Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.
Samuel Pepys
Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
Elbert Hubbard
Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.
Baltasar Gracian
Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.
Plautus
Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.
Honore de Balzac
One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.
George Santayana
She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind.
Toni Morrison
Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.
Margaret Lee Runbeck
Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.
Francesco Guicciardini
The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.
William Blake
The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.
Elbert Hubbard
The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing... not healing, not curing... that is a friend who cares.
Henri Nouwen
The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
Henry David Thoreau
The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.
Henry David Thoreau
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The real test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?
Eugene Kennedy
The sincere friends of this world are as ship lights in the stormiest of nights.
Giotto di Bondone
There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.
Thomas Aquinas
Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.
William Butler Yeats
Only the educated are free.
Epictetus
Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door.
Kyle Chandler
Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other.
Walter Elliot
Poverty was the greatest motivating factor in my life.
Jimmy Dean
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
Robert H. Schuller
Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
Aristotle
Set your goals high, and don't stop till you get there.
Bo Jackson
Set your sights high, the higher the better. Expect the most wonderful things to happen, not in the future but right now. Realize that nothing is too good. Allow absolutely nothing to hamper you or hold you up in any way.
Eileen Caddy
Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.
Tony Robbins
Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.
Peter Marshall
The dog that trots about finds a bone.
Golda Meir
The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.
Mark Caine
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.
Thomas Paine
The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
Epictetus
The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.
Confucius
The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.
Muhammed Iqbal
The weeds keep multiplying in our garden, which is our mind ruled by fear. Rip them out and call them by name.
Sylvia Browne
The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.
Confucius
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
Baltasar Gracian
There is nothing deep down inside us except what we have put there ourselves.
Richard Rorty
Mankind is made great or little by its own will.
Friedrich Schiller
Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.
Albert Camus
Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed.
Blaise Pascal
Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!
Audrey Hepburn
Nothing makes one feel so strong as a call for help.
Pope Paul VI
Of all human activities, man's listening to God is the supreme act of his reasoning and will.
Pope Paul VI
On the recollection of so many and great favours and blessings, I now, with a high sense of gratitude, presume to offer up my sincere thanks to the Almighty, the Creator and Preserver.
William Bartram
Plant thy foot firmly in the prints which His foot has made before thee.
Joseph Barber Lightfoot
Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.
Swami Sivananda
Show me your hands. Do they have scars from giving? Show me your feet. Are they wounded in service? Show me your heart. Have you left a place for divine love?
Fulton J. Sheen
Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
Henry Ward Beecher
Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.
Hosea Ballou
The best way out is always through.
Robert Frost
The essential elements of giving are power and love - activity and affection - and the consciousness of the race testifies that in the high and appropriate exercise of these is a blessedness greater than any other.
Mark Hopkins
The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises.
Leo Buscaglia
The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.
Thomas Jefferson
The only thing that ultimately matters is to eat an ice-cream cone, play a slide trombone, plant a small tree, good God, now you're free.
Ray Manzarek
The power of imagination makes us infinite.
John Muir
The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.
Emile Zola
There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
Edith Wharton
Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.
Democritus
Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.
Lao Tzu
Hope is a waking dream.
Aristotle
Hope is some extraordinary spiritual grace that God gives us to control our fears, not to oust them.
Vincent McNabb
How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
John Muir
I have looked into your eyes with my eyes. I have put my heart near your heart.
Pope John XXIII
I pray God may preserve your health and life many years.
Junipero Serra
Ideas shape the course of history.
John Maynard Keynes
If it were not for hopes, the heart would break.
Thomas Fuller
In a gentle way, you can shake the world.
Mohandas Gandhi
It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.
Aristotle Onassis
It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.
Joseph Wood Krutch
Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.
Jean Paul
Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Just what future the Designer of the universe has provided for the souls of men I do not know, I cannot prove. But I find that the whole order of Nature confirms my confidence that, if it is not like our noblest hopes and dreams, it will transcend them.
Henry Norris Russell
Let each man exercise the art he knows.
Aristophanes
Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.
Marcus Aurelius
Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit.
