Your life is your ship and you are the captain. Choose your course, take the wheel firmly and get on your way.
Discipline yourself to start each day identifying something to be grateful about. The world opens to those who approach it with a grateful heart.
A good coach improves your game. A great coach improves your life.
Neither the intensity of your feelings nor the certainty of your convictions is any assurance that you are right.
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.
Personal integrity is important, not because it gets us what we want, but because it helps us be what we want.
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.
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.
Successful or not, acts of physical courage always bring honor. It is the smaller forms of valor - standing up for principle at the risk of social disapproval, economic loss or injury to career - that require the greatest moral will power. Since there is usually little upside to winning and a significant and often lasting downside to losing, moral courage often requires as much character as physical bravery.
Gratitude is not a payment for a kindness but another form of gift.
Gratitude is a feeling not statement. It is so easy to say we are grateful that I often don't stop to really, really take the time to experience gratitude. Saying the words doesn't mean a thing without the feeling and it takes a moment of genuine reflection to summon that feeling. This Thanksgiving don't shortchange yourself with hollow words.
Gratefulness is a payment everyone can afford.
What will matter is not your success but your significance.
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.
People who don't believe in you are right only if you believe they are.
Don't ask whether it is going to be easy. Ask whether it is worth it.
Go out there and do your part to change the world. You may not change all you had hoped but the world will be better for the caring demonstrated by your effort.
Approach the New Year with resolve to find the opportunities hidden in each new day.
The world has enough beautiful mountains and meadows, spectacular skies and serene lakes. It has enough lush forests, flowered fields, and sandy beaches. It has plenty of stars and the promise of a new sunrise and sunset every day. What the world needs more of is people to appreciate and enjoy it.
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.
The way we treat people we think can't help or hurt us - like housekeepers, waiters, and secretaries - tells more about our character than how we treat people we think are important. How we behave when we think no one is looking or when we don't think we will get caught more accurately portrays our character than what we say or do in service of our reputations.
There's no such thing as business ethics; there's just ethics. And ethics makes no concessions for the real or imagined necessities of making a profit.
A person of character seeks true happiness in living a life of purpose and meaning, placing a higher value on significance than success.
Gratitude should be felt and experienced sincerely, expressed generously and received graciously.
An ounce of action is worth a ton of good intentions.
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