Understand that friends come and go, but with a precious few you should hold on. The older you get, the more you need the people who knew you when you were young. — Mary Schmich
Misfortune shows those who are not really friends. — Aristotle
Whoever neglects old friends for the sake of new deserves what e gets if he loses both — Aesop
One with many friends may be harmed, but there is a friend who stays closer than a brother. — Bible Proverbs
A friend who is near and dear may in time become as useless as a relative. — George Ade
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. — Dalai Lama
Short Losing Friends Quotes
You got nothing to lose. You don't lose when you lose fake friends. — Joan Jett
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept. — Samuel Butler
Choose your friends wisely-they will make or break you. — J. Willard Marriott
It's sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew. — Henry Rollins
Friends for a meal are easy to find, friends until end of life are difficult to find. — Thai Proverbs
He who throws away a friend is as bad as he who throws away his life. — Sophocles
If you lose money you lose much, If you lose friends you lose more, If you lose faith you lose all. — Eleanor Roosevelt
Friends are treasures. — Horace Bruns
Losing Friends Image Quotes
A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.
Losing Friendship Quotes
You meet people who forget you. You forget people you meet. But sometimes you meet those people you can't forget. Those are your 'friends — Mark Twain
A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words. — Donna Roberts
Losing my homies in a hurry, they're relocating to the cemetery. — Tupac Shakur
Don't let your happiness depend on something you may lose.
The best things in life are free. And it is important never to lose sight of that. So look around you. Wherever you see friendship, loyalty, laughter, and love...there is your treasure. — Neale Donald Walsch
Friendship is like a glass ornament, once it is broken it can rarely be put back together exactly the same way. — Charles Kingsley
You can't choose between Love and Friendship. They're like a package: You either get both or you lose both — Jaejoong
Intelligent people tend to have less friends than the average person. The smarter you are, the more selevtive you become.
When I'm lost in the rain, In your eyes I know I'll find the light to light my way And when I'm scared, losing ground When my world is going crazy You can turn it all around and when I'm down you're there Pushing me to the top You're always there, giving me all you've got — Christina Aguilera
I am a big believer that you have to nourish any relationship. I am still very much a part of my friends' lives and they are very much a part of my life. A First Lady who does not have this source of strength and comfort can lose perspective and become isolated. — Nancy Reagan
There are two types of people-anchors and motors. You want to lose the anchors and get with the motors because the motors are going somewhere and they're having more fun. The anchors will just drag you down. — Robert Wyland
May the hinges of friendship never rust, nor the wings of love lose a feather. — Edward Ramsay
If friends disappoint you over and over, that's in large part your own fault. Once someone has shown a tendency to be self-centered, you need to recognize that and take care of yourself; people aren't going to change simply because you want them to. — Oprah Winfrey
I get by with a little help from my friends. — John Lennon
Strangers are just friends waiting to happen — Rod McKuen
You do not lament the loss of hair of one who has been beheaded. — Joseph Stalin
Train yourself to let go of everything you fear to lose.
I loved you like a man loves a woman he never touches, only writes to, keeps little photographs of. — Charles Bukowski
It is when we are most lost that we sometimes find our truest friends. — Cynthia Rylant
Get not your friends by bare compliments but by giving them sensible tokens of your love. — Socrates
Demons run when a good man goes to war. Night will fall and drown the sun when a good man goes to war. Friendship dies and true love lies. Night will fall and the dark will rise when a good man goes to war. Demons run but count the cost; the battle's won but the child is lost. — Steven Moffat
Lost Friend Quotes
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 a warmth and a richness to life that nothing else can bring. — Oscar Wilde
Oh my friends, we are loaded with countless church activities, while the real work of the church, that of evangelizing and winning the lost is almost entirely neglected. — Oswald J. Smith
The song is ended, but the melody lingers on. — Irving Berlin
The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.
