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I hope you find these Maxwell Maltz Quotes inspiring and motivational.
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
Related topics: Life Human-Nature Psychology Sad Feeling-Down
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
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Neither a borrower nor a lender be,
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
- William Shakespeare
Health is the greatest possession.
Contentment is the greatest treasure.
Confidence is the greatest friend.
Non-being is the greatest joy.
- Lao Tzu
A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
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
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
The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you,
whose presence calls forth your best.
- Epictetus
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
- Henry David Thoreau
A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard
I was the kid next door's imaginary friend.
- Emo Phillips
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
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 most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.
- Henry David Thoreau
In my friend, I find a second self.
- Isabel Norton
An old friend will help you move.
A good friend will help you move a dead body.
- Jim Hayes
You are my friend when you can guard my failure,
challenge my thought and celebrate my success.
- Anonymous
Choose a friend as thou dost a wife,
till death separate you.
- William Penn
A real friend is one who walks in
when the rest of the world walks out.
- Walter Winchell
You only meet your once in a lifetime friend ...
once in a lifetime.
- Little Rascals
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog.
- Harry S. Truman
The best friend is the man who in wishing me well
wishes it for my sake.
- Anonymous
A true friend is a rock upon whom you can depend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The easiest kind of friendship for me
is with ten thousand people.
The hardest is with one.
- Joan Baez
The only reward of virtue is virtue;
the only way to have a friend is to be one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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 most beautiful discovery true friends make is that
they can grow separately without growing apart.
- Elisabeth Foley
A new friend is like new wine;
when it has aged you will drink it with pleasure.
- Ecclesiastes 9:10
There is danger that we lose sight of
what our friend is absolutely,
while considering what she is to us alone.
- Henry David Thoreau
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
- Jerome Cummings
A friend is one before whom I can think aloud.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Time is my friend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
- Euripides
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
- Henry Ford
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
Everyone has a "best friend" during each stage of life,
but only a precious few have the same one.
- Anonymous
The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear.
- Maya Angelou
It is a great confidence in a friend
to tell him your faults;
greater to tell him his.
- Benjamin Franklin
Our chief want is someone who will inspire us
to be what we know we could be.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
A friend in need is a friend indeed.
- Latin Proverb
The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which
it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters.
- Thomas Jefferson
Lord, grant comfort, joy and health
to those I call friend,
to those I call enemy,
and to those I have cursed by my indifference.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Better to be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.
- Bill Watterson
My wife ran off with my best friend, and I sure do miss him.
- Anonymous
Barf: I'm a mog: half man, half dog. I'm my own best friend!
- the movie Spaceballs (1987)
The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
It is an intelligence above language.
- Henry David Thoreau
The best way to destroy an enemy
is to make him a friend.
- Abraham Lincoln
Life without a friend is like death without a witness.
- Spanish proverb
A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat.
- Erma Bombeck
A friend is someone who won't stop
until he finds you and brings you home.
- Fraser Sr. in the movie Due South
When you part from your friend, you grieve not;
For that which you love most in him may be
clearer in his absence,
as the mountain to the climber
is clearer from the plain.
- Khalil Gibran
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
Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend.
Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.
- Groucho Marx
A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
You can learn how to let go of the past.
Whether you have experienced a break up
with someone you cared for deeply,
whether death has taken a loved one,
whether you have had a feud with a friend or family member,
whether you have lost a job.
Move on and let go.
Life can be joyful and rewarding again.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow.
Don't walk behind me; I may not lead.
Just walk beside me and be my friend.
- Albert Camus
A true friend is a source of strength and hope.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
An insincere and evil friend is more
to be feared than a wild beast;
a wild beast may wound your body,
but an evil friend will wound your mind.
- The Buddha
The finest kind of friendship is between people
who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it.
- Anonymous
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 greatest gift is a portion of thyself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love is the only force capable of
transforming an enemy into friend.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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