| Author: CONFIDENCE IS THE COMPANION OF SUCCESS 25 Apr 2008 | Member Level: Diamond Points : 5 |
The man who makes a success of an important venture never wails for the crowd. He strikes out for himself. It takes nerve, it takes a great lot of grit; but the man that succeeds has both. Anyone can fail. The public admires the man who has enough confidence in himself to take a chance. These chances are the main things after all. The man who tries to succeed must expect to be criticized. Nothing important was ever done but the greater number consulted previously doubted the possibility. Success is the accomplishment of that which most people think can't be done.
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| Author: CONFIDENCE IS THE COMPANION OF SUCCESS 25 Apr 2008 | Member Level: Diamond Points : 5 |
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
Thomas Jefferson
Keep steadily before you the fact that all true success depends at last upon yourself.
Theodore T. Hunger
Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.
Robert Collier
The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
Frank Loyd Wright
A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience.
Elbert Hubbard
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| Author: CONFIDENCE IS THE COMPANION OF SUCCESS 25 Apr 2008 | Member Level: Diamond Points : 5 |
There is only one success--to be able to spend your life in your own way.
Christopher Morley
Failures do what is tension relieving, while winners do what is goal achieving.
Dennis Waitley
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will.
Vince Lombardi
I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure--which is:
Try to please everybody.
Herbert Bayard Swope
Success does not consist in never making blunders, but in never making the same one a second time.
Josh Billings
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| Author: CONFIDENCE IS THE COMPANION OF SUCCESS 25 Apr 2008 | Member Level: Diamond Points : 5 |
The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
Earl of Beaconsfield
Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration and inspiration.
Evan Esar
If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.
Jospeph Addison
Impatience never commanded success.
Edwin H. Chapin
The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do, well.
Henry W. Longfellow
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| Author: CONFIDENCE IS THE COMPANION OF SUCCESS 25 Apr 2008 | Member Level: Diamond Points : 4 |
The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do, well.
Henry W. Longfellow
To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first.
Shakespeare
Try not to become a man of success but a man of value.
Albert Einstein
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no use being a damn fool about it.
W.C. Fields
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| Author: CONFIDENCE IS THE COMPANION OF SUCCESS 25 Apr 2008 | Member Level: Diamond Points : 5 |
The man who makes a success of an important venture never wails for the crowd. He strikes out for himself. It takes nerve, it takes a great lot of grit; but the man that succeeds has both. Anyone can fail. The public admires the man who has enough confidence in himself to take a chance. These chances are the main things after all. The man who tries to succeed must expect to be criticized. Nothing important was ever done but the greater number consulted previously doubted the possibility. Success is the accomplishment of that which most people think can't be done.
C. V. White
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| Author: CONFIDENCE IS THE COMPANION OF SUCCESS 25 Apr 2008 | Member Level: Diamond Points : 5 |
The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret to outward success.
Henry Ward Beecher
The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything if you want to succeed in business--or almost anywhere else for that matter.
Lee Iacocca
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
Francis Bacon
In everything the ends well defined are the secret of durable success.
Victor Cousins
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| Author: CONFIDENCE IS THE COMPANION OF SUCCESS 25 Apr 2008 | Member Level: Diamond Points : 5 |
Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is.
Vince Lombardi
Failures do what is tension relieving,
while winners do what is goal achieving.
Dennis Waitley
(as quoted in Brian Tracy's book, Eat That Frog)
A man should have any number of little aims about which he should be conscious and for which he should have names, but he should have neither name for, nor consciousness concerning, the main aim of his life.
Samuel Butler
Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement.
Brian Tracy, Eat that Frog
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| Author: CONFIDENCE IS THE COMPANION OF SUCCESS 25 Apr 2008 | Member Level: Diamond Points : 3 |
The great and glorious masterpiece of
man is to know how to live to purpose.
Michel de Montaigne
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp,
or what's a heaven for?
Robert Browning
The significance of a man is not in what he attains but in what he longs to attain.
Kahil Gibran
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| Author: CONFIDENCE IS THE COMPANION OF SUCCESS 25 Apr 2008 | Member Level: Diamond Points : 3 |
Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right.
Aldous Huxley
If you don't know where you are going,
you'll end up someplace else.
Yogi Berra
We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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| Author: CONFIDENCE IS THE COMPANION OF SUCCESS 25 Apr 2008 | Member Level: Diamond Points : 4 |
Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
Viktor Frankl
There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
Henry Ford
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
Seneca
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| Author: CONFIDENCE IS THE COMPANION OF SUCCESS 25 Apr 2008 | Member Level: Diamond Points : 4 |
In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia.
