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February 19, 2009

Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait for the answer
~friendsauthor sayings by Author Unknown

Distance of time and place generally cure what they seem to aggravate; and taking leave of our friends resembles taking leave of the world, of which it has been said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible
~sayings about friends by author by Henry Fielding

Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends
~inspirational sayings about For a Friend quotes by Virginia Woolf

Our success and happiness depends partly on our choice of friends, companions, associates, and co-workers. When possible, choose wisely.
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Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
~famous quotes about Friendship by Menclus

Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer. Almost any compromise is better than a lawsuit. All lasting agreements are made by compromise. Nothing made by brute force lasts.
~friendsauthor sayings by

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failure saying & quotations

February 19, 2009

The sports page records people’s accomplishments; The front page nothing but their failures
~failure sayings by Jutice Earl Warren

Because a fellow has failed once or twice or a dozen times, you don’t want to set him down as a failure till he’s dead or loses his courage.
~failure saying by George Horace Lorimer

Most business plans fail. Obviously, success is not a realistic goal But the people who manage the most spectacular failures get promoted because of their experience
~inspirational sayings about Business quotes by Dogbert

Failure to plan is unknowing planning to fail.
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In the final analysis the weakness of Black Power is its failure to see that the black man needs the white man and the white man needs the black man
~famous quotes about Martin Luther King, Jr. Day by Martin Luther King, Jr., Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?, 1967

There is no failure except in no longer trying.
~failure sayings by Elbert Hubbard

Quotations about Attitude

January 12, 2009

There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes. ~William J. Bennett, The Book of Virtues

I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow. ~Abraham Lincoln

Being in a good frame of mind helps keep one in the picture of health. ~Author Unknown

Got no checkbooks, got no banks,
Still I’d like to express my thanks -
I got the sun in the morning and the moon at night.
~Irving Berlin, “I Got the Sun in the Morning,” 1946

To everyone is given the key to heaven; the same key opens the gates of hell. ~Ancient Proverb

Quotations about Success

January 12, 2009

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom. ~George Smith Patton

It is wise to keep in mind that no success or failure is necessarily final. ~Author Unknown

How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten? ~Logan Smith

Success and failure. We think of them as opposites, but they’re really not. They’re companions – the hero and the sidekick. ~Laurence Shames

The man who has done his level best, and who is conscious that he has done his best, is a success, even though the world may write him down as a failure. ~B.C. Forbes

Quotations about Self-Discovery

December 12, 2008

I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of. ~Michel de Montaigne

If you don’t get lost, there’s a chance you may never be found. ~Author Unknown

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. ~Henry David Thoreau, 1854

A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it. ~George Moore

If in the last few years you haven’t discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one, check your pulse. You may be dead. ~Gelett Burgess

Man never knows what he wants; he aspires to penetrate mysteries and as soon as he has, he wants to reestablish them. Ignorance irritates him and knowledge cloys. ~Amiel, Journal, 1884

Quotations about Self-Control

December 12, 2008

It is a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways. ~Buddha

Being out of control is one of the worst feelings in the world, sometimes even worse than pain. It is its own kind of pain. ~Danzae Pace

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. ~Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891

You must admit you have self-control before you can use it. ~Carrie Latet

What makes resisting temptation difficult for many people is they don’t want to discourage it completely. ~Franklin P. Jones

Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to. ~Oscar Wilde

Success Sayings

November 29, 2008

I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one’s business on earth, like the male spider, who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in courtship. I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind. ~George Bernard Shaw, 28 August 1896<!–, letter to Ellen Terry, Collected Letters, edited by Dan H. Laurence, vol. 1, 1965; CTO–>

Those who have succeeded at anything and don’t mention luck are kidding themselves. ~Larry King

Success has made failures of many men. ~Cindy Adams<!–, Joey Adams, Cindi and I, 1957, MBT p67–>

Some aspects of success seem rather silly as death approaches. ~Donald A. Miller

Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it. ~Author Unknown

Quotations about Success

November 29, 2008

I couldn’t wait for success… so I went ahead without it. ~Jonathan Winters

There is no point at which you can say, “Well, I’m successful now. I might as well take a nap.” ~Carrie Fisher

Don’t aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally. ~David Frost

Some people dream of success… while others wake up and work hard at it. ~Author Unknown

Success: To laugh often and much, to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children, to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends, to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded! ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Quotations about Friendship

November 18, 2008

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend. ~Henry David Thoreau

A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down. ~Arnold Glasow

But if the while I think on thee, dear friend,
All losses are restored and sorrows end.
~William Shakespeare

The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart. ~Elisabeth Foley

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend. ~William Blake

A friend is the only person you will let into the house when you are Turning Out Drawers. ~Pam Brown

One’s friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human. ~George Santayana

Quotations about Attitude

November 18, 2008

Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures. ~H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life’s Little Instruction Book

Every thought is a seed. If you plant crab apples, don’t count on harvesting Golden Delicious. ~Bill Meyer

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. ~Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere’s Fan, 1893

Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed. ~Attributed to both Jonathan Swift and Benjamin Franklin

To be upset over what you don’t have is to waste what you do have. ~Ken S. Keyes, Jr., Handbook to Higher Consciousness

Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it. ~Joe Clark

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