Michael Josephson Quotes - Page 2

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• Your life is your ship and you are the captain. Choose your course, take the wheel firmly and get on your way.

  Michael Josephson

  Way, Captains, Ships

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• What will matter is not your success but your significance.

  Michael Josephson

  Success, Matter, Significance

  "What Will Matter". Poem by Michael Josephson, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2003.

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• 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.

  Michael Josephson

  Business, Real, Imagination

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• Approach the New Year with resolve to find the opportunities hidden in each new day.

  Michael Josephson

  New Year, Opportunity, Years

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• 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.

  Michael Josephson

  Gratitude, Grateful, Mean

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• When was the last time you wrote a thank you note? When was the last time you went beyond a mechanical "thank you" to express authentic gratitude? We can enrich the lives of others and ourselves by making it a habit to express genuine appreciation for what others have done for us.

  Michael Josephson

  Gratitude, Appreciation, Being Thankful

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• 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.

  Michael Josephson

  Motivational, Beautiful, Gratitude

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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.

  Michael Josephson

  Attitude, Taken, Character

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• A person of character seeks true happiness in living a life of purpose and meaning, placing a higher value on significance than success.

  Michael Josephson

  Character, Purpose, True Happiness

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• 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.

  Michael Josephson

  Hurt, Character, Thinking

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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.

  Michael Josephson

  Lonely, Being Alone, Mean

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• Discipline yourself to start each day identifying something to be grateful about. The world opens to those who approach it with a grateful heart.

  Michael Josephson

  Gratitude, Grateful, Heart

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• An ounce of action is worth a ton of good intentions.

  Michael Josephson

  Action, Good Intentions, Intention

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• Failure is much easier to handle if you just think of it as feedback to guide your next effort.

  Michael Josephson

  Thinking, Effort, Next

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• Gratefulness is a payment everyone can afford.

  Michael Josephson

  Gratitude, Being Thankful, Gratefulness

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• People who fight fire with fire end up with only the ashes of their own integrity.

  Michael Josephson

  Integrity, Fighting, Fire

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• Don't sacrifice a good life for a good time.

  Michael Josephson

  Good Life, Sacrifice, Good Times

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• Sometimes the dues we pay to maintain integrity are pretty high, but the ultimate cost of moral compromise is so much higher.

  Michael Josephson

  Integrity, Cost, Pay

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• Whatever you do, make a difference. Earn the right to look back at something and say, 'I did that.'

  Michael Josephson

  Differences, Making A Difference, Looks

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• 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.

  Michael Josephson

  Character, Successful, Loss

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• Gratitude should be felt and experienced sincerely, expressed generously and received graciously.

  Michael Josephson

  Gratitude, Being Thankful, Should

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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.

  Michael Josephson

  Children, Character, Trying

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

  Michael Josephson

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• Integrity, respect, compassion, and fairness become obstacles to people who think winning is everything

  Michael Josephson

  Integrity, Winning, Thinking

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• Don't ask whether it is going to be easy. Ask whether it is worth it.

  Michael Josephson

  Easy, Asks, Worth It

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