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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
Humans are allergic to change.
They love to say, "We've always done it this way."
- Grace Hopper
The most dangerous phrase in the language is,
"We've always done it this way."
- Grace Hopper
You manage things, you lead people.
- Grace Hopper
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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 it's a good idea, go ahead and do it.
It is much easier to apologize than it is to get permission.
- Grace Hopper
Don't try to manage people;
You manage things; You lead people.
- Grace Hopper
It is often easier to ask for forgiveness
than to ask for permission.
- Grace Hopper
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
A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
Best friends are the ones who can be the farthest away
but there the fastest when you call.
- Anonymous
A friend encourages your dreams and offers advice -
but when you don't follow it,
they still respect and love you.
- Doris Wild Helmering
Business, you know, may bring money,
but friendship hardly ever does.
- Jane Austen
One is taught by experience to put a premium
on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.
- Gail Godwin
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 friend is someone who won't stop
until he finds you and brings you home.
- Fraser Sr. in the movie Due South
Your friend is the man who knows all about you,
and still likes you.
- Elbert Hubbard
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
A true friend is one who believes in you
when you have ceased to believe in yourself.
- 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
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
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
Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.
- Bill Watterson
What is a friend? I will tell you ...
it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.
- Frank Crane
Your friends love you anyway.
- Dave Barry
Be careful the friends you choose -
for you will become like them.
- W. Clement Stone
Choose a friend as thou dost a wife,
till death separate you.
- William Penn
Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.
- Jacques Delille
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 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
Choose your friends carefully.
Your enemies will choose you.
- Yasser Arafat
Take time to play!
Ask for what you want.
Laugh.
Live loudly.
Be avid.
Learn a new thing.
Be Yourself!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
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
Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with.
Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.
- Thomas J. Watson Sr.
The magic words for a great family are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through,
and you could go in the back way.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
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
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
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
A friend is a present you give yourself.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
An old friend will help you move.
A good friend will help you move a dead body.
- Jim Hayes
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
The best time to make friends is before you need them.
- Ethel Barrymore
Tell me whom you live with,
and I will tell you who you are.
- Spanish Proverb
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
If you love something, set it free;
if it comes back it's yours,
if it doesn't, it never was.
- Richard Bach
Nine-tenths of the people were created
so you would want to be with the other tenth.
- Horace Walpole
A true friend is a rock upon whom you can depend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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 true friend never gets in your way
unless you happen to be going down.
- Arnold H. Glasgow
If I mayn't tell you what I feel,
what is the use of a friend?
- William Makepeace Thackeray
Wherever you go, go with all your heart.
- Confucius
Life is ten percent what happens to you
and ninety percent how you respond to it.
- Lou Holtz
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)
If the person you are talking to doesn't appear to be listening, be patient.
It may simply be that he has a small piece of fluff in his ear.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
If you fear making anyone mad,
then you ultimately probe for
the lowest common denominator of human achievement.
- Jimmy Carter
You can choose to follow your heart always.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Truth is absolute, but only to one person.
My truth is absolute to me, and your truth is absolute to you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you,
then they fight you, then you win.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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
All you need is love, love. Love is all you need.
- The Beatles
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