Author Unknown
Don't bunt. Aim out of the ballpark.
David Ogilvy
There are two things to aim at in life; first to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind has achieved the second.
Logan Pearsall Smith
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| Author: CONFIDENCE IS THE COMPANION OF SUCCESS 25 Apr 2008 | Member Level: Diamond Points : 3 |
Nature and wisdom never are at strife.
Plutarch
It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook.
William James
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| Author: CONFIDENCE IS THE COMPANION OF SUCCESS 25 Apr 2008 | Member Level: Diamond Points : 4 |
The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence, the second listening, the third memory, the fourth practice, the fifth teaching others.
Solomon Ibn Gabriol
Years teach us more than books.
Berthold Auerbach
The wisdom of nations lies in their proverbs,
which are brief and pithy.
William Penn
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| Author: CONFIDENCE IS THE COMPANION OF SUCCESS 25 Apr 2008 | Member Level: Diamond Points : 4 |
The middle course it the best.
Cleobulus
The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all the other woes of mankind, is wisdom.
Thomas Huxley
A wise man learns by the mistakes of others,
a fool by his own.
Latin Proverb
Silence does not always mark wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
No man was ever wise by chance.
Seneca
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| Author: CONFIDENCE IS THE COMPANION OF SUCCESS 25 Apr 2008 | Member Level: Diamond Points : 5 |
Not to know at large of things remote
From use, obscure and subtle, but to know
That which before us lies in daily life,
Is the prime wisdom.
John Milton
The seat of knowledge is in the head, of wisdom,
in the heart.
William Hazlitt
Of all parts of wisdom the practice is the best.
John Tillotson
The more a man knows, the more he forgives.
Catherine the Great
A loving heart is the truest wisdom.
Charles Dickens
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| Author: CONFIDENCE IS THE COMPANION OF SUCCESS 25 Apr 2008 | Member Level: Diamond Points : 5 |
One who understands much displays a greater simplicity of character than one who understands little.
Alexander Chase
How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!
Homer
On every thorn, delightful wisdom grows,
In every rill a sweet instruction flows.
Edward Young
The man of wisdom is never of two minds;
the man of benevolence never worries;
the man of courage is never afraid.
Confucius
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| Author: CONFIDENCE IS THE COMPANION OF SUCCESS 25 Apr 2008 | Member Level: Diamond Points : 4 |
Time in its aging course teaches all things.
Aeschylus
Make use of time, let not advantage slip.
William Shakespeare
One cannot manage too many affairs: like pumpkins in the water, one pops up while you try to hold down the other.
Chinese Proverb
You will never "find" time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.
Charles Bruxto
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| Author: CONFIDENCE IS THE COMPANION OF SUCCESS 25 Apr 2008 | Member Level: Diamond Points : 4 |
I recommend you take care of the minutes and the hours will take care of themselves.
Earl of Chesterfield
To do two things at once is to do neither.
Publius Syrus
A man who dares waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
Charles Darwin
The laws of science do not distinguish between the past and the future.
Steven W. Hawking
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| Author: CONFIDENCE IS THE COMPANION OF SUCCESS 25 Apr 2008 | Member Level: Diamond Points : 2 |
Time and tide wait for no man.
Geoffrey Chaucer
I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.
Gloria Steinem from
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| Author: CONFIDENCE IS THE COMPANION OF SUCCESS 25 Apr 2008 | Member Level: Diamond Points : 4 |
Time is a file that wears and makes no noise.
English Proverb
He lives long that lives well; and time misspent is not lived but lost.
Thomas Fuller
Take care of the minutes and the hours will take care of themselves.
Lord Chesterfield
The swiftness of time is infinite, as is still more evident when we look back on the past.
Seneca
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| Author: CONFIDENCE IS THE COMPANION OF SUCCESS 25 Apr 2008 | Member Level: Diamond Points : 3 |
hrift of time will repay you in after-life with a thousandfold of profit beyond your most sanguine dreams.
William E. Gladstone
You may as well borrow a person's money as his time.
Horace Mann
Those that make the best use of their time have none to spare.
Thomas Fuller
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| Author: CONFIDENCE IS THE COMPANION OF SUCCESS 25 Apr 2008 | Member Level: Diamond Points : 5 |
To comprehend a man's life, it is necessary to know not merely what he does but also what he purposely leaves undone. There is a limit to the work that can be got out of a human body or a human brain, and he is a wise man who wastes no energy on pursuits for which he is not fitted; and he is till wiser who, from among the things that he can do well, chooses and resolutely follows the best.
