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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.

Michael Josephson

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Michael Josephson
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: December 10
Motivational Speaker
Philosopher
Moral
Character
Good
Love
People
Ethical
Awareness
Strength

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There's some wisdom and no moral deficiency to one who holds courage in reserve and uses it as a last resort. Before we take the kind of risks that require courage, we ought to exhaust other less risky alternatives.
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Expressed gratitude encourages further giving ingratitude drains vitality out of the spirit of generosity.
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If you pay too much attention to your reputation, you could lose your character.
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Neither heredity nor environment determine character. But whether we give in to or overcome the negative messages we are exposed to as we wend our way through life is often determined by whether our parents, teachers, mentors and friends exposed us to good examples and morally inspiring ideas.
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When it comes to building character, wealth, good looks, athletic ability and even a high IQ are more likely to be impediments than advantages.
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Some jobs require a more consistent challenge to moral courage than others. Politics is one. In such a setting terrifically good men and women will still be found wanting occasionally. No one does the right thing all the time. It would be more generous and fair to consider their batting average than to judge them only by their last worst act.
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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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For many of us gratitude to others comes with a sense of debt that can never be fully paid and therefore the things we are thankful for are never really ours.
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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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Approach the New Year with resolve to find the opportunities hidden in each new day.
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Success in anything important rarely comes without the Five Horsemen of Success: planning, effort, positivity, perseverance and resilience.
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Our obligation to others and a gift to ourselves is to acknowledge and authentically express genuine appreciation for courtesies, caring and concern others have given us.
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If we keep treating our most important values as meaningless relics, that's exactly what they'll become.
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It is easier to be grateful for the things we have than to the people who have helped us get them.
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Character refers to dispositions and habits that determine the way that person normally responds to desires, fears, challenges, opportunities, failures and successes.
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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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To the barefoot man, happiness is a pair of shoes. To the man with old shoes, it's a pair of new shoes. To the man with new shoes, it's stylish shoes. And of course, the fellow with no feet would be happy to be barefoot. Measure your life by what you have not by what you don't.
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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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What you allow you encourage.
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A caring heart that listens is often more valued than an intelligent mind that talks.
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