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Maxwell Maltz Quotes and Sayings
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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Injured Quotes and Sayings

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

Friend Quotes and Sayings

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 good man is the friend of all living things.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

My wife ran off with my best friend, and I sure do miss him.
- Anonymous

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

A true friend is one who
overlooks your failures
and tolerates your success.
- Doug Larson

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

Barf: I'm a mog: half man, half dog. I'm my own best friend!
- the movie Spaceballs (1987)

Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend.
Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.
- Groucho Marx

I'm a very loyal and unreliable friend.
- Bono

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

You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog.
- Harry S. Truman

A loyal friend laughs at your jokes
when they're not so good,
and sympathizes with your problems
when they're not so bad.
- Arnold H. Glasgow

A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat.
- Erma Bombeck

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

A friend will tell you she saw your old boyfriend -
and he's a priest.
- Erma Bombeck

A true friend stabs you in the front.
- Oscar Wilde

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

A friend is someone who will bail you out of jail.
A best friend is the one sitting next
to you saying "boy was that fun."
- The Maugles

Do not use a hatchet to remove
a fly from your friend's forehead.
- Chinese Proverb

When one gets angry, it is always angry AT someone -
perhaps a friend or spouse, perhaps a stranger,
perhaps the nameless "they" - "those people at the bank wronged me,"
perhaps God, or perhaps oneself.
In any case, when one gets angry,
they want to find someone to be "responsible" for what happened.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I never found a companion that was
so companionable as solitude.
- Henry David Thoreau

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

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

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

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

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

I was the kid next door's imaginary friend.
- Emo Phillips

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

In my friend, I find a second self.
- Isabel Norton

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

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

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

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

A true friend never gets in your way
unless you happen to be going down.
- Arnold H. Glasgow

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

A true friend is a source of strength and hope.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.
- Bill Watterson

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

A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
- Abraham Lincoln

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

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

This communicating of a man's self to his friend
works two contrary effects;
for it redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half.
- Francis Bacon

You are my friend when you can guard my failure,
challenge my thought and celebrate my success.
- Anonymous

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

It takes a long time to grow an old friend.
- John Leonard

Walking with a friend in the dark is better
than walking alone in the light.
- Helen Keller

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

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

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

A true friend is a rock upon whom you can depend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

A new friend is like new wine;
when it has aged you will drink it with pleasure.
- Ecclesiastes 9:10

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

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
- Henry Ford

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

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

If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship,
we must love our friend for their sakes
rather than for our own.
- Charlotte Bronte

The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet
and steady and loyal and enduring a nature
that it will last through a whole lifetime,
if not asked to lend money.
- Mark Twain

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