Your Friends are Your Treasure

A friend is someone who knows your pass, understand your present and believes in your future.
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
Remember, the greatest gift is not found in a store nor under a tree, but in the hearts of true friends.
Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.
"Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you."
"Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure." -- Jewish saying
What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies. -- Aristotle
Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow.Don't walk behind me, I may not lead.Just walk beside me and be my friend.-- Albert Camus
"The only way to have a friend is to be one." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.-- Abraham Lincoln
Hold a true friend with both your hands. -- Nigerian Proverb
"A faithful friend is the medicine of life." -- Apocrypha
Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for awhile and leave footprints on our hearts. And we are never, ever the same.-- Anonymous
Friends are like melons; shall I tell you why? To find one good you must one hundred try. -- Claude Mermet
"Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil." -- Baltasar Gracian (1647)
"Friendship needs no words..." -- Dag Hammarskjold.
"Friends are the sunshine of life." -- John Hay (1871)
"The best mirror is an old friend." --George Herbert

More Friendship quotes :
One who looks for a friend without faults will have none. -- Hasidic Saying
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.-- Walter Winchell
Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow. -- Samuel Paterson
Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world.-- John Evelyn
Friendship doubles our joy and divides our grief.-- Swedish proverb
A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.-- Anonymous
Count your age with friends but not with years - Anonymous
Plant a seed of friendship; reap a bouquet of happiness. -- Lois L. Kaufman
"I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship." -- Pietro Aretino (1537)
"There is nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends." -- Hillaire Belloc
"The rain may be falling hard outside,But your smile makes it all alright.I'm so glad that you're my friend.I know our friendship will never end." -- Robert Alan

"Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit." -- Aristotle (4th century B.C.)
"Friendship is essentially a partnership." -- Aristotle (4th century B.C.)
"Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labor. For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe unto him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up." -- The Bible: Ecclesiastes 4:9-10.
"A friend loves at all times." -- The Bible: Proverbs 17, 17.
"A companion loves some agreeable qualities which a man may possess, but a friend loves the man himself." -- James Boswell (1763)
"Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another." -- Eustace Budgell (1711)
"Friendship is Love without his wings!" -- Lord Byron (1806)
"Friendship makes prosperity more brilliant, and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing it." -- Cicero (44 B.C.)
"True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost" -- Charles Caleb Colton (1825)
"Every man passes his life in the search after friendship." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need." -- Epicurus (3rd century B.C.)
"Friends show their love in times of trouble..." -- Euripides (408 B.C.)
"One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives." -- Euripides (408 B.C.)
"A good friend is my nearest relation." -- Thomas Fuller (1732)
"My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private." -- Solomon Ibn Gabirol
"Your friend is your needs answered." -- Kahil Gibran
"Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit." -- Kahil Gibran.
"Let your best be for your friend..." -- Kahil Gibran
"In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures." -- Kahil Gibran
"A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother." -- Homer (9th century B.C.)
"We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over." -- Samuel Johnson
"However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship." -- La Rochefoucauld (1665)
"A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care to acquire." -- La Rochefoucauld (1665)
"I shot an arrow into the air,It fell to earth, I knew not where;For so swiftly it flew, the sightCould not follow it in its flight.
I breathed a song into the air,It fell to earth, I knew not where;For, who has sight so keen and strongThat it can follow the flight of song?
Long, long afterward, in an oakI found the arrow, still unbroke;And the song, from beginning to end,I found again in the heart of a friend." -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"You can make more friends in two months by becoming really interested in other people, than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you." -- Bernard Meltzer
"Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love." -- Charles Peguy
"There can be no Friendship where there is no Freedom." -- William Penn
"No man is useless while he has a friend." -- Robert Louis Stevenson
"A friend is a present you give yourself." -- Robert Louis Stevenson
"Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends whom we choose." -- Tehyi Hsieh
"Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with." -- Mark Twain
An honest answer is the sign of true friendship.-- Proverbs 24:26
"A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else." -- Len Wein
"You cannot be friends upon any other terms than upon the terms of equality." -- Woodrow Wilson
It is not what you give your friend, but what you are willing to give him that determines the quality of friendship. -- Mary Dixon Thayer
A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world. -- Leo Buscaglia
Advice from your friends in like the weather, some of it is good, some of it is bad.-Anonymous
It's the ones you can call up at 4:00 a.m. that really matter.-- Marlene Dietrich
Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.-Samuel Paterson
Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty. -- Sicilian Proverb
Good friends are good for your health.-Irwin Sarason
The language of friendship is not words but meanings. -- Henry David Thoreau
True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation. -- George Washington
I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.- Virginia Woolf
Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.-Sydney Smith
In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.-Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968)
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
One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton
A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success!-- Doug Larson
A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else. -- Len Wein
Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends. -- Czech. Proverb
Friendship is to be purchased only by friendship. A man may have authority over others, but he can never have their hearts but by giving his own. -- Thomas Wilson
Cute Friendship Quotes :
Love starts with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a tear.
Don't cry over anyone who won't cry over you.
Good friends are hard to find, harder to leave, and impossible to forget.
You can only go as far as you push.
Actions speak louder than words.
The hardest thing to do is watch the one you love, love somebody else.
Don't let the past hold you back; you're missing the good stuff.
Life's short. If you don't look around once in a while, you might miss it.
A best friend is like a four leaf clover: hard to find and lucky to have.
If you think that the world means nothing, think again. You might mean the world to someone else.
When it hurts to look back, and you're scared to look ahead, you can look beside you and your best friend will be there
True friendship never ends.
Friends are forever.
Good friends are like stars....You don't always see them, but you know they are always there.
Don't frown. You never know who is falling in love with your smile.
What do you do when the only person who can make you stop crying is the person who made you cry?
NOBODY IS PERFECT UNTIL YOU FALL IN LOVE WITH THEM. (Isn't that the truth?)
Everything is okay in the end. If it's not okay, then it's not the end.
Most people walk in and out of you life. But only friends leave footprints in your heart.
Send this on to everyone special in your life, even the people who really make you mad sometimes. Whether we realize it or not, everyone we know is very special to us. When we look back on our younger years, we will remember the people who went to school with us, the people who made us laugh, the people who hung out with us when nobody else would, and the people who made our lives much better simply by being a part of it.



