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- He who gives what he would as readily throw away, gives without generosity; for the essence of generosity is in self sacrifice.
- Henry Taylor
- You got to like your work. You have got to like what you are doing, you have got to be doing something worthwhile so you can like it - because it is worthwhile, that it makes a difference, don't you see?
- Col. Harland Sanders
- Your chances of success are directly proportional to the degree of pleasure you desire from what you do. If you are in a job you hate, face the fact squarely and get out.
- Michael Korda
- Blessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can put his heart, and which affords a complete outlet to all the forces there are in him.
- John Burroughs (1837 - 1921)
- Friendship is love with understanding.
- Author Unknown
- Society expects man to be a passive social animal who believes like the People of the Field in "Jurgen" that "to do what you always have done" and "what is expected of you" are the twin rules of life. This, of course, is not true. The wanton crucifixion of impulses, the unnecessary blocking and frustration of the drives and urges, are an evil that reflects itself in sophistication, ennui and boredom, dissatisfaction, melancholy, fatigue, anxiety and neurosis.
- Abraham Myerson
- The man who has strong opinions and always says what he thinks is courageous - and friendless.
- Author Unknown
- Let your friends be the friends of your deliberate choice.
- Author Unknown
- The wise man does not permit himself to set up even in his own mind any comparisons of his friends. His friendship is capable of going to extremes with many people, evoked as it is by many qualities.
- Charles Dudley Warner (1829 - 1900)
- One may discover a new side to his most intimate friend when for the first time he hears him speak in public. He will be stranger to him as he is more familiar to the audience. The longest intimacy could not foretell how he would behave then
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
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