Top 83 Friends Wisdom Quotes
#1. Folly plots a fool's death from the moment they become friends. Wisdom bestows blessings upon a wise man from the moment they wed.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#2. A friend is he who never minds; those who mind are never your friends.
Debasish Mridha
#3. A man who does not honor the company of his true friends will never see the light of true love.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
#4. We care. We feel. We think. We do not always miss the absent one. We cannot always come when called. Being friends with a loner requires patience and the wisdom that distance does not mean dislike.
Anneli Rufus
#5. Love that is within you is also flowing through the hearts of your neighbors and friends.
Debasish Mridha
#7. Instead we are tapped into an unquenchable, undepletable, inexhaustible source of wisdom, consciousness, companionship. Yeah, we lose friends. But we find friends too, in places we never thought to look. And they're better friends, truer friends. And we're better and truer to them.
Steven Pressfield
#8. Inside you resides an ocean of creative mind, which is bigger than all the land in this world. So cultivate your land to produce all the goods you and your friends need.
Debasish Mridha
#9. Oh, all my friends,
Young or old, mad or sad,
Loving or kind, optimist or pessimist,
Enjoy the drama of life,
enjoy the beauty of life,
enjoy every moment of it,
Because this is it,
We are all in our last journey
We call life.
Debasish Mridha
#10. Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.
John Lennon
#12. Don't hate people who show you what's wrong with you. They are your mirror, they are your true friends.
C. JoyBell C.
#13. I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.
Pietro Aretino
#14. The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#15. Once we were in love,
So I know it's true, the saying:
True love never ends
For as much as I loved you when we were sweethearts, I love you even more
Now that we are friends
Karen E. Quinones Miller
#16. Friends are like books, you learn from every one of them.
Debasish Mridha
#17. Give your Friends Roses while they are still alive; don't wait until their funeral.
-Robert L. Biehl (my dad)
Bobb Biehl
#18. If you know the psychological nature of your own mind, depression is spontaneously dispelled; instead of being enemies and strangers, all living beings become your friends. The narrow mind rejects; wisdom accepts. Check your own mind to see whether or not this is true.
Thubten Zopa Rinpoche
#19. Now in the light of past and present events the bitter truth must be spoken. We feared too little and we hoped too much. We underestimated the bestiality of the enemy; we overestimtaed the humanity, the wisdom, the sense of justice of our friends.
Chaim Weizmann
#20. True friends are always near, the Goddess said. Beneath the eyelids on a stormy night, around the bend in a wicked dream, hearkening to the future by the chimes of their companion's call.
Mary-Jean Harris
#21. Never be petty. Do not feed resentments against anyone. I prefer good-hearted sinners to so called good people who are intolerant and devoid of compassion. Being spiritual is to have an open mind, understand and forgive, and be friends with everyone.
Paramahansa Yogananda
#22. So, you see; you have the soul of a missionary, the heart of a revolutionary and the mind of a reformer. But what are you to yourself and the family and friends who will always be there for you?
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
#23. Wisdom of the Ages: Do the aliens on the moon pull down their pants and 'earth' their friends for fun?
Matthew D. Heines
#24. Best friends are literal and figurative life savers that we should thank as often as possible for rescuing us from ourselves.
Joshunda Sanders
#25. It is easier for an ambitious friend to become an enemy than for an enemy to become a friend. It is even easier to make friends than you can find people to trust as friends.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
#27. Satisfaction is not the achievement of what we want, but the awareness of what we have.
Abhysheq Shukla
#28. It is not the rich man you should properly call happy,
but him who knows how to use with wisdom the blessings of the gods,
to endure hard poverty, and who fears dishonor worse than death,
and is not afraid to die for cherished friends or fatherland.
Horace
#29. If we cannot persuade our friends by reasons we must be content "and not bring a mercenary army to our aid" (He meant passions.)
C.S. Lewis
#30. That's the way it goes sometimes: in order to help your friends, first you have to help your enemy. Better get used to it.
Sergei Lukyanenko
#31. I think that in life you don't need too much; you need friends, you need to do what you like doing.
Zaha Hadid
#32. Where you are not respected inhabit not that country,
You can not earn, have friends and get knowledge truly.
[8] 1.8 Chanakya
Munindra Misra
#33. Good friends will allow you to be as innocent and free as a child when in private, and as wise and mature as an adult when in public.
Criss Jami
#34. ...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?
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
#35. During my PhD, I was depressed for eight-months, state of deep-worry. The stressful life leads to neglect of spirituality and wellness. I recovered by inspiration of great souls, friends and family. Ever since, I have sought spirituality of soul and well-being over all other things.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#37. Who make not friends with sinful, lives not away from hope futilely,
Who outrages not another's wife and betrays not arrogance surely;
Who never commits any theft or never shows ingratitude certainly,
And never indulges in drinking is a person who is always happy.
[99] - 33 Mahatma Vidur
Munindra Misra
#38. Man has less than he suspects of: Time, Friends, Hopes, Qualities.
Proverb
Idries Shah
#39. I will seek wisdom. I will choose my friends with care.
Andy Andrews
#40. To attract people naturally, effortlessly, we need only follow the true prompting of our hearts.
Wu Wei
#41. One thing he'd learned in ten years on the New York Stage was this: don't make friends with the man who plays Hamlet; make friends with the man who pays Hamlet.
Thomas Dyja
#42. O my Lord, whatever share of this world You have bestowed on me, bestow it to my enemies, and whatever share of the next world You have for me, give it to my friends. You are enough for me.
