We all have friends, it’s part of life but we all desire to have real and true friends that would be there for us. We all want real friends and not fake friends.
Below are 30 powerful quotes about real friends that you should know
1. Fake friends believe in rumours while real friends believe in you – anonymous
2. Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together – Woodrow T. Wilson
3. Wanna find who your real friends are? Remove your birthday from Facebook and see who still wishes you a happy birthday – anonymous
4. Fake friends believe the rumours told about you and judge you for them. Real friends hear the rumours told about you and defend you, knowing they are not true. – anonymous
5. Real friends can put up with your worst behaviour and be exceptionally affectionate even when you are extremely irritable. They believe in you even when you stop believing in yourself. They accept you with all your flaws and love you just the way you are. – anonymous
6. You can eat and drink together, talk and laugh together, enjoy life together but you are only real friends when you also cried together – anonymous
7. A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out. – Walter Winchell
8. The only good thing about times of adversity is that you realise who your real friends and fans are as the rest go away which in my mind is an OK thing. – anonymous
9. True friends are always together in spirit. – Anne Shirley
10. People will walk in and walk out of your life but the one whose footstep made a long-lasting impression is the one you should never allow to walk out. – anonymous
11. Your true friends are those who evaluate you by who you are as a person and not by what you have or don’t have.
12. If you want to find out who your real friends are, sink the ship. The first ones to jump aren’t your friends. – Marilyn Manson
13. Friendship is like money, easier made than kept. – Samuel Butler
14. A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become and still gently allows you to grow. – William Shakespeare
15. We never lose friends. We just discover who our real friends are. – anonymous
16. Loyalty is royalty. The people who want to stay in your life will always find a way. Real friends stay faithful. You shouldn’t have to fight for a spot in someone’s life. Never force someone to make a space in their life for you because if they truly care about you, they will create one for you. – anonymous
17. Friendship is about forgetting what one gives and remembering what one receives. – Alexander Dumas
18. Real friends don’t agree on everything, they just respect each other’s right to have their own opinion. – anonymous
19. Real friends tell us the most hurtful words but with the best intentions. – anonymous
20. As you get older, you realise having lots of friends isn’t important. What’s important is having real friends. – anonymous
21. Real friends are always there for you. You can trust them to keep your secrets, share your laughter and your tears. Fake friends are never around when you really need them. They want to know about you so they can tell others and they laugh at you instead of with you. – anonymous
22. Those who can sense the sadness in your smile, hear the words in your silence, can feel the love in your anger; trust them. They are your real friends. – anonymous
23. Real friends root for you, support you and help you discover your inner strength and talent. – anonymous
24. I don’t need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better. – Plutarch
25. When days are dark and life gets tougher; your real friends would be there to tell you it’s okay, to ask you if there is anything they can do and your fake friends would stand from a distance to see if you make it. – anonymous
26. A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you. – Elbert Hubbard
27. In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends. – John Churton Collins
28. My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me- Henry Ford
29. You can always tell a real friend; when you have made a fool of yourself, he doesn’t feel you have done a permanent job. – Laurence J. Peter
30. Let us be grateful to those who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. – Marcel Proust
Phil