Browsing Quotes With Tag: friendship (85)
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Where there is hatred, let me sow love. Where there is injury, pardon. Where there is doubt, faith. Where there is despair, hope. Where there is darkness, light. Where there is sadness, joy. O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console; to be understood, as to understand; to be loved, as to love; for it is in giving that we receive; it is in pardoning that we are pardoned; and it is in dying that we are born to Eternal Life.
Speaker: Francis of AssisiPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 3:51 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Love one human purely and warmly, and you will love all.
Speaker: Johann RichterPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 3:48 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
When sowing seeds
Or friendly deeds,
The less you keep
The more you reap.Speaker: Christopher BannisterPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 3:47 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I have wept in the night
For the shortness of sight
That to somebody’s need made me blind;
But I never have yet
Felt a twinge of regret
For being a little too kind.Speaker: AnonymousPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 3:46 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
To ease another’s heartache is to forget one’s own.
Speaker: Abraham LincolnPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 3:45 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Strangers are just friends you haven’t met yet. I never met a man I didn’t like.
Speaker: Will RogersPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 3:22 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The only people you should try to get even with are the ones who’ve helped you out.
Speaker: AnonymousPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 3:15 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
He who knows others is clever, but he who knows himself is enlightened.
Speaker: Lao TsePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 3:08 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Not everybody is going to like you. In fact, some people are going to hate and detest you. And it’s the very things that some like most about you that others will find the most repulsive. This is the human condition. You can’t please everybody. Don’t even try.
Speaker: AnonymousPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 2:54 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Try to give ten sincere compliments a day, to ten different people. You’ll find that your whole world changes by the accomplishment of this one goal.
Speaker: AnonymousPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 2:50 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
Speaker: Ralph Waldo EmersonPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 2:42 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The best way to get along with someone you have troubles with is to serve them.
Speaker: President HansonPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 1:30 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Trees that can withstand the hurricane sometimes yield to destroying pests that can scarcely be seen except with the aid of a microscope. Likewise, the greatest foes of the individual are not always the glaring evils of humanity but subtle influences of thought and of continual association with companions.
Speaker: David O. McKayPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 1:25 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
People won’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.
Speaker: AnonymousPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 1:20 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
They do not love that do not show their love.
Speaker: William ShakespearePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 12:24 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Friendship is one of the grand fundamental principles of ‘Mormonism;’ [it is designed] to revolutionize and civilize the world, and cause wars and contentions to cease and men to become friends and brothers.
Speaker: Joseph Smith Jr.Posted: 21 Aug 2008 at 12:19 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
When you meet someone, treat them as if they were in serious trouble, and you will be right more than half the time.
Speaker: AnonymousPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 9:30 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Never make someone choose between your ways and the Lord’s ways… Make sure that you’re making it easier to live God’s commandments for those who are by your side and who are your friends. Then you will understand whether you have charity.
Speaker: Robert D. HalesPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 9:26 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
It’s been my good fortune all my life to associate with people better than I am, chief of which is my beautiful wife, first ranks of which are there my brethren and include in that these wonderful stake presidents seated behind me, their partners, your bishops and their wives, and all of you. All my life, I’ve walked in exalted company.
…Like the mule who entered the Kentucky Derby, I know I probably shouldn’t be here, but I surely like the company it lets me keep.Speaker: Jeffrey R. HollandPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 9:16 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
That man may last, but never lives,
Who much receives, but nothing gives;
Whom none can love, whom none can thank,
Creation’s blot, creation’s blank.Speaker: Thomas GibbonsSource: Divine Center, thePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 9:03 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment!