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You can't live a perfect day without doing something
for someone who will never be able to repay you.
- John Wooden
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Being a role model is the most powerful form of educating.
Youngsters need good models more than they need critics.
It's one of a parent's greatest responsibilities and opportunities.
- John Wooden
Make your "yes" mean yes,
and your "no" mean no.
- John Wooden
Youngsters need good models more than they need critics.
- John Wooden
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden
Beating an opponent is not a goal,
but a by-product of success.
- John Wooden
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation,
because your character is what you really are,
while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
- John Wooden
You can't let praise or criticism get to you.
It's a weakness to get caught up in either one.
- John Wooden
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation.
- John Wooden
Failure to prepare is preparing to fail.
- John Wooden
Don't let what you cannot do
interfere with what you can do.
- John Wooden
Success comes from knowing that
you did your best to become the best
that you are capable of becoming.
- John Wooden
Do not let what you cannot do
interfere with what you can do.
- John Wooden
It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.
- John Wooden
A coach is someone who can give correction
without causing resentment.
- John Wooden
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 friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard
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
Your visions will become clear only
when you can look into your own heart.
Who looks outside, dreams;
who looks inside, awakes.
- Carl Jung
True friends are those who lift you up
when your heart's wings forget how to fly.
- Anonymous
Nine-tenths of the people were created
so you would want to be with the other tenth.
- Horace Walpole
Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through,
and you could go in the back way.
- Henry David Thoreau
A holiday, the day I first named you, "friend."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
A true friend is one who believes in you
when you have ceased to believe in yourself.
- Anonymous
Everyone hears what you say.
Friends listen to what you say.
Best friends listen to what you don't say.
- 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
The magic words for a great family are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A friend is a present you give yourself.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Be careful the friends you choose -
for you will become like them.
- W. Clement Stone
A new friend is like new wine;
when it has aged you will drink it with pleasure.
- Ecclesiastes 9:10
Choose your friends carefully.
Your enemies will choose you.
- Yasser Arafat
Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with.
Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.
- Thomas J. Watson Sr.
I choose you as my friend, and rejoice.
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Business, you know, may bring money,
but friendship hardly ever does.
- Jane Austen
If I mayn't tell you what I feel,
what is the use of a friend?
- William Makepeace Thackeray
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
Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.
- Jacques Delille
A friend encourages your dreams and offers advice -
but when you don't follow it,
they still respect and love you.
- Doris Wild Helmering
A true friend never gets in your way
unless you happen to be going down.
- Arnold H. Glasgow
A friend is someone who won't stop
until he finds you and brings you home.
- Fraser Sr. in the movie Due South
You only meet your once in a lifetime friend ...
once in a lifetime.
- Little Rascals
Tell me whom you live with,
and I will tell you who you are.
- Spanish Proverb
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
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 true friend is a rock upon whom you can depend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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
Your friends love you anyway.
- Dave Barry
The best time to make friends is before you need them.
- Ethel Barrymore
What is a friend? I will tell you ...
it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.
- Frank Crane
An old friend will help you move.
A good friend will help you move a dead body.
- Jim Hayes
Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.
- Bill Watterson
Your friend is the man who knows all about you,
and still likes you.
- Elbert Hubbard
If you love something, set it free;
if it comes back it's yours,
if it doesn't, it never was.
- Richard Bach
Take time to play!
Ask for what you want.
Laugh.
Live loudly.
Be avid.
Learn a new thing.
Be Yourself!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
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
Good friends are like stars ...
you don't always see them,
but you know they are always there.
- Anonymous
You are my friend when you can guard my failure,
challenge my thought and celebrate my success.
- Anonymous
Choose a friend as thou dost a wife,
till death separate you.
- William Penn
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)
It is one of the blessings of old friends
that you can afford to be stupid with them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Best friends are the ones who can be the farthest away
but there the fastest when you call.
- Anonymous
A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
- Abraham Lincoln
One is taught by experience to put a premium
on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.
- Gail Godwin
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
You have heard that it was said,
"Love your neighbor and hate your enemy."
But I tell you: Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you.
- Matthew 5:43-44
Ninety-nine percent of who you are
is invisible and untouchable.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
- Mother Teresa
What you resist, persists.
- Carl Jung
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