Friendship Quotes – a large collection of famous and inspirational quotes
Menu“No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.” – William Blake
“Let him who would move the world, first move himself.” – Socrates
“Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.” – Dale Carnegie
“Imagination is more important than knowledge.” – Albert Einstein
“Do or do not, there is no try” – Yoda
“Faith: not wanting to know what is true.” – Nietzsche
“The Truth is everywhere and anywhere … just open your eyes and you will see it.” – Unknown
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young. – Henry Ford
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain – and most fools do. – Dale Carnegie
Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. – Dale Carnegie
Life is not fair; get used to it. – Bill Gates
The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another’s keeping. – Dale Carnegie
Today is life – the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto. – Dale Carnegie
Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best. – Andrew Carnegie
– “The Grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.” – Allan K. Chalmers
– “If you want to build a ship, don’t herd people together to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupery
– “Not only is another world possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.” – Arundhati Roy
– “We’ve been warned against offering the people of this nation false hope. But in the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope.” – Barack Obama
– “Hope is what led a band of colonists to rise up against an empire; what led the greatest of generations to free a continent and heal a nation; what led young women and young men to sit at lunch counters and brave fire hoses and march through Selma and Montgomery for freedom’s cause. Hope is what led me here today — with a father from Kenya, a mother from Kansas; and a story that could only happen in the United States of America. Hope is the bedrock of this nation; the belief that our destiny will not be written for us, but by us; by all those men and women who are not content to settle for the world as it is; who have courage to remake the world as it should be. [January 3, 2008]” – Barack Obama
– “However, one cannot put a quart in a pint cup” – Charlotte Perkins Gilman
– “Once you choose hope, anything’s possible” – Christopher Reeve
– “Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all” – Dale Carnegie
– “Sanity may be madness but the maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be” – Don Quixote
– “Courage, it would seem, is nothing less than the power to overcome danger, misfortune, fear, injustice, while continuing to affirm inwardly that life with all its sorrows is good; that everything is meaningful even if in a sense beyond our understanding; and that there is always tomorrow” – Dorothy Thompson
– “Fear grows in darkness; if you think there’s a bogeyman around, turn on the light” – Dorothy Thompson
– “I have learned two lessons in my life: first, there are no sufficient literary, psychological, or historical answers to human tragedy, only moral ones. Second, just as despair can come to one another only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings” – Elie Wiesel
1. “Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Louis Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson and Albert Einstein.” ~H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
2. “You have brains in your head and feet in your shoes
You can steer yourself any direction you choose.
You’re on your own and you know what you know.
And you are the one who’ll decide where to go.” ~Dr. Seuss
3. “Dedicate your life to a cause greater than yourself, and your life will become a glorious romance and adventure.” ~Mack Douglas
4. “The future is sending back good wishes and waiting arms.” ~Kobi Yamada
5. “If you aim at nothing, you’ll hit it every time.” ~B.J. Marshall
6. “So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon seem inevitable.” ~Christopher Reeve
7. “One of my best moves is to surround myself with friends who, instead of asking, “Why?” are quick to say, “Why not?” That attitude is contagious.” ~Oprah Winfrey
8. “Because of our routines we forget that life is an ongoing adventure.” ~Maya Angelou
9. “It’s easy to come up with big ideas. Just think of something that everyone agrees would be “wonderful” if it were only “possible”… and then set out to make it possible.” ~Armand Hammer
10. “Thousands of perceptions, hunches, ideas and intuitions race through our brains every day. Some are pure genius. Give them the red light for at least long enough to write them down.” ~Ralph Ford
11. “Your resources are always far greater than you imagine them to be. Never ask, “Can I do this?” Ask instead, “How can I do this?” ~Dan Zadra
14. “I would rather be ashes than dust; I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot; I would rather be in a superb meteor, every atom of me in a magnificent glow than in a sleepy and permanent planet; the proper function of man is to live, not to exist; I should not waste my days in trying to prolong them; I shall USE my time.” ~Jack London
15. “Never retire! Do what you do and keep doing it. But don’t do it on Friday. Take Friday off. Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, go fishing…Then Monday to Thursday, do what you’ve been doing all your life. My point is: Live full and don’t retreat.” ~Mel Brooks
16. “We are here on earth to good for others. What the others are here for I do not know.” ~W. H. Auden
17. “To the world you may be just one person, but to one person you may be the world.” ~Josephine Billings
18. “I get up every morning determined both to change the world and to have on hell of a good time. Sometimes this make planning the day difficult.” ~E.B. White
19. “If every American donated five hours a week, it would equal the labor of twenty million full-time volunteers.”