John Hall Gladstone
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| Author: CONFIDENCE IS THE COMPANION OF SUCCESS 25 Apr 2008 | Member Level: Diamond Points : 4 |
Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have of them.
Marcel Proust
Time is a physician which heals every grief.
Diphilus
Gaining time is gaining everything in love, trade and war.
John Shebbeare
Time is money.
Benjamin Franklin
The more business a man has to do, the more he is able to accomplish, for he learns to economize his time.
Sir Matthew Hale
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| Author: CONFIDENCE IS THE COMPANION OF SUCCESS 25 Apr 2008 | Member Level: Diamond Points : 4 |
Gaining time is gaining everything in love, trade and war.
John Shebbeare
Time is money.
Benjamin Franklin
The more business a man has to do, the more he is able to accomplish, for he learns to economize his time.
Sir Matthew Hale
Time is but the stream I go a-fishin in.
Henry David Thoreau
He who know most grieves most for wasted time.
Dante
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| Author: CONFIDENCE IS THE COMPANION OF SUCCESS 25 Apr 2008 | Member Level: Diamond Points : 3 |
When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
Helen Keller
Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.
Aristotle
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| Author: CONFIDENCE IS THE COMPANION OF SUCCESS 25 Apr 2008 | Member Level: Diamond Points : 5 |
Happiness resides not in posessions and not in gold; the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul.
Democritus
In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet.
Albert Schweitzer
Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.
Aldous Huxley
There is only one person who could ever make you happy, and that person is you.
David Burns, Intimate Connections
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| Author: CONFIDENCE IS THE COMPANION OF SUCCESS 25 Apr 2008 | Member Level: Diamond Points : 5 |
Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.
Aldous Huxley
There is only one person who could ever make you happy, and that person is you.
David Burns, Intimate Connections
The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions—the little soon-forgotten charities of a kiss, a smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment in the disguise of a playful raillery, and the countless other infinitessimals of pleasurable thought and genial feeling.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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| Author: CONFIDENCE IS THE COMPANION OF SUCCESS 25 Apr 2008 | Member Level: Diamond Points : 5 |
Men spend their lives in anticipations,—in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every other—it is our own. Past opportunities are gone, future have not come. We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer the tasting of them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.
Charles Caleb Colton
Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though 'twere his own.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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| Author: CONFIDENCE IS THE COMPANION OF SUCCESS 25 Apr 2008 | Member Level: Diamond Points : 5 |
The chances are that you have already come to believe that happiness is unattainable. But men have attained it. And they have attained it by realising that happiness does not spring from the procuring of physical or mental pleasure, but from the development of reason and the adjustment of conduct to principles.
from How to Live on 24 Hours a Day, by Arnold Bennett
Happiness is not a matter of events, it depends upon the tides of the mind.
Alice Meynell
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| Author: CONFIDENCE IS THE COMPANION OF SUCCESS 25 Apr 2008 | Member Level: Diamond Points : 4 |
Fortify yourself with contentment, for this is an impregnable fortress.
Epictetus
Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.
Benjamin Franklin
There is only one way to happiness, and that is to cease worrying things which are beyond the power of our will.
Epictetus
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| Author: CONFIDENCE IS THE COMPANION OF SUCCESS 25 Apr 2008 | Member Level: Diamond Points : 5 |
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than attempting to satisfy them.
John Stuart Mills
You're happiest while you're making the greatest contribution.
Robert F. Kennedy
Action may not always bring happiness;
but there is no happiness without action.
Benjamin Disraeli
Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life.
William Ellery Channing
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| Author: CONFIDENCE IS THE COMPANION OF SUCCESS 25 Apr 2008 | Member Level: Diamond Points : 5 |
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
Mahatma Ghandi
The rays of happiness, like those of light, are colorless when unbroken.
Henry W. Longfellow
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.
Douglas Jerrold
Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.
J. Petit Senn
To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.
Albert Camus
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| Author: CONFIDENCE IS THE COMPANION OF SUCCESS 25 Apr 2008 | Member Level: Diamond Points : 5 |
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
Aristotle
Try to be happy in this present moment, and put not off being so to a time to come,—as though that time should be of another make from this which has already come and is ours.
Thomas Fuller
Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
George Santayana
No man is happy who does not think himself so.
Publilius Syrus
Our minds are as different as our faces: we are all traveling to one destination; --happiness; but few are going by the same road.
