Friends Quotes - Page 32

• Friendship requires more time than poor busy men can usually command.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, Men, Busy

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.414

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• Friendship should be surrounded with ceremonies and respects, and not crushed into corners.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, Should, Ceremony

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2333, Delphi Classics

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• Are you willing to work sixteen hours a day? Rich people are. Are you willing to work seven days a week and five up most of your weekends? Rich people are. Are you willing to sacrifice seeing your family, your friends, and give up your recreations and hobbies? Rich people are. Are you willing to risk all your time, energy and start-up capital with no guarantee of returns? Rich people are.

  T. Harv Eker

  Inspirational, Giving Up, Sacrifice

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• Poor people will do almost anything to avoid problems. They see a challenge and they run...the secret to success, my friends, is not to try to avoid or get rid of or shrink from your problems; the secret is to grow yourself so that you are bigger than your problems.

  T. Harv Eker

  Inspirational, Running, People

  FaceBook post by T. Harv Eker from May 08, 2012

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• Until you can see everything in the world as your friend, your work is not done.

  Byron Katie

  Done, World

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• Friendship is a tree to take shelter from the storm, to find shade from the blazing sun, to climb its bratches to get a better view, and to swing from when we're happy.

  Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet

  Swings, Views, Tree

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• A friend is the hope of the heart.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Heart

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.507, Library of America

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• Have friends, not for the sake of receiving, but of giving.

  Philibert Joseph Roux

  True Friend, Giving, Receiving

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• Friendship is the ideal; friends are the reality; reality always remains far apart from the ideal.

  Philibert Joseph Roux

  Reality, Remains, Ideals

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• Friends are rare for, the good reason that men are not common.

  Philibert Joseph Roux

  Men, Common, Reason

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• We want our friend as a man of talent, less because he has talent than because he is our friend.

  Philibert Joseph Roux

  Men, Want, Talent

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• The man abandoned by his friends, one after another, without just cause, will acquire, the reputation of being hard to please, changeable, ungrateful, unsociable.

  Philibert Joseph Roux

  Men, Ungrateful, Causes

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• Make the decision that you'll no longer use excuses to keep you from what you know is in your best interest. Today, act on something you've always avoided and explained away with a convenient excuse. Make a phone call you've been putting off, write a letter to a friend, put on a pair of walking shoes and go for a stroll, clean out your closet—do something you've been justifying not doing with excuses.

  Wayne Dyer

  Writing, Phones, Shoes

  FaceBook post by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from Jul 17, 2012

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• A rioter with a Molotov cocktail in his hands is not fighting for civil rights any more than a Klansman with a sheet on his back and mask on his face. They are both more or less what the law declares them: lawbreakers, destroyers of constitutional rights and liberties and ultimately destroyers of a free America.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Freedom, War, Fighting

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1967). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966”, p.898, Best Books on

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• As we sail through life towards death,
  Bound unto the same port--heaven,--
  Friend, what years could us divide?

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Years, Heaven, Port

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• There are friendships merely for pleasure, some for the exchange of ideas. Rarest are those friends of one's inmost self.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Self, Ideas, Pleasure

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• It is better to make friends than adversaries of a conquered race.

  Benjamin Haydon

  Race, Adversaries

  Benjamin Robert Haydon (1876). “Benjamin Robert Haydon: Correspondence and Table-talk”, p.445

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• Better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Political, Campaigns, Tents

  Quoted in N.Y. Times, 31 Oct. 1971

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• Friends are a recompense for all the woes of the darkest pages of life.

  Elizabeth Keckley

  Woe, Pages, Recompense

  Elizabeth Keckley (1868). “Behind the Scenes, Or, Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House”, p.330

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• Real friends are our greatest joy and our greatest sorrow. It were almost to be wished that all true and faithful friends should expire on the same day.

  Francois Fenelon

  Real, Joy, Faithful

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• My helpless friend, your helplessness is the most powerful plea which rises up to the tender father-heart of God. You think that everything is closed to you because you cannot pray. My friend, your helplessness is the very essence of prayer.

  Ole Hallesby

  Powerful, Prayer, Father

  Ole Hallesby (1975). “Prayer”, Augsburg Fortress Publishing

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• A man's fortunes are the fruit of his character. A man's friends are his magnetisms.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Character, Fate, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.269, Penguin

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• Your mate doesn't live by bread alone; he or she needs to be 'buttered up' from time to time.

  Zig Ziglar

  Family, Marriage, Needs

  Zig Ziglar (2004). “Courtship After Marriage: Romance Can Last a Lifetime”, p.103, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• For whoever knows how to return a kindness he has received must be a friend above all price.

  Sophocles

  Friendship, Kindness, Return

  Sophocles (1872). “The Tragedies of Sophocles: In English Prose”, p.309

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• Do not allow your thoughts to become greater than you. No matter what your thoughts tell you, don't listen. Remember your thoughts are not your friend. Your thoughts try to confound you, confuse you. And they will tell you all kinds of things. Do not listen to your thoughts, even your good thoughts. Transcend everything, go beyond your thoughts to your bliss, to your joy and to your happiness.

  Robert Adams

  Happiness, Joy, Trying

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