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Inspiring Quotes on Friendship

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“A true friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out” – Walter Winchell

“I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar”- Unknown

“It’s sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew” – Henry Rollins

“Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer”-Ed Cunningham

“Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher” – Oprah Winfrey

“A friend is a person before whom I may think aloud” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Top 10 Doing Your Best Quotes

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1. I’ve always believed that if you put in the work, the results will come. I don’t do things half-heartedly. Because I know if I do, then I can expect half-hearted results. ~ Michael Jordan

2. You’ve just got to do the best that you can. ~ Drew Barrymore

3. When you reach the top, keep climbing. ~ Proverb

4. Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment. ~ Oprah Winfrey

5. We must become the change we want to see. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

6. Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly. ~ Mae West

7. I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do. ~ Leonardo da Vinci

8. You just don’t luck into things as much as you’d like to think you do. You build step by step, whether it’s friendships or opportunities. ~ Barbara Bush

9. “Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

10. “When all’s said and done, all roads lead to the same end. So it’s not so much which road you take, as how you take it.” ~ Charles de Lint

Famous Change Quotes

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“You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” – Gandhi

“The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.” – Oprah Winfrey

“The only thing constant in life is change.” – Francois de la Rochefoucauld

“He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.” – Harold Wilson

“Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.” – George Bernard Shaw

“Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you’ll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.” – Jacob M. Braude

“No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.” – Charles Darwin

“Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.” – Confucius

“Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.” – Denis Waitley

40 Life Quotes for a greater weekend

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The best, free and easiest way to get a better weekend in minutes it’s reading quotes (that’s my point of view). Starting from here, let me share with you a great list of 40 life quotes for a greater weekend. Please enjoy and share :)

1. Life is a gift. Never forget to enjoy and bask in every moment you are in. – Unknown

2. Don’t ever save anything for a special occasion. Being alive is the special occasion. – Unknown

3. Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale. – Hans Christian Andersen

4. Just living is not enough. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower. – Hans Christian Anderson

5. Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars. – Henry Van Dyke

6. Life is like a mirror. Smile at it and it smiles back at you. – Peace Pilgrim

7. A goal, a love and a dream give you total control over your body and your life. – John Wayne Schlatter

8. I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today. – William Allen White

9. Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back. – Arthur Rubinstein

10. Every moment is a new beginning – Quan Dang

11. The best way to prepare for life is to begin to live. – Elbert Hubbard

12. Mankind’s greatest gift… is that we have free choice. – Elisabeth Kubler-Ros

13. Life is like an onion: You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep. – Carl Sandburg

14. Life is tough, and if you have the ability to laugh at it you have the ability to enjoy it. – Salma Hayek

15. The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate. – Oprah Winfrey

16. Uncertainty and mystery are energies of life. Don’t let them scare you unduly, for they keep boredom at bay and spark creativity. – R. I. Fitzhenry

17. Life, like poker has an element of risk. It shouldn’t be avoided. It should be faced. – Edward Norton

18. Life is a field of unlimited possibilities. – Deepak Chopra

19. Life has no limitations, except the ones you make. – Les Brown

20. Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies. – Ann Landers

21. We are all here for some special reason. Stop being a prisoner of your past. Become the architect of your future. – Robin Sharma

22. Learn to drink the cup of life as it comes. – Agnes Turnbull

23. Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well. – Bible

24. The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them. – Bernard M. Baruch

25. Life is like riding a bicycle – in order to keep your balance, you must keep moving. – Albert Einstein

26. Life is the art of drawing without an eraser. – John Gardner

27. Life is a progress, and not a station. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

28. Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn and you will. – Vernon Howard

29. You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life. – Albert Camus

30. Your distress about life might mean you have been living for the wrong reason, not that you have no reason for living. – Tom O’Connor

31. Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact. – Henry James

32. Keep breathing. – Sophie Tucker

33. Let go of what you think life should be so you can experience the life you have. – Rhonda Britten

34. Go ahead with your life, your plans…. Don’t waste time by stopping before the interruptions have started. – Richard L. Evans

35. If you look at life one way, there is always cause for alarm. – Elizabeth Bowen

36. If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun. – Katharine Hespburn

37. Dream as if you’ll live forever, live as if you’ll die today. – James Dean

38. Laugh as much as you breathe and love as long as you live. – Unknown

39. Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive. – Howard Thruman

40. If you wait to do everything until you’re sure it’s right, you’ll probably never do much of anything. – Win Borden

50 Motivational Quotes

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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

Famous Women Quotes

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Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else. – Judy Garland

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence. – Helen Keller

Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life. – Eleanor Roosevelt

I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition. – Martha Washington

The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams. – Oprah Winfrey

What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me. – Helen Keller

It’s the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter. – Marlene Dietrich

The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate. – Oprah Winfrey

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow. – Helen Keller

The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it. – Mother Teresa

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. – Eleanor Roosevelt

Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility. – Oprah Winfrey

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision. – Helen Keller

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other. – Mother Teresa

The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next. – Helen Keller

Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, ever have enough. – Oprah Winfrey

