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True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Happiness, Done, Joy

Women are like teabags. We don't know our true strength until we are in hot water!
Eleanor Roosevelt

Women, Strength, Until

It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.
Charles Kingsley

Friendship, Great, Mean

Silence is a true friend who never betrays.
Confucius

Friend, Silence, Betrays

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.
Barack Obama

Life, Yourself, Poverty

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Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.
Ambrose Bierce

Happiness, Time, Future

The course of true love never did run smooth.
William Shakespeare

Love, Run, Smooth

One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
Maya Angelou

Courage, Cannot, Honest

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say for one that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem.
Abraham Lincoln

Great, Men, Said

I'm a true believer in karma. You get what you give, whether it's bad or good.
Sandra Bullock

Good, Karma, Bad

A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.
Len Wein

Someone, Friend, Else

The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.
Richard Bach

Life, Family, Respect

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
Henry David Thoreau

Work, Friend, Word

Be true to yourself, help others, make each day your masterpiece, make friendship a fine art, drink deeply from good books - especially the Bible, build a shelter against a rainy day, give thanks for your blessings and pray for guidance every day.
John Wooden

Friendship, Good, Art

A true friend is one soul in two bodies.
Aristotle

Friend, Two, Soul

There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.
Thomas Aquinas

Friendship, Nothing, Earth

Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.
Lao Tzu

Power, Strength, Yourself

Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
Helen Keller

Happiness, Through, Wrong

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
Socrates

Life, Wisdom, Understand

A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.
Bernard Meltzer

Good, Someone, Friend

Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
George Edward Woodberry

Failure, Defeat, Worst

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.
Jean de La Fontaine

Love, Friendship, Rare

True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.
Baltasar Gracian

Life, Friendship, Good

True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Love, Everyone, Few

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
Kurt Vonnegut

Morning, School, Country

Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit.
Mahatma Gandhi

Violence, Spirit, Growth

Faith: not wanting to know what is true.
Friedrich Nietzsche

I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I'd invented it, because it is very true.
Audrey Hepburn

Happiness, Health, Wish

It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.
Mahatma Gandhi

Religion, Business, Enemy

True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Freedom, Job, Made

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