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Quotes November 23, 2022

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“The best time to make friends is before you need them.”

Ethel Barrymore
 
 
 
 
“One’s friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.”

George Santayana
 
 
 
 
“A man’s friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.”
Charles Darwin
 
 
 
 
“Someone to tell it to is one of the fundamental needs of human beings.”
Miles Franklin
 
 
 
 
“A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.”
Walter Winchell
 
 
 
 
“A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.”

Donna Roberts
 
 
 
 
“Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer.”

Ed Cunningham
 
 
 
 
“It is the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.”
Marlene Dietrich
 
 
 
 
“Don’t wish it were easier. Wish you were better.”
“Either you run the day or the day runs you.”

Jim Rohn
 
 
 
 
“Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”

Robert Louis Stevenson
 
 
 
 
“The future depends on what you do today.”

Mahatma Gandhi
 
 
 
 
“People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.”

Dale Carnegie
 
 
 
 
“Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.”

Seneca
 
 
 
 
“You will never plough a field if you only turn it over in your mind.”

Irish Proverb
 
 
 
 
“It does not matter how slowly you go, so long as you do not stop.”

Confucius
 
 
 
 
“The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.”

B. B. King
 
 
 
 
“I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.”

Stephen Covey

Quotes November 16, 2022

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“Friends are people who know you really well and like you anyway.”
Greg Tamblyn
 
 
“True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable.”

David Tyson
 
 
“Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.”’
Socrates
 
 
“A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.”

Arnold H. Glasgow
 
 
“There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.”
Linda Grayson
 
 
“A true friend is someone who is there for you when he’d rather be anywhere else.”
Len Wein
 
 
“What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.”
Confucius
 
 
“Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respected.”

Charles Lamb
 
 
“Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.”
Tennessee Williams
 
 
“There’s not a word yet for old friends who’ve just met.”

Jim Henson
 
 
“A single rose can be my garden… a single friend, my world.”

Leo Buscaglia
 
 
“The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.”
Henry David Thoreau
 
 
“No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.”
Alice Walker
 
 
“If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone.”

Maxwell Maltz
 
 
“Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?”

Abraham Lincoln
 
 
“A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.”
Elbert Hubbard
 
 
“It is not so much our friends’ help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.”
Epicurus
 
 
“Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.”

Woodrow T. Wilson

Quotes November 09, 2022

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“Where there is no struggle, there is no strength”
Oprah
 
 
 
 
“You can’t really be strong until you can see a funny side to things.”

Ken Kesey
 
 
 
 
“We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided.”

J.K. Rowling
 
 
 
 
“Things work out best for those who make the best of how things work out.”
John Wooden
 
 
 
 
“Concentration is the secret of strength.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson
 
 
 
 
“Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.”

Og Mandino
 
 
 
 
”Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.”

Richard Branson
 
 
 
 
“I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.”
Louisa May Alcott
 
 
 
 
“You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.”
Margaret Thatcher
 
 
 
 
“Stress is caused by being ‘here’ but wanting to be ‘there.’

Eckhart Tolle
 
 
 
 
“Anyone can hide. Facing up to things, working through them, that’s what makes you strong.”

Sarah Dessen
 
 
 
 
“The greatest test of courage on the earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.”
R. G. Ingersoll
 
 
 
 
“The only way out is in.”
Junot Díaz
 
 
 
 
“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”

Mahatma Gandhi
 
 
 
 
“Our strength grows out of our weaknesses”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
 
 
 
 
“Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.”
Robert Schuller
 
 
 
 
“Don’t brood. Get on with living and loving. You don’t have forever.”
Leo Buscaglia

Quotes November 01 & 02, 2022

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“Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.”

Albert Einstein
 
 
 
 
“The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.”
Tom Clancy
 
 
 
 
“Trouble knocked at the door, but, hearing laughter, hurried away.”
Benjamin Franklin
 
 
 
 
“A black cat crossing your path signifies that the animal is going somewhere.”
Groucho Marx
 
 
 
 
“Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.”
Oscar Wilde
 
 
 
 
“Don’t sweat the petty things and don’t pet the sweaty things.”

George Carlin
 
 
 
 
“If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.”