~Whoopi Goldberg
20. “If success is not not on your terms–if it looks good to the world but doesn’t not feel good in your own heart–it is no success at all.” ~Anna Quindlen
21. “I don’t want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.” ~Diane Ackerman
22. “Remember that life is short and death is long.” ~Fritz Shoulder
23. “The best thing about the future is that is comes only one day at a time.” ~Abraham Lincoln
24. “Once social change begins, It cannot be reversed. You cannot uneducate the person who has learned to read. You cannot humiliate the person who feels pride. You cannot oppress the people who are not afraid anymore. We have seen the future, and the future is ours.” ~Cesar Chavez
25. “There are fish in the sea better than any that have ever been caught.” ~Irish Saying
26. “Whatever your past has been, you have a spotless future.” ~Author Unknown
27. “The greatest pain comes from not believing there is a future, not being able to dream about something better.” ~Author Unknown.
28. “Get excited and enthusiastic about your own dream. This excitement is like a forest fire…you can smell it, taste it, and see it from a mile away.” ~Denis Waitley
29. “Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living. ~Anais Nin
30. “The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.” ~Robert H. Schuller
31. “The inability to open to hope is what blocks trust, and blocked trust is the reason for blighted dreams.” ~Elizabeth Gilbert
32. “People are never more insecure than when they become obsessed with their fears at the expense of their dreams.” ~Norman Cousins
33. “No person has the right to rain on your dreams.” ~Marian Wright Edelman
34. “Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one. I hope someday you’ll join us, and the world will live as one.” ~John Lennon
35. “The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.” ~Anais Nin
36. “Dreams come in a size too big so we can grow into them.” ~Josie Bisset
37. “A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown.” ~Denis Waitley
38. “Always remember that the future comes one day at a time.” ~Dean Acheson
39. “One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon – instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.” ~Dale Carnegie
40. “The secret of making dreams come true can be summarized in four C’s. They are Curiosity, Confidence, Courage, and Constancy; and the greatest of these is Confidence.” ~Walt Disney
41. “Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.” ~Robert F. Kennedy
42. “Just remember…when you think all is lost, the future remains.” ~Bob Goddard
43. “Being fully present is the best guarantee for a bright future.” ~Guy Finley
44. “If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won’t, you most assuredly won’t. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.” ~Denis Waitley
45. “The future depends on what we do in the present.” ~Mahatma Gandhi
46. “To the youngsters of today, I say “Believe in the future, the world is getting better; there still is plenty of opportunity.” Why, would you believe it, when I was a kid I thought it was already too late for me to make good at anything.” ~Walt Disney
47. “Love is the time and space where “I” give myself the right to be extraordinary.” ~Julia Kristev
48. “We don’t have an eternity to realize our dreams – only the time we are here.” ~Susan L. Taylor
49. “You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through.” ~Rosalynn Carter
50. How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” ~Anne Frank
Bonus: 51. “Action is the antidote to despair.” ~Joan Baez
Let us share with you a great collection of Dale Carnegie Quotes:
It isn’t what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.
Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
Did you ever see an unhappy horse? Did you ever see a bird that has the blues? One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses.
Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.
One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.
Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.
Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment.
Act enthusiastic and you will be enthusiastic.
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain – and most fools do.
Applause is a receipt, not a bill.
Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.
Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.
Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.
Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it… that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.
Don’t be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.
Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism – and wars.
Fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind.
Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.
Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.
First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.
Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.
Happiness doesn’t depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude.
If only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess, they would stop worrying.
If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.
If you can’t sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It’s the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.
If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.
If you want to conquer fear, don’t sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
If you want to gather honey, don’t kick over the beehive.
Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire.
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.
Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.
Tell the audience what you’re going to say, say it; then tell them what you’ve said.
The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.
The expression a woman wears on her face is far more important than the clothes she wears on her back.
