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If your actions inspire others to dream more,
learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
- John Quincy Adams
Related topics: Inspirational Motivational Positive Leadership
Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman,
before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.
- John Quincy Adams
Better to be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The best way to keep your friends
is not to give them away.
- Wilson Mizner
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- 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
You only meet your once in a lifetime friend ...
once in a lifetime.
- Little Rascals
Friends are like bras:
close to your heart and there for support.
- Anonymous
Your visions will become clear only
when you can look into your own heart.
Who looks outside, dreams;
who looks inside, awakes.
- Carl Jung
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)
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
Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.
- Jacques Delille
Choose your friends carefully.
Your enemies will choose you.
- Yasser Arafat
A friend or co-worker shares a political,
religious, economic, or social opinion
that is opposite to yours -
does that drive a wedge between your hearts?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Your love is more powerful
than your words or your actions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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
A true friend never gets in your way
unless you happen to be going down.
- Arnold H. Glasgow
Your friends love you anyway.
- Dave Barry
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
An insincere and evil friend is more
to be feared than a wild beast;
a wild beast may wound your body,
but an evil friend will wound your mind.
- The Buddha
A friend encourages your dreams and offers advice -
but when you don't follow it,
they still respect and love you.
- Doris Wild Helmering
Life is a sum of all your choices.
- Albert Camus
True friends are those who lift you up
when your heart's wings forget how to fly.
- Anonymous
Your friend is the man who knows all about you,
and still likes you.
- Elbert Hubbard
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
It is a great confidence in a friend
to tell him your faults;
greater to tell him his.
- Benjamin Franklin
Stay Happy, never let anyone get your goat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Doing an injury puts you below your enemy;
revenging one make you but even with him;
forgiving it sets you above him.
- Benjamin Franklin [attributed]
People will, in a great degree,
and not without reason,
form their opinion of you upon
that which they have of your friends;
and there is a Spanish proverb
which says very justly,
"Tell me whom you live with,
and I will tell you who you are.
- Lord Chesterfield
If (s)he's an apple and you're an orange,
celebrate your differences -
make a great fruit salad.
Love isn't about being the same -
it's about being sweet with each other.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
"Sometimes," said Pooh, "the smallest things take up the most room in your heart."
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
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
Life will not meet your expectations -
choose joy anyway.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Before moving on, you have to clear away your cherished beliefs.
- Dick Raymond
Truth is absolute, but only to one person.
My truth is absolute to me, and your truth is absolute to you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You will always have habits -
things you do regularly and without conscious thought -
but you do have the ability to CHOOSE your habits.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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
You are Never Too Old to Give or Get Gold Stars.
Show Your Honest Appreciation - Today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Make your "yes" mean yes,
and your "no" mean no.
- John Wooden
Your inner thoughts reveal your true nature.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness.
Just because they're not on your road
doesn't mean they've gotten lost.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition,
is not only a waste of energy
but the worst habit you could possibly have.
- Dale Carnegie
You can choose to follow your heart always.
- don Miguel Ruiz
If there ever comes a day when we can't be together,
keep me in your heart, I'll stay there forever.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
You don't choose your family.
They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.
- Desmond Tutu
Choose your life's mate carefully.
From this one decision will come
90 percent of all your happiness or misery.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Whatever your life's work is, do it well.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Keep your attention focused entirely
on what is truly your own concern,
and be clear that what belongs to others
is their business and none of yours.
- Epictetus
The goal of life is
to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe,
to match your nature with Nature.
- Joseph Campbell
I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor.
Do you know your next door neighbor?
- Mother Teresa
The best relationship is one in which
your love for each other
exceeds your need for each other.
- Anonymous
Love wasn't put in your heart to stay.
Love isn't love until you give it away.
- Michael W. Smith
Your children need your presence
more than your presents.
- Jesse Jackson
What can you do to promote world peace?
Go home and love your family.
- Mother Teresa
I am merely a bit player in your stories,
as you are merely a bit player in mine.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Live your life, do your work, then take your hat.
- Henry David Thoreau
You can never really live anyone else's life,
not even your child's.
The influence you exert is through your own life,
and what you've become yourself.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Know that all people are your brothers and sisters.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life doesn't step on your toes when you Dance Lightly.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Don't part with your illusions.
When they are gone you may still exist,
but you have ceased to live.
- Mark Twain
Until you make the unconscious conscious,
it will direct your life and you will call it fate.
- Carl Jung
Our loved ones -
whether by blood, by marriage, or by choice -
are delicate treasures.
If we hold them too close, they break -
as a butterfly would.
By honoring and enjoying
the freedom of our loved ones,
we gain our own freedom.
Have the courage to trust that
the beautiful butterflies of your life
will return - or not - as life intends.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Okay, here's your first lesson: how to take a FALL!
- the movie Karate Kid
You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe,
deserves your love and affection.
- The Buddha
Knowing your own darkness is the best method
for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
- Carl Jung
Life is now.
There was never a time when your life was not now,
nor will there ever be.
- Eckhart Tolle
You can discover what your enemy fears most
by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
- Michael Moncur
For a happy marriage,
love and accept your spouse just the way they are.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Do what you love.
Know your own bone;
gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it,
and gnaw it still.
- Henry David Thoreau
Don't project your past onto my future.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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