Facebook share Tweet This Email this
Please enjoy these Quotes about Knock and Friendship from my collection of Friendship quotes.
If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.
- Milton Berle
Related topics: Motivational Funny Positive Success
Ask and it will be given to you;
seek and you will find;
knock and the door will be opened to you.
- Matthew 7:7
You have a row of dominoes set up;
you knock over the first one,
and what will happen to the last one
is that it will go over very quickly.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Mostly, it is human to dislike surprises -
often with great intensity.
Be open to new ways;
sometimes newness just knocks on our door;
welcome it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Please sign up for my Daily Inspiration - Daily Quote email using the form below.
Thank You,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
He who wants to do good knocks at the gate:
he who loves finds the door open.
- Rabindranath Tagore
It's not whether you get knocked down;
it's whether you get back up.
- Vince Lombardi
Always aim high, work hard, and care deeply
about what you believe in.
When you stumble, keep faith.
When you're knocked down, get right back up.
And never listen to anyone who says
you can't or shouldn't go on.
- Hilary Clinton
If you stand up and be counted,
from time to time you may get yourself knocked down.
But remember this: A man flattened by an opponent can get up again.
A man flattened by conformity stays down for good.
- Thomas J. Watson
There are not many things in life
so beautiful as true friendship,
and not many things more uncommon.
- Anonymous
Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through,
and you could go in the back way.
- Henry David Thoreau
Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
- Elbert Hubbard
Each friend represents a world in us,
a world possibly not born until they arrive,
and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
- Anais Nin
It is not so much our friends' help that helps us,
as the confidence of their help.
- Epicurus
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
We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone.
Only through our love and friendship can we
create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.
- Orson Welles
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)
Love is granting another the space to be
the way they are and the way they are not.
- Werner Erhard
If a friendship isn't comfortable, it's not a friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If a man does not make new acquaintances
as he advances through life,
he will soon find himself alone.
A man, sir, should keep his friendships in constant repair.
- Samuel Johnson
Surround yourself with people who
take their work seriously,
but not themselves,
those who work hard and play hard.
- Colin Powell
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
Friendship is not possible between two women
one of whom is very well dressed.
- Laurie Colwin
Friendship must dare to risk, or it's not friendship.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard in the TV show Star Trek: The Next Generation
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship,
and it is far the best ending for one.
- Oscar Wilde
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
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
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
The key to forgiveness is to forgive from the heart -
not from the mind.
- Sheri Rosenthal
It all depends on how we look at things,
and not how they are in themselves.
- Carl Jung
I do not wish to treat friendships daintily,
but with roughest courage.
When they are real, they are
not glass threads or frost-work,
but the solidest thing we know.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow.
Don't walk behind me; I may not lead.
Just walk beside me and be my friend.
- Albert Camus
I have friends in overalls
whose friendship I would not swap
for the favor of the kings of the world.
- Thomas A. Edison
The best way to keep your friends
is not to give them away.
- Wilson Mizner
The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
It is an intelligence above language.
- Henry David Thoreau
Love one another but make not a bond of love.
Let it rather be a moving sea
between the shores of your souls.
- Khalil Gibran
Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
We will remember not the words of our enemies,
but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Friends are born, not made.
- Henry Adams
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take,
but by the moments that take our breath away.
- Anonymous
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
Security is mostly a superstition.
It does not exist in nature.
- Helen Keller
Offense comes not from the mouth, but from the ear.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands:
not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
- Colin Wilson
As human beings, our greatness lies
not so much in being able to remake the world -
as in being able to remake ourselves.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity,
but in being uninteresting.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
When you make the sacrifice in marriage,
you're sacrificing not to each other
but to unity in a relationship.
- Joseph Campbell
Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
- Erich Segal
We really have to understand the person we want to love.
If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
Real excellence and humility are
not incompatible one with the other,
on the contrary they are twin sisters.
- Jean Baptiste Lacordaire
Love is never lost. If not reciprocated,
it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
- Washington Irving
Only in love are unity and duality not in conflict.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Hatred does not cease by hatred,
but only by love;
this is the eternal rule.
- The Buddha
The word "happiness" would lose its meaning
if it were not balanced by sadness.
- Carl Jung
Understanding does not cure evil,
but it is a definite help,
inasmuch as one can cope
with a comprehensible darkness.
- Carl Jung
I am not what happened to me,
I am what I choose to become.
- Carl Jung
Children are educated by what the grown-up is
and not by his talk.
- Carl Jung
Collective fear stimulates herd instinct,
and tends to produce ferocity toward
those who are not regarded as members of the herd.
- Bertrand Russell
Prejudice is a two-edged sword.
Like the steel sort of sword, it's very sharp, very useful,
and very dangerous if not properly mastered.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The heart, not the head, must be the guide.
- Arthur Erickson
Life will not meet your expectations -
choose joy anyway.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We are injured and hurt emotionally,
not so much by other people
or what they say and don't say,
but by our own attitude and our own response.
- Maxwell Maltz
Love is the total absence of fear.
Love asks no questions.
Its natural state is one of extension and expansion,
not comparison and measurement.
- Gerald Jampolsky
The importance of history is in it's
educational value for our lives today,
not in regret, resentment, or revenge.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love is like a beautiful flower
which I may not touch,
but whose fragrance makes the garden
a place of delight just the same.
- Helen Keller
Do not think that love,
in order to be genuine,
has to be extraordinary.
What we need is to love without getting tired.
- Mother Teresa
If we are not happy and joyous at this season,
for what other season shall we wait and
for what other time shall we look?
- Abdul-Baha
Love possesses not
nor would it be possessed.
- Khalil Gibran
However many holy words you read, however many you speak,
what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?
- The Buddha
The hardest of all, is learning to be
a well of affection, and not a fountain,
to show them that we love them,
not when we feel like it, but when they do.
- Nan Fairbrother
Am I not destroying my enemies
when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Thank you for visiting: Quotes about Knock and Friendship - Knock Quotes.
Please sign up on the form below to receive
my Free Daily Inspiration - Daily Quotes email.
Jonathan Lockwood Huie
"The Philosopher of Happiness" - is the author of 100 Secrets for Living a Life You Love, co-author of Simply An Inspired Life, speaker, personal coach, and creator of the popular Daily Inspiration - Daily Quote free email.>
All materials & writings are copyright © Jonathan Lockwood Huie, except for quotes and other specifically identified material which belong to their respective copyright holders if applicable.