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Success comes in cans. Failures comes in can'ts.

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Michael Josephson
Age: 81
Born: 1942
Born: December 10
Motivational Speaker
Philosopher
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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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Don't sacrifice a good life for a good time.
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Ethics doesn't require us to ignore our self-interests or demand a life of self-sacrifice. It requires that we know the difference between what we want and what we should do
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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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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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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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It is better to be unsuccessful pursuing a significant goal that being successful attaining an insignificant one.
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The key to success is effort. The bigger the goal, the greater the effort.
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People who don't believe in you are right only if you believe they are.
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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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America is a song that sounds the best when we all sing together - at least for a while.
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It is not enough that we express our gratitude, we must experience it. We truly honor the must think about our blessings, separately and cumulatively It is not enough to count our blessings and express our gratitude if we don't truly feel grateful.
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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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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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What you allow you encourage.
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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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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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Failure is much easier to handle if you just think of it as feedback to guide your next effort.
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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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