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

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Michael Josephson
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: December 10
Motivational Speaker
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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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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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Good character is more important than wealth, good looks, popularity and even education. These things do not guarantee happiness and often they become obstacles to developing good character.
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Thanksgiving is a time to reflect on the many things we have to be thankful for, not so we feel guilty about what we have that others don't, but to be genuinely grateful for our blessings.
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There is within you, waiting to be called, a great source of power called courage. Call its name and it will give you the strength to confront challenges despite fear and to continue and the heart to continue with bold confidence despite the pain of caused by tragedy.
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People who fight fire with fire end up with only the ashes of their own integrity.
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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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We judge our own character by our best intentions and most noble acts, but we will be judged by our last worst act.
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People who don't believe in you are right only if you believe they are.
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Creating a child takes no love or skill being a parent requires lots of both.
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You don't have to be sick to get better.
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What a person says and does in ordinary moments when when no one is looking reveals more about true character than grand actions taken while in the spotlight. Our true character is revealed by normal, consistent, everyday attitudes and behavior, not by self-conscious words or deeds or rare acts of moral courage.
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America is a song that sounds the best when we all sing together - at least for a while.
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Don't confuse fun with fulfillment, or pleasure with happiness.
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It's a great joy but no test of love or commitment to take your son to a ball game. You really prove your credentials as a good dad when you are willing to take your daughter shopping - more than once.
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Success comes in cans. Failures comes in can'ts.
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Expressed gratitude encourages further giving ingratitude drains vitality out of the spirit of generosity.
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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 in the end is not what you bought but what you built not what you got but what you gave not what you learned by what you taught. What will matter is not your competence but your character.
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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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