Archive for category: Friends/Realtionship

If you go looking for a friend, you’re going to find they’re scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you’ll find them everywhere.

Zig Ziglar – American author, motivational speaker and entrepreneur (1926-2012)

Our record of persuading decent, intelligent people to stop doing dumb things is very poor. (Munger added, “Worse than poor.”) When people want to do something, they do it. When someone rises to be CEO, he doesn’t want to hear a shareholder telling him that his latest idea is dumb.

It’s better to be in a business with management you’re simpatico with than in a great business in which this isn’t the case.

We’ve learned more about human nature than understanding businesses in our long-term experience.

Warren Buffett – American value investor, Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway (b. 1930), at the general assembly 2001, Quotations book 2002

Ò δέ καθήμενος μετὰ ἀδελφῶν, οὐκ ὀφείλει εἶναι τετραγωνιαῖος, ἀλλὰ στρογγύλος, ἵνα πρὸς πάντας κυλίηται.

wisdom of Abbas Matoe – early Christian monk, as quotet in “The Words of the Fathers” (“Apophthegmata Patrum”), a book about the first Christian monks in Egypt (3rd to 5th century)

There are good ships, and there are wood ships, the ships that sail the sea.
But the best ships are friendships, and may they always be.

Irish saying – Quotations book 2018

A friendship founded on business is a good deal better than a business founded on friendship.

John D. Rockefeller – American oil magnate, sundays school teacher at at his time richest man of the world (1839-1937)

Il est un bon moyen de se créer une âme amicale : le sourire. … Le sourire large, net. …
Savoir sourire : quelle force ! Force d’apaisement, force de douceur, de calme, force de rayonnement.

Guy de Larigaudie – scout et écrivain français (1908-1940), de Étoile au grand large” (postum 1943)

You can find out more about someone in an hours play than during a year of discussing..

Plato – Greek philosopher (ca. 428-348 BC), Quotations book 2002

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art… it has no survival value; rather, it is one of those things that give value to survival..

C. S. Lewis – British writer (1898-1963)

Christians, like snowflakes, are fail,
but when they stick together they can stop traffic.

Dr. Vance Havner – American pastor and author (1901-1986)

FAMILY = Father And Mother, I Love You

from the dictionary

Integrity has no need for rules.

Albert Camus – Frech philosopher and writer, Nobel Prize in literature 1957 (1913-1960), from “The Myth of Sisyphos” (“Le mythe de Sisyphe”, 1942), Zitateheft 2009

Happy wife – Happy life

American men’s wisdom

Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait for the answer.

Wisdom – Quotations book 2016

God does not give you a wife to frustrate you but to complement you.

Howard G. Hendricks – American Professor at the Dallas Theological Seminary (1924-2013), Quotations book 2008

Ὧν ἡ σοφία παρασκευάζεται εἰς τὴν τοῦ ὅλου βίου μακαριότητα, πολὺ μέγιστόν ἐστιν ἡ τῆς φιλίας κτῆσις.

Epicurus from Samos – Greek philosopher (341-270 B. C.); from “Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers” (Book ten, Epicurus) by Diogenes Laërtius (Greek historian and doxographer, 3rd century CE)

Comme donc ceux qui tirent le gravier du Tage en séparent l’or qu’ils y trouvent pour l’emporter, et laissent le sable sur le rivage, de même ceux qui ont la communication de quelque bonne amitié doivent en séparer le sable des imperfections, et ne le point laisser entrer en leur âme.

François de Sales – fondateur de l’ordre, mystique et évêque de Genève de 1602-22 (1567-1622), de “Introduction à la vie dévote”, troisième partie de l’Introduction “Contenant plusieurs avis touchant l’exercice des vertus”, ​Chapitre XXII “Quelques autres advis sur le sujet des amitiés” (1609)

Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.

John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester – English writer (1647-1680)