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If you fear making anyone mad,
then you ultimately probe for
the lowest common denominator of human achievement.
- Jimmy Carter
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Satisfaction does not come with achievement, but with effort.
Full effort is full victory.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Achievement seems to be connected with action.
Successful men and women keep moving.
They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
- Conrad Hilton
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement.
Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
- Helen Keller
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The starting point of all achievement is desire.
- Napoleon Hill
Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice,
and is never the result of selfishness.
- Napoleon Hill
There is no short cut to achievement.
Life requires thorough preparation -
veneer isn't worth anything.
- George Washington Carver
Perfection is the obstacle of creation
and the enemy of achievement.
- Neale Donald Walsch
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement
and the thrill of creative effort.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Let freedom reign. The sun never set
on so glorious a human achievement.
- Nelson Mandela
This overcoming of all the usual barriers
between the individual and the Absolute
is the great mystic achievement.
In mystic states we both become one with the Absolute
and we become aware of our oneness.
This is the everlasting and triumphant mystical tradition,
hardly altered by differences of clime or creed.
- William James
True independence is not a gift to be received.
It can't be a hand-out to people.
It must be an achievement by the people.
- Jimmy Yen
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children
of the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
- Napoleon Hill
Death comes to all,
but great achievements build a monument
which shall endure until the sun grows cold.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is curious to observe what different
ideals of happiness people cherish,
and in what singular places they look
for this well-spring of their life.
Many look for it in the hoarding of riches,
some in the pride of power,
and others in the achievements of art and literature;
a few seek it in the exploration of their own minds,
or in search for knowledge.
- Helen Keller
Friends... they cherish one another's hopes.
They are kind to one another's dreams.
- Henry David Thoreau
I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar,
but I cherish the friend who for me
does not consult his calendar.
- Robert Brault
Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet.
We all breathe the same air.
We all cherish our children's future.
And we are all mortal.
- John F. Kennedy
Make the most of your regrets;
never smother your sorrow,
but tend and cherish it till it comes to have
a separate and integral interest.
To regret deeply is to live afresh.
- Henry David Thoreau
Cherish the uncertainty of life's adventures.
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(Groom), take (Bride)'s hand and place your hand over hers.
Now, remember this moment and cherish it...
because this will be the last time you ever have the upper hand.
- Anonymous
To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal
is our only legitimate hope of survival.
- Wendell Berry
Just as a man would not cherish living
in a body other than his own,
so do nations not like to live under other nations,
however noble and great the latter may be.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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
It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich
It is only the great-hearted who can be true friends.
The mean and cowardly can never know what true friendship means.
- Charles Kingsley
True friends are those who lift you up
when your heart's wings forget how to fly.
- Anonymous
Everyone hears what you say.
Friends listen to what you say.
Best friends listen to what you don't say.
- Anonymous
Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.
- Jacques Delille
Friends are angels who lift us to our feet
when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.
- Anonymous
Friendship with one's self is all important,
because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
No man is the whole of himself;
his friends are the rest of him.
- Harry Emerson Fosdick
Friends are the siblings God never gave us.
- Mencius
Friends are God's way of apologizing to us for our families.
- Anonymous
The difference between men friends and women friends
is that men tend to do things together,
women tend to just be together.
- Art Jahnke
"We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?" asked Piglet.
"Even longer," Pooh answered.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Friendship is a thing most necessary to life,
since without friends no one would choose to live,
though possessed of all other advantages.
- Aristotle
Friends are those rare people who ask how we are
and then wait to hear the answer.
- Anonymous
It is one of the blessings of old friends
that you can afford to be stupid with them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friends are like bras:
close to your heart and there for support.
- Anonymous
I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving
for my friends, the old and the new.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friends are God's apology for relations.
- Hugh Kingsmille
The best time to make friends is before you need them.
- Ethel Barrymore
Life is partly what we make it,
and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
- Tehyi Hsieh
Sometimes new love comes between old friends.
Sometimes the best love was the one that was always there.
- Anonymous
I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.
- Abraham Lincoln
A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have friends in overalls
whose friendship I would not swap
for the favor of the kings of the world.
- Thomas A. Edison
Be careful the friends you choose -
for you will become like them.
- W. Clement Stone
The making of friends, who are real friends,
is the best token we have of a man's success in life.
- Edward Everett Hale
Can miles truly separate us from friends?
If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?
- Richard Bach
Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends.
- Jacques Delille
When friends stop being frank and useful to each other,
the whole world loses some of its radiance.
- Anatole Broyard
I get by with a little help from my friends.
- John Lennon
In all my ways of seeing - may I use new glasses,
a telescope and a microscope.
And may I always allow myself to see a circumstance
through the tender hearts of my friends.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Friends share our pain and touch our wounds
with a gentle and tender hand.
- Henri Nouwen
Books and friends should be few but good.
- Anonymous
Friends love misery, in fact.
Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky
or too successful or too pretty,
our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.
- Erica Jong
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience:
this is the ideal life.
- Mark Twain
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
Best Friends: we're a parade - even by ourselves!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
One measure of friendship consists
not in the number of things friends can discuss,
but in the number of things they need no longer mention.
- Clifton Fadiman
Could we see when and where we are to meet again,
we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.
- Ouida
When true friends meet in adverse hour,
'Tis like a sunbeam through a shower.
A watery way an instant seen,
The darkly closing clouds between.
- Sir Walter Scott
The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that
they can grow separately without growing apart.
- Elisabeth Foley
Good friends are like stars ...
you don't always see them,
but you know they are always there.
- Anonymous
Best friends are the ones who can be the farthest away
but there the fastest when you call.
- Anonymous
I no doubt deserved my enemies,
but I don't believe I deserved my friends.
- Walt Whitman
Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with.
Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.
- Thomas J. Watson Sr.
Fate makes us family. choice makes us friends.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Wishing to be friends is quick work,
but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
- Aristotle
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