method he chooses. Caleb Carr

It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer. E. B. White

Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself – and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That’s what real love amounts to – letting a person be what he really is. Jim Morrison

It’s OK to argue with your friends. Guys can do it better than girls, usually, but if you ever get into a fight with a true friend or a spouse or a boyfriend, get it out, fight, be angry for five minutes, and then move past it. Don’t let it fester; don’t hold a grudge. If you do, that’s when it will get worse and worse. Ike Barinholtz

I don’t know if I’ve ever been in a clique. The older I’ve gotten, the more I’ve realized what a true friend really is. So my friendship circle has changed a bit. Aimee Teegarden

Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wife. Franz Schubert

If fear is the great enemy of intimacy, love is its true friend. Henri Nouwen

What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk. Marcus Tullius Cicero

A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire. Francois de La Rochefoucauld

A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down. Arnold H. Glasow

Silence is a true friend who never betrays. Confucius

A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked. Bernard Meltzer

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

Few there are that will endure a true friend. Henry George Bohn

A true friend encourages us, comforts us, supports us like a big easy chair, offering us a safe refuge from the world. H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

If Christ Jesus dwells in a man as his friend and noble leader, that man can endure all things, for Christ helps and strengthens us and never abandons us. He is a true friend. Saint Teresa of Avila

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. Mike Johanns

Butch Vig was a true friend and really guided us, and it was such a fulfilling relationship with a person to make records with. Laura Jane Grace

A true friend is someone who is always there during the ups and downs, I actually have a song called ‘True Friend’. Miley Cyrus

A true friend is someone who is there for you when he’d rather be anywhere else. Len Wein

If you’re going to think mean things about me or not be a true friend, then we don’t need to be friends. Kay Panabaker

I have a family, loving aunts, and a good home. No, on the surface I seem to have everything except my one true friend. All I think about when I’m with friends is having a good time. I can’t bring myself to talk about anything but ordinary everyday things. We don’t seem to be able to get any closer, and that’s the problem. Anne Frank

You want a friend who’s going to tell you the truth. That’s what it’s about. If you don’t have a friend who’s going to tell you the truth every time something comes up, you feel like he’s not a true friend. Donald Driver

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. Shimon Peres

A genuine enemy is more useful than a fake friend. ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

True friends are always together in spirit. ― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

True friends are those who came into your life, saw the most negative part of you, but are not ready to leave you, no matter how contagious you are to them. ― Michael Bassey Johnson, The Infinity Sign

I love God, Jesus Christ, my three children, mother, father, brother, sisters, family in general, my pets, my students, and true friends. ― Ana Monnar

An acquaintance merely enjoys your company, a fair-weather companion flatters when all is well, a true friend has your best interests at heart and the pluck to tell you what you need to hear. ― E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly

When twilight drops her curtain down And pins it with a star Remember that you have a friend Though she may wander far. ― L.M. Montgomery

Sometimes we have to behave indifferent towards people who proclaim their love to us, just to see if they are really different. ― Michael Bassey Johnson

Animals are such agreeable friends―they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms. ― George Eliot, Mr Gilfil’s Love Story

Two things you will never have to chase: True friends & true love. ― Mandy Hale

Prijateljstvo se ne bira, rekao je, ono biva, ko zna zbog čega, kao ljubav. A ništa ja nisam tebi poklonio, već sebi. ― Meša Selimović, Death and the Dervish

A true friend doesn’t have guts; they beat you up and later plead with you to beat them back. ― Michael Bassey Johnson

First impression is not the last reflection of a true friend, so if you are head over heels for someone who just bought you a cake, you’d better think twice before devouring your misery. ― Michael Bassey Johnson

Not all friends know they have lost you. ― Joyce Rachelle

Celebrate the people in your life who are there because they love you for no other reason than because you are YOU. ― Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass

It is not until you rhyme with a person that makes you their perfect match, it is when you are satisfied with each others peculiarities, and find jewels in their loopholes. ― Michael Bassey Johnson

True and sincere one always remembers how to make you happy by doing little things. ― Ghazala Muhammad Ali