"Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it."

Eisenhower, Dwight D. on motivation
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"Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal."

Shula, Don on success
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"I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door -- or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present."

Tagore, Rabindranath on adversity
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"If one advances confidently in the directions of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours."

Thoreau, Henry David on dream
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"Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair."

Shakespeare, William on despair
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"A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends."

Byron, Lord on friends and friendship
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"Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life."

Byrnes, James F. on friends and friendship
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"A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget."

Butler, Samuel on friends and friendship   

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"A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage -- but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends."

Butler, Samuel on friends and friendship   

"Friendship is like money, easier made than kept."

Butler, Samuel on friends and friendship
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"A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world."

Buscaglia, Leo on friends and friendship
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"Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary."

Alcott, Louisa May on friends and friendship
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"False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports."

Burton, Sir Richard on friends and friendship
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"Win hearts, and you have hands and purses."

Burleigh, Lord on friends and friendship
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"I have always laid it down as a maxim --and found it justified by experience --that a man and a woman make far better friendships than can exist between two of the same sex --but then with the condition that they never have made or are to make love to each other."

Byron, Lord on friends and friendship
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"Friendship is Love without his wings!"

Byron, Lord on friends and friendship
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"Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly."

Alcott, Amos Bronson on friends and friendship
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"The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover."

Addison, Joseph on friends and friendship
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"The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures."

Addison, Joseph on friends and friendship
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"Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family --but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything."

Cather, Willa on friends and friendship
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"You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you."

Carnegie, Dale on friends and friendship
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"Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends."

Capote, Truman on friends and friendship
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"Give me the avowed, the erect, the manly foe, bold I can meet, perhaps may turn his blow! But of all plagues, good Heavens, thy wrath can send, save, save, oh save me from the candid friend!"

Canning, George on friends and friendship   

"Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; Don't walk behind me, I may not lead; Walk beside me, and just be my friend."

Camus, Albert on friends and friendship
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"I have had, and may have still, a thousand friends, as they are called, in life, who are like one's partners in the waltz of this world --not much remembered when the ball is over."

Byron, Lord on friends and friendship
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"Love is only chatter, friends are all that matter."

Burgess, (Frank) Gelett on friends and friendship
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"One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error."

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G. on friends and friendship
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"Thus much for thy assurance know; a hollow friend is but a hellish foe."

Breton, Nicholas on friends and friendship
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"I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar."

Brault, Robert on friends and friendship
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"Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports."

Branagh, Kenneth on friends and friendship
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"False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade."

Bovee, Christian Nevell on friends and friendship
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"We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over. So in a series of kindness there is, at last, one which makes the heart run over."

Boswell, James on friends and friendship
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"Friends come and go but enemies accumulate."

Bloch, Arthur on friends and friendship
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"Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy for friendship's sake."

Blake, William on friends and friendship
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"A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates."

Billings, Josh on friends and friendship
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"How delightful to find a friend in everyone."

Brodsky, Joseph on friends and friendship   

"If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own."

Bronte, Charlotte on friends and friendship
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"Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly?"

Bronte, Emily on friends and friendship
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"That is what friendship means. Sharing the prejudice of experience."

Bukowski, Charles on friends and friendship
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"Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another. -"

Budgell, Eustace on friends and friendship
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