True Friend Investment

Table of Contents

• Friendship and Personal Growth
• Loyalty and Trust in Friendship
• Friendship as a Measure of Worth
• Friendship and Selflessness
• Challenges and Realities of Friendship
• Other

Friendship and Personal Growth

A man’s friendships are one of the best measures of his worth

Friendship isn't about becoming somebody else perfect person. It is about finding someone who helps you become the best person you can be.

A man with few friends is only half-developed; there are whole sides of his nature which are locked up and have never been expressed. He cannot unlock them himself, he cannot even discover them; friends alone can stimulate him and open him.

Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.

You are beginning to see that any man to whom you can do favor is your friend, and that you can do a favor to almost anyone.

Every social need, such as the need for friendship, must be a party to its own satisfaction: I cannot passively find my friend as a ready-made friend; a ready-made human being he may be, but his friendship for me I must help to create by my own active resolve.

While friendship has been by far the chief source of my happiness, acquaintance or general society has always meant little to me, and I cannot quite understand why a man should wish to know more people than he can make real friends of.

Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue.

Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue, and does not admit of assumptions of superiority.

Friendship is the highest degree of perfection in society.

A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world; but very few real friends.

One, whose mind is stable, pure and chaste is strong mentally as well as morally. Therefore, one should only befriend such people who are kind-hearted, polite and virtuous.

A man that knows how to be a friend will always find a friend when he needs one.

A gentleman makes friends by learning together with others, and he looks to friends to help him cultivate benevolence.

Loyalty and Trust in Friendship

...No man is foolish when his friend betrays him because a man’s world is most serene when he has people to trust and call friends. After all, is it not often said that a friend is another self?

Regard [a friend] as loyal, and you will make him loyal.

Love and esteem are the first principles of friendship; it is always imperfect if either of these two are wanting.

No man can expect to find a friend without faults; nor can he propose himself to be so to another. Without reciprocal mildness and temperance there can be no continuance of friendship. Every man will have something to do for his friend, and something to bear with in him. The sober man only can do the first; and for the latter, patience is requisite. It is better for a man to depend on himself, than to be annoyed with either a madman or a fool.

One man envies the success in life of another, and hates him in secret; nor is he willing to give him good advice when he is consulted, except it be by some wonderful effort of good feeling, and there are, alas, few such men in the world. A real friend, on the other hand, exults in his friend?s happiness, rejoices in all his joys, and is ready to afford him the best advice.

It's very important when making a friend to check and see if they have a private plane. People think a good personality trait in a friend is kindness or a sense of humor. No, in a friend a good personality trait is a Gulfstream.

Sometimes I think he’s the kind of friend that grownups call a ‘fair-weather friend.’ That means when everything’s going smoothly, he’s the best friend a guy could want. But as soon as something goes wrong…(he) sort of turns on you.

Nothing is there more friendly to a man than a friend in need.

Above all things, be not made an ass to carry the burdens of other men if any friend desire thee to be his surety, give him a part of what thou has to spare if he presses thee further, he is not thy friend at all.

A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that action, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment to friends; and that the most liberal professions of good-will are very far from being the surest marks of it

A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.

Few men have the natural strength to honor a friend’s success without envy.

A man can seem to have many friends yet know little of friendship.

Ponder for a long time whether you shall admit a given person to your friendship; but when you have decided to admit him, welcome him with all your heart and soul. Speak as boldly with him as with yourself.

Friendship as a Measure of Worth

A man’s friendships are one of the best measures of his worth

A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

The making of friends, who are real friends, is the best token we have of a man's success in life.

Always, Sir, set a high value on spontaneous kindness. he whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord, will love you more than one whom you have been at pains to attach to you.

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.

We can never replace a friend. When a man is fortunate enough to have several, he finds they are all different. No one has a double in friendship.

The reward of friendship is itself. The man who hopes for anything else does not understand what true friendship is.