You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.


These people aren't your friends, they're paid to kiss your feet."- Radiohead
"A friend in need is a friend to be avoided." - Lord Samuel
"Whenever a friend suceeds, a little something in me dies."- Gore Vidal
"I'll keep it short and sweet. family. religion. friendship. these are the three demons you must slay if you wish to succeed in business. "- Mongomery Burns (The Simpsons) sent by Troy Edwards
"A friend in power is a friend lost" - Henry Adams, sent by Troy Edwards
"I've noticed your hostility towards him ... I ought to have guessed you were friends." - Malcom Bradbury
"I don't trust him. We're friends." - Bertolt Brecht
"Whoever says Friendship is easy has obviously never had a true friend!"- Bronwyn Polson
"There is nothing in the world I wouldn't do for (Bob) Hope, and there is nothing he wouldn't do for me ... We spend our lives doing nothing for each other."- Bing Crosby
"A woman can become a man's friend only in the following stages - first an acquantaince, next a mistress, and only then a friend." - Anton Chekhov
"Sometimes your closest friend is your greatest enemy."- Jason Fong
"I just killed my best friend...and my worst enemy." "What's the difference?" -Christian Slater ("Heathers")
"When I needed you most when I needed a friend, you let me down now like I let you down then" -Blink 182
What are friends?Friends are people that you think are your friendsBut they're really your enemies, with secret indentitiesand disguises, to hide they're true colorsSo just when you think you're close enough to be brothersthey wanna come back and cut your throat when you ain't lookin -"If I Had" - Eminem
The next two quotes were sent in by Waqas Ahmad"True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen."
"Friendship is delicate as a glass, once broken it can be fixed but there will always be cracks"
"Men kick friendship around like a football and it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it falls to pieces" -Anne Lindbergh -
"Friendships last when each friend thinks he has a slight superiority over the other." - Honore Debalazac
"Friends are just enimies who don't have enough guts to kill you"
Friends are like roses...you have to look out for the pricks!

