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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.

Michael Josephson

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Michael Josephson
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: December 10
Motivational Speaker
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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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Gratitude should be felt and experienced sincerely, expressed generously and received graciously.
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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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The key to success is effort. The bigger the goal, the greater the effort.
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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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Character is both formed and revealed by how one deals with everyday situations as well as extraordinary pressures and temptations. Like a well-made tower, character is built stone by stone, decision by decision.
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Gratitude is not a payment for a kindness but another form of gift.
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You don't have to be sick to get better.
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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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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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People who don't believe in you are right only if you believe they are.
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A good coach improves your game. A great coach improves your life.
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Character is the moral strength to do the right thing even when it costs more than you want to pay.
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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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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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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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Whatever you do, make a difference. Earn the right to look back at something and say, 'I did that.'
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