Good friends we have had, oh good friends we've lost along the way
In this bright future you can't forget your past
So dry your tears I say. — Bob Marley
Loss of virtue in a female is irretrievable; that one false step involves her in endless ruin; that her reputation is no less brittle than it is beautiful; and that she cannot be too much guarded in her behaviour towards the undeserving of the other sex. — Jane Austen
I'm just a careful person around wheels and stuff like that. I try to be as cautious as I can, cause I lost friends to motorcycle accidents and car accidents. So I don't ever play around anything like that. — Gucci Mane
Be with those who bring out the best in you, not the stress in you.
The friends we have lost do not repose under the ground...they are buried deep in our hearts. It has been thus ordained that they may always accompany us. — Alexandre Dumas
I just lost my best friend, I have been crying hysterical for a full day. — Bam Margera
The advice of friends must be received with a judicious reserve; we must not give ourselves up to it and follow it blindly, whether right or wrong. — Pierre Charron
I remember when I first started in the business, I lost a lot of friends. Some were jealous, some were annoyed at the fact that I was an actress. — Amber Tamblyn
My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world. — Jack Layton
The number one reason people fail in life is because they listen to their friends, family, and neighbors. — Napoleon Hill
Great power can come from memorizing scriptures. To memorize a scripture is to forge a new friendship. It is like discovering a new individual who can help in time of need, give inspiration and comfort, and be a source of motivation for needed change — Richard G. Scott
We feel guilt when we no longer want to associate with old friends and colleagues who haven’t changed. — Naval Ravikant
Two things you will never have to chase: true friends and true love.
When most people set out to change their lives, they often focus on all the external stuff, like a new job or a new location or new friends or a new romantic prospects and on and on. The reality is that changing your life starts with changing the way you see everything in your life. — Mark Manson
My diminished girth, in tailor phraseology, was hardly conceivable even by my own friends, or my respected medical adviser, until I put on my former clothing, over what I now wear, which is a thoroughly convincing proof of the remarkable change. — William Banting
The reason that Christianity is the best friend of government is because Christianity is the only religion that changes the heart. — Thomas Jefferson
It can literally change someone's life; it's very positive for young teenagers to get into cosplay if they do it with their friends or with supervision from their parents - it can really foster their social skills. — Yaya Han
Friends Come And Go Quotes
Just remember, some come, some go. The ones that stay with you through everything - they're your true best friends. Don't let go of them. — Sayings
I have found the Iron to be my greatest friend. It never freaks out on me, never runs. Friends may come and go. But two hundred pounds is always two hundred pounds — Henry Rollins
I used to have friends come on tour and work as my drum tech, but they get bummed out when I have to tell them what to do. This time I`m just going to fly them out and let them hang. It`s all good. — Travis Barker
One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
When I start getting old, I'm going to start ending my prayers like, "Lord, it'd be a good day to die." I don't wanna be 130 years old with a diaper on, all my friends dead and gone. I wanna get to heaven, come get me! — Suge Knight
I don't worry about it because we are all growing old. If I were the only one I would worry. But we're all in the same boat, and all of my friends are coming with me. We all go toward old age. How many years left we don't know. We just have to accept it. — Ingrid Bergman
The body comes and goes. This life, my friend, will come and go. It is a fleeting moment, an impulse in an eternal reality. — Frederick Lenz
If I got rid of my demons, I'd lose my angels.
At every instant and from every side, resounds the call of Love:
We are going to sky, who wants to come with us?
