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Motivational Centuries Quotes

A friendship will be young after the lapse of half a century;
a passion is old at the end of three months.
- Madame Swetchine

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

Let the word go forth from this time and place,
to friend and foe alike,
that the torch has been passed
to a new generation of Americans -
born in this century, tempered by war,
disciplined by a hard and bitter peace.
- John F. Kennedy

Before printing was discovered,
a century was equal to a thousand years.
- Henry David Thoreau

The Four Stages of Public Opinion
I (Just after publication): The novelty is absurd
and subversive of Religion and Morality.
The propounder both fool and knave.
II (Twenty years later): The Novelty is absolute Truth
and will yield a full and satisfactory
explanation of things in general -
The propounder a man of sublime genius and perfect virtue.
III (Forty years later): The Novelty won't explain
things in general after all, and therefore is a wretched failure.
The propounder a very ordinary person advertised by a clique.
IV (A century later): The Novelty a mixture of truth and error.
Explains as much as could reasonably be expected.
The propounder worthy of all honor
in spite of his share of human frailties,
as one who has added to the permanent possessions of science.
- Thomas Henry [T. H.] Huxley

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

I had three chairs in my house;
one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
- Henry David Thoreau

No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)

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

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

A dream you dream alone is only a dream.
A dream you dream together becomes reality.
- John Lennon

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

I've learned that people will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget how you made them feel.
- 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

There comes that mysterious meeting in life
when someone acknowledges who we are and what we can be,
igniting the circuits of our highest potential.
- Rusty Berkus

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

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

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

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

A real friend is one who walks in
when the rest of the world walks out.
- Walter Winchell

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

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

Piglet noticed that even though he had a Very Small Heart,
it could hold a rather large amount of Gratitude.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)

A true friend sees the good in everything,
and brings out the best in the worst of things.
- Sasha Azevedo

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

One is taught by experience to put a premium
on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.
- Gail Godwin

Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
- Rabindranath Tagore

It is the first law of friendship
that it has to be cultivated.
The second is to be indulgent
when the first law is neglected.
- Voltaire

Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious
as to have friends at a distance;
they make the latitudes and the longitudes.
- Henry David Thoreau

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

Sometimes new love comes between old friends.
Sometimes the best love was the one that was always there.
- Anonymous

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

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

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

Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.
- Charles Caleb Colton

Business, you know, may bring money,
but friendship hardly ever does.
- Jane Austen

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

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

None of us got where we are solely by
pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps.
- Thurgood Marshall

To have a friendship with God,
all I really have to do is have
a friendship with my Self.
- Neale Donald Walsch

Friendship is born at that moment
when one person says to another,
"What! You too? I thought I was the only one."
- C. S. Lewis

There is a magic in the memory of schoolboy friendships;
it softens the heart,
and even affects the nervous system
of those who have no heart.
- Benjamin Disraeli

In all my ways of seeing - may I use new glasses,
a telescope and a microscope.
And may I always allow myself to see a circumstance
through the tender hearts of my friends.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Life is partly what we make it,
and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
- Tehyi Hsieh

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

However rare true love may be,
it is less so than true friendship.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The worst part of success is to try to find
someone who is happy for you.
- Bette Midler

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

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

Fame is the scentless sunflower, with gaudy crown of gold;
But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

In all our contacts, it is probably the sense
of being really needed and wanted
which gives us the greatest satisfaction
and creates the most lasting bond.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

If ever there is tomorrow when we're not together...
there is something you must always remember.
You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem,
and smarter than you think.
But the most important thing is, even if we're apart...
I'll always be with you.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)

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