A man’s friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

The making of friends, who are real friends, is the best token we have of a man’s success in life.

Remember, a friend does not need you to impress him. A friend loves you because you are true to yourself, not because you agree with him. Beware of grand gestures; the real mettle of friendship is forged in life’s daily workings.

That’s the thing, isn’t it? About friendships. You don’t know what he needs. You only know he needs it.

The making of friends who are real friends, is the best token we have of a man's success in life.

We can never replace a friend. When a man is fortunate enough to have several, he finds they are all different. No one has a double in friendship.

A man who seeks a perfect friend, will remain friendless.

Friendship and Selflessness

Believe that when I am at once a man's friend I am always so-nor is it so very hard to bring me to it. And though a man may enjoy himself in being my enemy, he cannot make me HIS for longer than I wish. Good afternoon." Lowell had a way of leaving a conversation with the other person needing more from him.

But a man's best friend is the one who not only wishes him well but wishes it for his own sake (even though nobody will ever know it): and this condition is best fulfilled by his attitude towards himself - and similarly with all the other attributes that go to define a friend. For we have said before that all friendly feelings for others are extensions of a man's feelings for himself.

Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.

Man's best friend is one who wishes well to the object of his wish for his sake, even if no one is to know of it.

He endearing elegance of female friendship.

In true friendship, in which I am expert, I give myself to my friend more than I draw him to me. I not only like doing him good better than having him do me good, but also would rather have him do good to himself than to me; he does me most good when he does himself good.

The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. I have no wealth to bestow on him. If he knows that I am happy in loving him, he will want no other reward. Is not friendship divine in this?

Friendship is to be purchased only by friendship. A man may have authority over others, but he can never have their hearts but by giving his own.

Man’s best friend is one who wishes well to the object of his wish for his sake, even if no one is to know of it.

I don’t reserve my friendship for perfect people.

We like people for their qualities, but we love them for their defects.” In writing this line I meant to say that we must not simply “accept” imperfection when it is revealed to us – we must celebrate it. This, I assure you, is the true sign of friendship.

Know this, that he that is a friend to himself, is a friend to all men.

My friendship with you marks the first time in my adult life when a man not only makes me feel that I can offer what I’ve chosen to offer, but also that it will be welcomed.

The making of friends who are real friends, is the best token we have of a man's success in life.

Challenges and Realities of Friendship

It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.

Friendship is not by force but by choice.You can never please everybody, he who aims to please everybody will end up pleasing nobody.

In friendship, bond not with a shallow man.

If it be the chief point of friendship to comply with a friend's notions and inclinations he possesses this is an eminent degree; he lies down when I sit, and walks when I walk, which is more that many good friends can pretend to do.

Few men have the natural strength to honor a friend's success without envy.

The happy man in this life needs friends.

It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.

Make a man laugh a good hearty laugh, and you've paved the way for friendship. When a man laughs with you, he, to some extent, likes you.

Only friendliness produces friendship. And we must look far deeper into the soul of man for the thing that produces friendliness.

Always set high value on spontaneous kindness. He whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord will love you more than one whom you have been at pains to attach to you.

If it be the chief point of friendship to comply with a friends motions and inclinations, he possesses this in a eminent degree; he lies down when I sit, and walks when I walk, which is more than many good friends can pretend to do.

To say that a man is your Friend, means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy. Most contemplate only what would be the accidental and trifling advantages of Friendship, as that the Friend can assist in time of need by his substance, or his influence, or his counsel. Even the utmost goodwill and harmony and practical kindness are not sufficient for Friendship, for Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.

To offer a man friendship when love is in his heart is like giving a loaf of bread to one who is dying of thirst.

It’s very important when making a friend to check and see if they have a private plane. People think a good personality trait in a friend is kindness or a sense of humor. No, in a friend a good personality trait is a Gulfstream.

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It's the selfishness in man that makes him more interested in keeping a friend indeed than in keeping a friend in need. ~Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu

...he will be our friend for always and always and always.

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