Apply this simple rule to your conversations: If you wouldn’t write it down and sign it, don’t say it.
H. JACKSON BROWN JR.Choose your life’s mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.
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Your mind can only hold one thought at a time. Make it a positive and constructive one.
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Remember that everyone you meet is afraid of something, loves something and has lost something.
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Become the kind of person who brightens a room just by entering it.
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Remember that the more you know, the less you fear.
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While earning your daily bread, be sure you share a slice with those less fortunate.
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Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you.
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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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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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Let perseverance be your engine and hope your fuel.
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Remember that the biggest gap in the world is between ‘I should’ and ‘I did.’
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I never expect to lose. Even when I’m the underdog, I still prepare a victory speech.
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Remember that creating a successful marriage is like farming: you have to start over again every morning.
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Today, give a stranger one of your smiles. It might be the only sunshine he sees all day.
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No matter how old you get, hug and kiss your mother whenever you greet her.
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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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