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It's easier to make a good person better than to make a bad person good.

Michael Josephson

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Michael Josephson
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: December 10
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The key to a better life: Complain less, appreciate more. Whine less, laugh more. Talk less, listen more. Want less, give more. Hate less, love more. Scold less, praise more. Fear less, hope more.
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Living a life that matters doesn't happen by accident. It's not a matter of circumstance but of choice. Choose to live a life that matters.
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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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Experimenting with drugs is like target practice where your head is the bull's-eye.
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Never do anything for another with the expectation of gratitude. The expectation itself turns the gift into an exchange and suggests a debt is owed you.
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Whether we want them or not, the New Year will bring new challenges whether we seize them or not, the New year will bring new opportunities.
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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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Don't sacrifice a good life for a good time.
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It isn't the absence of conscience or values that prevents us from being all we should be, it is simply the lack of moral courage.
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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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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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A certain formula for an unhappy life is pursue someone else's definition of success. Until you define your own goals and purposes your life is not your own and there can be no sense of fulfillment no matter how much you achieve.
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One problem with gratitude is that it competes with the sense of pride, self-reliance and accomplishment we have. We want to think what we have is the result of our efforts rather than the gifts, good turns and opportunities provided us by others.
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I am not and never will be perfect. I am not always as honest, respectful, responsible, fair or as kind as I should be. All I can do is what I should do: strive every day, with every decision to be the best person I can be. I don’t expect to be perfect but I know I can be better.
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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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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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People who don't believe in you are right only if you believe they are.
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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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Gratitude is not a payment for a kindness but another form of gift.
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