Charles Caleb Colton
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| Author: CONFIDENCE IS THE COMPANION OF SUCCESS 25 Apr 2008 | Member Level: Diamond Points : 3 |
It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, "Always do what you are afraid to do."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.
George S. Patton
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| Author: CONFIDENCE IS THE COMPANION OF SUCCESS 25 Apr 2008 | Member Level: Diamond Points : 5 |
If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.
St. Clement of Alexandra
We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
Thornton Wilder
The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.
Arthur C. Clarke
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| Author: CONFIDENCE IS THE COMPANION OF SUCCESS 25 Apr 2008 | Member Level: Diamond Points : 4 |
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore,
is not an act but a habit.
Aristotle
Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need.
Voltaire
Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
Benjamin Disraeli
You cannot plough a field by
turning it over in your mind.
Author Unknown
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| Author: CONFIDENCE IS THE COMPANION OF SUCCESS 25 Apr 2008 | Member Level: Diamond Points : 3 |
The best way out is always through.
Robert Frost
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
William B. Sprague
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
Samuel Johnson
Fortune favors the brave.
Publius Terence
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| Author: CONFIDENCE IS THE COMPANION OF SUCCESS 25 Apr 2008 | Member Level: Diamond Points : 5 |
He who hesitates is lost.
Proverb
Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.
Confucius
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Albert Einstein
Knowing is not enough; we must apply.
Willing is not enough; we must do.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We are still masters of our fate.
We are still captains of our souls.
Winston Churchill
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| Author: CONFIDENCE IS THE COMPANION OF SUCCESS 25 Apr 2008 | Member Level: Diamond Points : 4 |
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
For hope is but the dream
of those that wake.
Matthew Prior
Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
Lucretius
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose--
a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
Mary Shelley
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| Author: CONFIDENCE IS THE COMPANION OF SUCCESS 25 Apr 2008 | Member Level: Diamond Points : 5 |
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, It is the only this that ever has.”
Margaret Mead
“People are, if anything, more touchy about being thought silly than they are about being thought unjust.”
E. B. White
“Selling to people who actually want to hear from you is more effective than interrupting strangers who don't.”
Seth Godin
“Take away my people, but leave my factories, and soon grass will grow on the factory floors. Take away my factories, but leave my people, and soon we will have a new and better factory.”
Andrew Carnegie
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| Author: CONFIDENCE IS THE COMPANION OF SUCCESS 25 Apr 2008 | Member Level: Diamond Points : 3 |
“You cannot be friends upon any other terms than upon the terms of equality.”
Woodrow Wilson
“True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.”
David Tyson Gentry
“One who looks for a friend without faults will have none.”
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| Author: CONFIDENCE IS THE COMPANION OF SUCCESS 25 Apr 2008 | Member Level: Diamond Points : 4 |
f we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.”
Charlotte Bronte
“Go often to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Don't wait for people to be friendly, show them how.”
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| Author: CONFIDENCE IS THE COMPANION OF SUCCESS 25 Apr 2008 | Member Level: Diamond Points : 5 |
Go often to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Don't wait for people to be friendly, show them how.”
Unknown
“I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I do not believe I deserved my friends.”
Walt Whitman
“A friend is one who believes in you when you have ceased to believe in yourself.”
Unknown
“True friends are two people who are comfortable sharing silence together.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“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
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| Author: CONFIDENCE IS THE COMPANION OF SUCCESS 25 Apr 2008 | Member Level: Diamond Points : 5 |
A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.”
Len Wein
“Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
Marcel Proust
“There is nothing better than the encouragement of a good friend.”
Katherine Hathaway
“Friendship consists in forgetting what one gives, and remembering what one receives.”
Dumas The Younger
“A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.”
Fr. Jerome Cummings
“It's the friends you can call up at 4:00 a.m. that really matter.”
Marlene Dietrich
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| Author: CONFIDENCE IS THE COMPANION OF SUCCESS 25 Apr 2008 | Member Level: Diamond Points : 5 |
“Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for awhile and leave footprints on our hearts, and we are never, ever the same.”
Unknown
“The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.”
Abraham Lincoln
“The only way to have friends is to be one.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Do not save your loving speeches for your friends till they are dead; Do not write them on their tombstones, speak them rather now instead.”
Anna Cummins
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| Author: CONFIDENCE IS THE COMPANION OF SUCCESS 25 Apr 2008 | Member Level: Diamond Points : 5 |
A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.”
Unkown
“Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer.”
Ed Cunningham
“Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.”
Louisa May Alcott
“Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.”
Albert Schweitzer
“When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.”
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