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Fake Friends Quotes

Posted on September 10, 2011 by

True friends are like diamonds, precious but rare. Fake friends are like fall leaves, found everywhere. – Anonymous

You got nothing to lose. You don’t lose when you lose fake friends. – Joan Jett

Because I hate fake people and I always think I’m never fake. – Victoria Jac

Fake relationships and fake people coming up to me and all of a sudden wanting to be my friend. – Jason Ritter

You would think the $1 billion denomination would be a giveaway that these notes are fake, but some people are still taken in. – James Todak

And I’m ready for the fakes. Ready to take off. Run some people over. – Pat McAfee

Best friends listen to what you don’t . – Unknown

There are three faithful friends — an old wife, and old dog, and ready money. – Benjamin Franklin

The craziest thing I did to get a guy to notice me was going out with his best friend. It worked – he did notice me – but I don’t recommend it. – Jennie Garth

“A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.” – Bernard Meltzer

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

If your friend says of some picture,Yes, but what does it mean?ask him, what his carpet means or the circular patterns on his shoes. – Stephen Potter

So what if I’m smokin’ weed onstage and doing what I gotta do? It’s not me shooting nobody, stabbing nobody, killing nobody. It’s a peaceful gesture and they have to respect that and appreciate that. – Snoop Dogg

Advice from your friends in like the weather, some of it is good, some of it is bad. – Proverb

Farewell my friends, I go to glory. – Isadora Duncan

Betrayal is about learning not to idealize external sources. – Linda Talley

Our very best friends have a tincture of jealousy even in their friendship, and when they hear us praised by others, will ascribe it to sinister and interested motives if they can. – Unknown

If you should die before me, ask if you can bring a friend. – Stone Temple Pilots

Health – what my friends are always drinking to before they fall down. – Phyllis Diller

A real friend is someone who does n0t give you expectation about delivering on some kind of peer group pressure. – Tony Orlando

Thank you for the friendship you have offered, rest assured that I’ll treasure it in my heart and will always remember that once in my life, I’ve known someone like you. – Melissa l. Magcawas

True friends are the ones who never leave your heart, even if they leave your life for awhile. Even after years apart, you pick up with them right where you left off, and even if they die they’re never dead in your heart. – Unknown

Haters Quotes

Posted on July 1, 2011 by

Like the proverb says, haters gonna hate. If you got a hater in your life, then you’ll surely enjoy this list full of haters quotes :)

1. Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them more.

2. Don’t hate cuz I’m cute and sweet; hate cuz you can’t compete.

3. Don’t hate me because I wasn’t who you thought I was or who you wanted me to be. From start to finish you never knew the real me.

4. Don’t hate me because I’m beautiful; hate me because… Well, okay. Hate me because I’m beautiful.

5. Hating is the sincerest form of flattery.

6. Don’t hate what you can’t imitate.

7. Hated by many. Confronted by none.

8. Haters only hate the things that they can’t get and the people they can’t be.

9. Haters wanna play hard. I won’t pretend to be mad. I’ll just disregard you like my memory’s bad.

10. Hating on a certain name only gives them fame.

11. If you don’t like me remember it’s mind over matter; I don’t mind and you don’t matter.

12. If you hate me or what I’m reppin then click the [x] and get to steppin!

13. It’s better to be hated for who you are than to be loved for who you are not.

14. Keep looking my way. My head is held high. You wanna bring me down? I dare you to try.

15. Love me or hate me. Either way I’m on your mind.

16. So many assume. So little know.

17. They can’t hurt you unless you let them.

Now choose your favorite, please. Or tell us some haters quotes you know.

Top 10 Doing Your Best Quotes

Posted on April 3, 2011 by

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

April Fool’s Day Quotes

Posted on March 31, 2011 by

April Fool’s Day is here. Let’s celebrate it with some useful April Fool’s Day Quotes.

April 1. This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four. ~Mark Twain, Pudd’nhead Wilson, 1894

April fool, n. The March fool with another month added to his folly. ~Ambrose Bierce, The Devil’s Dictionary

Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me. ~Chinese Proverb

Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee,
And I’ll forgive Thy great big one on me. ~Robert Frost, “Cluster of Faith,” 1962

He who is born a fool is never cured. ~Proverb

Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed. ~Mark Twain

If every fool wore a crown, we should all be kings. ~Welsh Proverb

I hope life isn’t a big joke, because I don’t get it. ~Jack Handey

We’re fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance. ~Japanese Proverb

You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time. ~Abraham Lincoln

Even the gods love jokes. ~Plato

The trouble with practical jokes is that very often they get elected. ~Will Rogers

A man always blames the woman who fools him. In the same way he blames the door he walks into in the dark. ~Henry Louis Mencken

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. ~Douglas Adams

It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor. ~Max Eastman

Don’t give cherries to pigs or advice to fools. ~Irish Proverb

A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke-and that the joke is oneself. ~Clifton Paul Fadiman

