Friendship Quotes – a large collection of famous and inspirational quotes
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Life is too short to wake up in the morning with no regrets. So, love the people who treat you right and forget about the ones who don’t. And believe that everything happens for a reason… if you get a chance – take it; if it changes your life – let it. Nobody said that it would be easy… they just promised it would be worth it.
Competence, like truth, beauty and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder. ~Laurence J. Peter
Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent. ~Laurence J. Peter
Everyone rises to their level of incompetence. ~Laurence J. Peter
Incompetents invariably make trouble for people other than themselves. ~Larry McMurtry
Our all-volunteer force continues to prove itself with a great level of professionalism, personal commitment and a technical competence that is quite remarkable. ~Geoff Davis
The incompetent with nothing to do can still make a mess of it. ~Laurence J. Peter
Under-representation of women and other inequality among researchers is a problem that will not solve itself as women acquire competence. ~Tarja Halonen
A man who regards his own life and that of his own fellow creatures as meaningless is not merely unhappy but hardly fit for life. – Albert Einstein
Give every man thy ear but few thy voice. – Shakespeare
The gods themselves cannot reclaim their gifts. They may rob us of our future and embitter our present, but our past they may not touch. With all its laughter and delight and glamour it is our eternal possession. – LM Montgomery – The Story Girl
Ever tried? Ever Failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better. – Samuel Beckett
It is better to die on your feet, than to live on your knees. – Emiliano Zapata
Let us not waste our time in idle discourse! Let us do something, while we have the chance! It is not every day that we are needed. Not indeed that we personally are needed. Others would meet the case equally well, if not better. To all mankind they were addressed, those cries for help still ringing in our ears! But at this place, at this moment in time, all mankind is us, whether we like it or not. Let us make the most of it, before it is too late! Let us represent worthily, for once, the foul brood to which a cruel fate consigned us! What do you say? (pause) It is true that when with folded arms we weigh the pros and cons we are no less a credit to our species. The tiger bounds to the help of his congeners without the least reflection , or else he slinks away into the depths of the thickets. But that is not the question. What we are doing here, that is the question. And we are blessed in this, that we happen t o know the answer. Yes, in this immense confusion, one thing alone is clear. We are waiting for Godot to come. – Samuell Beckett, Waiting for Godot
Family is there because they have to be, friends are there because they want to be. – Unknown
What I want is what I’ve not got, and what I need is all around me. – Dave Matthews
It was once said that is it better to have loved and lost than to never have loved at all. This is not entirely true. It is neither better nor worse. Both hurt and both are, in their own separate ways, unbearable. – Cristoph Lamarte
It doesn’t mean that I advocate violence, but at the same time I am not against using violence in self-defense. I don’t call it violence when it’s self-defense, I call it intelligence. – Malcolm X
If you try, you might fail…if you don’t try you are guranteed to fail. – Chris Bannister
After a while you learn the subtle difference between holding a hand & changing a soul. And you learn that love doesn’t mean leaning & company doesn’t mean security. And you begin to learn that kisses aren’t contracts & presents aren’t promises. And you begin to accept your defeats with your head up & your eyes ahead… & you learn to build all your roads on today because tomorrow’s ground is too uncertain for plans & futures have a way of falling down in mid-flight. So you plant your own garden instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers. And you learn that you really can endure, that you really are strong & that you really do have worth… and with every goodbye, you learn… – Unknown
Society has closed all possibilities of a fresh and open mind, if we can control our minds before our brain tells us what it is surely then we are free – Edward McEwan
Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul. – Oscar Wilde
Some people listen to themselves rather then listen to what others say. These people don’t come along very often, but when they do, they remind us that once you set off on a path, even though critics may doubt you, it’s ok to believe that there is no CAN’T, WON’T or IMPOSSIBLE. They remind us that it’s ok to believe that IMPOSSIBLE IS NOTHING. – Adidas commercial
The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its laws had made unlawful. – Oscar Wilde
In the beginning of life, when we are infants, we need others to survive, right. And at the end of life, when you get like me[weak/feeble], you need others to survive, right? But here’s the secret: in between, we need others as well. – Tuesdays with Morrie
There are two lasting bequests we can give our children: One of these is Roots; the other, Wings. – Hodding Carter
The object of war isn’t to die for your country but to make the other poor bastard die for his. – General George Patton
Every morning is a new beginning, a new chance for you to rewrite the story of your life. ~ Tina Su
Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment. ~ Jim Horning
It is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of someone elses life with perfection. ~ Bhagavad Gita
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. ~ Martin Luther King Jr.
