Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.
H. JACKSON BROWN JR.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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Never give up on what you really want to do
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Always have something beautiful in sight, even if it’s just a daisy in a jelly glass
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Marrying an old bachelor is like buying second-hand furniture.
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Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people’s bad manners.
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Life doesn’t require that we be the best, only that we try our best.
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Remember that how you say something is as important as what you say.
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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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Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor.
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Remember that everyone you meet is afraid of something, loves something and has lost something.
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Live and learn and pass it on.
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Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.
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Become the kind of person who brightens a room just by entering it.
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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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In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins, not through strength but by perseverance.
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Life is slippery. Here, take my hand.
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