Quotes by Maxwell Maltz

We are injured and hurt emotionally,
not so much by other people
or what they say and don't say,
but by our own attitude and our own response.
- Maxwell Maltz

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An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.
- Thomas Jefferson

Forgive those who have injured you -
not because they deserve your forgiveness,
but because you can never be happy
until you release your anger and grant forgiveness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

One who is injured ought not to return the injury,
for on no account can it be right to do an injustice;
and it is not right to return an injury,
or to do evil to any man,
however much we have suffered from him.
- Socrates

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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

This day I will marry my friend,
the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love.
- Anonymous

The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear.
- Maya Angelou

A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer

A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you,
whose presence calls forth your best.
- Epictetus

Neither a borrower nor a lender be,
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
- William Shakespeare

The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which
it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters.
- Thomas Jefferson

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
- Henry David Thoreau

Our chief want is someone who will inspire us
to be what we know we could be.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The greatest compliment that was ever paid me
was when one asked me what I thought,
and attended to my answer.
- Henry David Thoreau

I never considered a difference of opinion
in politics, in religion, in philosophy,
as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Thomas Jefferson

The price of freedom for a nation is lives and money.
Often, the price of freedom for an individual
is challenging the closed minds of family and friend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Health is the greatest possession.
Contentment is the greatest treasure.
Confidence is the greatest friend.
Non-being is the greatest joy.
- Lao Tzu

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

The easiest kind of friendship for me
is with ten thousand people.
The hardest is with one.
- Joan Baez

The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
It is an intelligence above language.
- Henry David Thoreau

The finest kind of friendship is between people
who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it.
- Anonymous

The meeting of two personalities is
like the contact of two chemical substances:
if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
- Carl Jung

Work Hard. Do your best. Keep your word.
Never get too big for your britches.
Trust in God. Have no fear;
and Never forget a friend.
- Harry S. Truman

A friend is someone who understands my past,
believes in my future,
and accepts me just the way I am.
- Anonymous

Love is the only force capable of
transforming an enemy into friend.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

You only meet your once in a lifetime friend ...
once in a lifetime.
- Little Rascals

You can learn how to let go of the past.
Whether you have experienced a break up
with someone you cared for deeply,
whether death has taken a loved one,
whether you have had a feud with a friend or family member,
whether you have lost a job.
Move on and let go.
Life can be joyful and rewarding again.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

An old friend will help you move.
A good friend will help you move a dead body.
- Jim Hayes

The feeling of friendship is like that
of being comfortably filled with roast beef;
love, like being enlivened with champagne.
- Samuel Johnson

Choose a friend as thou dost a wife,
till death separate you.
- William Penn

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

The best mirror is an old friend.
- Proverb

Throw your dreams into space like a kite,
and you do not know what it will bring back,
a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
- Anais Nin

Moreover if your brother shall trespass against you,
go and tell him his fault between you and him alone.
- Matthew 18:15

Everyone has a "best friend" during each stage of life,
but only a precious few have the same one.
- Anonymous

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

A single rose can be my garden...
a single friend, my world.
- Leo Buscaglia

Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend,
but it requires a very fine nature
to sympathize with a friend's success.
- Oscar Wilde

A friend encourages your dreams and offers advice -
but when you don't follow it,
they still respect and love you.
- Doris Wild Helmering

A friend to all is a friend to none.
- Aristotle

The only way to have a friend is to be one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

A friend in need is a friend indeed.
- Latin Proverb

A brother is a friend given by Nature.
- Jean Baptiste Legouve

The only thing to do is to hug one's friend tight and do one's job.
- Edith Wharton

He's my friend that speaks well of me behind my back.
- Thomas Fuller

It is a great confidence in a friend
to tell him your faults;
greater to tell him his.
- Benjamin Franklin

The only reward of virtue is virtue;
the only way to have a friend is to be one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

A friend is one before whom I can think aloud.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

A friend or co-worker shares a political,
religious, economic, or social opinion
that is opposite to yours -
does that drive a wedge between your hearts?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

What is a friend? I will tell you ...
it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.
- Frank Crane

The best friend is the man who in wishing me well
wishes it for my sake.
- Anonymous

A holiday, the day I first named you, "friend."
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Life without a friend is like death without a witness.
- Spanish proverb

A friend is someone who won't stop
until he finds you and brings you home.
- Fraser Sr. in the movie Due South

When it hurts to look back,
and you're scared to look ahead,
you can look beside you
and your best friend will be there.
- Anonymous

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
- Benjamin Franklin

A friend is a present you give yourself.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

The best way to destroy an enemy
is to make him a friend.
- Abraham Lincoln

A friend is one who walks in when others walk out
- Walter Winchell

A best friend is like a four leaf clover,
hard to find and lucky to have.
- Anonymous

I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar,
but I cherish the friend who for me
does not consult his calendar.
- Robert Brault

Each friend represents a world in us,
a world possibly not born until they arrive,
and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
- Anais Nin

The walls we build around us to
keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.
- Jim Rohn

So long as we are loved by others,
I would almost say that we are indispensable;
and no man is useless while he has a friend.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

If I mayn't tell you what I feel,
what is the use of a friend?
- William Makepeace Thackeray

A friend knows the song in my heart
and sings it to me when my memory fails.
- Donna Roberts

Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow.
Don't walk behind me; I may not lead.
Just walk beside me and be my friend.
- Albert Camus

Go oft to the house of thy friend,
for weeds choke the unused path.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie