When opportunity knocks, invite it to stay for dinner.
H. JACKSON BROWN JR.Apply this simple rule to your conversations: If you wouldn’t write it down and sign it, don’t say it.
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Make a list of twenty-five things you want to experience before you die. Carry it in your wallet or purse and refer to it often.
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May our adversities make us strong. May our victories make us wise. May our actions make us proud.
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Read carefully anything that requires your signature. Remember the big print giveth and the small print taketh away.
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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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Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people’s bad manners.
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After you’ve work hard to get what you want, take the time to enjoy it.
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Never underestimate your power to change yourself.
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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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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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Remember that just the moment you say, “I give up,” someone else seeing the same situation is saying, “My, what a great opportunity.”
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Perform your job better than anyone else can. That’s the best job security I know.
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Life doesn’t come with an instruction book; that’s why we have fathers.
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Become someone’s hero.
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When you can’t change the direction of the wind — adjust your sails
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Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.
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