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George MacDonald Quotes

I hope you find these George MacDonald Quotes inspiring and motivational.

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

Related topics: Friendship Relationship

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters
cannot be trusted with important matters.
- Albert Einstein

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters
cannot be trusted in large ones either.
- Albert Einstein

He who does not trust enough,
will not be trusted.
- Lao Tzu


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Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation
can be trusted to act humanely
or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.
- Bertrand Russell

I have no fear that the result of our experiment
will be that men may be trusted to
govern themselves without a master.
- Thomas Jefferson

Whenever the people are well-informed,
they can be trusted with their own government.
- Thomas Jefferson


 

Every government degenerates when trusted
to the rulers of the people alone.
The people themselves are its only safe depositories.
- Thomas Jefferson

A person who trusts no one can't be trusted.
- Jerome Blattner

A faith that hasn't been tested can't be trusted.
- Adrian Rogers

Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted
with the government of himself.
Can he, then be trusted with the government of others?
Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him?
Let history answer this question.
- Thomas Jefferson

Whoever loves instruction loves knowledge,
but he who hates correction is stupid.
- Anonymous

Whoever undertakes to set himself up
as a judge of Truth and Knowledge
is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
- Albert Einstein

Whoever is happy will make others happy too.
- Anne Frank

Nothing is more valuable than your self respect.
When you lose respect for yourself, you have lost everything.
Whatever it takes, and whoever you upset,
do what you know - deep inside - is the right thing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Whoever does not regard what he has
as most ample wealth, is unhappy,
though he be master of the world.
- Epictetus

I haven't reported my missing credit card to the police
because whoever stole it is spending less than my wife.
- Ilie Nastase

Love is an act of faith,
and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.
- Erich Fromm

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

A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
- Jerome Cummings

Stay hopeless and confused. Keep polishing those skills.
- the movie When a Man Loves a Woman (1994)

A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend,
one human soul whom we can trust utterly,
who knows the best and worst of us,
and who loves us in spite of all our faults.
- Charles Kingsley

Love the heart that hurts you,
but never hurt the heart that loves you.
- Vipin Sharma

Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones,
as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire.
- Francois de la Rochefoucauld

The soul loves to meditate,
for in contact with the Spirit lies its greatest joy.
If, then you experience mental resistance during meditation,
remember that reluctance to meditate comes from the ego;
it doesn't belong to the soul.
- Paramahansa Yogananda

He who loves 50 people has 50 woes;
he who loves no one has no woes.
- The Buddha

The one who loves the least, controls the relationship.
- Robert Anthony

Jealousy is that pain which a man feels
from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved
by the person whom he entirely loves.
- Joseph Addison

Everybody loves you when you're six foot in the ground.
- John Lennon

He who wants to do good knocks at the gate:
he who loves finds the door open.
- Rabindranath Tagore

God Loves an Open Mind, Clean Hands, and a Loving Heart.
So does Your Mother.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Love is loving what your lover loves.
- Anonymous

If misery loves company, misery has company enough.
- Henry David Thoreau

He who loves practice without theory
is like the sailor who boards ship
without a rudder and compass
and never knows where he may cast.
- Leonardo da Vinci

The creation of something new
is not accomplished by the intellect
but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity.
The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.
- Carl Jung

Religion has convinced people that there's an invisible man
... living in the sky. Who watches everything you do
every minute of every day. And the invisible man
has a list of ten specific things he doesn't want you to do.
And if you do any of these things,
he will send you to a special place, of burning and fire
and smoke and torture and anguish for you to live forever,
and suffer, and suffer, and burn, and scream,
until the end of time. But he loves you. He loves you.
He loves you and he needs money.
- George Carlin

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I choose you as my friend, and rejoice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

There is danger that we lose sight of
what our friend is absolutely,
while considering what she is to us alone.
- Henry David Thoreau

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

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

I live to experience something new each day -
to learn something new,
meet a new friend,
bring joy into someone's life,
feel the wind newly on my skin,
touch a new fear, a new anger,
and with focused intent and good fortune,
find an ample measure of my own joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

We can never replace a friend.
When a man is fortunate enough to have several,
he finds they are all different.
No one has a double in friendship.
- Johann Schiller

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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