Relationships & Friendship quotes for UPSC & State PCS

Trust is established by dialogue.

Understanding is a two-way street.

Virtuous men alone possess friends.

A friend is one soul abiding in two bodies.

He who offends others, does not secure himself.

Love your Enemies, for they tell you your Faults.

Love is the greatest advantage a parent can give.

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

Love begins at home. And love to be true has to hurt.

The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.

Some of my best friends never agree with me politically.

The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.

A drop of honey can catch more flies than a gallon of gall.

Wherever you are it is your own friends who make your world.

The memory of benefits is a frail defence against ingratitude.

The way to learn whether a person is trustworthy is to trust him.

The most important person is the one you are with in this moment.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

In critical moments even the very powerful have need of the weakest.

Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

A little group of wise hearts is better than a wilderness full of fools.

The dove loves even when it attacks; the wolf hates even when it flatters.

For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.

I would rather walk with a friend in the dark than walk alone in the light.

You cannot be friends upon any other terms than upon the terms of equality.

Home is the place where, when you have to go there, They have to take you in.

If you treat people right they will treat you right — ninety percent of the time.

The most important thing in any relationship is not what you get but what you give.

When people show you who they are, believe them, the first time. Not the 29th time!

Friendship needs no words — it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

For friendship makes prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and sharing it.

Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.

Let us greedily enjoy our friends, because we do not know how long this privilege will be ours.

I like friends who have independent minds because they tend to make you see problems from all angles.

When people are friends, they have no need of justice, but when they are just, they need friendship in addition.

All those who try to go it sole alone, Too proud to be beholden for relief, Are absolutely sure to come to grief.

For men use, if they have an evil turn, to write it in marble: and whoso doth us a good turn we write it in dust.

The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them.

You can make more friends in two months by being interested in them, than in two years by making them interested in you.

As the quality of water changes with the nature of the soil; So will a man’s reason vary with the quality of his friends.

I never consider a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Men take on the nature and the habits and the power of thought of those with whom they associate in a spirit of sympathy and harmony.

Of all the means which wisdom acquires to ensure happiness throughout the whole of life, by far the most important is friendship. (28)

I often find myself going back to Darwin's saying about the duration of a man's friendships being one of the best measures of his worth.

At every crisis in one's life, it is absolute salvation to have some sympathetic friend to whom you can think aloud without restraint or misgiving.

In Aryans' Discipline, to build a friendship is to build wealth, to maintain a friendship is to maintain wealth and to end a friendship is to end wealth.

There is only one thing that can form a bond between men, and that is gratitude...we cannot give someone else greater power over us than we have ourselves.

If one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn't take us long To get so we had no one left to live with. For to be social is to be forgiving.

To let friendship die away by negligence and silence, is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of this weary pilgrimage.

If a traveller does not meet with one who is his better, or his equal, let him firmly keep to his solitary journey; there is no companionship with a fool. (Verse 61)

Inability to cooperate with others. More people lose their positions and their big opportunities in life, because of this fault, than for all other reasons combined.

I believe in the brotherhood of all men, but I don't believe in wasting brotherhood on anyone who doesn't want to practice it with me. Brotherhood is a two-way street.

If a man does not make new acquaintance as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, Sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.

And it is certain that those who do not yield to their equals, who keep terms with their superiors, and are moderate towards their inferiors, on the whole succeed best.

It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is: each the other's opposite and complement.

There isn't time--so brief is life--for bickerings, apologies, heartburnings, callings to account. There is only time for loving--and but an instant, so to speak, for that.

we know that there can never be any solid friendship between individuals, or union between communities that is worth the name, unless the parties be persuaded of each others honesty,

We are born helpless. As soon as we are fully conscious we discover loneliness. We need others physically, emotionally, intellectually; we need them if we are to know anything, even ourselves.

Do not think of your faults; still less of others' faults: in every person who comes near you, look for what is good and strong: honour that; rejoice in it; and, as you can, try to imitate it.

Treat your kid like a darling for the first five years. For the next five years, scold them. By the time they turn sixteen, treat them like a friend. Your grown up children are your best friends.

Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible.

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art, like the universe itself (for God did not need to create). It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring.

The reality of the other person is not in what he reveals to you, but in what he cannot reveal to you. Therefore, if you would understand him, listen not to what he says but rather to what he does not say.

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.

One of the blessings of age is to learn not to part on a note of sharpness, to treasure the moments spent with those we love, and to make them whenever possible good to remember, for time is short. (5 February 1943)

And now you live dispersed on ribbon roads, And no man knows or cares who is his neighbor Unless his neighbor makes too much disturbance, But all dash to and fro in motor cars, Familiar with the roads and settled nowhere.

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence; true friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.

Friendship is the greatest of worldly goods. Certainly to me it is the chief happiness of life. If I had to give a piece of advice to a young man about a place to live, I think I shd. say, 'sacrifice almost everything to live where you can be near your friends.'

