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 what you think in the dark. - Dwight L. Moody
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Character is not what you are in the dark. - Unknown
She runs the gamut of emotions from A to B. - Dorothy Parker
Success is dependent on the glands - the sweat glands. - Zig Ziglar
Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends. - George Bernard Shaw
Character is, for the most part, simply habit become fixed. - C.H. Parkhurst
You don't have to hold your stomach in for real friends. - Unknown
Making the family a top priority will invariably bring success. - Zig Ziglar
A person's character is but half formed till after wedlock. - Charles Simmons
He hasn't an enemy in the world, but all his friends hate him. - Unknown
To follow, without halt, one aim: There's the secret of success. - Anna Pavlova
Failure is necessary to succeed and will become your biggest blessing. - Lynn Bardowski
In everything the ends well defined are the secret of durable success. - Victor Cousins
The penalty of success is to be bored by the people who used to snub you. - Nancy Astor
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way. - Christopher Morley
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Want to improve your relationships? See love as a verb rather than as a feeling. - Stephen R. Covey
Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed. - Mark Twain
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We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for our ability to amuse them. - Evelyn Waugh
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Success in life is not a matter so much of talent or opportunity but of concentration and perseverance. - C.W. Wendte
Its success lies in the fact that it's an insurance plan, not an investment plan or a welfare plan. - James Roosevelt
The number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I can fail and keep on trying. - Tom Hopkins
If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own. - Charlotte Bronte
When wealth is lost, nothing is lost. When health is lost, something is lost. When character is lost, all is lost. - Rev. Billy Graham
Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain but it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving. - Dale Carnegie
The greatest sign of success for a teacher is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist." - Maria Montessori
As we grow up we think we lose our friends. But the truth is that we don't lose friends, we just learn who the real ones are. - Unknown
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Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed. - Booker T. Washington
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