Greetings Quotes

• How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!

  John Muir

  Inspirational, Nature, Light

  John Muir (1997). “Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays”, p.351, Library of America

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• Life is a mirror: if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Life, Mirrors, Return

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• There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Morning, Old Friends, No Friends

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). “Poems 2”, p.146, Reprint Services Corporation

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• Greetings, I am pleased to see that we are different. May we together become greater than the sum of both of us.

  Leonard Nimoy

  Inspirational, Together, Different

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• Always give a word or sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend, or even a stranger, if in a lonely place.

  Tecumseh

  Lonely, Native American, Medicine

  "A Sourcebook for Earth's Community of Religions". Book by Joel Diederik Beversluis, 1993.

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• Do not think little of any good deed, even if it is just greeting your brother with a smile.

  Muhammad

  Brother, Thinking, Humanity

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• Speak tenderly; let there be kindness in your face, in your eyes, in your smile, in the warmth of your greeting. Always have a cheerful smile. Don't only give your care, but give your heart as well.

  Mother Teresa

  Kindness, Eye, Heart

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• Don't tell your friends about your indigestion. "How are you" is a greeting, not a question.

  Arthur Guiterman

  Communication, Language, Indigestion

  A Poet's Proverbs 'Of Tact'

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• Be the living expression of God's kindness; kindness in your eyes, kindness in your face, kindness in your smile, kindness in your warm greetings. We are all but His instruments who do our little bit and pass by. I believe that the way in which an act of kindness is done is as important as the action itself.

  Mother Teresa

  Kindness, Believe, Eye

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• I sat with him for three hours and we did not exchange a single word. At the end he handed me, as he had done before, an envelope with money in it. It would have been much nicer if he had enclosed a greeting or a loving word. I would have been so pleased if he had.

  Eva Braun

  Three, Cards, Done

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• If you are greeted then return the greetings more warmly. If you are favored, then repay the obligation manifold; but he who takes the initiative will always excel in merit.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Return, Merit, Initiative

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• In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• I never give anyone just one congratulation. Congratulations are always plural. They are similar to grapes.

  Demetri Martin

  Congratulations, Giving, Grapes

  Twitter post from Jul 16, 2013

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• I ignore Hallmark Holidays. And this comes from a guy who has sold a million Opus greeting cards.

  Berkeley Breathed

  Holiday, Guy, Cards

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• Send out a cheerful, positive greeting, and most of the time you will get back a cheerful, positive greeting. It's also true that if you send out a negative greeting, you will, in most cases, get back a negative greeting.

  Zig Ziglar

  Cheerful, Negative, Cases

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• Life was a series of greetings and farewells, one was always saying good-bye to something, to someone.

  Daphne du Maurier

  Farewell, Bye, Series

  Daphne Du Maurier (2012). “Myself When Young: The Shaping of a Writer”, p.120, Hachette UK

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• In Hawaii, we greet friends, loved ones or strangers with Aloha, which means love. Aloha is the key word to the universal spirit of real hospitality, which makes Hawaii renowned as the world's center of understanding and fellowship. Try meeting or leaving people with Aloha. You'll be surprised by their reaction. I believe it and it is my creed. Aloha to you.

  Duke Kahanamoku

  Love, Real, Believe

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• Love is not simply the sum of sweet greetings and wrenching partings and kisses and embraces, but is made up more of the memory of what has happened and the imagining of what is to come.

  Anita Shreve

  Sweet, Memories, Kissing

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• Christmas is the season of joy, of holiday greetings exchanged, of gift-giving,and of families united.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Christmas, Holiday, Giving

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• I like conventions. I like meeting and greeting. I'm perched on that edge where I'm getting more attention than I quite know what to do with, though.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Attention, Conventions, Meetings

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• And if you don't believe the sun will rise, stand alone and greet the coming night in the last remaining light.

  Chris Cornell

  Believe, Night, Light

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• And then, just as Wilbur was settling down for his morning nap, he heard again the thin voice that had addressed him the night before. "Salutations!" said the voice. Wilbur jumped to his feet. "Salu-what?" he cried. "Salutations!" repeated the voice. "What are they, and where are you?" screamed Wilbur. "Please, please, tell me where you are. And what are salutations?" "Salutations are greetings," said the voice. "When I say 'salutations,' it's just my fancy way of saying hello or good morning.

  E. B. White

  Morning, Night, Naps

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• Have a great day. Note: does not apply to my enemies.

  Demetri Martin

  Have A Great Day, Enemy, Doe

  Twitter post from Oct 15, 2013

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• Shy gold begins to peep through the sombre green - the wattle's wedding dress - and Spring is near. Then suddenly it seems, one golden morning, the Bush awakes, a living thing. Flowers bloom, birds sing, and all the world puts on its gayest dress to greet the laughing Spring.

  C. J. Dennis

  Nature, Morning, Laughter

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• For last year's words belong to last year's language And next year's words await another voice.

  T. S. Eliot

  Inspirational, New Year, New Beginnings

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “Complete Poems and Plays, 1909-1950”, p.150, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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