"True friendship is not about the length of time spent with one another."
"A real friend will run after you; a fake-ass friend will not run after you or they have too much pride."
"You need real friends, you don't need friends that are going to play with the system."
"True friends don't care about what you perceive your flaws to be, and they want you to be your best possible self."
"People don't get friendships like that. It's as it should be."
"The real ones will stick with you through the ups and downs, through thick and thin."
"A true friend walks in the door when everybody else walks out the door."
"This reveals character in the other people. The people who are happy for you, those are the keepers."
"A real friend will see those things in you and they'll accept you despite and they'll still be your friend regardless."
"Anyone who tried to tell you otherwise isn't really a friend."
"Your best friend is someone who cares more about you than your friendship. They'll give you hard truths in the best way possible."
"If they're happy when something good happens for you, they're meant to be in your life."
"True friends will have your back, no matter what."
"Friends, real friends protect you from making a complete and utter imbecile of yourself."
"Friendship is having people in your life that you can feel whatever you feel around."
"If you're around friends that don't get your vision, understand that that's not your friend."
"Real friends do not care if you don't have the newest things."
"Everybody deserves to have a true friend, a true brother, you know what I'm saying, and somebody that's still watching over you."
"That can never be a friendship, dawg. That ain't your friend, bro."
"When all friends forsake us but one, that one is sweeter to us than ever."
"The friends that stuck around and the new friends I made were real friends because they loved me for who I really am underneath."
"That's how you're really a true, a true friend in my opinion."
"True blue friends... are like oak trees; when you have a good friend like that, that is a treasure, that is a precious gem, and you are very blessed."
"You gotta see each other through the seasons of life, and then you'll really know."
"If your friends only want to have you around when you're destroying your health along with them, then they're not really your friends."
"You know you've found a friend that's real, that's true, when they see the real person in you."
"It's not that only friends who say yes to you, we believe that maybe the friends who are able to say no to you are the best friends for you."
"If your friends don't want to be around you because you're not wearing nice clothes, then those people just simply aren't your friends."
"A friend that's a real friend, they need to check you."
"You know you found a friend that's real, that's true, when they see the real star shine in you."
"I call them my foxhole friends, and when the artillery is coming, those are the guys I want in my foxhole."
"The friends who truly truly truly love you are the ones who will lean into that tension and go, 'I got you, I love you, you're safe.'"
"Friendships that go beyond what you are accusing me of."
"You know they say you could know who your true friends are by how they talk about you when you're not around."
"You found out who your true friends are."
"Friends who genuinely celebrate your accomplishments... those are true friends."
"When the chips are down, you really know who your friends are."
"That's the one thing, those are some true friends right there, dude."
"He alone is a true friend who helps you to become what you really want to become."
"Get you a real friend that always tells you like, 'Sis, I can't let you do this to yourself.'"
"You learn about who your real friends are."
"You'll find out who your real friends are when you're in the fire."
"He's a true friend and in my mind, he's the embodiment of what's great about this life and about the rodeo."
"A friend is someone that is really there for you, the one who stands by your side through thick and thin."
"If your friends are putting you in a position where you drinking and you smoking and you high, they not your real friends."
"It's those who hang with you in times of your trial, in terms of temptation, in terms of difficulty, that you call friends."
"Friends don't purposely do things that they know will get you in trouble."
"There is a special kind of friendship, a true friendship, not an accidental form which is one of utility or pleasure."
"You really learn who the good people in your life are."
"You really know who your friends are, you really know who's there for you, you really know who loves you."
"You're not interested in having 50-11 friends; you're interested in having even if it's just one, two, three good friends, people who are of substance, quality that you can really count on."