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Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with.
Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.
- Thomas J. Watson Sr.

Related topics: Friendship

I have also seen children successfully
surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance.
That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

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

Nobody has ever asked the nuclear family to live
all by itself in a box the way we do.
With no relatives, no support,
we've put it in an impossible situation.
- Margaret Mead

Consider a new beginning with your family -
choose to take them less seriously.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

True friends are those who lift you up
when your heart's wings forget how to fly.
- Anonymous

I will reflect the finest qualities my friends offer me
and remind them of all the promise I see in them.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

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

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

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

The being of our mothers is forever branded onto our own being.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Better to be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

What can you do to promote world peace?
Go home and love your family.
- Mother Teresa

Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo,
but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you
when the limo breaks down.
- Oprah Winfrey

The magic words for a great family are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I think, at a child's birth,
if a mother could ask a fairy godmother
to endow it with the most useful gift,
that gift should be curiosity.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

It is better to be in chains with friends,
than to be in a garden with strangers.
- Persian Proverb

The object of education is to prepare the young
to educate themselves throughout their lives.
- Robert M. Hutchins

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

Friendship must dare to risk, or it's not friendship.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard in the TV show Star Trek: The Next Generation

Wishing to be friends is quick work,
but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
- Aristotle

My children have made me more aggressive about the world
that they're about to inhabit.
- Bono

The most interesting information comes from children,
for they tell all they know and then stop.
- Mark Twain

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

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

I always like to know everything about my new friends,
and nothing about my old ones.
- Oscar Wilde

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

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

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

As long as any adult thinks that he,
like the parents and teachers of old,
can become introspective,
invoking his own youth to understand
the youth before him,
he is lost.
- Margaret Mead

There are not many things in life
so beautiful as true friendship,
and not many things more uncommon.
- Anonymous

It is not possible for civilization to
flow backwards while there is youth in the world.
Youth may be headstrong,
but it will advance its allotted length.
- Helen Keller

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

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

Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends.
- Jacques Delille

No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy,
the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child.
The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.
- Emma Goldman

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

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

Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.
- Jacques Delille

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

We are now at a point where we must educate our children
in what no one knew yesterday,
and prepare our schools for what no one knows yet.
- Margaret Mead

Mother's love grows by giving.
- Charles Lamb

Saying goodbye doesn't mean anything.
It's the time we spent together that matters,
not how we left it.
- Trey Parker

Everyone hears what you say.
Friends listen to what you say.
Best friends listen to what you don't say.
- Anonymous

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

A child miseducated is a child lost.
- John F. Kennedy

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

There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child.
Things never get back to the way they were.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship
is to understand and to be understood.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility,
never an opportunity.
- Khalil Gibran

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

And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born
it compels humility: what we began is now its own.
- Margaret Mead

The whole art of teaching is only the art
of awakening the natural curiosity
of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
- Anatole France

I have friends in overalls
whose friendship I would not swap
for the favor of the kings of the world.
- Thomas A. Edison

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

Home is not a structure, but the place that we feel comfortable -
the place we belong - the place of our loved ones.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

At times our own light goes out
and is rekindled by a spark from another person.
Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude
of those who have lighted the flame within us.
- Albert Schweitzer

Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being
to those who are on the road with you,
and accept as something precious
what comes back to you from them.
- Albert Schweitzer

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

This is the answer to all questions about relationship.
When two people sing their lives in harmony,
their lives are grand.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Friends are born, not made.
- Henry Adams

I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving
for my friends, the old and the new.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

A friendship that can end never really began.
- Publilius Syrus

To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved.
- George MacDonald

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

What is our family?
We touch our full hearts and see ourselves
reflected whole in each other's eyes.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

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

Friendship is certainly the finest balm
for the pangs of disappointed love.
- Jane Austen

There was never a child so lovely
but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Books and friends should be few but good.
- Anonymous

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

True friendship is a plant of slow growth,
and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity
before it is entitled to the appellation.
- George Washington

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      - Jonathan Lockwood Huie