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.
Character is not what you are in the dark. - Unknown
My friends have made the story of my life. - Helen Keller
Success lies in the hands of those who want it. - Unknown
Winning takes talent, to repeat takes character. - John Wooden
Flatterers looks like friends, as wolves like dogs. - George Chapman
The essential thing is not knowledge, but character. - Joseph Le Conte
Character is not given to us; we build it ourselves. - Mabel Hale
The success and the failure are not my concern, but His. - Joseph B Lightfoot
If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone. - Maxwell Maltz
Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love. - David McCullough
Don't accept success or failure - neither need be permanent. - Bernie Legge
Friends are people who know you really well and like you anyway. - Greg Tamblyn
Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else. - Oliver Wendell Holmes
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
To follow, without halt, one aim: There's the secret of success. - Anna Pavlova
When a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops. - Thomas Watson
You have achieved success if you have lived well, laughed often and loved much. - Unknown
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success. - Unknown
Keep steadily before you the fact that all true success depends at last upon yourself. - Theodore T. Hunger
No matter how much fame and fortune you achieve, don't get wrapped up in yourself. - Dal Richards
It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered. - Aeschylus
As a man in a relationship, you have a simple choice: You can be right or you can be happy. - Ralphie May
If at first you don't succeed, try doing what your coach told you to do the first time. - Unknown
I was the class clown so I was used to performing and fooling around in front of my friends. - Dominic Monaghan
Just as Jesus created wine from water, we humans are capable of transmuting emotion into music. - Carlos Santana
The real test of your character is your treatment of those who can be of no possible service to you. - Unknown
If men could see the epitaphs their friends write they would believe they had got into the wrong grave. - American Proverb
When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature. - Ernest Hemingway
As yet, Bernard Shaw hasn't become prominent enough to have any enemies, but none of his friends like him. - Oscar Wilde
Success isn't measured by money or power or social rank. Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace. - Mike Ditka
Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure they think he is getting old. - Washington Irving
I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure, which is: Try to please everybody. - Herbert B Swope
I like thieves. Some of my best friends are thieves. Why, just last week we had the president of the bank over for dinner. - WC Fields
The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself. - Mark Caine
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
Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another. - Napoleon Hill
Perseverance is a great element of success; if you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I like a quiet evening with family or friends over, great food and great discussion, and a lot of laughter. That's really what fills my tank. - Anna Eshoo
Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming. - John Wooden
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