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. – Eleanor Roosevelt

Happy New Year Quotes

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Youth is when you’re allowed to stay up late on New Year’s Eve. Middle age is when you’re forced to. ~Bill Vaughn

An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves. ~Bill Vaughan

Many people look forward to the new year for a new start on old habits. ~Author Unknown

A New Year’s resolution is something that goes in one year and out the other. ~Author Unknown

Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new year find you a better man. ~Benjamin Franklin

No one ever regarded the First of January with indifference. It is that from which all date their time, and count upon what is left. It is the nativity of our common Adam. ~Charles Lamb

New Year’s Day is every man’s birthday. ~Charles Lamb

Never tell your resolution beforehand, or it’s twice as onerous a duty. ~John Selden

Year’s end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us. ~Hal Borland

The merry year is born like the bright berry from the naked thorn. ~Hartley Coleridge

New Year’s eve is like every other night; there is no pause in the march of the universe, no breathless moment of silence among created things that the passage of another twelve months may be noted; and yet no man has quite the same thoughts this evening that come with the coming of darkness on other nights. ~Hamilton Wright Mabie

The Old Year has gone. Let the dead past bury its own dead. The New Year has taken possession of the clock of time. All hail the duties and possibilities of the coming twelve months! ~Edward Payson Powell

Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right. ~Oprah Winfrey

Doing Your Best Quotes

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# Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.–William James

# Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.–William Faulkner

# Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.–Benjamin Franklin

# Be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind. Talk health, happiness, and prosperity to every person you meet. Make all your friends feel there is something in them. Look at the sunny side of everything. Think only of the best, work only for the best, and expect only the best. Be as enthusiastic about the success of others as you are about your won. Forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future. Give everyone a smile. Spend so much time improving yourself that you have no time left to criticize others. Be too big for worry and too noble for anger.–Christian D. Larsen (Creed for Optimists)

# Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life a life like yours, this earth would be God’s Paradise.–Phillips Brooks

# Demand the best from yourself, because others will demand the best from you… Successful people don’t simply give a project hard work. They give it their best work.–Win Borden

# Do a little more each day than you think you possibly can.–Lowell Thomas

# Do more than you’re supposed to do and you can have or be or do anything you want.–Bill Sands

# Do the best you can in every task, no matter how unimportant it may seem at the time. No one learns more about a problem than the person at the bottom.–Sandra Day O’Conner

# Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.–Theodore Roosevelt

# Do your best every day and your life will gradually expand into satisfying fullness.–Horotio W. Dresser

# Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.–Oprah Winfrey

# Don’t lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations. Expect thet best of yourself, and then do what is necessary to make it a reality.–Ralph Marston (The Daily Motivator)

# Don’t measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability.–John Wooden

# Duty makes us do things well, but love makes us do them beautifully.–Zig Ziglar (Zig Ziglar’s Little Book of Big Quotes)

# Every man has one thing he can do better than anyone else–and usually it’s reading his own handwriting.–G. Norman Collie

# Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don’t know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!–Anne Frank

# Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus, everyone’s task is unique as his specific opportunity to implement it.–Viktor Frankl

Funny Quotes to Make You Smile

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– “Whoever said ‘nothing is impossible’ never tried to nail jell-o to a tree.” – Lisa Bryant

– “A smile confuses an approaching frown.” – Anonymous

– “The best measure of a man’s honesty isn’t his income tax return. It’s the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.” – Arthur C. Clarke

– “Smile. Have you ever noticed how easily puppies make human friends? Yet all they do is wag their tails and fall over.” – Walter Anderson

– “Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.” – Oprah Winfrey

– “Start every day with a smile and get it over with.” – W.C. Fields

– “Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting.” – William Arthur Ward

– “If there were no God, it would have been necessary to invent him.” – Voltaire

– “I find television very educational. Every time someone turns it on, I go in the other room and read a book.” – Groucho Marx

– “If you are going through hell, keep going.” – Winston Churchill

– “You’ll be richer in the end than a prince, if you’re a friend.” – Edgar A. Guest

– “Hosting the Oscars is much like making love to a woman. It’s something I only get to do when Billy Crystal is out of town.” – Steve Martin

– “Do not listen to those who weep and complain, for their disease is contagious.” – Og Mandino

– “So, if you feel a smile begin, don’t leave it undetected, let’s start an epidemic quick, and get the world infected!” – Russel H. Conwell

– “Men want the same thing from their underwear that they want from women: a little bit of support, and a little bit of freedom.” – Jerry Seinfeld

– “Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.” – Mark Twain

– “First the doctor told me the good news: I was going to have a disease named after me.” – Steve Martin

– “A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them.” – Elbert Hubbard

– “When a man steals your wife there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.” – Sacha Guitry

– “If you don’t understand how a woman could both love her sister dearly and want to wring her neck at the same time, then you were probably an only child.” – Linda Sunshine