[Quotεs-O-Blog]

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

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

There is nothing stronger in the world than gentleness.
Han Suyin

Think with your whole body.
Taisen Deshimaru

Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.
Plato

We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone.
Ronald Reagan

We convince by our presence.
Walt Whitman

What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
Robert H. Schuller

When deeds speak, words are nothing.
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

With self-discipline most anything is possible.
Theodore Roosevelt

You change your life by changing your heart.
Max Lucado

Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start.
Nido Qubein

Saturday, February 12, 2011

❤ Valentine's Day ❤

Modern

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If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.
A. A. Milne
For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.
Judy Garland
Where there is great love, there are always wishes.
Willa Cather
Love is a game that two can play and both win.
Eva Gabor
Love is being stupid together.
Paul Valery
If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.
Michel de Montaigne
I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and the salmon sing in the street.
W. H. Auden
Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat.
Ben Hecht
We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another.
Lucretius
To love abundantly is to live abundantly, and to love forever is to live forever.
Henry Drummond
Love is the flower you've got to let grow.
John Lennon
Come live in my heart, and pay no rent.
Samuel Lover
If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.
Maya Angelou
A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
Ingrid Bergman
When love is not madness, it is not love.
Pedro Calderon de la Barca
A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved by others.
Frank Morgan
Love is what you've been through with somebody.
James Thurber
Where there is love there is life.
Mohandas Gandhi
Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.
Zelda Fitzgerald
The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love.
Margaret Atwood
Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.
Andre Breton
Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
Zora Neale Hurston
Love is metaphysical gravity.
R. Buckminster Fuller
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
Victor Hugo

Funny

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All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.
Charles M. Schulz
Today is Valentine's Day - or, as men like to call it, Extortion Day!
Jay Leno
I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
Walt Disney
I want a man who's kind and understanding. Is that too much to ask of a millionaire?
Zsa Zsa Gabor
If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?
Lily Tomlin
I'm dating a woman now who, evidently, is unaware of it.
Garry Shandling
We'll love you just the way you are if you're perfect.
Alanis Morissette
True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.
Erich Segal
Look, there's no metaphysics on earth like chocolates.
Fernando Pessoa
Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love. I'd stepped in it a few times.
Rita Rudner
Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.
Groucho Marx
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
Albert Einstein
Money can't buy love, but it improves your bargaining position.
Christopher Marlowe
We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.
Pearl Bailey
In a recent Valentine's Day posting on her fan website, Britney Spears says that - oh, who cares?
Amy Poehler
The last time I saw him he was walking down lover's lane holding his own hand.
Fred Allen
It's better to have loved and lost than to have to do forty pounds of laundry a week.
Laurence J. Peter
I like a woman with a head on her shoulders. I hate necks.
Steve Martin
The only time a woman really succeeds in changing a man is when he is a baby.
Natalie Wood
The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.
Charles de Gaulle
Husbands are like fires - they go out when they're left unattended.
Cher

Cultural

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Am I a romantic? I've seen 'Wuthering Heights' ten times. I'm a romantic.
Johnny Depp
I'd kiss a frog even if there was no promise of a Prince Charming popping out of it. I love frogs.
Cameron Diaz
The best smell in the world is that man that you love.
Jennifer Aniston
Anything is good if it's made of chocolate.
Jo Brand
I love bringing roses to a woman when she least expects it.
Esai Morales
I love romance. I'm a sucker for it. I love it so much. It's pathetic.
Drew Barrymore
I like perfume and flowers.
Donatella Versace
Working with Julie Andrews is like getting hit over the head with a valentine.
Christopher Plummer
My boyfriend calls me 'princess', but I think of myself more along the lines of 'monkey' and 'retard'.
Alicia Silverstone
Everything's coming up roses - for me.
Ethel Merman
I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.
Emma Goldman
How sweet it is!
Jackie Gleason
If you don't have a valentine, hang out with your girlfriends, don't go looking for someone. When it's right, they'll come to you.
Carmen Electra
A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.
Coco Chanel
I'm into all that sappy stuff - a surprise picnic, nice dinner, or traveling. I'm kind of an old romantic.
Will Estes
Sometimes I'm so sweet even I can't stand it.
Julie Andrews
I used to be a hopeless romantic - I fell in love with everyone I went out with.
Jeremy London
I am a hopeless romantic and I love to spoil my girlfriends.
Orlando Bloom
I'm like the kid in kindergarten; I really do send valentines to everyone.
Susie Bright
I'm lucky, I don't like sweets, not even chocolate.
Eva Herzigova
I'm a laugh tart. I make no secret of that fact.
Hugh Grant
Some women flirt more with what they say, and some with what they do.
Anna Held

