I have friends in overalls by Thomas Edison

I have friends in overalls
by Thomas Edison

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize
how close they were to success when they gave up.
- Thomas Edison

Opportunity is missed by most people
because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
- Thomas Edison

I do not believe in the God of the theologians;
but that there is a Supreme Intelligence I do not doubt.
- Thomas Edison

To go against the dominant thinking of your friends,
of most of the people you see every day,
is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
- Theodore H. White

Live with intention.
Walk to the edge.
Listen hard.
Practice wellness.
Play with abandon.
Laugh.
Choose with no regret.
Appreciate your friends.
Continue to learn.
Do what you love.
Live as if this is all there is.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Your greatest gift to your family and friends is yourself -
your relaxed, happy, and fully-present self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Our opportunity is to Soar our Spirit.
To see Light and Joy in everything.
To spread our wings and fly boldly.
To give thanks for rainbows and butterflies -
our symbols of renewal and rebirth.
To offer daily Thanksgiving - for ourselves, our family,
our friends, our community, for the whole world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

You can make more friends in two months
by becoming interested in other people
than you can in two years by trying
to get other people interested in you.
- Dale Carnegie

May love and laughter light your days,
and warm your heart and home.
May good and faithful friends be yours,
wherever you may roam.
May peace and plenty bless your world
with joy that long endures.
May all life's passing seasons
bring the best to you and yours.
- Irish Blessing

Marriage, ultimately, is the practice of
becoming passionate friends.
- Harville Hendrix

Farewell My Friend
It was beautiful as long as it lasted
The journey of my life.
I have no regrets whatsoever
save the pain I'll leave behind.
Those dear hearts who love and care...
And the strings pulling at the heart and soul...
The strong arms that held me up
When my own strength let me down.
At every turning of my life
I came across good friends,
Friends who stood by me,
Even when the time raced me by.
Farewell, farewell my friends
I smile and bid you goodbye.
No, shed no tears for I need them not
All I need is your smile.
If you feel sad do think of me
for that's what I'll like
when you live in the hearts
of those you love, remember then
you never die.
- Gitanjali Ghei

It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies,
but even more to stand up to your friends.
- J.K. Rowling

Every man should have a fair-sized cemetery
in which to bury the faults of his friends.
- Henry Brooks Adams

The making of friends, who are real friends,
is the best token we have of a man's success in life.
- Edward Everett Hale

"We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?" asked Piglet.
"Even longer," Pooh answered.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)

In all my ways of seeing - may I use new glasses,
a telescope and a microscope.
And may I always allow myself to see a circumstance
through the tender hearts of my friends.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Life is partly what we make it,
and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
- Tehyi Hsieh

Good friends are like stars ...
you don't always see them,
but you know they are always there.
- Anonymous

Friends love misery, in fact.
Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky
or too successful or too pretty,
our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.
- Erica Jong

The difference between men friends and women friends
is that men tend to do things together,
women tend to just be together.
- Art Jahnke

We'll be friends until forever, just you wait and see.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)

Fear makes strangers of people
who would otherwise be friends.
- Shirley MacLaine

Everyone hears what you say.
Friends listen to what you say.
Best friends listen to what you don't say.
- Anonymous

Be careful the friends you choose -
for you will become like them.
- W. Clement Stone

Can miles truly separate us from friends?
If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?
- Richard Bach

Friends share our pain and touch our wounds
with a gentle and tender hand.
- Henri Nouwen

Friendship is a thing most necessary to life,
since without friends no one would choose to live,
though possessed of all other advantages.
- Aristotle

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

It is not so much our friends' help that helps us,
as the confidence of their help.
- Epicurus

My own gratitude list begins with health, family, friends,
and the beauty around me - from the butterflies and rainbows,
to the dolphins, to the birds, to the works produced by the human hand.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

We all tend to measure our worth by what we DO -
the actions we take.
We also highly value what we SAY.
However, the greatest impact we have
on our family, our friends,
and our world is our kindness and love.
A bowl of soup served with love
is a greater gift than a steak dinner served brusquely.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

It is better to be in chains with friends,
than to be in a garden with strangers.
- Persian Proverb

My father always used to say that when you die,
if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.
- Lee Iacocca

Truly great friends are hard to find,
difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.
- Anonymous

Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with.
Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.
- Thomas J. Watson Sr.

Friends are those rare people who ask how we are
and then wait to hear the answer.
- Anonymous

True friends are those who lift you up
when your heart's wings forget how to fly.
- Anonymous

I no doubt deserved my enemies,
but I don't believe I deserved my friends.
- Walt Whitman

I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving
for my friends, the old and the new.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

When true friends meet in adverse hour,
'Tis like a sunbeam through a shower.
A watery way an instant seen,
The darkly closing clouds between.
- Sir Walter Scott

I always like to know everything about my new friends,
and nothing about my old ones.
- Oscar Wilde

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience:
this is the ideal life.
- Mark Twain

Sometimes new love comes between old friends.
Sometimes the best love was the one that was always there.
- Anonymous

The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that
they can grow separately without growing apart.
- Elisabeth Foley

Best friends are the ones who can be the farthest away
but there the fastest when you call.
- Anonymous

Friends... they cherish one another's hopes.
They are kind to one another's dreams.
- Henry David Thoreau

Wishing to be friends is quick work,
but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
- Aristotle

So long as the memory of certain
beloved friends lives in my heart,
I shall say that life is good.
- Helen Keller

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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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I have friends in overalls
by Thomas Edison