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Great works are performed not by strength,
but by perseverance.
- Samuel Johnson
Related topics: Positive Inspirational Motivational
If a man does not make new acquaintances
as he advances through life,
he will soon find himself alone.
A man, sir, should keep his friendships in constant repair.
- Samuel Johnson
The chains of habit are too weak to be felt
until they are too strong to be broken.
- Samuel Johnson
A wise man will make haste to forgive,
because he knows the true value of time,
and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
- Samuel Johnson
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The feeling of friendship is like that
of being comfortably filled with roast beef;
love, like being enlivened with champagne.
- Samuel Johnson
Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.
- Samuel Johnson [also attributed to Oscar Wilde]
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone
who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson
Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
- Samuel Johnson
The finest kind of friendship is between people
who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it.
- Anonymous
Truly great friends are hard to find,
difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.
- Anonymous
We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.
- Henry David Thoreau
The magic words for a great family are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
My father always used to say that when you die,
if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.
- Lee Iacocca
It is only the great-hearted who can be true friends.
The mean and cowardly can never know what true friendship means.
- Charles Kingsley
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions.
Small people always do that,
but the really great make you feel that
you, too, can become great.
- Mark Twain
It is a great confidence in a friend
to tell him your faults;
greater to tell him his.
- Benjamin Franklin
Life in abundance comes only through great love.
- Elbert Hubbard
Love is the great miracle cure.
Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
- Louise L. Hay
We can do no great things,
only small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa
If (s)he's an apple and you're an orange,
celebrate your differences -
make a great fruit salad.
Love isn't about being the same -
it's about being sweet with each other.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I long to accomplish a great and noble task,
but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks
as if they were great and noble.
- Helen Keller
Having a personal opinion is great.
Believing that one's personal opinion is absolute truth
leads to most of the world's troubles.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I have decided to stick with love.
Hate is too great a burden to bear.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
- Thomas Henry Huxley
In this life we cannot do great things.
We can only do small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa
People will, in a great degree,
and not without reason,
form their opinion of you upon
that which they have of your friends;
and there is a Spanish proverb
which says very justly,
"Tell me whom you live with,
and I will tell you who you are.
- Lord Chesterfield
Great minds discuss ideas;
average minds discuss events;
small minds discuss people.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
In great contests, each party claims to act
in accordance with the will of God.
Both may be, and one must be wrong.
- Abraham Lincoln
It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness
of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.
- Albert Einstein
Regrets and resentments cause great suffering but fix nothing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones,
as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire.
- Francois de la Rochefoucauld
I have a great deal of company in the house,
especially in the morning when nobody calls.
- Henry David Thoreau
To the young child, all life is a great adventure -
when did we grow so dull and brittle.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Mostly, it is human to dislike surprises -
often with great intensity.
Be open to new ways;
sometimes newness just knocks on our door;
welcome it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation
can be trusted to act humanely
or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.
- Bertrand Russell
The magic words for a great relationship are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To be one, to be united is a great thing.
But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.
- Bono
Where there is great love,
there are always miracles.
- Willa Cather
Life is about more than today, and more than yourself.
What will your legacy be?
What will your great-grandchildren be told about you?
Creating a legacy does not have to be a burden,
it can be your joy and can create
your satisfaction with living each day.
What kind of world do you want to leave your great-grandchildren?
What can you do today to help create that world?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The essence of life is not in
the great victories and grand failures,
but in the simple joys.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The willow which bends to the tempest,
often escapes better than the oak which resists it;
and so in great calamities,
it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits
recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner
than those of a loftier character.
- Albert Schweitzer
When your whole family is loving and supportive, it is a great blessing.
But when family members are indifferent or hostile, release your expectations,
and find the love and support you need elsewhere.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Living in fear of anything is a terrible waste
of what could be a great life.
If you live in fear of losing your job,
either you fear the embarrassment of being jobless,
or you fear the loss of material goods -
house, car, and such.
If you live in fear of losing your stuff and money,
it is clear that they own you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There are trivial truths and there are great truths.
The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
- Niels Bohr
Silence is a source of great strength.
- Lao Tzu
A Great Relationship is the Dance of Two Great Lives.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To lead a great life:
Dream, Take Action, Repeat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The greatest roadblock to a great relationship
is trying to force a partner to change through bribes or threats.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Consider a parent who says,
"Look at the sacrifices I'm making so you can have a better life."
Contrast that with another parent who demonstrates
living a great life every day.
Self-sacrifice is not a virtue.
Living a great life and sharing that life with others
is the noble way to live.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Dare to dream of your great success.
Become intimate with those things
which deeply motivate you
and regularly work toward
the realization of that mission.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak.
Strong convictions precede great actions.
- Louisa May Alcott
Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative,
to which all beings owe their beginning
and which permeates all heaven.
- Lao Tzu
The great pleasure in life is doing
what people say you cannot do.
- Walter Bagehot
Great leadership is not the visit of an unexpected fate
but rather a flame which is kept burning
in spite of the winds of risk and opposition.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Trust men and they will be true to you;
treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The time-traveling is just too dangerous.
Better that I devote myself to study
the other great mystery of the universe - women!
- the movie Back to the Future II
Before we acquire great power
we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice,
and is never the result of selfishness.
- Napoleon Hill
You will become as small as your controlling desire;
as great as your dominant aspiration.
- James Allen
A little neglect may breed great mischief.
- Benjamin Franklin
Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces
that incessantly draw great events.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Being is the great explainer.
- Henry David Thoreau
No crime is so great as daring to excel.
- Winston Churchill
There is a great future in front of you,
you can leave your past behind.
- Joel Osteen
It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks.
She's not marrying the best man.
- Anonymous
In times of great stress or adversity,
it's always best to keep busy,
to plow your anger and your energy
into something positive.
- Lee Iacocca
Know that the essence of life is not
in the great victories and grand failures,
but in the simple joys.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We are all connected in the great Circle of Life.
- the movie The Lion King
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
To the philosopher,
death is but the next great adventure.
- J. K. Rowling
Small opportunities are often
the beginning of great enterprises.
- Demosthenes
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