Being honest may not get you a lot of friends but it'll always get you the right ones.

If you look at the people in your circle and don't get inspired, you don't have a circle. You have a cage.

Your Successful friends will leave you behind if you don't level up too.

True friendship can exist only between equals.

Life is meant to be lived in community but don't settle for a place where you're tolerated. Go where you're celebrated.

Surround yourself with people who challenge you to be better, not people who are enamored with who you already are. People who genuinely want the best for you are very rare and they are usually already wealthy, loved and happy.

Divide up your life. Spend 33% of your time around people lower than you, you can mentor them. Spend 33% of your time with people that are on your level - your friends and peers. Spend 33% of your time with people that are 10-20 years ahead of you. Those are your mentors.

Find somebody smarter to teach you, somebody equal to challenge you and somebody less developed that you can teach. Remember that sometimes people wind up in our lives not because we judged them as high-quality individuals, but because of circumstance and nothing more.

Bad friends will prevent you from having good friends.

You only grow apart from people who don't grow.

Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success.

A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: 'What! You too? I thought I was the only one.'

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

True friends stab you in the front.

Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.

Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.

A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.

Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

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

A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.

True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils.

Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world.

A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they're not so good, and sympathizes with your problems when they're not so bad.

Friendship is the only thing in the world concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed.

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.