Friend Quotes

The search after the great men is the dream of youth,

and the most serious occupation of manhood.

One loyal friend is

worth ten thousand

relatives

All emotion is involuntary when genuine.

Every particular in nature,

a leaf,

a drop,

a crystal,

a moment of time is related to the whole,

and partakes of the perfection of the whole.

War

An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy,

to accomplish our will.

With the fearful strain that is on me night and day,

if I did not laugh I should die.

Forgiveness is an act of the will,

and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.

It is astonishing what an effort

it seems to be for many people

to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.

Do we not realize that self respect comes with self reliance?

We are willing to be misunderstood

for long periods of time.

Only one who devotes himself to a cause

with his whole strength and soul can be a true master.

For this reason mastery demands all of a person.

I walk on untrodden ground.

There is scarcely any part of my conduct,

which may not hereafter be drawn into precedent.

It is a quality of revolutions not to go by old lines or old laws,

but to break up both and make new ones.

There can be no greater error than to expector calculate,

upon real favors from nation to nation.

It is an illusion which experience must cure,

which a just pride ought to discard.

There is nothing impossible to him who will try.

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain

what I consider the most enviable of all titles,

the character of an honest man.

One of the only ways to get out of a tight box is

to invent your way out.

Will this person raise the average level of effectiveness

of the group they’re entering?

Turn your wounds into wisdom.