Friend Quotes

Absorb what is useful,

discard what is not,

add what is uniquely your own.

You can either see yourself as a wave,

in the ocean or you can see yourself as the ocean.

Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes

liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere.

Destroy this spirit and you have planted

the seeds of despotism around your own doors.

Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose.

It cannot have both.

No bird soars too high

if he soars with his own wings

Our chief want is someone who will inspire us

to be what we know we could be.

It is to the very last degree dangerous to trust to chance.

Preachers in pulpits talked about

what a great message is in the book.

No matter what you do,

somebody always imputes meaning into your books.

Laws control the lesser man...

Right conduct controls the greater one.

I can’t control everything,

but I can control my effort and attitude.

As rain falls equally on the just and the unjust,

do not burden your heart with judgments.

If you don’t understand the details of your business

you are going to fail.

The most important investment you can make is in yourself.

My friends,

as I have discovered myself,

there are no disasters,

only opportunities.

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered.

In the end,

we’ll all become stories.

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed

is more important than any other.

Self education is,

I firmly believe,

the only kind of education there is.

Trust is good,

but control is better.

It’s not whether you get knocked down,

it’s whether you get up.