It is better to weep with wise men than to laugh with fools. ~Spanish Proverb

I have great faith in fools – self-confidence, my friends call it. ~Edgar Allan Poe

The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded. ~George Orwell

Men reach their sexual peak at eighteen. Women reach theirs at thirty-five. Do you get the feeling that God is playing a practical joke? ~Rita Rudner

Suppose the world were only one of God’s jokes, would you work any the less to make it a good joke instead of a bad one? ~George Bernard Shaw

Real friends are those who, when you feel you’ve made a fool of yourself, don’t feel you’ve done a permanent job. ~Author Unknown

One thing kids like is to be tricked. For instance, I was going to take my little nephew to Disneyland, but instead I drove him to an old burned-out warehouse. “Oh, no,” I said. “Disneyland burned down.” He cried and cried, but I think that deep down, he thought it was a pretty good joke. I started to drive over to the real Disneyland, but it was getting pretty late. ~Jack Handey

Spring Quotes

Posted on March 2, 2011March 2, 2011 by

Springtime is the land awakening. The March winds are the morning yawn. ~ Lewis Grizzard in Kathy Sue Loudermilk, I Love You

Spring is nature’s way of saying, “Let’s party!” ~Robin Williams

Spring makes its own statement, so loud and clear that the gardener seems to be only one of the instruments, not the composer. ~Geoffrey B. Charlesworth

April prepares her green traffic light and the world thinks Go. ~Christopher Morley, John Mistletoe

Hee that is in a towne in May loseth his spring. ~George Herbert

It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade. ~Charles Dickens

Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night. ~Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke

It’s spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you’ve got it, you want – oh, you don’t quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so! ~Mark Twain

Hoe while it is spring, and enjoy the best anticipations. It is not much matter if things do not turn out well. ~Charles Dudley Warner

Awake, thou wintry earth –
Fling off thy sadness!
Fair vernal flowers, laugh forth
Your ancient gladness! ~Thomas Blackburn, “An Easter Hymn”

I love spring anywhere, but if I could choose I would always greet it in a garden. ~Ruth Stout

No matter how long the winter, spring is sure to follow. ~Proverb

Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full of slush. ~Doug Larson

Science has never drummed up quite as effective a tranquilizing agent as a sunny spring day. ~W. Earl Hall

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome. ~Anne Bradstreet

The year’s at the spring
And day’s at the morn;
Morning’s at seven;
The hillside’s dew-pearled;
The lark’s on the wing;
The snail’s on the thorn;
God’s in His heaven –
All’s right with the world! ~Robert Browning

No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn. ~Hal Borland

Spring shows what God can do with a drab and dirty world. ~Virgil A. Kraft

April is a promise that May is bound to keep. ~Hal Borland

Where man sees but withered leaves,
God sees sweet flowers growing. ~Albert Laighton

That God once loved a garden we learn in Holy writ.
And seeing gardens in the Spring I well can credit it. ~Winifred Mary Letts

In June as many as a dozen species may burst their buds on a single day. No man can heed all of these anniversaries; no man can ignore all of them. ~Aldo Leopold

In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt. ~Margaret Atwood

Indoors or out, no one relaxes in March, that month of wind and taxes, the wind will presently disappear, the taxes last us all the year. ~Ogden Nash

Every spring is the only spring – a perpetual astonishment. ~Ellis Peters

Famous Leadership Quotes

Posted on January 19, 2011 by

Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. – Harold R. McAlindon

Leadership: The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. – Dwight D. Eisenhower

There go the people. I must follow them for I am their leader. – Alexandre Ledru-Rollin

What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together. – Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him. – General Douglas MacArthur

The real leader has no need to lead– he is content to point the way. – Henry Miller

Go to the people. Learn from them. Live with them. Start with what they know. Build with what they have. The best of leaders when the job is done, when the task is accomplished, the people will say we have done it ourselves. – Lao Tzu

A leader is a dealer in hope. – Napoleon Bonaparte

Rely on your own strength of body and soul. Take for your star self-reliance, faith, honesty and industry. Don’t take too much advice — keep at the helm and steer your own ship, and remember that the great art of commanding is to take a fair share of the work. Fire above the mark you intend to hit. Energy, invincible determination with the right motive, are the levers that move the world. – Noah Porter

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader. – John Quincy Adams

He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander. – Aristotle

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. – Martin Luther King, Jr. (from Christian Leadership World)

Any one can hold the helm when the sea is calm. – Publilius Syrus

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. – George Patton

Where there is no vision, the people perish. – Proverb

Misfortunes, untoward events, lay open, disclose the skill of a general, while success conceals his weakness, his weak points. –Horace

