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What will matter is not what you learned, but what you taught.

Michael Josephson

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Michael Josephson
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: December 10
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Surround our children with a message of honor
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Don't confuse fun with fulfillment, or pleasure with happiness.
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People who don't believe in you are right only if you believe they are.
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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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What will matter is not your success but your significance.
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Don't sacrifice a good life for a good time.
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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 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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Our character is revealed by how we treat people who cannot help us or hurt us.
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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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Everything you do sends a message about who you are and what you value.
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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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Experimenting with drugs is like target practice where your head is the bull's-eye.
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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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People who fight fire with fire end up with only the ashes of their own integrity.
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What will matter is not your competence, but your character. What will matter is not how many people you knew but how many will feel a lasting loss when you are gone. What will matter is how long you will be remembered, by who and for what?
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Good intentions are simply not enough. Our character is defined and our lives are determined not by what we want, say or think, but by what we do.
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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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Gratitude should be felt and experienced sincerely, expressed generously and received graciously.
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