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If you have a job without any aggravations, you don't have a job.
- Malcolm S. Forbes (wealthy publisher)
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Failure is success if we learn from it.
- Malcolm S. Forbes
Too many people overvalue what they are not,
and undervalue what they are.
- Malcolm S. Forbes
To measure the man, measure his heart.
- Malcolm S. Forbes
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You can easily judge the character of others
by how they treat those who can
do nothing for them or to them.
- Malcolm S. Forbes
A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard
It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich
I choose you as my friend, and rejoice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Friendship is born at that moment
when one person says to another,
"What! You too? I thought I was the only one."
- C. S. Lewis
Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being
to those who are on the road with you,
and accept as something precious
what comes back to you from them.
- Albert Schweitzer
An old friend will help you move.
A good friend will help you move a dead body.
- Jim Hayes
Your visions will become clear only
when you can look into your own heart.
Who looks outside, dreams;
who looks inside, awakes.
- Carl Jung
Laugh, and the world laughs with you;
Weep, and you weep alone;
For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth,
But has trouble enough of its own.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
A friend is someone who won't stop
until he finds you and brings you home.
- Fraser Sr. in the movie Due South
Be careful the friends you choose -
for you will become like them.
- W. Clement Stone
A true friend is one who believes in you
when you have ceased to believe in yourself.
- Anonymous
The magic words for a great family are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When you part from your friend, you grieve not;
For that which you love most in him may be
clearer in his absence,
as the mountain to the climber
is clearer from the plain.
- Khalil Gibran
A true friend is a rock upon whom you can depend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You are my friend when you can guard my failure,
challenge my thought and celebrate my success.
- Anonymous
A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
- Abraham Lincoln
Tell me whom you live with,
and I will tell you who you are.
- Spanish Proverb
Nine-tenths of the people were created
so you would want to be with the other tenth.
- Horace Walpole
One is taught by experience to put a premium
on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.
- Gail Godwin
A friend is a present you give yourself.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with.
Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.
- Thomas J. Watson Sr.
Best friends are the ones who can be the farthest away
but there the fastest when you call.
- Anonymous
Business, you know, may bring money,
but friendship hardly ever does.
- Jane Austen
A friend encourages your dreams and offers advice -
but when you don't follow it,
they still respect and love you.
- Doris Wild Helmering
Your friends love you anyway.
- Dave Barry
It is one of the blessings of old friends
that you can afford to be stupid with them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Choose a friend as thou dost a wife,
till death separate you.
- William Penn
True friends are those who lift you up
when your heart's wings forget how to fly.
- Anonymous
You only meet your once in a lifetime friend ...
once in a lifetime.
- Little Rascals
Your friend is the man who knows all about you,
and still likes you.
- Elbert Hubbard
Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.
- Bill Watterson
Throw your dreams into space like a kite,
and you do not know what it will bring back,
a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
- Anais Nin
The best time to make friends is before you need them.
- Ethel Barrymore
Your task is not to seek for love,
but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself
that you have built against it.
- A Course In Miracles (commonly misattributed to Rumi)
Good friends are like stars ...
you don't always see them,
but you know they are always there.
- Anonymous
Choose your friends carefully.
Your enemies will choose you.
- Yasser Arafat
If you love something, set it free;
if it comes back it's yours,
if it doesn't, it never was.
- Richard Bach
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
If I mayn't tell you what I feel,
what is the use of a friend?
- William Makepeace Thackeray
Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.
- Jacques Delille
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
Take time to play!
Ask for what you want.
Laugh.
Live loudly.
Be avid.
Learn a new thing.
Be Yourself!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
A true friend never gets in your way
unless you happen to be going down.
- Arnold H. Glasgow
Everyone hears what you say.
Friends listen to what you say.
Best friends listen to what you don't say.
- Anonymous
Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through,
and you could go in the back way.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
What is a friend? I will tell you ...
it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.
- Frank Crane
You can make more friends in two months
by becoming interested in other people
than you can in two years by trying
to get other people interested in you.
- Dale Carnegie
When it hurts to look back,
and you're scared to look ahead,
you can look beside you
and your best friend will be there.
- Anonymous
A new friend is like new wine;
when it has aged you will drink it with pleasure.
- Ecclesiastes 9:10
A holiday, the day I first named you, "friend."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Life doesn't step on your toes when you Dance Lightly.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you would convince others,
seem open to conviction yourself.
- Lord Chesterfield
You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you.
You have to go to them sometimes.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person,
"Always do what you are afraid to do."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
- Erich Segal
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
- Mother Teresa
We'll be friends until forever, just you wait and see.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Know the power of kindness.
Whatever you do, do with kindness.
Whatever you say, say with kindness.
Wherever you go,
radiate your kindness to all.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Unexpected events can set you back or set you up.
It's all a matter of - perspective.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you,
then they fight you, then you win.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Doing an injury puts you below your enemy;
revenging one make you but even with him;
forgiving it sets you above him.
- Benjamin Franklin [attributed]
Life is like an onion:
you peel it off one layer at a time,
and sometimes you weep.
- Carl Sandburg
I believe that everything happens for a reason.
People change so that you can learn to let go,
things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right,
you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself,
and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe
Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
- Mother Teresa
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