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Please enjoy these encouraging quotes by Elbert Hubbard.
A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard
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The greatest mistake you can make in life
is to be continually fearing you will make one.
- Elbert Hubbard
A little more persistence,
a little more effort, and
what seemed hopeless failure
may turn to glorious success.
- Elbert Hubbard
To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.
- Elbert Hubbard
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life in abundance comes only through great love.
- Elbert Hubbard
Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
- Elbert Hubbard
Your friend is the man who knows all about you,
and still likes you.
- Elbert Hubbard
If you have health, you probably will be happy,
and if you have health and happiness,
you have all the wealth you need, even if it is not all you want.
- Elbert Hubbard
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men.
No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
- Elbert Hubbard
Our desires always disappoint us;
for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction,
yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation.
- Elbert Hubbard
Dignity is a mask we wear to hide our ignorance.
- Elbert Hubbard
Genius may have its limitations,
but stupidity is not thus handicapped.
- Elbert Hubbard
A conservative is a man who is
too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
- Elbert Hubbard
Do not take life too seriously.
You will never get out of it alive.
- Elbert Hubbard
The sculptor produces the beautiful statue
by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed -
it is a process of elimination.
- Elbert Hubbard
If you can not answer a man's argument,
all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.
- Elbert Hubbard
Life is just one damned thing after another.
- Elbert Hubbard (Philistine - A Periodical of Protest, 1896)
This day I will marry my friend,
the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love.
- Anonymous
The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The best way to destroy an enemy
is to make him a friend.
- Abraham Lincoln
A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you,
whose presence calls forth your best.
- Epictetus
Love is the only force capable of
transforming an enemy into friend.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear.
- Maya Angelou
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
- Henry David Thoreau
If you wish to succeed in life,
make perseverance your bosom friend,
experience your wise counselor,
caution your elder brother,
and hope your guardian genius.
- Joseph Addison
Time is my friend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I live to experience something new each day -
to learn something new,
meet a new friend,
bring joy into someone's life,
feel the wind newly on my skin,
touch a new fear, a new anger,
and with focused intent and good fortune,
find an ample measure of my own joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our chief want is someone who will inspire us
to be what we know we could be.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
A holiday, the day I first named you, "friend."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Choose a friend as thou dost a wife,
till death separate you.
- William Penn
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only thing to do is to hug one's friend tight and do one's job.
- Edith Wharton
I choose you as my friend, and rejoice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Do not use a hatchet to remove
a fly from your friend's forehead.
- Chinese Proverb
The finest kind of friendship is between people
who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it.
- Anonymous
A single rose can be my garden...
a single friend, my world.
- Leo Buscaglia
A friend knows the song in my heart
and sings it to me when my memory fails.
- Donna Roberts
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
- Jerome Cummings
The greatest compliment that was ever paid me
was when one asked me what I thought,
and attended to my answer.
- Henry David Thoreau
Never cease loving a person, and never give up hope for him,
for even the prodigal son who had fallen most low,
could still be saved; the bitterest enemy
and also he who was your friend could again be your friend;
love that has grown cold can kindle
- Soren Kierkegaard
Walking with a friend in the dark is better
than walking alone in the light.
- Helen Keller
Why live?
Adding one to my count of days, or postponing
a feared death by another day do not inspire me.
I live to experience something new each day -
to learn something new, meet a new friend,
bring joy into someone's life,
feel the wind newly on my skin,
touch a new fear, a new anger,
and with focused intent and good fortune,
find an ample measure of my own joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
- Euripides
It takes a long time to grow an old friend.
- John Leonard
Farewell My Friend
It was beautiful as long as it lasted
The journey of my life.
I have no regrets whatsoever
save the pain I'll leave behind.
Those dear hearts who love and care...
And the strings pulling at the heart and soul...
The strong arms that held me up
When my own strength let me down.
At every turning of my life
I came across good friends,
Friends who stood by me,
Even when the time raced me by.
Farewell, farewell my friends
I smile and bid you goodbye.
No, shed no tears for I need them not
All I need is your smile.
If you feel sad do think of me
for that's what I'll like
when you live in the hearts
of those you love, remember then
you never die.
- Gitanjali Ghei
The good man is the friend of all living things.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The easiest kind of friendship for me
is with ten thousand people.
The hardest is with one.
- Joan Baez
I'm a very loyal and unreliable friend.
- Bono
A true friend is a rock upon whom you can depend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A friend to all is a friend to none.
- Aristotle
A true friend is one who
overlooks your failures
and tolerates your success.
- Doug Larson
The meeting of two personalities is
like the contact of two chemical substances:
if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
- Carl Jung
I never considered a difference of opinion
in politics, in religion, in philosophy,
as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Thomas Jefferson
Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
- Benjamin Franklin
Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.
- Bill Watterson
The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand,
nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship;
it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one
when he discovers that someone else believes in him
and is willing to trust him with his friendship.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A true friend is a source of strength and hope.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A friend in need is a friend indeed.
- Latin Proverb
A friend is one who walks in when others walk out
- Walter Winchell
A true friend stabs you in the front.
- Oscar Wilde
Moreover if your brother shall trespass against you,
go and tell him his fault between you and him alone.
- Matthew 18:15
The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
It is an intelligence above language.
- Henry David Thoreau
The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.
- Henry David Thoreau
An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.
- Thomas Jefferson
Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life.
It turns what we have into enough, and more.
It turns denial into acceptance,
chaos to order, confusion to clarity.
It can turn a meal into a feast,
a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.
Gratitude makes sense of our past,
brings peace for today,
and creates a vision for tomorrow.
- Melody Beattie
The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which
it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters.
- Thomas Jefferson
The best friend is the man who in wishing me well
wishes it for my sake.
- Anonymous
The proper office of a friend is to side with you
when you are in the wrong.
Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.
- Mark Twain
If I mayn't tell you what I feel,
what is the use of a friend?
- William Makepeace Thackeray
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