Top 155 Quotes & Sayings by Michael Josephson - Page 3

It is easier to be grateful for the things we have than to the people who have helped us get them.

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.

For many of us gratitude to others comes with a sense of debt that can never be fully paid and therefore the things we are thankful for are never really ours.

You are the captain of your own ship; don't let anyone else take the wheel.

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.

We all have three characters: the one we really have, the one we try to convince the world we have, and the one we think we have.

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.

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.

It's easier to make a good person better than to make a bad person good.

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?

To separate the purpose of a business from the purpose of people who are in the business is, I think, not a good thing.

America is a song that sounds the best when we all sing together - at least for a while.

People who don't believe in you are right only if you believe they are.

The best way to show true gratitude for all our blessings is to be genuinely happy.

Our obligation to others and a gift to ourselves is to acknowledge and authentically express genuine appreciation for courtesies, caring and concern others have given us.

Character refers to dispositions and habits that determine the way that person normally responds to desires, fears, challenges, opportunities, failures and successes.

Character is just another term for "good person." A person of character lives a worthy life guided by moral principles. A person of character is a good parent, a good friend, a good employee and a good citizen.

A person is said to have good character when their habits, dispositions and conduct reflect a deep commitment to ethical virtues and moral principles.

In life, we all get scored on every day. The wonderful thing is, if we do our best with courage and tenacity, we might be outscored but we can never be beaten.

What you allow you encourage.

Expressed gratitude encourages further giving; ingratitude drains vitality out of the spirit of generosity.

Character is doing the right thing even when it costs more than you want to pay. When it comes to character, you dont have to be sick to get better. Its easier for a good person to get better than for a bad person to get good.

Character determines how we lead our lives, how we deal with life's unearned fortunes and misfortunes and how we make choices that determine how those fortunes and misfortunes work to make us what we become.

Experimenting with drugs is like target practice where your head is the bull's-eye.

If we keep treating our most important values as meaningless relics, that's exactly what they'll become.

If you pay too much attention to your reputation, you could lose your character.

There is no objective criteria for either success or failure. People who achieve their goals are successful, those who don't are not.

Success or failure can only be measured in terms of a particular objective. The success of a person whose life objective is money or status will look very different than the success of one who sets out to make a positive difference in the world.

Never underestimate the power of temptation to disarm your better senses. Throughout the ages good people surrendered their honor for the empty promise that wealth or power would bring fulfillment and their dignity, good name and self-esteem for the passing pleasures of sex and drugs.

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.

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.

It's actually easier to truly become a person of good character than to persuade others we are what we are not.

Using the phrase business ethics might imply that the ethical rules and expectations are somehow different in business than in other contexts. There really is no such thing as business ethics. There is just ethics and the challenge for people in business and every other walk in life to acknowledge and live up to basic moral principles like honesty, respect, responsibility, fairness and caring.

Character is ethics in action.

When it comes to building character, wealth, good looks, athletic ability and even a high IQ are more likely to be impediments than advantages.