Become the kind of person who brightens a room just by entering it.
H. JACKSON BROWN JR.Read carefully anything that requires your signature. Remember the big print giveth and the small print taketh away.
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Ask yourself if you would feel comfortable giving your two best friends a key to your house. If not, look for some new best friends.
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Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There’s plenty of movement, but you never know if it’s going to be forward, backwards, or sideways.
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A friend is someone who knows you and loves you for what you were and who you are, and who also shares your hopes and dreams for who you can become.
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No matter how hard you hug your money, it never hugs back.
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Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
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It’s not your job to get people to like you, it’s your job to like people.
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Life doesn’t require that we be the best, only that we try our best.
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Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talents are, to some extent, a gift. Good character, by contrast, is not given to us. We have to build it, piece by piece – by thought, choice, courage, and determination.
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Your religion is what you do when the sermon is over.
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After you’ve work hard to get what you want, take the time to enjoy it.
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Get your priorities straight. No one ever said on his death bed, ‘Gee, if I’d only spent more time at the office.’
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The shortest way to get anywhere is to have good company.
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Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.
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Grind it out. Hanging on just one second longer than your competition makes you the winner.
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The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.
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