H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Collection: Wisdom
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Watch your finances like a hawk.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Collection: Finance
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Remember that creating a successful marriage is like farming: you have to start over again every morning.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Collection: Morning
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Hope is the magic carpet that transports us from the present moment into the realm of infinite possibilities.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Collection: Hope
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Always kiss your children goodnight, even if they're already asleep.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Collection: Parenting
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Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Collection: Gardening
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Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Collection: Forgiveness
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The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Collection: Inspirational
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Choose your life's mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Collection: Happiness
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Find a job you like and you add five days to every week.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Collection: Work
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Mature love is composed and sustaining; a celebration of commitment, companionship, and trust.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Collection: Trust
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In business or in life, don't follow the wagon tracks too closely.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Collection: Business
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You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Collection: Life
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Acquaintances we meet, enjoy, and can easily leave behind; but friendship grows deep roots.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Collection: Friendship
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Remember that no relationship is a total waste of time. You can always learn something about yourself.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Collection: Relationship
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Living big and joyful and content is almost always the result of our finding satisfaction in life's ordinary day-to-day pleasures. And God must be fond of them, too, for He made so many of them for us to enjoy.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Collection: God
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Hold puppies, kittens, and babies anytime you get the chance.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Collection: Chance
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See any detour as an opportunity to experience new things.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Collection: Experience
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Marrying an old bachelor is like buying second-hand furniture.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Collection: Marriage
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Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Collection: Love
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Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Collection: Happiness
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Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Collection: Time
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Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Collection: Wisdom
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If you're doing your best, you won't have any time to worry about failure.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Collection: Best
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Measure your wealth by what you'd have left if you lost all your money.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Collection: Money
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Put a love note in his shaving kit before he leaves on a business trip.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Collection: Business
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Don't work for recognition, but do work worthy of recognition.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Collection: Work
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Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than the one with all the facts.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Collection: Dreams
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For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Collection: Experience
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Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Collection: Happiness
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Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Collection: Love
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Ask an older person you respect to tell you his or her greatest regret.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Collection: Respect
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Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Collection: Hope
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Never marry someone in hope that they'll change later.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Collection: Hope
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While we may lose heart, we never have to lose hope.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Collection: Hope
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Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Collection: Friendship
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Luck marches with those who give their very best.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Collection: Best
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Hope is not a resting place but a starting point - a cactus, not a cushion.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Collection: Hope
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Remember that a gesture of friendship, no matter how small, is always appreciated.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Collection: Friendship
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You can always tell when a man's well informed. His views are pretty much like your own.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Collection: Funny
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Be smarter than other people, just don't tell them so.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Collection: Intelligence
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People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Collection: Happiness
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Life doesn't require that we be the best, only that we try our best.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Collection: Best
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Earn your success based on service to others, not at the expense of others.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Collection: Success
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We're constantly striving for success, fame and comfort when all we really need to be happy is someone or some thing to be enthusiastic about.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Collection: Success
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Remember that life's big changes rarely give advance warning.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Collection: Change
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Every person that you meet knows something you don't; learn from them.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Collection: Inspiring
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Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Collection: Inspirational
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In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins, not through strength but by perseverance.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Collection: Inspirational
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Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Collection: Inspirational