In this world a man must either be an anvil or hammer. – Henry W. Longfellow

I light my candle from their torches. – Robert Burton

Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise. – Woodrow Wilson

The greater a man is in power above others, the more he ought to excel them in virtue. None ought to govern who is not better than the governed. – Publius Syrus

A bold onset is half the battle. – Giuseppe Garibaldi

The power is detested, and miserable the life, of him who wishes to be feared rather than to be loved. – Cornelius Nepos

To be a great leader and so always master of the situation, one must of necessity have been a great thinker in action. An eagle was never yet hatched from a goose’s egg. – James Thomas

Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small. – Edmund Spenser

He who has learned how to obey will know how to command. – Solon

When I give a minister an order, I leave it to him to find the means to carry it out. – Napoleon Bonaparte

No man can stand on top because he is put there. – H. H. Vreeland

A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward. – Ovid

It is impossible to imagine anything which better becomes a ruler than mercy. – Seneca

No man is good enough to govern another man without that other’s consent. – Abraham Lincoln

What you cannot enforce do not command. – Sophocles

No general can fight his battles alone. He must depend upon his lieutenants, and his success depends upon his ability to select the right man for the right place. – Philip Armour

To do great things is difficult; but to command great things is more difficult. – Friedrich Nietzsche

It is absurd that a man should rule others, who cannot rule himself. (Absurdum est ut alios regat, qui seipsum regere nescit.) – Latin Proverb

Let him who would be moved to convince others, be first moved to convince himself. – Thomas Carlyle

A good general not only sees the way to victory; he also knows when victory is impossible. – Polybius

Determination Quotes

Posted on January 8, 2011January 8, 2011 by

– “It’s a very funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.” – William Somerset Maugham

– “It was courage, faith, endurance and a dogged determination to surmount all obstacles that built this bridge.” – John J. Watson

– “Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education alone will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan “press on” has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.” – John Calvin Coolidge

– “The only way to find the limits of the possible is by going beyond them to the impossible.” – Arthur C. Clarke

– “Fight one more round. When your arms are so tired that you can hardly lift your hands to come on guard, fight one more round. When your nose is bleeding and your eyes are black and you are so tired that you wish your opponent would crack you one on the jaw and put you to sleep, fight one more round – remembering that the man who always fights one more round is never whipped.” – James Corbett

– “Determination is the wake-up call to the human will.” – Anthony (Tony) Robbins

– “A leader, once convinced that a particular course of action is the right one, must….be undaunted when the going gets tough.” – Ronald Reagan

– “We will either find a way or make one.” – Hannibal

– “The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.” – Vince Lombardi

– “When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it – but all that had gone before.” – Jacob Riis

– “The more you prepare, the luckier you appear.” – Terry Josephson

– “If-determination is fine but needs to be tempered with self-control.” – Unknown

– “Bear in mind, if you are going to amount to anything, that your success does not depend upon the brilliancy and the impetuosity with which you take hold, but upon the ever lasting and sanctified buldoggedness with which you hang on after you have taken hold.” – Dr. A. B. Meldrum

– “A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop.” – Robert Hughes

Motivational Quotes

Posted on November 2, 2010November 2, 2010 by

“Anyone can give up, it’s the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone else would understand if you fell apart, that’s true strength.” – Unknown

“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

“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

“Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“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

“Fall seven times, stand up eight.” – Japanese Proverb

“Try and fail, but don’t fail to try.” – Stephen Kaggwa

“On the human chessboard, all moves are possible.” – Miriam Schiff

“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as if though nothing is a miracle. The other is though everything is a miracle.” –Albert Einstein

“Don’t watch the clock. Do what it does, keep going. – Sam Levenson

“Improvise upon the situation.” – Unknown

“Giving up is giving in to whatever may be keeping you down. Overcoming is beating what you need to, and becoming stronger in the process.” – Cynthia Mercedes

Miguel de Cervantes Quotes

Posted on March 31, 2010 by

– “A closed mouth catches no flies.”

– “A person dishonored is worst than dead.”

– “There is a time for some things and a time for all things; a time for great things and a time for small things.”

– “A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world, as a public indecency.”

– “A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.”

– “Alas! all music jars when the soul’s out of tune.”

– “Be a terror to the butchers, that they may be fair in their weight; and keep hucksters and fraudulent dealers in awe, for the same reason.”

– “Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.”

– “Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.”

– “Drink moderately, for drunkeness neither keeps a secret, nor observes a promise.”

– “Every man is as heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse.”

– “Every man is the son of his own works.”

– “Fair and softly goes far.”

– “Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.”

– “For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the head, weakness in the stomach, and other inconveniences.”

– “Forewarned, forearmed; to be prepared is half the victory.”

– “From reading too much, and sleeping too little, his brain dried up on him and he lost his judgment.”

– “God bears with the wicked, but not forever.”

– “Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.”

– “He had a face like a blessing.”

– “He preaches well that lives well.”