Friendship Values Quotes

I would never betray a friend to serve a cause. Never reject a friend to help an institution. Great nations may fall in ruin before I would sell a friend to save them.

You’ll never regret being a good friend.

Be rich for yourself and poor to your friends.

Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.

He who receives his friends and gives no personal attention to the meal which is being prepared for them, is not worthy of having friends.

When our friends are present we ought to treat them well; and when they are absent, to speak of them well.

Support your friends - even in their mistakes. But be clear, however, that it is the friend and not the mistake you are supporting.

True friendship develops not as a result of money or power but on the basis of genuine human affection.

I don't believe in 50 friends. I believe in a smaller number. Nor do I care about society events. It's the most senseless use of time.

We love everything on our own account; we even follow our own taste and inclination when we prefer our friends to ourselves; and yet it is this preference alone that constitutes true and perfect friendship.

Between friends there is no bribery. ... the relationship of friends is intrinsically fair and equal. Neither feels stronger or more clever or more beautiful than the other.

I thank you for my friends, for those who understand me better than I understand myself. For those who know me at my worst, and still like me. For those who have forgiven me when I had no right to expect to be forgiven. Help me to be as true to my friends as I would wish them to be to me.

I can never think of promoting my convenience at the expense of a friend's interest and inclination.

I grew up in a very culturally diverse area of America, and I am very proud to come from there. I am also proud that my inner circle of friends has never been defined by race but by the content of their character. Any former teammate or anyone who has met me can attest to this, and I pride myself on not being a judgmental person.

Keeping score is for games, not friendships.

Any man who doesn't love his mama can't be no friend of mine.

Instead of looking for a true friend become a true friend.

Friendship is also about liking a person for their failings, their weakness. It's also about mutual help, not about exploitation.

I don't deliberately select my friends because of their background. If I enjoy someone's company, then that's all that counts. I have many different friends who aren't from the same background as me and we get on really wellit's brilliant.

You know, America has profoundly shaped me, and I have two American children and unbelievably rich friendships so it will always be a source of joy and good memories.

Never leave a friend behind. Friends are all we have to get us through this life--and they are the only things from this world that we could hope to see in the next.

Spying among friends is never acceptable.

Always be true to your friends, just as you are to yourself.

Tis more dishonourable to distrust a friend than to be deceived by him.

A valuable friend is one who'll tell you what you should be told, even if it offends you.