Rabia Basri
#43. It is a friend's duty that he does not leave his friend in a difficult position but provide intimacy and support to him. In difficulty who leaves is a false and the one not quitting is a true friend.
Acharya Mahapragya
#44. Life, said Samuel Butler, is like giving a concert on the violin while learning to play the instrument - that, friends, is real wisdom.
Saul Bellow
#45. A short time in the presence of the Friends (the Sufis) is better than a hundred years' sincere, obedient dedication.
Idries Shah
#46. Charm will win you friends;
character will help you keep them.
Intelligence will win you success;
wisdom will help you keep it.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#47. That's the big challenge of life - to chisel disappointment into wisdom so people respect you and you don't annoy your friends with your whining.
Marc Maron
#48. To life! There can never be anything more important than life! To life, my friends!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#49. It amazes me, every single time, to see so much certainty backed by so much ignorance and neglect on what is being believed and shared. The mass wisdom of the fools can only be compared to the egotistical need of schizophrenics with many imaginary friends.
Robin Sacredfire
#50. Don't judge people by their profession, otherwise you'll end up with more enemies than friends.
Abhijit Naskar
#51. It is better to lose friends than to lose your reputation, and better to lose riches than to lose your integrity.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#52. Happiness held is the beginning; happiness shared is the blossom
Abhysheq Shukla
#53. Subtract from the great man all that he owes to opportunity, all that he owes to chance, and all that he gained by the wisdom of his friends and the folly of his enemies, and the giant will often be seen to be a pygmy.
Charles Caleb Colton
#54. If you are wise, all men will be your friends and kindred, for you will be useful.
Plato
#55. Shall I tell you our secret? We are charming thieves who steal hearts and never fail because we are the friends of the One.
Blessed is the poem that comes through me but not of me because the sound of my own music will drown the song of Love.
Rumi
#56. It is in the character of very few people to honour a prosperous friend without envy, and these very few people tend to become best friends.
Ruwayda Mustafah Rabar
#57. If that thy fame with ev'ry toy be pos'd, 'Tis a thin web, which poysonous fancies make; But the great souldier's honour was compos'd Of thicker stuf, which would endure a shake. Wisdom picks friends; civility plays the rest; A toy shunn'd cleanly passeth with the best.
George Herbert
#58. Money can buy a house, but not a home; a bed, but not rest; food, but not an appetite; medicine, but not health; information, but not wisdom; thrills, but not joy; associates, but not friends; servants, but not loyalty; flattery, but not respect.
Pat Williams
#59. If I'm not mistaken, Sigmund Freud said that in every idealisation there's an aggression. Depicting the Pope as a sort of Superman, a star, is offensive to me. The pope is a man who laughs, cries, sleeps calmly and has friends like everyone else. A normal person.
Pope Francis
#60. The world will see the peace when we will understand that there are no enemies but there are friends who don't understand me.
Debasish Mridha
#61. Every plan in which we participate has one constant, ourselves. Not that we are always the same, but that we are always part of the plan. All else comes and goes: friends, parents, possessions, conditions, situations, and associates, leaving only us, ourselves.
Wu Wei
#62. The more you love, the more friends you will have. The more friends you have, the more love you will receive.
Debasish Mridha
#63. You'd better make friends with Time, because sooner or later it will catch up with you.
Eleanor Brownn
#64. Time, the cradle of hope ... Wisdom walks before it, opportunity with it, and repentance behind it: he that has made it his friend will have little to fear from his enemies, but he that has made it his enemy will have little to hope from his friends.
Charles Caleb Colton
#65. This is a time, when there seems to be a particular need for friends of wisdom and truth to join together.
Albert Einstein
#66. Whoever is sitting with friends is in the midst of a flower garden, though he may be in the fire. Whoever sits with an enemy is in the fire, even though he is in the midst of a garden.
Rumi
#68. The greatest solution of all is to live and work in partnership with yourself, your family and friends, your work and community, your nation, your world, nature, and spirit.
Marc Allen
#69. A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
Baltasar Gracian
#70. Friends are the best helpers. They come prepackaged with compassion and love. All they need is wisdom, and that is available to everyone.
Edward T. Welch
#71. Have gracious thoughts of your neighbors,
kind thoughts of your friends,
loving thoughts of your family,
and humble thoughts of yourself.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#72. These friends represent an oversimplified "orthodoxy," based on a misreading of the wisdom tradition to the effect that all troubles are punishments for wrongdoing. Their "comfort" consists largely of applying this message to Job, urging him to identify his sin and repent of it.
Anonymous
#73. The women glare at each other. Grin. You have friends when you're fifteen years old. Sometimes you get them back.
Fredrik Backman
#74. If you're with someone, but you're constantly worried about what they think of you, you're with the wrong person.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
#75. I found that I wanted to be best friends with almost all the women I interviewed because they had been through something. They were closing in on the circle of their journey and they had a kind of wisdom that comes from their long life.
Joyce Tenneson
#76. There is non who is unfriendly, even the person we may regard as unfriendly has a friend. Our mind is the only limitation and barrier to people
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#77. At the time of death, life may end, but I will continue to live in this beautiful world among my beloved new and old friends.
Debasish Mridha
#78. Books are keys to wisdom's treasure;
Books are gates to lands of pleasure;
Books are paths that upward lead;
Books are friends. Come, let us read.
Emilie Poulsson
#79. A lot of people will ignore positive words when they are down and accept negative words. Those people never get better.
Travis J. Dahnke
#81. Books are the best companions as they make you sit near wisdom.
Rajesh Nanoo