Dalai Lama
 
 
 
 
“Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed.”
Josh Billings
 
 
 
 
“Don’t worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already tomorrow in Australia.”
Charles M. Schulz
 
 
 
 
“Love does not dominate; it cultivates.”

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
 
 
 
 
“I like criticism. It makes you strong.”
LeBron James
 
 
 
 
“We acquire the strength we have overcome.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson
 
 
 
 
“Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.”

Mahatma Gandhi
 
 
 
 
“Sometimes you don’t realize your own strength until you come face to face with your greatest weakness.”

Susan Gale
 
 
 
 
“Tough times never last, but tough people do.”
Robert H. Schuller
 
 
 
 
“Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.”
Henry Ford
 
 
 
 
“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
 
 
 
 
“The more one judges, the less one loves.”
Honore de Balzac

Quotes October 26, 2022

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“I intend to live forever. So far, so good.”
“If you think nobody cares about you, try missing a couple of payments.”
Steven Wright
 
 
 
 
“The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.”
Oscar Wilde
 
 
 
 
“I haven’t spoken to my wife in years. I didn’t want to interrupt her.”
Rodney Dangerfield
 
 
 
 
“Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.”

Abraham Lincoln
 
 
 
 
“You grow up the day you have your first real laugh at yourself.”

Ethel Barrymore
 
 
 
 
“The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.”
Albert Einstein
 
 
 
 
“You can always tell when a man’s well informed. His views are pretty much like your own.”

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
 
 
 
 
“Here’s something to think about: How come you never see a headline like ‘Psychic Wins Lottery’?”

Jay Leno
 
 
 
 
“A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.”

Winston Churchill
 
 
 
 
“Never miss a good chance to shut up.”

Will Rogers
 
 
 
 
“If you want your children to listen, try talking softly to someone else.”

Ann Landers
 
 
 
 
“Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit.”

George Carlin
 
 
 
 
“Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.”
Erma Bombeck
 
 
 
 
“I have a lot of growing up to do. I realized that the other day inside my fort.”

Zach Galifianakis
 
 
 
 
“The best way to teach your kids about taxes is by eating 30 percent of their ice cream.”
Bill Murray

Quotes October 19, 2022

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“Lighten up on yourself. No one is perfect. Gently accept your humanness.”

Deborah Day
 
 
 
 
“Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.”
Benjamin Spock
 
 
 
 
“One of the greatest regrets in life is being what others would want you to be, rather than being yourself.”

Shannon L. Alder
 
 
 
 
“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
 
 
 
 
“If you have the ability to love, love yourself first.”

Charles Bukowski
 
 
 
 
“To fall in love with yourself is the first secret to happiness.”
Robert Morley
 
 
 
 
“Beauty begins the moment you decided to be yourself.”

Coco Chanel
 
 
 
 
“Why fit in when you were born to stand out?”
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Dr. Seuss
 
 
 
 
“People who want the most approval get the least and the people who need approval the least get the most.”
Wayne Dyer
 
 
 
 
“Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.”
André Gide
 
 
 
 
“Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the face.”

Helen Keller
 
 
 
 
“The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself.”
Maya Angelou
 
 
 
 
“Your problem is you’re… too busy holding onto your unworthiness.”

Ram Dass
 
 
 
 
“Growth begins when we start to accept our own weakness.”
Jean Vanier
 
 
 
 
“Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.”
Malcolm S. Forbes
 
 
 
 
“There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”
Anaïs Nin
 
 
 
 
“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”

George Eliot
 
 
 
 
“Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.”
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
 
 
 
 
“I have never been hurt by what I have not said.”

Calvin Coolidge
 
 
 
 
“If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.”
Abraham Lincoln
 
 
 
 
“The most ineffective workers are systematically moved to the place where they can do the least damage: management.”
Scott Adams
 
 
 
 
“I may be a living legend, but that sure don’t help when I’ve got to change a flat tire.”

Roy Orbison

Quotes October 05, 2022

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“The road to success is always under construction.”

Lily Tomlin
 
 
“Stay hungry, stay foolish.”

Steve Jobs
 
 
“Success is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.”
Winston Churchill
 
 
“Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.”

Napoleon Hill
 
 
“Good things happen to those who hustle.”

