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.
Friends are the sunshine of life. - John Hay
My friends have made the story of my life. - Helen Keller
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Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation. - Zig Ziglar
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Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Unto ourselves our own life is necessary, unto others our character. - St. Augustine
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Ability can take you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there. - Zig Ziglar
Your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing. - Abraham Lincoln
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Success is the space one occupies in the newspaper. Success is one day's insolence. - Elias Canetti
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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough. - John C Bovee
Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats. - Amos B Alcott
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Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven't planted. - David Bly
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The trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed. - C S Lewis
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There is no scientific answer for success. You can't define it. You've simply got to live it and do it. - Anita Roddick
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I used to live an isolated existence, even in relationships, but now my family knows me for who I really am. Mostly, that's a good thing. - Tim Allen
I adore art. When I am alone with my notes, my heart pounds and the tears stream from my eyes, and my emotion and my joys are too much to bear. - Guiseppe Verdi
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
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