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.
Nothing succeeds like success. - Alexander Dumas
Prosperity is full of friends. - Euripides
Success is dependent on effort. - Sophocles
True friends stab you in the front. - Oscar Wilde
Friends are God's apology for relatives. - Hugh Kingsmill
I never dreamed about success, I worked for it. - Estee Lauder
Strangers are friends that you have yet to meet. - Roberta Lieberman
The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking spaces. - Will Rogers
Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character. - Oscar Levant
Failure is the key to success; each mistake teaches us something. - Morihei Ueshiba
He hasn't an enemy in the world, but all his friends hate him. - Unknown
God doesn't require us to succeed; he only requires that you try. - Mother Teresa
Don't abuse your friends and expect them to consider it criticism. - Ed Howe
While your circumstances are beyond your control, your character is not. - John C Maxwell
Money can't buy you friends, but you can get a better class of enemy. - Spike Milligan
The secrets of success are a good wife and a steady job. My wife told me. - Howard Nemerov
Success if liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it. - Maya Angelou
Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius. - An Wang
Fame is only good for one thing - they will cash your check in a small town. - Truman Capote
Give me a couple of years, and I'll make that actress an overnight success. - Samuel Goldwyn
Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough. - Og Mandino
Success is more permanent when you achieve it without destroying your principles. - Walter Cronkite
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success. - Unknown
Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after. - Anne Morrow Lindbergh
What is the most important key to success? Networking - two minds are better than one. - David Foster
The greatest men have been those who have cut their way to success through difficulties. - F.W. Robertson
In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. - Martin Luther King Jr.
You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him. - Malcolm S Forbes
The strangest and most fantastic fact about negative emotions is that people actually worship them. - P.D. Ouspensky
The core of true success is love. And that includes loving yourself enough to take care of yourself. - Zig Ziglar
What we value shapes our character and will ultimately define how we lead, or whether we can lead at all. - Unknown
Have your adventures, make your mistakes, and choose your friends poorly - all these make for great stories. - Chuck Palahniuk
Failure isn't so bad if it doesn't attack the heart. Success is all right if it doesn't go to the head. - John C Maxwell
Friendship with one's self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world. - Eleanor Roosevelt
If another one of my Whole Food friends says my wife should have a home birth, I am going to punch all the soy on the planet. - Patton Oswalt
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
It's really hard to maintain a one-on-one relationship if the other person is not going to allow me to be with other people. - Axl Rose
Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders. - Sloan Wilson
The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire, the size of your dream, and how you handle disappointment along the way. - Robert Kiyosaki
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