There once was a little boy who had a bad temper. His father gave him a bag of nails and told him that every time he lost his temper, he must hammer a nail into the back of the fence. The first day the boy had driven 37 nails into the fence.
Over the next few weeks, as he learned to control his anger the number of nails hammered daily gradually dwindled down. He discovered it was easier to hold his temper than to drive those nails into the fence. Finally the day came when the boy didn’t lose his temper at all. He told his father about it and the father suggested that the boy now pull out one nail for each day that he was able to hold his temper.
The days passed and the young boy was finally able to tell his father that all the nails were gone. The father took his son by the hand and led him to the fence. He said, “You have done well, my son, but look at the holes in the fence. The fence will never be the same.”
When you say things in anger, they leave a scar just like this one. You can put a knife in a man and draw it out. It won’t matter how many times you say I’m sorry, the wound is still there. A verbal wound is as bad as a physical one. Friends are very rare jewels, indeed. They make you smile and encourage you to succeed. They lend an ear, they share words of praise and they always want to open their hearts to us.
Failure teaches success. - Japanese Saying
I do. That is character! - Theodore Roosevelt
Hire character. Train skill. - Peter Schutz
Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate. - Emily Dickinson
Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom. - Euripides
Failure isn't fatal, and success isn't final. - Don Shula
Meet success like a gentleman and disaster like a man. - Lord Birkenhead
There is no greater index of character so sure as the voice. - Benjamin Disraeli
Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love. - David McCullough
The success that the Tolkien books had redefined modern fantasy. - George R.R. Martin
The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do, well. - Henry W. Longfellow
Don't ever perceive other people's success as your own failure. - Rob Liano
In politics, madame, you need two things: friends, but above all an enemy. - Brian Mulroney
Character builds slowly but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness. - Faith Baldwin
Your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing. - Abraham Lincoln
I met so many people. I don't even know some of my friends' names. - Paris Hilton
Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake a whole relationship. - Sharon Stone
Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. - Aristotle
If at first you don't succeed, then skydiving definitely isn't for you. - Steven Wright
No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there. - Elizabeth Clarke Dunn
Young man, the secret of my success is that at an early age I discovered I was not God. - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
I am on your Walk of Fame in Toronto. My sense of humour is Canadian. But I can't vote. - Donald Sutherland
Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success. - Swami Sivananda
I was the class clown so I was used to performing and fooling around in front of my friends. - Dominic Monaghan
And will you succeed? Yes indeed, yes indeed! Ninety-eight and three-quarters percent guaranteed! - Dr. Seuss
The elevator to success is out of order. You'll have to use the stairs... one step at a time. - Joe Girard
Talents are best nurtured in solitude. Character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world. - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
The best rule of thumb for character is to remember that if you can't be big, don't belittle. - Unknown
Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming. - John Wooden
As yet, Bernard Shaw hasn't become prominent enough to have any enemies, but none of his friends like him. - Oscar Wilde
Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others. - Danny Thomas
Your friends will know you better in the first moment you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a lifetime. - Richard Bach
A dinosaur out of context is like a character without a story. Worse than that, the character suffers from amnesia. - Jack Horner
Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain but it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving. - Dale Carnegie
Two may talk together under the same roof for many years, yet never really meet; and two others at first speech are old friends. - Mary Catherwood
You will never change your life until you change something you do daily. The secret of your success is found in your daily routine. - John C Maxwell
People share, read and generally engage more with any type of content when it's surfaced through friends and people they know and trust. - Malorie Lucich
Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own. - Charles De Gaulle
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