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Michael Josephson
Age: 81
Born: 1942
Born: December 10
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If you pay too much attention to your reputation, you could lose your character.
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Success in anything important rarely comes without the Five Horsemen of Success: planning, effort, positivity, perseverance and resilience.
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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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People who fight fire with fire end up with only the ashes of their own integrity.
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Character is ethics in action.
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The key to success is effort. The bigger the goal, the greater the effort.
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Expressed gratitude encourages further giving ingratitude drains vitality out of the spirit of generosity.
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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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What will matter is not what you learned, but what you taught.
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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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Approach the New Year with resolve to find the opportunities hidden in each new day.
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Don't confuse fun with fulfillment, or pleasure with happiness.
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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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The ethical person should do more then he is required to do, and less than he is allowed to.
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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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I am not and never will be perfect. I am not always as honest, respectful, responsible, fair or as kind as I should be. All I can do is what I should do: strive every day, with every decision to be the best person I can be. I don’t expect to be perfect but I know I can be better.
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If you want to be happy, learn to be alone without being lonely. Learn that being alone does not mean being unhappy. The world is full of plenty of interesting and enjoyable things to do and people who can enrich your life.
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You don't have to be sick to get better.
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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.
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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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