Quotes on Real Friends

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.

A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.

How much good inside a day? Depends how good you live 'em.

There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.

We need to strengthen such inner values as contentment, patience and tolerance, as well as compassion for others. Keeping in mind that it is expressions of affection rather than money and power that attract real friends, compassion is the key to ensuring our own well-being.

I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For, so swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow it in its flight. I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For who has sight so keen and strong, That it can follow the flight of song? Long, long afterward, in an oak I found the arrow, still unbroke; And the song, from beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend.

But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.

No love, no friendship, can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever.

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

He has no enemies, but he is intensely disliked by his friends.

The sincere friends of this world are as ship lights in the stormiest of nights.

One doesn't know, till one is a bit at odds with the world, how much one's friends who believe in one rather generously, mean to one.

Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.

Love will enter cloaked in friendship's name.

The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.

When a woman becomes her own best friend life is easier.

Friendship embraces innumerable ends; turn where you will it is ever at your side; no barrier shuts it out; it is never untimely and never in the way.