friendship Quotes

Don't walk in front of me… I may not follow. Don't walk behind me… I may not lead. Walk beside me… just be my friend.

Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another 'What! You too? I thought that no one but myself...'

A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.

Money will buy you a bed, but not a good night's sleep, a house but not a home, a companion but not a friend.

I've learned that true friendship continues to grow, even over the longest distance. Same goes for true love.

If you begin the day with love in your heart, peace in your nerves, and truth in your mind, you not only benefit by their presence but also bring them to others, to your family and friends, and to all those whose destiny draws across your path that day.

It's much easier to turn a friendship into love, than love into friendship.

Love your friend with his faults.

Sometimes a new love comes between old friends. Sometimes the best love was the one that was always there.

Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness. Speak approving, cheering words while their ears can hear them and while their hearts can be thrilled by them.

L'amour vient de l'aveuglement , l'amitie de la connaissance . (Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.)

I love everything that's old: old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.

Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with the most appalling people.

Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.

If one judges love by the majority of its effects, it is more like hatred than like friendship.

I have never belonged wholeheartedly to a country, a state, nor to a circle of friends, nor even to my own family. When I was still a rather precocious young man, I already realized most vividly the futility of the hopes and aspirations that most men pursue throughout their lives. Well-being and happiness never appeared to me as an absolute aim. I am even inclined to compare such moral aims to the ambitions of a pig.

No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend until he is unhappy.

Money may be the husk of many things, but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends; servants, but not faithfulness; days of joy, but not peace or happiness.

True happiness Consists not in the multitude of friends But in the worth and choice.

True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in their worth and choice.

Friends, books, cheerful heart, and conscience clear are the most choice companions we have here.

Our policy is simple: We are not going to betray our friends, reward the enemies of freedom, or permit fear and retreat to become American policies, especially in this hemisphere. None of the wars in my lifetime came about because we were too strong.

Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Our best friends and our worst enemies are our thoughts. A thought can do us more good than a doctor or banker or a faithful friend. It can also do us more harm than a brick.

. . . success is a combination of many things, but a good character is the foundation of the kind of success that will bring you real happiness. Choose your friends wisely, they will make or break you.

In later life, as in earlier, only a few persons influence the formation of our character; the multitude pass us by like a distant army. One friend, one teacher, one beloved, one club, one dining table, one work table are the means by which one's nation and the spirit of one's nation affect the individual.

. Berkshire's annual reports and letters to shareholders, prepared by Buffett, frequently receive coverage by the financial media. Buffett's writings are known for containing quotations from sources as ranging between the Bible and Mae West, as well as advice in a Midwestern folk style, and numerous jokes. What the wise do in the beginning, fools do in the end. Abhi SharmaPage 188 Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1. Never invest in a business you can't understand.I will tell you how to become rich. Close the doors. Be fearful when others are greedy. Be greedy when others are fearful. The only value of stock forecasters is to make fortune tellers look good. I don't look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over. Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago. Price is what you pay. Value is what you get. Whether we're talking about socks or stocks, I like buying quality merchandise when it is marked down. Without passion, you don't have energy. Without energy, you have nothing. It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minuted to ruin it. If you think about that you'll do things differently. You never know who's swimming naked until the tide goes out. Honesty is a very expensive gift, Don't expect it from cheap people. It's better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you'll drift in that direction. You can't produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant. When you combine ignorance and leverage, you get some pretty interesting results. Never ask a barber if you need a haircut. Abhi SharmaPage 189 Wall Street is the only place that people drive to in a Rolls Royce to take advice from people who ride the subway. Diversification is protection against ignorance. It makes little sense if you know what you are doing. The fact that people will be full of greed, fear or folly is predictable.The sequence is not predictable. When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is usually the reputation of the business that remains intact. I try to buy stock in businesses that are so wonderful that an idiot can run them. Because sooner or later, one will. If a business does well, the stock eventually follows. I like to go for cinches. I like to shoot fish in a barrel. But I like to do it after the water has run out. In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield. The investor of today does not profit from yesterday's growth. There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult. Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre. Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken. If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians. I buy expensive suits. They just look cheap on me. I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years. Abhi SharmaPage 190 Will Rogers Never miss a good chance to shut up. Will Rogers was first an Indian, a cowboy and a national figure. Born in 1879 on a large ranch in the Cherokee Nation near what later would become Oologah, Oklahoma, Will Rogers was taught by a freed slave how to use a lasso as a tool to work Texas Longhorn cattle on the family ranch. As he grew older, Will Rogers' roping skills developed so special that he was listed in the Guinness Book of Records for throwing three lassos at once: One rope caught the running horse's neck, the other would hoop around the rider and the third swooped up under the horse to loop all four legs. Will Rogers' unsurpassed lariat feats were recorded in the classic movie,

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

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.