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May you find great value in these Great Friendship quotes and sayings.
It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies,
but even more to stand up to your friends.
- J.K. Rowling
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We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.
- Henry David Thoreau
It is a great confidence in a friend
to tell him your faults;
greater to tell him his.
- Benjamin Franklin
Truly great friends are hard to find,
difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.
- Anonymous
The finest kind of friendship is between people
who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it.
- Anonymous
My father always used to say that when you die,
if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.
- Lee Iacocca
The magic words for a great family are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions.
Small people always do that,
but the really great make you feel that
you, too, can become great.
- Mark Twain
It is only the great-hearted who can be true friends.
The mean and cowardly can never know what true friendship means.
- Charles Kingsley
Don't let a little dispute injure a great relationship.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
People will, in a great degree,
and not without reason,
form their opinion of you upon
that which they have of your friends;
and there is a Spanish proverb
which says very justly,
"Tell me whom you live with,
and I will tell you who you are.
- Lord Chesterfield
Silence is a source of great strength.
- Lao Tzu
From small beginnings come great things.
- Anonymous
Little strokes,
Fell great oaks.
- Benjamin Franklin
Before we acquire great power
we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
- George Bernard Shaw
In times of great stress or adversity,
it's always best to keep busy,
to plow your anger and your energy
into something positive.
- Lee Iacocca
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
- Lao Tzu
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie,
deliberate, contrived and dishonest,
but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
- John F. Kennedy
The wise man looks into space,
and does not regard the small as too little,
nor the great as too much;
for he knows that there is no limit to dimensions.
- Lao Tzu
The really great secret - Happiness is free.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Man becomes great exactly in the degree
in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
To the philosopher,
death is but the next great adventure.
- J. K. Rowling
When you become centered, suddenly there is great freedom
because you know you are not the mind and you are not the body.
- Osho
If a warrior is to succeed at anything,
the success must come gently,
with a great deal of effort but with no stress or obsession.
- Carlos Castaneda
The Universe is one great kindergarten for man.
Everything that exists has brought
with it its own peculiar lesson.
- Orison Swett Marden
A great man is always willing to be little.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A little neglect may breed great mischief.
- Benjamin Franklin
The wicked leader is he who the people despise.
The good leader is he who the people revere.
The great leader is he who the people say, "We did it ourselves."
- Lao Tzu
The water in a vessel is sparkling;
the water in the sea is dark.
The small truth has words which are clear;
the great truth has great silence.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative,
to which all beings owe their beginning
and which permeates all heaven.
- Lao Tzu
Great talents are the most lovely
and often the most dangerous
fruits on the tree of humanity.
They hang upon the most slender twigs
that are easily snapped off.
- Carl Jung
Being is the great explainer.
- Henry David Thoreau
To be conscious that you are ignorant
is a great step to knowledge.
- Benjamin Disraeli
It is an act of great Courage to forsake all Blame.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Great oaks from little acorns grow.
- Proverb
Great minds have purposes others have wishes.
- Washington Irving
Nurture your mind with great thoughts,
for you will never go any higher than you think.
- Benjamin Disraeli
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds,
adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. -
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
To be great is to be misunderstood.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If a man is called to be a street sweeper,
he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted,
or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry.
He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts
of heaven and earth will pause to say,
here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The choice is to work alone to be a little
more successful than the next person,
or to work together for the great betterment of humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There are trivial truths and there are great truths.
The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
- Niels Bohr
All difficult things have
their origin in that which is easy,
and great things in that which is small.
- Lao Tzu
Do the difficult things while they are easy
and do the great things while they are small.
A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
- Lao Tzu
No great thing is created suddenly.
- Epictetus
Half a truth is often a great lie.
- Benjamin Franklin
To the young child, all life is a great adventure -
when did we grow so dull and brittle.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Great spirits have always encountered
violent opposition from mediocre minds.
- Albert Einstein
Wealth consists not in having great possessions,
but in having few wants.
- Epictetus
One of the surest ways to cause
yourself great suffering
is to insist upon being right -
to demand that all others view life
exactly as you view it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It's one of life's great paradoxes ...
Accepting with gratitude whatever life throws at us
is critical to happiness.
Yet without a goal and commitment, life lose much of its value.
The best we can do in the face of this paradox
is to play to win, but be cheerful in defeat
and ready to play again.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The great pleasure in life is doing
what people say you cannot do.
- Walter Bagehot
My great concern is not whether you have failed,
but whether you are content with your failure.
- Abraham Lincoln
Small opportunities are often
the beginning of great enterprises.
- Demosthenes
The only good luck many great men ever had was
being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
- Channing Pollock
The magic words for a great relationship are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Great leadership is not the visit of an unexpected fate
but rather a flame which is kept burning
in spite of the winds of risk and opposition.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
- Samuel Johnson
Life is a great big canvas,
and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
- Danny Kaye
Character is higher than intellect.
A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Until you'll willing to look foolish,
you'll never have the possibility of being great.
- Cher
A great secret of success is to go through life
as a man who never gets used up.
- Albert Schweitzer
If the misery of the poor be caused
not by the laws of nature,
but by our institutions,
great is our sin.
- Charles Darwin
Keep courage. Whatever you do,
do not feel sorry for yourself.
You will win in a great age of opportunity.
- Richard L. Evans
Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers,
who can cut through argument, debate, and doubt
to offer a solution everybody can understand.
- Colin Powell
If (s)he's an apple and you're an orange,
celebrate your differences -
make a great fruit salad.
Love isn't about being the same -
it's about being sweet with each other.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Dare to dream of your great success.
Become intimate with those things
which deeply motivate you
and regularly work toward
the realization of that mission.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak.
Strong convictions precede great actions.
- Louisa May Alcott
Simply see that you are at the center of the universe,
and accept all things and beings
as parts of your infinite body.
When you perceive that an act done to another
is done to yourself,
you have understood the great truth.
- Lao Tzu
While the laughter of joy is in
full harmony with our deeper life,
the laughter of amusement
should be kept apart from it.
The danger is too great of thus learning
to look at solemn things in a spirit of mockery,
and to seek in them opportunities for exercising wit.
- Lewis Carroll
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