Choose your life’s mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.
H. JACKSON BROWN JR.When you can’t change the direction of the wind — adjust your sails
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When opportunity knocks, invite it to stay for dinner.
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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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Perform your job better than anyone else can. That’s the best job security I know.
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Never give up on anybody. Miracles happen everyday.
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Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.
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Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people’s bad manners.
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Never underestimate your power to change yourself.
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You can get by on charm for about 15 minutes. After that, you better know something.
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I’ve learned that every great achievement was once considered impossible
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Life is slippery. Here, take my hand.
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Remember that the biggest gap in the world is between ‘I should’ and ‘I did.’
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No matter how old you get, hug and kiss your mother whenever you greet her.
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Remember that how you say something is as important as what you say.
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Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.
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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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