Quotes from Michael Josephson

Surround our children with a message of honor

Character is the moral strength to do the right thing even when it costs more than you want to pay.

What will matter is not your success but your significance.

Success in anything important rarely comes without the Five Horsemen of Success: planning, effort, positivity, perseverance and resilience.

The key to success is effort. The bigger the goal, the greater the effort.

Success comes in cans. Failures comes in can'ts.

Don't sacrifice a good life for a good time.

Many things in life are not fair but all things should be.

Gratitude should be felt and experienced sincerely, expressed generously and received graciously.

Be thankful for quality competitors who push you to your limit.

Gratitude is not a payment for a kindness but another form of gift.

Gratefulness is a payment everyone can afford.

For many of us gratitude to others comes with a sense of debt that can never be fully paid and therefore the things we are thankful for are never really ours.

Gratitude is most treasured when it is unexpected. When we expect, even demand gratitude, we treat it simply as payment due for some service we rendered and we squeeze any good feeling out of it.

Never do anything for another with the expectation of gratitude. The expectation itself turns the gift into an exchange and suggests a debt is owed you.

Good character is the single most important attribute of a successful and worthy life.

In life, we all get scored on every day. The wonderful thing is, if we do our best with courage and tenacity, we might be outscored but we can never be beaten.

Thanksgiving is a time to reflect on the many things we have to be thankful for, not so we feel guilty about what we have that others don't, but to be genuinely grateful for our blessings.

Creating a child takes no love or skill; being a parent requires lots of both.

Character is ethical and moral strength. People of good character have the moral awareness and strength to know the good, love the good and do the good.

The key to a better life: Complain less, appreciate more. Whine less, laugh more. Talk less, listen more. Want less, give more. Hate less, love more. Scold less, praise more. Fear less, hope more.

Personal integrity is important, not because it gets us what we want, but because it helps us be what we want.

Ethics doesn't require us to ignore our self-interests or demand a life of self-sacrifice. It requires that we know the difference between what we want and what we should do

Good intentions are simply not enough. Our character is defined and our lives are determined not by what we want, say or think, but by what we do.