Sincere Friends Quotes

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

  Giotto di Bondone

  Friendship, Real Friends, Night

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• If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Motivational, Friendship, Best Friend

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.273, Wildside Press LLC

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• Some friends leave footprints in your heart

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Heart, Two Friends, Friends Come And Go

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• A sincere friend conceals all your deformities, deceives and convince others that you are extremely perfect, the insincere will tell the truth of destruction, leave you open for others to glare and laugh.

  Michael Bassey

  Perfect, Laughing, Telling The Truth

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• If we merely try to impress people and get people interested in us, we will never have many true, sincere friends. Friends, real friends, are not made that way.

  Dale Carnegie

  Friendship, Best Friend, Real

  Dale Carnegie (2016). “How to win friends & influence people”, p.53, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• At all times sincere friends of freedom have been rare, and its triumphs have been due to minorities, that have prevailed by associating themselves with auxiliaries whose objects often differed from their own; and this association, which is always dangerous, has sometimes been disastrous.

  Lord Acton

  Triumph, Minorities, Association

  John Emerich Edward Dalberg, Lord Acton (2016). “The History of Freedom (and other Essays)”, p.28, Jazzybee Verlag

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

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Friendship, Best Friend

  'Essays' (1841) 'Friendship'

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• Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.

  Francesco Guicciardini

  Friendship, Real Friends, Losing Friends

  Francesco Guicciardini (1890). “Counsels and Reflections of Francesco Guicciardini”

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• A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall. So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey which catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the highroad to his reason.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Friendship, Heart, Winning

  Abraham Lincoln (1989). “Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 1: 1832-1858: Library of America #45”, p.83, Library of America

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• Sincere friendship towards God, in all who believe him to be properly an intelligent, willing being, does most apparently, directly, and strongly incline to prayer; and it no less disposes the heart strongly to desire to have our infinitely glorious.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Prayer, Believe, Heart

  Jonathan Edwards, Henry Rogers, Sereno Edwards Dwight (1839). “The Works of Jonathan Edwards, A.M.: With an Essay on His Genius and Writings”, p.486

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• There is no man so friendless but that he can find a friend sincere enough to tell him disagreeable truths.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Friendship, Men, Sincere

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• Without temptations, it is not possible to learn the wisdom of the Spirit. It is not possible that Divine love be strengthened in your soul. Before temptations, a man prays to God as a stranger. When temptations are allowed to come by the love of God, and he does not give in to them, then he stands before God as a sincere friend. For in fulfilling the will of God, he has made war on the enemy of God and conquered him.

  Isaac of Nineveh

  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

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• Cultivate solitude and quiet and a few sincere friends, rather than mob merriment, noise and thousands of nodding acquaintances.

  William Powell

  Inspirational, Friendship, Real Friends

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• To arrive at perfection, a man should have very sincere friends or inveterate enemies; because he would be made sensible of his good or ill conduct, either by the censures of the one or the admonitions of the other.

  Diogenes

  Friendship, Men, Should Have

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• A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud. I am arrived at last in the presence of a man so real and equal, that I may drop even those undermost garments of dissimulation, courtesy, and second thought, which men never put off, and may deal with him with the simplicity and wholeness with which one chemical atom meets another.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, Real, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.347, Library of America

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• At all times sincere friends of freedom have been rare, and its triumphs have been due to minorities.

  Lord Acton

  Liberty, Triumph, Minorities

  John Emerich Edward Dalberg, Lord Acton (2016). “The History of Freedom (and other Essays)”, p.28, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Generally speaking, among sensible persons, it would seem that a rich man deems that friend a sincere one who does not want to borrow his money; while, among the less favored with fortune's gifts, the sincere friend is generally esteemed to be the individual who is ready to lend it.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Friends, Men, Doe

  Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) (1866). “The Novels & Tales of the Right Hon. B. Disraeli ...: Venetia. Tancred”

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• If to be venerated for benevolence, if to be admired for talents, if to be esteemed for patriotism, if to be beloved for philanthropy, can gratify the human mind, you must have the pleasing consolation to know that you have not lived in vain. And I flatter myself that it will not be ranked among the least grateful occurrences of your life to be assured that, so long as I retain my memory, you will be thought on with respect, veneration, and affection by your sincere friend.

  George Washington

  Memories, Grateful, Long

  George Washington (1948). “Basic Writings of George Washington”

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