Traditional

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The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
Blaise Pascal
A friendship that like love is warm; A love like friendship, steady.
Thomas Moore
So, fall asleep love, loved by me... for I know love, I am loved by thee.
Robert Browning Hamilton
More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
John Donne
We loved with a love that was more than love.
Edgar Allan Poe
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
Plato
For love is immortality.
Emily Dickinson
Love is love's reward.
John Dryden
To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.
Alphonse de Lamartine
Love... it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be.
Khalil Gibran
Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
Robert Frost
Now a soft kiss - Aye, by that kiss, I vow an endless bliss.
John Keats
Love conquers all.
Virgil
Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.
e. e. cummings
Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.
Lord Byron
Loving is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Who, being loved, is poor?
Oscar Wilde
Soul meets soul on lovers' lips.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Fortune and love favor the brave.
Ovid
Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.
William Shakespeare
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
Samuel Butler
Who is wise in love, love most, say least.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Love is the poetry of the senses.
Honore de Balzac
Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.
Boethius

Thursday, February 10, 2011

✞Ðrεαmš✞

A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
Oscar Wilde

A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.
John Barrymore

All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.
Jack Kerouac

All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.
T. E. Lawrence

All men of action are dreamers.
James Huneker

All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
William Faulkner

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
Walt Disney

All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.
Elias Canetti

Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.
Edgar Allan Poe

Dream and give yourself permission to envision a You that you choose to be.
Joy Page

Dream in a pragmatic way.
Aldous Huxley

Dream manfully and nobly, and thy dreams shall be prophets.
Robert Bulwer-Lytton

Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Dreaming men are haunted men.
Stephen Vincent Benet

Dreaming of a to-morrow, which to-morrow, will be as distant then as 'tis to-day.
Lope de Vega

Dreaming or awake, we perceive only events that have meaning to us.
Jane Roberts

Dreams are necessary to life.
Anais Nin

Dreams are the touchstones of our character.
Henry David Thoreau

Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions.
Edgar Cayce

Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?
Alfred Lord Tennyson

Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely.
Erma Bombeck

Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.
Anais Nin

Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.
Baltasar Gracian

Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.
Victor Hugo

Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.
Harriet Tubman

Everybody's a dreamer.
John Lithgow

God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.
Abdul Kalam

He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.
Douglas Adams

I am a dreamer. Seriously, I'm living on another planet.
Eva Green

I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.
Rene Descartes

I challenge you to be dreamers; I challenge you to be doers and let us make the greatest place in the world even better.
Brian Schweitzer

I close my eyes, then I drift away, into the magic night I softly say. A silent prayer, like dreamers do, then I fall asleep to dream my dreams of you.
Roy Orbison

I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man.
Zhuangzi

I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
M. C. Escher

I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches so much more importance to waking events than to those occurring in dreams... Man... is above all the plaything of his memory.
Andre Breton

I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.
Madonna Ciccone

I tell people I'm too stupid to know what's impossible. I have ridiculously large dreams, and half the time they come true.
Debi Thomas

I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long. If we're in each other's dreams, we can play together all night.
Bill Watterson

I was always a dreamer, in childhood especially. People thought I was a little strange.
Charley Pride

I'm a dreamer. I have to dream and reach for the stars, and if I miss a star then I grab a handful of clouds.
Mike Tyson

I've always said that one night, I'm going to find myself in some field somewhere, I'm standing on grass, and it's raining, and I'm with the person I love, and I know I'm at the very point I've been dreaming of getting to.
Drew Barrymore

Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.
Eugene Ionesco

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours.
Henry David Thoreau

If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.
Les Brown

In dreams begins responsibility.
William Butler Yeats

It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.
Erma Bombeck

Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth.
Jean-Paul Sartre

Living in dreams of yesterday, we find ourselves still dreaming of impossible future conquests.
Charles Lindbergh

Man is a genius when he is dreaming.
Akira Kurosawa

Married or unmarried, young or old, poet or worker, you are still a dreamer, and will one time know, and feel, that your life is but a dream.
Donald G. Mitchell

My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed - my dearest pleasure when free.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
Joseph Campbell

No one should negotiate their dreams. Dreams must be free to fly high. No government, no legislature, has a right to limit your dreams. You should never agree to surrender your dreams.
Jesse Jackson

Oh, I was never a businessman. I was a visionary, a dreamer.
Jim Bakker

One of the most adventurous things left us is to go to bed. For no one can lay a hand on our dreams.
E. V. Lucas

Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages.
Terry Pratchett

Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.
Margaret Fuller

Only things the dreamers make live on. They are the eternal conquerors.
Herbert Kaufman

People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be, that they're all asleep at the switch. Consequently we are living in the Age of Human Error.
Florence King

People need dreams, there's as much nourishment in 'em as food.
Dorothy Gilman

Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.
Joseph Conrad

Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.
Tupac Shakur

So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.
Christopher Reeve

Sometimes, the only realists are the dreamers.
Paul Wellstone

Strivers achieve what dreamers believe.
Usher Raymond

Take everything easy and quit dreaming and brooding and you will be well guarded from a thousand evils.
Amy Lowell

That's what keeps me going: dreaming, inventing, then hoping and dreaming some more in order to keep dreaming.
Joseph Barbera

