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.
One does not make friends. One recognizes them. - Garth Henrichs
Success lies in the hands of those who want it. - Unknown
Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure. - Earl Wilson
Failure changes for the better, success for the worse. - Marcus Annaeus Seneca
Success means doing the best we can with what we have. - Zig Ziglar
The real character of a man is found out by his amusements. - Joshua Reynolds
The success that the Tolkien books had redefined modern fantasy. - George R.R. Martin
Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else. - Oliver Wendell Holmes
People with goals succeed because they know where they're going. - Earl Nightingale
It is of little traits that the greatest human character is composed. - William Winter
Genius is the ability to renew one's emotions in daily experience. - Paul Cezanne
The penalty of success is to be bored by the people who used to snub you. - Nancy Astor
The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said. - Peter F Drucker
Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words. - Robert Frost
You can only go as high on the leadership ladder as your character will allow you. - John C Maxwell
We all lose our looks eventually, better develop your character and interest in life. - Jacqueline Bisset
If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies. - Moshe Dayan
Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
It requires less character to discover the faults of others than is does to tolerate them. - J. Petit Senn
Never make excuses. Your friends don't need them and your foes won't believe them. - John Wooden
You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him. - Malcolm S Forbes
Talents are best nurtured in solitude. Character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world. - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out. - Thomas B Macaulay
Its success lies in the fact that it's an insurance plan, not an investment plan or a welfare plan. - James Roosevelt
Men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed. - L. Jones
Success in life, in anything, depends upon the number of persons that one can make himself agreeable to. - Thomas Carlyle
The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is the knack of getting along with people. - Theodore Roosevelt
When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion. - Dale Carnegie
There is no scientific answer for success. You can't define it. You've simply got to live it and do it. - Anita Roddick
When wealth is lost, nothing is lost. When health is lost, something is lost. When character is lost, all is lost. - Rev. Billy Graham
A man with a career can have no time to waste upon his wife and friends; he has to devote it wholly to his enemies. - John Hobbes
I once sent a dozen of my friends a telegram saying "flee at once - all is discovered." They all left town immediately. - Mark Twain
Success and failure. We think of them as opposites, but they're really not. They're companions - the hero and the sidekick. - Laurence Shames
Success is about creating benefit for all and enjoying the process. If you focus on this and adopt this definition, success is yours. - Kelly Kim
The barrier between success is not something which exists in the real world: it is composed purely and simply of doubts about ability. - Franklin D Roosevelt
Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers. - Charles W. Eliot
I've missed more than 9,000 shots. I've lost almost 300 games. I've failed over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed. - Michael Jordan
Your surfing can get better on every turn, on every wave you catch. Learn to read the ocean better. A big part of my success has been wave knowledge. - Kelly Slater
No one is going to hand me success. I must go out and get it myself. That's why I'm here. To dominate. To conquer. Both the world and myself. - Unknown
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