Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you.
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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Remember that how you say something is as important as what you say.
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Become the kind of person who brightens a room just by entering 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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It’s not your job to get people to like you, it’s your job to like people.
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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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I’ve learned that every great achievement was once considered impossible
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When you can’t change the direction of the wind — adjust your sails
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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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A true friend encourages us, comforts us, supports us like a big easy chair, offering us a safe refuge from the world.
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No matter how hard you hug your money, it never hugs back.
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Measure your wealth by what you’d have left if you lost all your money.
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Earn your success based on service to others, not at the expense of others.
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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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Never let the odds keep you from doing what you know in your heart you were meant to do.
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