Friendship Quotes

To help a friend in need is easy, but to give him your time is not always opportune.

With friends, one is well; but at home, one is better.

The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.

Oh my only friend, my best beloved, the gates are open in my house-do not pass by like a dream.

There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills.

An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.

Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.

He who befriends a man whose conduct is vicious, whose vision impure, and who is notoriously crooked, is rapidly ruined.

Every relationship has one or the other motive behind it. Friendship or enmity are not purposeful. Oneness of motive is turned into friendship. While diversity of motive cause enmity. Royal relationships also depend upon one or the other purpose. But such relations are mainly for the welfare of the state.

Everybody has same or the other weakness. This eis also a a general tendency to conceal theee weaknesses. For people may not harm for these, but they will surely ridicule or make fun of. Friendship, of course feigned should be retained with enemy till his weakness is known. Let him remain elated.

Don't expect your friend to be a perfect person. Help your friend to become a perfect person. That is true friendship.

A ruler wishing to win should not trust a cunning enemy, even if he may be extending a hand of friendship. Because deep-rooted enmity, however, concealed, will surely come to light.

The true way and the sure way to friendship is through humility-being open to each other, accepting each other just as we are, knowing each other.

By ahimsa we will be able to save the cow and also win the friendship of the English.

Friendship that insists upon agreement on all matters is not worth the name. Friendship to be real must ever sustain the weight of honest differences, however sharp they be.

Compliments win friends, honesty loses them.

The beauty of enmity is insecurity; the beauty of friendship is in security.

Friends make pretence of following to the grave but before one is in it, their minds are turned and making the best of their way back to life and living people and things they understand.

Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.