The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.
Paul Valery

The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it.
George Santayana

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Eleanor Roosevelt

The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.
Khalil Gibran

The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers. But above all, the world needs dreamers who do.
Sarah Ban Breathnach

The world of men is dreaming, it has gone mad in its sleep, and a snake is strangling it, but it can't wake up.
David Herbert Lawrence

There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?
Robert Kennedy

This is the city of dreamers and time and again it's the place where the greatest dream of all, the American dream, has been tested and has triumphed.
Michael Bloomberg

Those who have compared our life to a dream were right... we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.
Michel de Montaigne

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
Anatole France

Was it only by dreaming or writing that I could find out what I thought?
Joan Didion

We all dream; we do not understand our dreams, yet we act as if nothing strange goes on in our sleep minds, strange at least by comparison with the logical, purposeful doings of our minds when we are awake.
Erich Fromm

We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort.
Jesse Owens

We all keep dreaming, and luckily, dreams come true.
Katie Holmes

We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
Novalis

We should never discourage young people from dreaming dreams.
Lenny Wilkens

Whatever you do, never stop dreaming.
Darren L. Johnson

When you cease to dream you cease to live.
Malcolm Forbes

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
Carl Jung

Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
Gloria Steinem

Writers write. Dreamers talk about it.
Jerry B. Jenkins

Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream.
Khalil Gibran

You can plant a dream.
Anne Campbell

You have to dream before your dreams can come true.
Abdul Kalam

You know, Willie Wonka said it best: we are the makers of dreams, the dreamers of dreams.
Herb Brooks

Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
George Bernard Shaw

Tuesday, February 1, 2011

♣♣♣ Friεndship -O- Quotes ♣♣♣

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

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

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

Of all things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.
Epicurus

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

True friends stab you in the front.
Oscar Wilde

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

When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.
Edward W. Howe

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand.
Henri Nouwen

When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.
W. Somerset Maugham

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

Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of.
Sarah Orne Jewett

You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.
Laurence J. Peter

»»» Success -O- Quotεs «««

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.
David Brinkley

Action is the foundational key to all success.
Pablo Picasso

After I won the Oscar, my salary doubled, my friends tripled, my children became more popular at school, my butcher made a pass at me, and my maid hit me up for a raise.
Shirley Jones

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.
Abraham Lincoln

Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture.
Lydia M. Child

Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
George Edward Woodberry

Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.
Dale Carnegie

Diligence is the mother of good fortune.
Benjamin Disraeli

Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally.
David Frost

Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.
Erma Bombeck

Failure is success if we learn from it.
Malcolm Forbes

Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.
Dale Carnegie

Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.
Jim Rohn

Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil.
J. Paul Getty

How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?
Logan P. Smith

I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.
Jonathan Winters

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
Bill Cosby

I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.
George Burns

I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.
Michael Jordan

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it.
W. C. Fields

If you want to achieve things in life, you've just got to do them, and if you're talented and smart, you'll succeed.
Juliana Hatfield

In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time.
Anthony J. D'Angelo

In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.
Bill Cosby

In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
Henry Ward Beecher

It's not enough that I should succeed - others should fail.
David Merrick

It's our nature: Human beings like success but they hate successful people.
Carrot Top

Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown.
Ross Perot

No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed.
Harold MacMillan

Nothing recedes like success.
Walter Winchell

Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety.
Aeschylus

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
Benjamin Disraeli

Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.
Elbert Hubbard

Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.
Lily Tomlin

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
Winston Churchill

Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it.
Sam Ewing

Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders.
Sloan Wilson

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.
Bill Gates

Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.
Oscar Wilde

Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it... Success is shy - it won't come out while you're watching.
Tennessee Williams

Success is dependent on effort.
Sophocles

Success is falling nine times and getting up ten.
Jon Bon Jovi

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
Dale Carnegie

Success is going from failure to failure without a loss of enthusiam.
Winston Churchill

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.
George S. Patton

Success is like death. The more successful you become, the higher the houses in the hills get and the higer the fences get.
Kevin Spacey

Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction.
Al Bernstein

Success is simple. Do what's right, the right way, at the right time.
Arnold H. Glasow

Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.
Earl Wilson

Success is that old ABC - ability, breaks, and courage.
Charles Luckman

Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellows.
Ambrose Bierce

Success is the progressive realization of predetermined, worthwhile, personal goals.
Paul J. Meyer

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.
Booker T. Washington

Success isn't a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.
Arnold H. Glasow

Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
William Feather

Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.
Barbra Streisand

Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good.
Joe Paterno

The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.
W. Somerset Maugham

The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.
Ayn Rand

The man who has done his level best... is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.
B. C. Forbes

The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year.
John Foster Dulles

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.
Theodore Roosevelt

The one phrase you can use is that success has a thousand fathers, and failure is an orphan.
Alan Price

The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.
Dale Carnegie

The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.
Salvador Dali

The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success.
Irving Berlin

There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
Christopher Morley

Those who have succeeded at anything and don't mention luck are kidding themselves.
Larry King

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.
Albert Einstein

What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.
Margaret Thatcher

Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing.
Vince Lombardi

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