Keep a note pad and pencil on your bedside table. Million-dollar ideas sometimes strike at 3 A.M.
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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Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you.
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Marrying an old bachelor is like buying second-hand furniture.
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Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.
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Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor.
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Never give up on anybody. Miracles happen everyday.
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Someone will always be looking at you as an example of how to behave. Don’t let him down.
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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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It’s not your job to get people to like you, it’s your job to like people.
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After you’ve work hard to get what you want, take the time to enjoy 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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Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.
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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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Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.
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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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Watch for big problems. They disguise big opportunities.
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Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.
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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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Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts.
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Remember that just the moment you say, “I give up,” someone else seeing the same situation is saying, “My, what a great opportunity.”
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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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Always have something beautiful in sight, even if it’s just a daisy in a jelly glass
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Show respect for everyone who works for a living, regardless of how trivial their job.
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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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I never expect to lose. Even when I’m the underdog, I still prepare a victory speech.
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Remember that the biggest gap in the world is between ‘I should’ and ‘I did.’
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Don’t forget, a person’s greatest emotional need is to feel appreciated.
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