Bern Williams
I can, therefore I am.
Simone Weil
I don't believe you have to be better than everybody else. I believe you have to be better than you ever thought you could be.
Ken Venturi
I was motivated to be different in part because I was different.
Donna Brazile
I've worked too hard and too long to let anything stand in the way of my goals. I will not let my teammates down and I will not let myself down.
Mia Hamm
If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud.
Emile Zola
If you can dream it, you can do it.
Walt Disney
If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.
Jim Rohn
If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
Dale Carnegie
If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.
John D. Rockefeller
If you've got a talent, protect it.
Jim Carrey
In motivating people, you've got to engage their minds and their hearts. I motivate people, I hope, by example - and perhaps by excitement, by having productive ideas to make others feel involved.
Rupert Murdoch
It's always too early to quit.
Norman Vincent Peale
Know or listen to those who know.
Baltasar Gracian
Leap, and the net will appear.
John Burroughs
Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future, and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now.
Denis Waitley
Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.
Jim Rohn
No matter how many goals you have achieved, you must set your sights on a higher one.
Jessica Savitch
One may miss the mark by aiming too high as too low.
Thomas Fuller
One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests.
Peter Marshall
One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals.
Michael Korda
Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
Mencius
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
C. S. Lewis
Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
Dag Hammarskjold
Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.
Muhammad Ali
He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.
Oscar Wilde
I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.
Katherine Mansfield
I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.
Plutarch
I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.
Thomas A. Edison
I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.
Robert Brault
If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.
George MacDonald
If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue.
Alice Duer Miller
In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.
Albert Schweitzer
It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.
Mignon McLaughlin
It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.
Epicurus
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
It takes a long time to grow an old friend.
John Leonard
It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.
Marlene Dietrich
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
Marcel Proust
Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.
Oprah Winfrey
Many a person has held close, throughout their entire lives, two friends that always remained strange to one another, because one of them attracted by virtue of similarity, the other by difference.
Emil Ludwig
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A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.
James Allen
A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
Charles Darwin
All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.
Henry Ellis
Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
Anton Chekhov
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
William James
Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
Buddha
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
Mark Twain
Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.
Henry David Thoreau
Every man dies. Not every man really lives.
William Wallace
Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
Jean-Paul Sartre
Everything in life is luck.
Donald Trump
Fortunately analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.
Karen Horney
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't.
Richard Bach
I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.
E. B. White
I do not regret one moment of my life.
Lillie Langtry
I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches.
Alice Roosevelt Longworth
I love life because what more is there.
Anthony Hopkins
I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.
John Burroughs
A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.
Elbert Hubbard
A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity.
Robert Hall
A friend to all is a friend to none.
Aristotle
A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely.
Pam Brown
A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
John D. Rockefeller
A hug is like a boomerang - you get it back right away.
Bil Keane
A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.
Leo Buscaglia
A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.
Arnold H. Glasow
An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.
Buddha
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
George Washington
But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.
Thomas Jefferson
But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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.
Albert Camus
Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.
Shirley MacLaine
Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.
Margaret Walker
Friends are born, not made.
Henry B. Adams
Friendship and money: oil and water.
Mario Puzo
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
Aristotle
Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins.
Charles Alexander Eastman
A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
Ayn Rand
Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.
William James
Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Always desire to learn something useful.
Sophocles
Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.
Og Mandino
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
Saint Teresa of Avila
Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.
Wayne Dyer
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
John Donne
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
William James
Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.
Norman Vincent Peale
Crave for a thing, you will get it. Renounce the craving, the object will follow you by itself.
Swami Sivananda
Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
Thomas Jefferson
Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
Baruch Spinoza
Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
Thomas Jefferson
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
Jim Rohn
Even if you fall on your face, you're still moving forward.
Victor Kiam
Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
Alfred A. Montapert
Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.
Baruch Spinoza
Follow your dreams, work hard, practice and persevere. Make sure you eat a variety of foods, get plenty of exercise and maintain a healthy lifestyle.
Sasha Cohen
Go big or go home. Because it's true. What do you have to lose?
Eliza Dushku
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