The making of friends, who are real friends,
by Edward Everett Hale

The making of friends, who are real friends,
is the best token we have of a man's success in life.
- Edward Everett Hale

Related topics: Friendship Relationship

Life is really simple,
but we insist on making it complicated.
- Confucius

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
- John Lennon

Our Joy comes from living our own lives simply -
never from demanding that others live simply -
or from ever making any demands whatsoever upon others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything.
And that is by making the other person want to do it.
- Dale Carnegie

The key to happiness is having dreams.
The key to success is making your dreams come true.
- Anonymous

The world you see has nothing to do with reality.
It is of your own making and does not exist.
- A Course In Miracles

Just smiling goes a long way toward
making you feel better about life.
And when you feel better about life, your life is better.
- Art Linkletter

What are you committed to?
Have you started, or are you still thinking about it -
and making excuses?
Do you work toward your goal each day?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Love is not a matter of counting the years,
but making the years count.
- Michele St. Amand

It is against everything we stand for to take a human life.
Making an exception to that code is a bleak thing.
- Sam, from Twilight saga by Stephenie Meyer

The secret of making dreams come true
can be summarized in four C's.
They are Curiosity, Confidence, Courage, and Constancy;
and the greatest of these is Confidence.
- Walt Disney

Ninety-nine percent of the failures
come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
- George Washington Carver

The problem with making assumptions
is that we believe they are the truth
- don Miguel Ruiz

If you fear making anyone mad,
then you ultimately probe for
the lowest common denominator of human achievement.
- Jimmy Carter

The art of acceptance is the art of making someone
who has just done you a small favor
wish that he might have done you a greater one.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

I love you not only for what you are,
but for what I am when I am with you.
I love you not only for what you have made of yourself,
but for what you are making of me.
I love you for that part of me you bring out.
- Roy Croft

An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

You should never be content with so little,
when you can reach out for something big.
- Charles L. Allen
(This quote is about making a big difference
in the world - not about greed)

In Iroquois society, leaders are encouraged to
remember seven generations in the past and
consider seven generations in the future
when making decisions that affect the people.
- Wilma Mankiller

Well-being is making its way to you at all times.
If you will relax and find a way to allow it,
it will be your experience.
- Abraham (Esther Hicks)

One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light,
but by making the darkness conscious.
- Carl Jung

I take every opportunity to articulate to others
the ways that they have blessed and influenced me.
I hold sweet memories of making the opportunity
to thank teachers who have influenced me.
I encourage everyone to seize opportunities
to tell people who have made a gift of knowledge or influence.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

If your home is not a place where you can truly
kick-back and be yourself - both physically and emotionally -
consider making some changes in your way-of-life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Consider a parent who says,
"Look at the sacrifices I'm making so you can have a better life."
Contrast that with another parent who demonstrates
living a great life every day.
Self-sacrifice is not a virtue.
Living a great life and sharing that life with others
is the noble way to live.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The secret of success is making your vocation your vacation.
- Mark Twain

Inspiration is God making contact with itself.
- Ram Dass

If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day,
he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer.
But if he spends his days as a speculator,
shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time,
he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.
- Henry David Thoreau

I made no resolutions for the New Year.
The habit of making plans, of criticizing, sanctioning
and molding my life, is too much of a daily event for me.
- Anais Nin

I love fools' experiments.
I am always making them.
- Charles Darwin

This is my ultimate fantasy:
watching QVC with a credit card
while making love and eating at the same time.
- Yasmine Bleeth

I will far rather see the race of man extinct
than that we should become less than beasts
by making the noblest of God's creation,
woman, the object of our lust.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Most of what we call management consists of
making it difficult for people to get their work done.
- Peter F. Drucker

Now we have a problem in making our power credible,
and Vietnam is the place.
- John F. Kennedy

There are two things that are more difficult
than making an after-dinner speech:
climbing a wall which is leaning toward you
and kissing a girl who is leaning away from you.
- Winston Churchill

The basic thing nobody asks is
why do people take drugs of any sort?
Why do we have these accessories to normal living to live?
I mean, is there something wrong with society
that's making us so pressurized,
that we cannot live without guarding ourselves against it?
- John Lennon

Your greatest gift to your family and friends is yourself -
your relaxed, happy, and fully-present self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

To go against the dominant thinking of your friends,
of most of the people you see every day,
is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
- Theodore H. White

Am I not destroying my enemies
when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln

It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich

Best Friends: we're a parade - even by ourselves!
- Mary Anne Radmacher

You can make more friends in two months
by becoming interested in other people
than you can in two years by trying
to get other people interested in you.
- Dale Carnegie

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

Live with intention.
Walk to the edge.
Listen hard.
Practice wellness.
Play with abandon.
Laugh.
Choose with no regret.
Appreciate your friends.
Continue to learn.
Do what you love.
Live as if this is all there is.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Marriage, ultimately, is the practice of
becoming passionate friends.
- Harville Hendrix

Best friends are the ones who can be the farthest away
but there the fastest when you call.
- Anonymous

Friends... they cherish one another's hopes.
They are kind to one another's dreams.
- Henry David Thoreau

Could we see when and where we are to meet again,
we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.
- Ouida

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

The best way to keep your friends
is not to give them away.
- Wilson Mizner

I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.
- Abraham Lincoln

Every man should have a fair-sized cemetery
in which to bury the faults of his friends.
- Henry Brooks Adams

Friends are God's apology for relations.
- Hugh Kingsmille

Books and friends should be few but good.
- Anonymous

I make friends with my fear. I am unstoppable.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

No man is the whole of himself;
his friends are the rest of him.
- Harry Emerson Fosdick

So long as the memory of certain
beloved friends lives in my heart,
I shall say that life is good.
- Helen Keller

One measure of friendship consists
not in the number of things friends can discuss,
but in the number of things they need no longer mention.
- Clifton Fadiman

When true friends meet in adverse hour,
'Tis like a sunbeam through a shower.
A watery way an instant seen,
The darkly closing clouds between.
- Sir Walter Scott

It is one of the blessings of old friends
that you can afford to be stupid with them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Friendship with one's self is all important,
because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience:
this is the ideal life.
- Mark Twain

Choose your friends carefully.
Your enemies will choose you.
- Yasser Arafat

Be careful the friends you choose -
for you will become like them.
- W. Clement Stone

Can miles truly separate us from friends?
If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?
- Richard Bach

Friends are God's way of apologizing to us for our families.
- Anonymous

Truly great friends are hard to find,
difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.
- Anonymous

It is not so much our friends' help that helps us,
as the confidence of their help.
- Epicurus

Friends love misery, in fact.
Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky
or too successful or too pretty,
our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.
- Erica Jong

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

I no doubt deserved my enemies,
but I don't believe I deserved my friends.
- Walt Whitman

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