Valuable Relationships Quotes

Good friends are hard to find and impossible to forget.

A female friend, amiable, clever, and devoted, is a possession more valuable than parks and palaces; and without such a muse, few men can succeed in life, none be contented.

A true friend is the most precious of all possessions and the one we take the least thought about acquiring.

Family connexions were always worth preserving, good company always worth seeking.

To throw awayan honest friend is, as it were, to throw your life away.

Sometimes friends do foolish things. My father told me that true friends are like gold coins. Ships are wrecked by storms and lie for hundreds of years on the ocean floor. Worms destroy the wood. Iron corrodes. Silver turns black but gold doesn't change in sea water. It loses none of its brilliance or colour. It comes up the same. It survives shipwrecks and time.

The one thing I've learned about friends is that the good ones are rare.

I'm not known for having great relationships with ex-girlfriends, but I've been able to continue one with (Gwyneth Paltrow) that's really valuable.

Friendship of the wise is good; a wise enemy is better than a foolish friend.

So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

But as you age, you lose other, even more important things, like friends-hopefully only bad friends, who maybe weren't as good for you as you once thought. With luck, you'll be able to hang on to your true friends, the ones who were always there for you....even when you thought they weren't. Because friends like that are more precious then all the tiaras in the world

The more valuable you become [in your company], the more influence you have, the better communicator you are, you manage your time better, and you recognize people for their contributions. You also become more valuable as a spouse, parent and friend.

It is better to have one friend [or ally] of great value than many who were good for nothing.

A first-rate marriage is like a first-rate hotel: expensive, but worth it.

The beauty of genuine brotherhood and peace is more precious than diamonds or silver or gold.