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Character is ethical and moral strength. People of good character have the moral awareness and strength to know the good, love the good and do the good.

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Michael Josephson
Age: 81
Born: 1942
Born: December 10
Motivational Speaker
Philosopher
People
Ethical
Awareness
Strength
Moral
Character
Good
Love

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Neither the intensity of your feelings nor the certainty of your convictions is any assurance that you are right.
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If we don't invest now in building character into children we will surely invest more tomorrow in trying to repair adults.
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Experimenting with drugs is like target practice where your head is the bull's-eye.
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Gratitude is most treasured when it is unexpected. When we expect, even demand gratitude, we treat it simply as payment due for some service we rendered and we squeeze any good feeling out of it.
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Take pride in how far you've come. Have faith in how far you can go. But don't forget to enjoy the journey.
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Go out there and do your part to change the world. You may not change all you had hoped but the world will be better for the caring demonstrated by your effort.
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There's no such thing as business ethics there's just ethics. And ethics makes no concessions for the real or imagined necessities of making a profit.
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People who fight fire with fire end up with only the ashes of their own integrity.
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The opposite of success is not failure. Unsuccessful efforts are not failures unless they so discourage you that you abandon further efforts to achieve your goal. Even then, the venture or effort may be a failure but you are not. Failure is an event not a character trait.
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What will matter is not your competence, but your character. What will matter is not how many people you knew but how many will feel a lasting loss when you are gone. What will matter is how long you will be remembered, by who and for what?
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One key to success is demanding more than adequacy, never settling for good enough and always doing a little bit more.
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Gratitude should be felt and experienced sincerely, expressed generously and received graciously.
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It is better to be unsuccessful pursuing a significant goal that being successful attaining an insignificant one.
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Creating a child takes no love or skill being a parent requires lots of both.
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I am grateful for all those people who said no. It is because of them that I did it myself. Practice an attitude of gratitude. You can either be miserable dwelling on the troubles you have or grateful for the ones you don't have. Your troubles don't care but it makes a huge difference in your life.
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Expressed gratitude encourages further giving ingratitude drains vitality out of the spirit of generosity.
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People who don't believe in you are right only if you believe they are.
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There's a hole in the moral ozone and it's getting bigger.
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Ethics doesn't require us to ignore our self-interests or demand a life of self-sacrifice. It requires that we know the difference between what we want and what we should do
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