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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
Motivational Speaker
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If you pay too much attention to your reputation, you could lose your character.
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Lincoln described character is a tree and reputation as its shadow. The tree will always be what it is but the shadow we see depends on where we stand and the angle of the light.
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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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The key to success is effort. The bigger the goal, the greater the effort.
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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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Failure is much easier to handle if you just think of it as feedback to guide your next effort.
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The only force that can sustain true and consistent courage is some form of spiritual belief that values like honor, duty, loyalty and integrity above the status, power, money and even security.
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What will matter is not your success but your significance.
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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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Whatever you do, make a difference. Earn the right to look back at something and say, 'I did that.'
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Everything you do sends a message about who you are and what you value.
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It is much more difficult to know what is fair than what is unfair
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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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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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Character is just another term for good person. A person of character lives a worthy life guided by moral principles. A person of character is a good parent, a good friend, a good employee and a good citizen.
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Don't confuse fun with fulfillment, or pleasure with happiness.
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Our character is revealed by how we treat people who cannot help us or hurt us.
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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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People who don't believe in you are right only if you believe they are.
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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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