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Please enjoy these Quotes about Martyrdom and Friendship from my collection of Friendship quotes.
I wrap the potential for bitterness,
resentment, martyrdom in the blanket of forgiveness
and just set it down.
Then it just melts in the warmth. And goes away.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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Give your time and efforts freely or not at all.
When you are tempted to say,
"Oh, if I have to, I'll skip my golf game
and watch my daughter play soccer," don't do it.
Either generate the heart-felt emotion
to make the free-will gift,
"I'd love to watch your game today, Sandy,"
or the honesty to decline the request gracefully.
Martyrdom doesn't create happiness
for any of the parties involved.
An honest, "No" is preferable to a coerced "Yes."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Although prepared for martyrdom,
I preferred that it be postponed.
- Winston Churchill
Let us all be brave enough
to die the death of a martyr,
but let no one lust for martyrdom.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.
- Mark Twain
The tyrant dies and his rule is over,
the martyr dies and his rule begins
- Soren Kierkegaard
If physical death is the price
that I must pay to free my brothers and sisters
from a permanent death of the spirit,
then nothing can be more redemptive.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The martyr cannot be dishonored.
Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame;
every prison a more illustrious abode.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Martyrs cannot be silenced.
- the television show Star Trek: The Next Generation
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
- John Morley
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
It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich
Your friends love you anyway.
- Dave Barry
Be careful the friends you choose -
for you will become like them.
- W. Clement Stone
A true friend is a rock upon whom you can depend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A friend encourages your dreams and offers advice -
but when you don't follow it,
they still respect and love you.
- Doris Wild Helmering
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
Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with.
Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.
- Thomas J. Watson Sr.
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
One is taught by experience to put a premium
on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.
- Gail Godwin
You are my friend when you can guard my failure,
challenge my thought and celebrate my success.
- Anonymous
Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through,
and you could go in the back way.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
A true friend never gets in your way
unless you happen to be going down.
- Arnold H. Glasgow
Best friends are the ones who can be the farthest away
but there the fastest when you call.
- Anonymous
A friend is someone who won't stop
until he finds you and brings you home.
- Fraser Sr. in the movie Due South
A holiday, the day I first named you, "friend."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Nine-tenths of the people were created
so you would want to be with the other tenth.
- Horace Walpole
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
A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
- Abraham Lincoln
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
An old friend will help you move.
A good friend will help you move a dead body.
- Jim Hayes
True friends are those who lift you up
when your heart's wings forget how to fly.
- Anonymous
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
Your friend is the man who knows all about you,
and still likes you.
- Elbert Hubbard
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 magic words for a great family are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I choose you as my friend, and rejoice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If I mayn't tell you what I feel,
what is the use of a friend?
- William Makepeace Thackeray
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
The best time to make friends is before you need them.
- Ethel Barrymore
A friend is a present you give yourself.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
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
Tell me whom you live with,
and I will tell you who you are.
- Spanish Proverb
Business, you know, may bring money,
but friendship hardly ever does.
- Jane Austen
What is a friend? I will tell you ...
it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.
- Frank Crane
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
You only meet your once in a lifetime friend ...
once in a lifetime.
- Little Rascals
It is one of the blessings of old friends
that you can afford to be stupid with them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.
- Jacques Delille
Take time to play!
Ask for what you want.
Laugh.
Live loudly.
Be avid.
Learn a new thing.
Be Yourself!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
If you love something, set it free;
if it comes back it's yours,
if it doesn't, it never was.
- Richard Bach
Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.
- Bill Watterson
A new friend is like new wine;
when it has aged you will drink it with pleasure.
- Ecclesiastes 9:10
Good friends are like stars ...
you don't always see them,
but you know they are always there.
- Anonymous
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)
Promise me you'll never forget me because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
I have found that if you love life,
life will love you back.
- Arthur Rubinstein
Before moving on, you have to clear away your cherished beliefs.
- Dick Raymond
When you feel worried and depressed,
consciously form a smile on your face and act upbeat
until the happy feeling becomes genuine.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love is an undulating energy that moves through you,
within you, and radiates out of you,
and changes everything.
- Bartholomew
Make the most of yourself,
for that is all there is of you.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"You always..." and "you never..." are code phrases for
"you don't meet my expectations,
so I am declaring you inadequate and unacceptable."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Don't marry the person you think you can live with;
marry only the individual you think you can't live without.
- James C. Dobson
My Mama always said you've got to put the past behind you
before you can move on.
- the movie Forrest Gump
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