Famous Quotes

“Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there”
- Will Rogers


“You can never cross the ocean unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.”
- Christopher Columbus


“To a brave man, good and bad luck are like his left and right hand. He uses both.”
- St Catherine of Siena


“When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we took so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened up for us”
- Helen Keller


“We don’t see the things the way they are. We see things the way WE are.”
- Talmund


"The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.”
- Theodore Rubin


“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
- Thomas A Edison


“Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting”
- Elizabeth Bibesco


“Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery. And today? Today is a gift. That’s why we call it the present.”
- B. Olatunji


“When you get to the end of the rope, tie a knot and hang on.”
- Franklin D Roosevelt


“If you’re going through hell, keep going.”
- Winston Churchill


“Champions aren’t made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them a desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have the skill and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill.”
- Muhammad Ali


“So many of our dreams at first seems impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.”
- Christopher Reeve


“Hard work spotlights the character of people. Some turn up their sleeves. Some turn up their noses, and some don’t turn up at all.”
- Sam Ewing


“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”
- Confucious


“Many of life’s failures are people who had not realized how close they were to success when they gave up.”
- Thomas A Edison


“Do you know what happens when you give a procrastinator a good idea? Nothing!”
- Donald Gardner


“Success is what you attract by the person you become.”
- Jim Rohn


“The test we must set for ourselves is not to march alone but to march in such a way that others wish to join us.”
- Hubert Humphrey


“It isn’t what the book costs. It’s what it will cost you if you don’t read it.”
- Jim Rohn


“The future has several names. For the weak, it is the impossible. For the fainthearted, it is the unknown. For the thoughtful and valiant, it is the ideal.”
- Victor Hugo


“There is nothing more genuine than breaking away from the chorus to learn the sound of your own voice.”
- Po Bronson


“The tragedy of life doesn’t lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goals to reach.”
- Benjamin Mays


“More often in life, we end up regretting the chances in life that we had, but didn’t take them, than those chances that we took and wished we hadn’t.”
- Anonymous


“Don’t wish it were easier, wish you were better. Don’t wish for fewer problems, wish for more skills. Don’t wish for less challenges, wish for more wisdom.”
- Earl Shoaf



I dedicate these quotes to Ali, a girl you all wish was your friend.

Yesterday brought the beginning, tomorrow brings the end, and somewhere in the middle we became the best of friends.
~Author Unknown


Friendship isn't a big thing - it's a million little things.
~Author Unknown


If you're alone, I'll be your shadow. If you want to cry, I'll be your shoulder. If you want a hug, I'll be your pillow. If you need to be happy, I'll be your smile. But anytime you need a friend, I'll just be me.
~Author Unknown


A friend is the one who comes in when the whole world has gone out.
~Grace Pulpit


There are big ships and small ships. But the best ship of all is friendship.
~Author Unknown


The best kind of friend is the one you could sit on a porch with, never saying a word, and walk away feeling like that was the best conversation you've ever had.
~Author Unknown


Best friends are kisses blown to us by angels.
~Author Unknown


A true friend reaches for your hand and touches your heart.
~Attributed to Heather Pryor


What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
~Aristotle


Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for a while, leave footprints on our hearts, and we are never, ever the same.
~Flavia Weedn, Forever,


Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.
~Oprah Winfrey


A good friend is a connection to life - a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world.
~Lois Wyse


A true friend can tell you things you don't want to tell yourself.
~Frances Ward Weller


A friend accepts us as we are yet helps us to be what we should.
~Author Unknown


Friends are relatives you make for yourself.
~Eustache Deschamps


A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.
~Leo Buscaglia


Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.
~Sicilian Proverb


The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.
~Elisabeth Foley


When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.
~Henri Nouwen


True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.
~Dave Tyson Gentry


Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.
~Plautus


A true friend unbosoms freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.
~William Penn


Friends are the sailors who guide your rickety boat safely across the dangerous waters of life. ~Sare and Cate