Chuck Noll
 
 
“Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
George Bernard Shaw
 
 
“Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of value.”

Albert Einstein
 
 
“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.”

Arthur Ashe
 
 
“Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day-in and day-out.”
Robert Collier
 
 
“Low self-esteem is like driving through life with your hand-break on.”
Maxwell Maltz
 
 
“Why should we worry about what others think of us, do we have more confidence in their opinions than we do our own?”

Brigham Young
 
 
“Loving yourself isn’t vanity. It’s sanity.”
Katrina Mayer
 
 
“It ain’t what they call you, it’s what you answer to.”
W.C. Fields
 
 
“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson
 
 
“The better you feel about yourself, the less you feel the need to show off.”

Robert Hand
 
 
“A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.”
Mark Twain
 
 

“Success is largely a matter of holding on after others have let go.”

Unknown

Quotes September 28, 2022

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“If you would be loved, love, and be loveable.”
Benjamin Franklin
 
 
 
 
“Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.”

Lord Byron
 
 
 
 
“If I know what love is, it is because of you.”

Herman Hesse
 
 
 
 
“The giving of love is an education in itself.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
 
 
 
 
“Better to have lost and loved than never to have loved at all.”
Ernest Hemingway
 
 
 
 
“The best proof of love is trust.”
Joyce Brothers
 
 
 
 
“Love is a better teacher than duty.”
Albert Einstein
 
 
 
 
“Love does not dominate; it cultivates.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
 
 
 
 
“Immature love says: ‘I love you because I need you.’ Mature love says ‘I need you because I love you.’”

Erich Fromm
 
 
 
 
“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”

Robert A. Heinlein
 
 
 
 
“The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.”

Gilbert K. Chesterton
 
 
 
 
“A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.”
Honore de Balzac
 
 
 
 
“Don’t brood. Get on with living and loving. You don’t have forever.”
Leo Buscaglia

 
 
 
 

Quotes September 20 & 21, 2022

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“Action is the foundational key to all success.”
Pablo Picasso
 
 
 
 
“Victory is sweetest when you’ve known defeat.”
Malcolm S. Forbes
 
 
 
 
“For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.”
Harry F. Banks
 
 
 
 
“I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse.”

Florence Nightingale
 
 
 
 
“Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.”

Oprah Winfrey
 
 
 
 
“Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.”

Abraham Lincoln
 
 
 
 
“Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.”

Erich Fromm
 
 
 
 
“The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.”

Bruce Lee
 
 
 
 
“If you can’t do great things, do small things in a great way.”
Napoleon Hill
 
 
 
 
“The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.”
Benjamin Disraeli
 
 
 
 
“Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.”

Richard Branson
 
 
 
 
“What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.”
Oscar Wilde
 
 
 
 
“Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.”
John R. Wooden
 
 
 
 
“Don’t let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning.”

Robert Kiyosaki
 
 
 
 
“Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.”
Dalai Lama
 
 
 
 
“Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.”

Stephen King
 
 
 
 
“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.”
Samuel Beckett
 
 
 
 
“To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.”
Mark Twain
 
 
 
 
“Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.”
Neale Donald Walsch

Quotes September 14, 2022

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“The best thing in life aren’t things.”

John Ruskin
 
 
 
 
“Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon.”

Winnie the Pooh
 
 
 
 
“Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.”

Benjamin Disraeli
 
 
 
 
“Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.”

Albert Schweitzer
 
 
 
 
“Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.”
Heraclitus
 
 
 
 
“Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.”
James Baldwin
 
 
 
 
“When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.”
—
Blaise Pascal
 
 
 
 
“Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.”

Khalil Gibran
 
 
 
 
“I love you not because of who you are, but because of who I am when I am with you.”
Roy Croft
 
 
 
 
“A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”

Elbert Hubbard
 
 
 
 
“Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.”
Euripides
 
 
 
 
“Love is a friendship set to music.”
Joseph Campbell
 
 
 
 
“The more one judges, the less one loves.”
Honore de Balzac
 
 
 
 
“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you… I could walk through my garden forever.”

Alfred Tennyson
 
 
 
 
“Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.”

Andre Breton
 
 
 
 
“The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.”
Morrie Schwartz
 
 
 
 
“You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.”
Buddha