We have gone to Heaven, we have been the friends of the angels,
And now we will go back there, for there is our country. — Rumi
When I was a sophomore, a friend asked me to go to a local acting seminar with him. Two guys were very interested in me and wanted me to come out to L.A. I wanted to finish high school before doing anything like that. I figured they’d just forget about me, but they kept after me for two years. — Jensen Ackles
One has to handle these negative experiences alone.You can't get help from your friends or family.You're finally alone with it, and you have to come to grips with misfortune and go on. — Shirley Temple
Look. I have a strategy. Why expect anything? If you don’t expect anything, you don’t get disappointed. — Patricia McCormick
An important day in a young person's life is the day on which he becomes convinced that Christ is the only Friend who will not disappoint him, on which he can always count. — Pope John Paul II
As sure as water's wet and days are long and a friend will always disappoint you in the end. — Neil Gaiman
Expect nothing and accept everything and you will never be disappointed. — Laurence Overmire
A large proportion of my best friends are a little bit crazy. ... I try to be cautious with my friends who are too sane. Depression is itself destructive, and it breeds destructive impulses: I am easily disappointed in people who don't get it. — Andrew Solomon
Disappointment, defeat, and despair are the tools God uses to show us the way. — Paulo Coelho
If I am to meet with a disappointment, the sooner I know it, the more of life I shall have to wear it off. — Thomas Jefferson
If you expect nothing, you can never be disappointed. — Tonya Hurley
I don’t want to disappoint too many people, but the number of interesting political, historical conversations we had, you could stick in your ear, it wasn't that many. We talked about friends, family and of course girls. — Ben Bradlee
New friends may be poems but old friends are alphabets. Don't forget the alphabets because you will need them to read the poems. — Unknown Author
Work Hard. Do your best. Keep your word. Never get too big for your britches. Trust in God. Have no fear; and Never forget a friend. — Harry S. Truman
I LOVE my friends neither with my heart nor with my mind.
Just in case...
HEART might stop. MIND can forget.
I Love them with my Soul.
SOUL never stops or forgets. — Rumi
Selfless love is always costly; fear can't afford it, pride doesn't understand it and friends never forget it. — Bob Goff
Let my name die everywhere, let even my friends forget me, if by that means the cause of the blessed Jesus may be promoted — George Whitefield
People will never forget how you made them feel. — Maya Angelou
A best friend is someone who loves you when you forget to love yourself. — Jay Shetty
I liked being Doc Holliday. It's fun to be insightful and aristocratic, to stand up for your friend and make sacrifices for him. It was fun to be arrogant like he was and have the goods to back it up. He was a very noble character. Although, let's not forget, he did kill a lot of people. — Val Kilmer
Make new friends, but don’t forget the old ones. — Yiddish Proverbs
Betraying Friends Quotes
There are three signs of a hypocrite: when he speaks he speaks lies, when he makes a promise he breaks it, and when he is trusted he betrays his trust. — Elijah Muhammad
To laugh often and love much; to win the respect of intelligent persons and the affection of children; to earn the approbation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Silence is the true friend that never betrays. — Confucius
Lovers have a right to betray you... friends don't. — Judy Holliday
Silence is a true friend who never betrays. — Confucius
Everyone suffers at least one bad betrayal in their lifetime. It’s what unites us. The trick is not to let it destroy your trust in others when that happens. Don’t let them take that from you. — Sherrilyn Kenyon
To me, the thing that is worse than death is betrayal. — Malcolm X
The lesser the friends, the lesser the chances of betrayal. — Tupac Shakur
Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful. — Aesop
A best friend is the only one that walks into your life when the world has walked out. — Shannon Alder
He who loses wealth loses much. He who loses a friend loses more. But he who loses courage loses all. — Miguel de Cervantes
Black women are going to have to take more leadership. I think we are prepared because we bring a tenaciousness with us. We do not fear losing friends, allies, or jobs. — Maxine Waters
Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people -- your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way. — Barbara Bush
Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people - your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way. — Barbara Bush
There's something about losing friends, particularly young people, where it's not something that you get over. I don't believe there's a healing process. — Chris Cornell
A lot of things come with fame, whether it's losing friends or losing family. You still gotta stand up and be that guy even when you ain't having great things. Because you've gotta be the spokesperson for your people. — Young Jeezy
Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them. — Francesco Guicciardini
You don’t lose real friends, real opportunities, or real relationships when you start standing up for yourself and setting clear boundaries. You lose abusers, manipulators, narcissists, control freaks, attention seekers, and mental-health destroying leeches. — Steven Bartlett
