Friend Quotes

It's more fun to be a pirate than to join the navy.

Failure is impossible.

Our faith comes in moments;

our vice is habitual.

I'm tired of being treated like a second

class citizen.

As iron sharpens iron, so

a friend sharpens a friend

For it is in giving that we receive.

We’re not here to take part;

we’re here to take over.

Americans are fond of equality in general,

and they constantly strive to make men equal.

Illinois surpasses every other spot of equal extent

upon the face of the globe in fertility of soil

and in the proportionable amount of the same

which is sufficiently level for actual cultivation.

When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look,

it's a sure sign you're getting old.

Lets have faith that right makes might;

and in that faith let us,

to the end,

dare to do our duty as we understand it.

When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.

No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.

My problem was my inability to spend much time at home.

I thought my family was secure,

so I went running around everyplace else.

I guess I had more of an effect on other people's kids

than I did my own.

You don’t know the meaning of courage

until you’ve faced a firefight with your men.

Sometimes your best investments are the ones you don’t make.

Because a paper has more patience than people.

I speak to you only as an American

who happens to be an American Negro

and one who is proud of that heritage.

We ask for nothing special.

We ask only that we be permitted to compete on an even basis,

and if we are not worthy,

then the competition shall, per se, eliminate us.

I never went to school more than six months in my life,

but I can say this: that among my earliest recollections,

I remember how,

when a mere child,

I used to get irritated when anybody talked to me

in a way I could not understand.

Sir,

my concern is not whether God is on our side;

my greatest concern is to be on God's side,

for God is always right.