Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: "What! You too? I thought I was the only one."-—C. S. Lewis

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.--Samuel Butler

Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world.--John Evelyn

Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.--Woodrow Wilson

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art...it has no survival value; rather, it is one of those things that give value to survival.--C. S. Lewis

Friendship of a kind that cannot easily be reversed tomorrow must have its roots in common interests and shared beliefs.--Barbara Tuchman

Friendships multiply joys and divide grief.--Thomas Fuller

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.--Joseph Addison

The growth of friendship might be a lifelong affair.--Sarah Orne Jewett

He can hardly be a true friend to another, who is an enemy to himself.--James Howell ("French" Paroimiographia)

Hold a true friend with both hands.--Nigerian proverb

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be. –Ralph Waldo Emerson

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams.  Live the life you have imagined. –Henry David Thoreau

 When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left and could say, I used everything you gave me. –Erma Bombeck

Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.  –Booker T. Washington

When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us. –Helen Keller

Everything has beauty, but not everyone can see. –Confucius

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. –Anne Frank

 Certain things catch your eye, but pursue only those that capture the heart. – Ancient Indian Proverb

 Believe you can and you’re halfway there. –Theodore Roosevelt

Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear. –George Addair

Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears. –Les Brown

 Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful. –Joshua J. Marine

If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else. –Booker T. Washington

Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be. –Grandma Moses

 The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me. –Ayn Rand

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it. –Henry Ford

It’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years. –Abraham Lincoln

Change your thoughts and you change your world. –Norman Vincent Peale

Dream big and dare to fail. –Norman Vaughan

 Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. –Martin Luther King Jr.

Do what you can, where you are, with what you have. –Teddy Roosevelt

If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten. –Tony Robbins

Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning. –Gloria Steinem

It's your place in the world; it's your life. Go on and do all you can with it, and make it the life you want to live. –Mae Jemiso

Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans.” — John Lennon

“Get busy living or get busy dying.” — Stephen King

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.” — Mae West

If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.”– Albert Einstein

Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.”– Babe Ruth

 “Money and success don’t change people; they merely amplify what is already there.” — Will Smith

If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

“The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one’s destiny to do, and then do it.”– Henry Ford

. “In order to write about life first you must live it.”– Ernest Hemingway

God loves with a great love the man whose heart is bursting with a passion for the impossible.”  ~ William Booth (A British Methodist Preacher and founder of the Salvation Army)

 

“Faith sees the invisible, believes the unbelievable, and receives the impossible.”  ~ Corrie Ten Boom (A Dutch Christian who helped many Jews escape the Nazi Holocaust)

 

“Cleverness is cheap. It is faith that He praises.”  ~ George Macdonald (Scottish author, poet and Christian minister)

 

“A string of opinions no more constitutes faith, than a string of beads constitutes holiness.”  ~ John Wesley (Anglican cleric and Christian Theologian, co-founder of the Methodist Church)

 

“Talk what we will of faith, if we do not trust and rely upon Him, we do not believe in Him.”  ~ Anthony Farindon (Famous English Preacher)