I think losing a loved one must be a little like losing a leg. First there is the shock, then the anesthetic, and the painkillers; the attention of doctors and nurses, flowers and cards and visits from friends. But sooner or later you have to learn to walk without it. — Ruth Graham
Oh brother, pray; in spite of Satan, pray; spend hours in prayer; rather neglect friends than not pray; rather fast, and lose breakfast, dinner, tea, and supper - and sleep too - than not pray. And we must not talk about prayer, we must pray in right earnest. The Lord is near. He comes softly while the virgins slumber. — Andrew Bonar
Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things: air, sleep, dreams, sea, the sky - all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it. — Cesare Pavese
Whenever I have friends over, we end up eating and talking and losing track of time, and, once in a while, singing karaoke. It reminds me of the family meals we had in Russia, which always lasted a very long time. That's a tradition I miss. — Maria Sharapova
We tend to take a great deal for granted, because you feel like you're going to live forever. It's only if you lose a friend, or maybe have a near-death experience, [that] many events and people in your life suddenly attain real significance. — Brandon Lee
If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend. — Saint Augustine
You don't know who is important to you until you actually lose them. — Mahatma Gandhi
The older you get, the tougher it is to lose weight, because by then your body and your fat are really good friends. — Bob Hope
Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend. — John Singer Sargent
I have often urged my young friends, when faced with an adversary, to "play polo" with him; i.e., not to go at him bald-headed but to ride side by side with him and gradually edge him off your track. Never lose your temper with him. If you are in the right there is no need to, if you are in the wrong you can't afford to. — Robert Baden-Powell
What kind of Christian are you? Did you ever lose a job, or lose a night's sleep, or lose a friend for God? If your Christianity never costs you a dollar, never cost you a friend, never cost any tears or broken heart, then can you really say that you love the Lord very much? To be a really good Christian is going to cost you. — John R. Rice
We all lose sometimes. We fail to get what we want. Friends and loved ones leave. We make a decision we regret. We try our hardest and come up short. It's not the losing that defines us. It's how we lose. It's what we do afterward. — Scott Jurek
I like to remind my friends frequently how short life is. This is the important message of death: not a day to waste, not a day to quarrel, not a day to brood upon yourself. This is not losing the joy of life; this is gaining the joy of life. — Eknath Easwaran
Choose your friends carefully. It is they who will lead you in one direction or the other. Everybody wants friends. Everybody needs friends. No one wishes to be without them. But never lose sight of the fact that it is your friends who will lead you along the paths that you will follow. — Sayings
I'm kind of a dork. I don't have much game. I'm not particularly comfortable in bars or clubs. I much prefer being home playing Scrabble, having dinner with a couple friends, going to see a movie, or losing a whole weekend to Season 14 of Law and Order or The Simpsons. — Wentworth Miller
A struggle for liberty is in itself respectable and glorious. . . . When conducted with magnanimity, justice and humanity, it ought to command the admiration of every friend to human nature. But if sullied by crimes and extravagancies, it loses its respectability. — Alexander Hamilton
Tears are God's gift to us. Our holy water. They heal us as they flow. — Rita Schiano
We camouflage our true being before others to protect ourselves against criticism or rejection. This protection comes at a steep price... we are misunderstood. When we are misunderstood, especially by family and friends, we join the 'lonely crowd.' Worse... we tend to lose touch with our real selves. — Sidney Jourard
You know, back in 2000 a Republican friend of mine warned me that if I voted for Al Gore and he won, the stock market would tank, we'd lose millions of jobs, and our military would be totally overstretched. You know what: I did vote for Al Gore, he did win, and I'll be damned if all those things didn't come true. — James Carville
We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence. — Joseph Roux
I became bold because I had absolutely nothing to lose: neither honors, nor earnings, nor friends. I had to find myself anew and rely only on myself, because I could rely on no one else. My form is my solitude. — Witold Gombrowicz
We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence. — Philibert Joseph Roux
He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed. — William James
Time will explain it all. Waste no tears over the griefs of yesterday. One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives. Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other. Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future. — Euripides
To lose a friend is the greatest of all evils, but endeavour rather to rejoice that you possessed him than to mourn his loss. — Seneca
Never lose hope, my heart, miracles dwell in the invisible. If the whole world turns against you keep your eyes on the Friend. — Rumi
We die as often as we lose a friend. — Publilius Syrus
If your mental attitude is positive, even when threats abound, you won’t lose your inner peace. On the other hand, if your mind is negative, marked by fear, suspicion and feelings of helplessness, even among your best friends, in a pleasant atmosphere and comfortable surroundings, you won’t be happy. — Dalai Lama
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