- “Tell me what company thou keepst, and I’ll tell thee what thou art.” – Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616) Spanish novelist.
- “Have no friends not equal to yourself.” – Confucious (551 – 497 BC) Chinese philosopher.
- “Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.” – Jacques Delille (1738 – 1813) French poet.
- “A Friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of Nature.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 – 1882) US poet & essayist.
- “Keep your friendships in repair.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “If a man does not make new acquaintance as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, Sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair.” – Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784) British lexiographer.
- “True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in their worth and choice.” – Samuel Johnston
- “It is more shameful to distrust one’s friends than to be deceived by them.” – Duc de la Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680) French writer.
- “If it is abuse – why one is always sure to here of it from one damned good-natured friend or other!” – Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751 – 1816) British dramatist.
- “Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for ’tis better to be alone than in bad company.” – George Washington (1732 – 1799) US Statesman.
- “True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.” – George Washington
- “I can never think of promoting my convenience at the expense of a friend’s interest and inclination.” – George Washington
- “Should auld aquaintance be forgot, And never brought to min’?” – Robert Burns (1759 – 1796) Scottish poet.
- “It is not so much our friends’ help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us.” – Epicurus (341 – 270 BC) Greek philosopher.
- “It is not so much our friends’ help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us.” – Epicurus
- “These are called the pious frauds of friendship.” – Henry Fielding (1707 – 1754) British novelist.
- “Always, Sir, set a high value on spontaneous kindness. he whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord, will love you more than one whom you have been at pains to attach to you.” – Samuel Johnston (1709 – 1784) British lexicographer.
- “Sir, I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquantaince.” – Samuel Johnston
- “We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.” – Charles R. Swindoll
- “If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.” – Jesse Jackson
- “The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes
- “The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.” – Michelangelo
- “As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.” – Leonardo da Vinci
- “The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.” – Richard Brinsley Sheridan
- “One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- “We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.” – Peter F. Drucker
- “Example is not the main thing in influencing others, it is the only thing.” – Albert Schweitzer
- “You cannot raise a man up by calling him down.” – William Boetcker
- “We are all motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is, the more he is inspired to glory.” – Cicero
- “Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom.” – Euripides
- “They can because they think they can.” – Virgil
- “Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.” – Thomas Jefferson
- “Keep steadily before you the fact that all true success depends at last upon yourself.” – Theodore T. Hunger
- “Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.” – Robert Collier
- “The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.” – Frank Loyd Wright
- “A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience.” – Elbert Hubbard
- “There is only one success–to be able to spend your life in your own way.” – Christopher Morley
- “The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.” – Aristotle Onassis
- “The greatest results in life are usually attained by simple means and the exercise of ordinary qualities. These may for the most part be summed in these two: common-sense and perseverance.” – Owen Feltham
- “Failures do what is tension relieving, while winners do what is goal achieving.” – Dennis Waitley
- “The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will.” – Vince Lombardi
- “I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure–which is: Try to please everybody.” – Herbert Bayard Swope
- “Success does not consist in never making blunders, but in never making the same one a second time.” – Josh Billings
- “The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.” – Earl of Beaconsfield
- “Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration and inspiration.” – Evan Esar
- “The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.” – Richard Brinsley Sheridan
- “If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.” – Jospeph Addison
- “Impatience never commanded success.” – Edwin H. Chapin
- “The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do, well.” – Henry W. Longfellow
- “To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first.” – Shakespeare
- “Try not to become a man of success but a man of value.” – Albert Einstein
- “If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There’s no use being a damn fool about it.” – W.C. Fields