Love is better than hate, because it brings harmony instead of conflict into the desires of the persons concerned. Two people between whom there is love succeed or fail together, but when two people hate each other the success of either is the failure of the other.

You that would judge me, do not judge alone This book or that, come to this hallowed place Where my friends' portraits hang and look thereon; Ireland's history in their lineaments trace; Think where man's glory most begins and ends And say my glory was I had such friends.

Prior to the Industrial Revolution, the... life of most humans ran... within three ancient frames: the nuclear family.., extended family and... local intimate community. ...The family was... the welfare.., health.., education system.., construction industry.., pension fund.., insurance company.., radio.., television.., newspapers.., bank and... police.

Criticize by category — praise by name.

Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.

Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.

If you judge people, you have no time to love them.

Reprove your friend in secret and praise him openly.

Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.

Please everyone without becoming a hypocrite or a coward.

A person is a person because he recognizes others as persons.

The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue.

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

Make yourself necessary to somebody. Do not make life hard to any.

If we are bold, love strikes away the chains of fear from our souls.

Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can.

The music that can deepest reach, And cure all ill, is cordial speech.

A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them.

Life is not so short but that there is always time enough for courtesy.

While both are dear, Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.

Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.

He who receives a benefit with gratitude, repays the first installment of it.

No man can have society upon his own terms. If he seeks it, he must serve it too.

Money... is most universal and most efficient system of mutual trust ever devised.

The only way out of today's misery is for people to become worthy of each other's trust.

Men exist for the sake of one another. Teach them then or bear with them. (Long translation)

The wound that’s made by fire will heal, But the wound that’s made by tongue will never heal.

Some do not understand that we must die, But those who do realize this settle their quarrels. (Verse 6)

All people respect and love their own parents and children, as well as the parents and children of others.

If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.

It is so easy a thing to give—only great men have the courage and courtesy and, yes, the generosity to receive.

Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

The only thing that will redeem mankind is co-operation, and the first step towards co-operation lies in the hearts of individuals.

Nor knowest thou what argument Thy life to thy neighbor's creed has lent: All are needed by each one, Nothing is fair or good alone.

We have to face the fact that either all of us are going to die together or we are going to learn to live together and if we are to live together we have to talk.

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labour tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.

O reader, to what shifts is poor Society reduced, struggling to give still some account of herself, in epochs when Cash Payment has become the sole nexus of man to men!

Our feeling about every obligation depends in each case upon the spirit in which the benefit is conferred; we weigh not the bulk of the gift, but the quality of the good-will which prompted it.

The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend — or a meaningful day.

Withdraw into yourself, as far as you can. Associate with those who will make a better man of you. Welcome those whom you yourself can improve. The process is mutual; for men learn while they teach.

Most people are on the world, not in it — have no conscious sympathy or relationship to anything about them — undiffused, separate, and rigidly alone like marbles of polished stone, touching but separate.

As it is necessary not to invite robbery by supineness, so it is our duty not to suppress tenderness by suspicion; it is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.

Herein lies the tragedy of the age: not that men are poor, — all men know something of poverty; not that men are wicked, — who is good? not that men are ignorant, — what is Truth? Nay, but that men know so little of men.

Mother is the first Guru to a child. Then comes father. Later, he who gives knowledge is the Guru. After that comes the Guru who teaches the secret of a good life and of true happiness. Last of all, when wisdom comes, one is a Guru unto oneself.

As they say on my own Cape Cod, a rising tide lifts all the boats. And a partnership, by definition, serves both partners, without domination or unfair advantage. Together we have been partners in adversity — let us also be partners in prosperity.

And we’ll work to strengthen families by removing the financial deterrents to marriage for low-income couples, and do more to encourage fatherhood — because what makes you a man isn’t the ability to conceive a child; it’s having the courage to raise one.

Marriage, to women as to men, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it. And the only possible way to accomplish this great change is to accord to women equal power in the making, shaping and controlling of the circumstances of life.

One must learn to forgive and not to hold a hostile, bitter attitude of mind, which offends those about us and prevents us from enjoying ourselves; one must recognize human shortcomings and adjust himself to them rather than to be constantly finding fault with them.

Be kind to each other in your homes. Be kind to those who surround you. I prefer that you make mistakes in kindness rather than that you work miracles in unkindness. Often just for one word, one look, one quick action, and darkness fills the heart of the one we love.

So long as our relationship is defined by our differences, we will empower those who sow hatred rather than peace, those who promote conflict rather than the co-operation that can help all of our people achieve justice and prosperity. This cycle of suspicion and discord must end.

If you find many people who are hard and indifferent to you in a world that you consider to be unhospitable and cruel—as often, indeed, happens to a tender-hearted, stirring young creature—you will also find there are noble hearts who will look kindly on you, and their help will be precious to you beyond price.