The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don’t like their rules, whose would you use?
The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.
The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another’s keeping .
The royal road to a man’s heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.
The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.
You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.
You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind.
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.
You never achieve success unless you like what you are doing.
Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience.
Don’t be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Ever time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones tend to take care of themselves.
There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.
There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
There is only one way… to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.
Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.
Today is life-the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto.
We all have possibilities we don’t know about. We can do things we don’t even dream we can do.
When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.
When fate hands you a lemon, make lemonade.
Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes the furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure thing boat never gets far from shore.
Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence,is the quality that most frequently makes for success.
The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.
You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day. – Robert Frost
Life is like a ten-speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use. – Charles Schulz
Opportunity is always knocking. The problem is that most people have the self-doubt station in their head turned up way too loud to hear it. – Brian Vaszily
Some people develop a wishbone where their back bone should be. – Anonymous
Life begins at 40 – but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times. – Helen Rowland
You grow up the day you have your first real laugh – at yourself. – Ethel Barrymore
Opportunity dances with those who are already on the dance floor. – Jackson Brown
I knew I was going to take the wrong train, so I left early. – Yogi Berra
I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying. – Oscar Wilde
I’ve got all the money I’ll ever need, if I die by four o’clock. – Henny Youngman
Burn your computer. Blow up your TV. Bludgeon your cell phone. Breathe deeply. This, my friends, is the secret to inner-peace. – Brian Vaszily
People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily. – Zig Ziglar
God is dead – Nietzsche Nietzsche is dead. – God
Five out of four people have trouble with fractions. – Unknown
A clear conscience is a sure sign of a bad memory. – Unknown
Life is not about how fast you run, or how high you climb, but how well you bounce. – Unknown
I’ve developed a new philosophy… I only dread one day at a time. – Charles Schulz
None of us is as dumb as all of us. – Unknown
Many of us spend half our time wishing for things we could have if we didn’t spend half our time wishing. – Alexander Woollcott
If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into committees. That’ll do them in. – Unknown
I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages. – William Mauldin
If I had a dollar for every time someone came to me with not only a problem but also a possible solution to that problem, I’d have six dollars. – Brian Vaszily
Always remember that you are unique. Just like everybody else. – Unknown
Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday. – Dale Carnegie
To do is to be. – Descartes
To be is to do. – Voltaire
Do be do be do. – Frank Sinatra
Before success comes in any man’s life he is sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps, some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and most logical thing to do is to quit. That is exactly what the majority of men do. – Napoleon Hill
Being challenged in life is inevitable, being defeated is optional. – Roger Crawford
But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated. – Ernest Hemingway
Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries. – James A. Michener
Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure. – George E. Woodberry
Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it. – Josephus Daniels
Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success. – Dale Carnegie
Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out. – Robert Galvin
Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. – John Wooden
Don’t be afraid to fail. Don’t waste energy trying to cover up failure. Learn from your failures and go on to the next challenge. It’s OK to fail. If you’re not failing, you’re not growing. – H. Stanley Judd
As long as you’re going to be thinking anyway, think big. – Donald Trump
I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can’t be done. – Henry Ford
I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say definitely what is and what is not possible. – Henry Ford
If you think you can do a thing or think you can’t do a thing, you’re right. – Henry Ford
One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn’t do. – Henry Ford
There is no man living that can not do more than he thinks he can. – Henry Ford
We all have possibilities we don’t know about. We can do things we don’t even dream we can do. – Dale Carnegie
You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind. – Dale Carnegie
Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for. – Socrates
The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun. – John D. Rockfeller
You will find men who want to be carried on the shoulders of others, who think that the world owes them a living. They don’t seem to see that we must all lift together and pull together. – Henry Ford
You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you. – Dale Carnegie
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
Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant. – Socrates
Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war. – Donald Trump
Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement. – Henry Ford
Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently. – Henry Ford
Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward. – Henry Ford
When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it. – Henry Ford
Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure. – George Edward Woodberry
Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success. – Dale Carnegie
Failure is success if we learn from it. – Malcolm Forbes
I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed. – Michael Jordan
In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time. – Anthony J. D’Angelo
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
If only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess, they would stop worrying. – Dale Carnegie
