While earning your daily bread, be sure you share a slice with those less fortunate.
H. JACKSON BROWN JR.When opportunity knocks, invite it to stay for dinner.
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Marrying an old bachelor is like buying second-hand furniture.
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Never underestimate your power to change yourself.
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Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor.
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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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May your life be crowded with unexpected joys.
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No matter how hard you hug your money, it never hugs back.
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Perform your job better than anyone else can. That’s the best job security I know.
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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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Read carefully anything that requires your signature. Remember the big print giveth and the small print taketh away.
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Live and learn and pass it on.
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Choose your life’s mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.
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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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Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends.
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Become someone’s hero.
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Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.
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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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May our adversities make us strong. May our victories make us wise. May our actions make us proud.
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Life doesn’t require that we be the best, only that we try our best.
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Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people’s bad manners.
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When you hug someone, never be the first to let go.
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Every person that you meet knows something you don’t; learn from them.
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Your religion is what you do when the sermon is over.
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Remember that what’s right isn’t always popular, and what’s popular isn’t always right.
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Strive for excellence, not perfection.
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Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.
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Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.
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