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You manage things, you lead people.
- Grace Hopper
Related topics: Motivational Leadership
Humans are allergic to change.
They love to say, "We've always done it this way."
- Grace Hopper
It is often easier to ask for forgiveness
than to ask for permission.
- Grace Hopper
If it's a good idea, go ahead and do it.
It is much easier to apologize than it is to get permission.
- Grace Hopper
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Don't try to manage people;
You manage things; You lead people.
- Grace Hopper
The most dangerous phrase in the language is,
"We've always done it this way."
- Grace Hopper
A ship in port is safe,
but that's not what ships are built for.
Sail out to sea and do new things.
- Grace Hopper
One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.
- Grace Hopper
If you do something once,
people will call it an accident.
If you do it twice, t
hey call it a coincidence.
But do it a third time, and
you've just proven a natural law.
- Grace Hopper
It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich
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
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
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
Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.
- Jacques Delille
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
True friends are those who lift you up
when your heart's wings forget how to fly.
- Anonymous
You are my friend when you can guard my failure,
challenge my thought and celebrate my success.
- Anonymous
You only meet your once in a lifetime friend ...
once in a lifetime.
- Little Rascals
A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
- Abraham Lincoln
Your friends love you anyway.
- Dave Barry
One is taught by experience to put a premium
on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.
- Gail Godwin
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
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
Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with.
Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.
- Thomas J. Watson Sr.
Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through,
and you could go in the back way.
- 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
A new friend is like new wine;
when it has aged you will drink it with pleasure.
- Ecclesiastes 9:10
Nine-tenths of the people were created
so you would want to be with the other tenth.
- Horace Walpole
A holiday, the day I first named you, "friend."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
Your visions will become clear only
when you can look into your own heart.
Who looks outside, dreams;
who looks inside, awakes.
- Carl Jung
It is one of the blessings of old friends
that you can afford to be stupid with them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
A friend is someone who won't stop
until he finds you and brings you home.
- Fraser Sr. in the movie Due South
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 true friend is a rock upon whom you can depend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
An old friend will help you move.
A good friend will help you move a dead body.
- Jim Hayes
Choose your friends carefully.
Your enemies will choose you.
- Yasser Arafat
A true friend never gets in your way
unless you happen to be going down.
- Arnold H. Glasgow
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
I choose you as my friend, and rejoice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Everyone hears what you say.
Friends listen to what you say.
Best friends listen to what you don't say.
- Anonymous
What is a friend? I will tell you ...
it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.
- Frank Crane
If I mayn't tell you what I feel,
what is the use of a friend?
- William Makepeace Thackeray
The best time to make friends is before you need them.
- Ethel Barrymore
Good friends are like stars ...
you don't always see them,
but you know they are always there.
- Anonymous
Choose a friend as thou dost a wife,
till death separate you.
- William Penn
Best friends are the ones who can be the farthest away
but there the fastest when you call.
- Anonymous
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
Tell me whom you live with,
and I will tell you who you are.
- Spanish Proverb
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
A friend is a present you give yourself.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Take time to play!
Ask for what you want.
Laugh.
Live loudly.
Be avid.
Learn a new thing.
Be Yourself!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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 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)
Business, you know, may bring money,
but friendship hardly ever does.
- Jane Austen
If you love something, set it free;
if it comes back it's yours,
if it doesn't, it never was.
- Richard Bach
I love you not because of who you are,
but because of who I am when I am with you.
- Roy Croft
The WORK
1.Is it true?
2.Can you absolutely know that it's true?
3.How do you react when you think that thought?
4.Who would you be without the thought?
- Byron Katie
It is neither wealth nor splendor;
but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.
- Thomas Jefferson
Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.
- West African proverb famously quoted by Theodore Roosevelt
"How do you spell 'love'?" asked Piglet.
"You don't spell it...you feel it." answered Pooh.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Anything that costs you more hours of effort or worry
than it brings you hours of enjoyment
is a candidate for downsizing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you want a love message to be heard,
it has got to be sent out.
To keep a lamp burning,
we have to keep putting oil in it.
- Mother Teresa
Life is ten percent what happens to you
and ninety percent how you respond to it.
- Lou Holtz
Youth, large, lusty, loving -
Youth, full of grace, force, fascination.
Do you know that Old Age may come after you
with equal grace, force, fascination?
- Walt Whitman
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
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