PUTTING YOUR BEST FOOT FORWARD

Putting your best foot forward connotes the concept of differentiating yourself from other Job seekers, business developers, vendors, and people in general. The understanding of how this is done is fundamental because so much of what branding is all about relates to reputations and personalities of people. Products, organizations, and services.
The literature on “Brands” and Branding is rich and diverse. Branding is an academic subject in graduate schools of business. There is a simple way to think about what a brand is, however: it’s nothing more or less than a reputation. It’s the shortcut to thinking about a product, a company, or a person and …. For better or worse, almost everyone likes to take shortcuts.
Your personal brand; your reputation is a capital asset, and should be treated that way. If you invest in equipment, you have to take care of or maintain it. Your brands is like your personal equipment; your hardware. You need to upgrade it every so often based not only on what you need it to do now but also on what you’ re going to need it to do in the next three to five years… your personal brand is a salesman on your behalf and sales persons represent the feet of every company or product.
People don’t have a chance to read your mind; they read off your actions and build notions about you from them. This calls to mind that rarely; close to never have a chance to make a second first impression, so it is your responsibility to communicate your deepest seated intentions bearing in mind that people don’t know you, they only have been made to believe they do from what they perceive about you. Simply put, your image is everything.
Furthermore, there are three phases involved in establishing your intentions, company goal and objectives or aims. I’d like to put them this way: Resolve, Dissolve and Maintain.
Before you set out to do anything whether in your individual life, business or as a company, do you take out time to count the cost? This is the phase of resolution. What do we hope to achieve? Whom do we hope to reach? Why do I want to stay on campus? When do I quit banking? How long do I want to do this business? Do I really need a partner? And so on. Until, all fundamental questions are answered, you’ll keep running back and back to the drawing board if you cared to make any in the first place. From experience, a well planned business or life only has about the ‘how to’ not the what or whom to no matter the industry it belong to. This calls to mind the prevailing epidemic in the nascent Nigeria entrepreneurial world where businesses or career span for only a short while before they phase out, reasons; the initiator changed his mind about business, his partner backed out into something else and the likes (you should be conversant with the sea of reasons by now), if these where settled from the beginning, the case would be obviously different. Putting your best foot forward start from nowhere else but deciding which foot is your best.
Interestingly, it’s a great idea to try to sell snow Eskimos or shoes to a legless fellow as we hear every now and then, in the real world however, it will take you twice the required effort to take a conventional sale. After you have resolved on which your best foot is, the pattern, method or medium through which it is put or communicated makes up your dissolution phase. Marketing or sales is twice easier when your target market is defined, in the same vein, a happy and fulfilled man is one who understands his vision and lives to be become it; this saves you time and the accompanying worries and futility of double or multiple mindedness. How do you wish to communicate your values? Putting your target (recipient or customer) into consideration, devise a suitable means of distinctly convening this. Don’t get cowed into the conventionally of listing all threaded mumbo jumbos realties to your business or career, get defined and absolute on your medium. Once again, don’t do without target in consideration.
“….hope to hear from you again”; this is what we told when your conservation has been enjoyed. Truth is, it’s just a routine statement for closing interactions or deals and nothing more; if there is, just little. It is your responsibility once again, to always register your best foot as recurrently as possible and as I know, it’s always possible. Don’t believe people know you, make them believe you are know. The rule here is, maintain the feet, it should be consistent. How often do you advertise? If you do, how distinct and recognizable is your method and style? These should not be over looked whether in your personal life or business. His is how to tell your success with your best foot- when people can recognize it.
Conclusively, every great journey business or any other sphere of life. Don’t take your reputation for granted, it matters a whole lot, build, protect it and maintain it, it’s you‘re a part of your prime asset for living and business.
Be perceived! Be understood! Be distinct! Be recongnised! Be vivid! Be the Best! Be original!