I’d rather aim high and miss, than aim low and hit. ~ Les Brown
If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise. ~ Robert Fritz
‘If only I had more money’ is the easiest way to postpone the intense self-examination and decision-making necessary to create a life of enjoyment – now and not later. ~ Tim Ferriss
When a question is posed ceremoniously, the universe responds. ~ Chinese Proverb
The secret of getting started is breaking your complex, overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one. ~ Mark Twain
The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want. ~ Ben Stein
“The path of love is not the path of comfort. It means going forward into the unknown, with no guarantees of safety, even though you’re afraid. Trusting is dangerous, but without trust there is no hope for love, and love is all we ever have to hold against the dark…Love is worth nothing until tested against its own defeat.” – Creina Alcock
“Love is the beauty of the soul.” – St. Augustine
“Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.” – James Baldwin
“Love is the burning point of life, and because life is suffering so is love.” – Joseph Campbell
“You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover’s arms can only come later when you’re sure they won’t laugh if you trip.” – Jonathan Carroll
“Love never hurts you. Its not loving yourself that hurts you.” – Barbara De Angelis
“For hatred does not cease by hatred at any time: hatred ceases by love – this is an old rule.” – Dhammapada
“To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion.” – George Eliot
“Immature love says: ‘I love you because I need you.’ Mature love says ‘I need you because I love you.'” – Erich Fromm
“If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don’t, they never were.” – Kahlil Gibran “The Prophet”
“Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. Fill each other’s cup but drink not from one cup… Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone, Even as the strings of a lute are alone thought they quiver with the same music.” – Kahlil Gibran “The Prophet”
“Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.” – Zora Neale Hurston
“So I will share this room with you
And you can have this heart to break.” – Billy Joel “So It Goes”
“You may be right
I may be crazy.
But I just may be a lunatic you’re looking for.” – Billy Joel
When you press me to your heart
I’m in a world apart
A world where roses bloom – La Vie En Rose
“Let us hesitate no longer to announce that the sensual passions and mysteries are equally sacred with the spiritual mysteries and passions.” – D.H. Lawrence
So kiss me and smile for me
Tell me that you’ll wait for me
Hold me like you’ll never let me go – Leaving on a Jet Plane
“There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
“Trouble is part of your life, and if you don’t share it, you don’t give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough.” – Dinah Shore
“To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.” – Anne-Sophie Swetchine
“Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand. Anyone may gather it, and no limit is set.” – Mother Teresa
“You are as prone to love as the sun is to shine; it being the most delightful and natural employment of the soul of man.” – Thomas Traherne
“We tend to wear suits of armor, one over the other… We hope we will not have to completely undress.” – Chogyam Trungpa
Some wonderful wisdom quotes and sayings for a great day :)
“The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook.” – William James
“What you are is what you have been, and what you will be is what you do now.” – The Buddha
“The seat of knowledge is in the head, of wisdom, in the heart.” – William Hazlitt
“No man is smart, except by comparison to those who know less.” – Edgar Watson Howe
“A wise man learns by the mistakes of others, a fool by his own.” – Latin Proverb
“Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive but what they conceal is vital.” – Aaron Levenstein
“Years teach us more than books.” – Berthold Auerbach
“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
“The man of wisdom is never of two minds; the man of benevolence never worries; the man of courage is never afraid.” – Confucius
“No man was ever wise by chance.” – Seneca
“Of all parts of wisdom the practice is the best.” – John Tillotson
“If you try you may fail, if you don’t try you’re guaranteed to fail.” – Jesse Jackson
“Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.” – Leo Aikman
“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” –Theodore Roosevelt
“Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time.” – Betty Smith
“Never explain. Your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe it anyway.” – Elbert Hubbard
“To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.” – Chinese Proverb
“Be nice to people on your way up because you’ll need them on your way down.” – W. Migner
“There are two kinds of light – the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.” – James Thurber
“Wisdom is found only in truth.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is enlightenment.” – Lao Tzu
“Don’t compromise yourself. You’re all you’ve got.” –Janis Joplin
