Best True Friendship Quotes

133 True Friendship quotes by 99 unique authors

Don't expect your friend to be a perfect person. Help your friend to become a perfect person. That is true friendship — Mother Teresa
Envy is destroyed by true friendship, as coquetry by true love. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
True friendship is self-love at second-hand. — William Hazlitt
True friendships don't fade in Hollywood, as so many myths about show business would have you insist. — Kent McCord
An honest answer is the sign of true friendship. — E. W. Howe
But when you are looking on anyone as a friend when you do not trust him as you trust yourself, you are making a grave… — Seneca the Younger
The growth of true friendship may be a lifelong affair. — Sarah Orne Jewett
True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert… — Baltasar Gracian
True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost. — Charles Caleb Colton
Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer. — Jean de La Fontaine
True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks. — St. Jerome
It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means. — Charles Kingsley
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival. — C.S. Lewis
However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses. — David Storey
True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance. — Henry David Thoreau
True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation. — George Washington
A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else. — Len Wein
Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart — Eleanor Roosevelt
The worst solitute is to be destitute of true friendship. — Francis Bacon
Friendship however is a plant which cannot be forced -- true friendship is no gourd spring up in a night and withering in a day. — Charlotte Bronte
The process of falling in love at first sight is as final as it is swift in such a case, but the growth of true… — Sarah Orne Jewett
One of the tasks of true friendship is to listen compassionately and creatively to the hidden silences. Often secrets are not revealed in words, they… — John O'Donohue
A Brother may not be a Friend, but a Friend will always be a Brother. — Benjamin Franklin
Friends don’t spy; true friendship is about privacy, too. — Stephen King

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