Favorite Inspiring Quotes - Friendship, Trust, Leadership
“We'll be friends forever, won't we, Pooh?" asked Piglet.
"Even longer," Pooh answered.”― A.A. Milne
“There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.”
― Linda Grayson
“No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.”
― Alice Walker
“Choose a leader who will invest in building bridges, not walls. Books, not weapons. Morality, not corruption. Intellectualism and wisdom, not ignorance. Stability, not fear and terror. Peace, not chaos. Love, not hate. Convergence, not segregation. Tolerance, not discrimination. Fairness, not hypocrisy. Substance, not superficiality. Character, not immaturity. Transparency, not secrecy. Justice, not lawlessness. Environmental improvement and preservation, not destruction. Truth, not lies.”
― Suzy Kassem (Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem)
“Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight and focused attention.”
― Deepak Chopra
“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.”
― Harper Lee (To Kill a Mockingbird)
“What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.”
― Aristotle
“A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
― Elbert Hubbard
“It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.”
― Marlene Dietrich
“Busy” is another word for “asshole.”
― Greg Behrendt
“A good friend will always stab you in the front.”
― Oscar Wilde
“The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.”
― Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
“Good people hire people better than themselves. So A players hire A+ players. But others hire below their skills to make themselves look good. So B players hire C players. C players hire D players, etc.”
― Guy Kawasaki
“Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.”
― Voltaire
“There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.”
― Ernest Hemingway
“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt (This is My Story)
“A brave man acknowledges the strength of others.”
― Veronica Roth (Divergent)
“I don't trust people who don't love themselves and tell me, 'I love you.' ... There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.”
― Maya Angelou
“If you fail to plan you plan to fail ”
― W. Churchill
“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
― Oscar Wilde
“Let no man pull you so low as to hate him.”
― Martin Luther King Jr. (A Knock at Midnight: Inspiration from the Great Sermons of Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.)
