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Do what you can,
with what you have,
where you are.
- Theodore Roosevelt
Related topics: Positive Motivational
It is only through labor and painful effort,
by grim energy and resolute courage,
that we move on to better things.
- Theodore Roosevelt
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer
is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
- Theodore Roosevelt
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job,
tell 'em, Certainly I Can. -
and get busy and find out how to do it.
- Theodore Roosevelt
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Believe you can and you're halfway there.
- Theodore Roosevelt
To educate a person in mind and not in morals
is to educate a menace to society.
- Theodore Roosevelt
Far better is it to dare mighty things,
to win glorious triumphs,
even though chequered by failure,
than to take rank with those poor spirits
who neither enjoy much nor suffer much,
because they live in the grey twilight
that knows not victory or defeat.
- Theodore Roosevelt
Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.
- Theodore Roosevelt
A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard
A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich
A true friend is one who believes in you
when you have ceased to believe in yourself.
- Anonymous
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
Your visions will become clear only
when you can look into your own heart.
Who looks outside, dreams;
who looks inside, awakes.
- Carl Jung
Choose a friend as thou dost a wife,
till death separate you.
- William Penn
A friend is someone who won't stop
until he finds you and brings you home.
- Fraser Sr. in the movie Due South
The best time to make friends is before you need them.
- Ethel Barrymore
If I mayn't tell you what I feel,
what is the use of a friend?
- William Makepeace Thackeray
Your friend is the man who knows all about you,
and still likes you.
- Elbert Hubbard
The magic words for a great family are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.
- Bill Watterson
A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
- Abraham Lincoln
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
One is taught by experience to put a premium
on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.
- Gail Godwin
A true friend never gets in your way
unless you happen to be going down.
- Arnold H. Glasgow
It is one of the blessings of old friends
that you can afford to be stupid with them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I choose you as my friend, and rejoice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Your friends love you anyway.
- Dave Barry
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 holiday, the day I first named you, "friend."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
A new friend is like new wine;
when it has aged you will drink it with pleasure.
- Ecclesiastes 9:10
A friend encourages your dreams and offers advice -
but when you don't follow it,
they still respect and love you.
- Doris Wild Helmering
What is a friend? I will tell you ...
it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.
- Frank Crane
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)
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
You are my friend when you can guard my failure,
challenge my thought and celebrate my success.
- Anonymous
Take time to play!
Ask for what you want.
Laugh.
Live loudly.
Be avid.
Learn a new thing.
Be Yourself!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with.
Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.
- Thomas J. Watson Sr.
Choose your friends carefully.
Your enemies will choose you.
- Yasser Arafat
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
Everyone hears what you say.
Friends listen to what you say.
Best friends listen to what you don't say.
- Anonymous
If you love something, set it free;
if it comes back it's yours,
if it doesn't, it never was.
- Richard Bach
Good friends are like stars ...
you don't always see them,
but you know they are always there.
- Anonymous
Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.
- Jacques Delille
Be careful the friends you choose -
for you will become like them.
- W. Clement Stone
True friends are those who lift you up
when your heart's wings forget how to fly.
- Anonymous
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
You only meet your once in a lifetime friend ...
once in a lifetime.
- Little Rascals
Business, you know, may bring money,
but friendship hardly ever does.
- Jane Austen
Nine-tenths of the people were created
so you would want to be with the other tenth.
- Horace Walpole
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
A true friend is a rock upon whom you can depend.
- 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 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
Best friends are the ones who can be the farthest away
but there the fastest when you call.
- Anonymous
Tell me whom you live with,
and I will tell you who you are.
- Spanish Proverb
There is a magnet in your heart
that will attract true friends.
That magnet is unselfishness,
thinking of others first;
when you learn to live for others,
they will live for you.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
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
I love you because I love you.
You are a part of me, and
I need no reasons to love you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is short,
Break the Rules.
Forgive quickly,
Kiss SLOWLY.
Love truly.
Laugh uncontrollably
And never regret
ANYTHING
That makes you smile
- Mark Twain
You know that you have fully experienced love
when you turn into love -
that is the spiritual goal of life.
- Deepak Chopra
You are my home - the place to which I always return.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The only reason you suffer is because you choose to suffer.
The only reason you are happy is because you choose to be happy.
Happiness is a choice, and so is suffering.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Before moving on, you have to clear away your cherished beliefs.
- Dick Raymond
You get what you settle for.
- the character Louise in the movie Thelma and Louise
Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
- Mother Teresa
Resenting someone, or hating someone, ensures that
you can never emotionally escape that person.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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