There are no unimportant jobs, no unimportant people, no unimportant acts of kindness.
—H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
To teach is to learn again.
—H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
When you judge others, you are revealing your own fears and prejudices.
—H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Oh, the difference between nearly right and exactly right.
—H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Topics: Right, Rightness
Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more. .
—H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Topics: Joy, Happiness
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.
Topics: Being True to Yourself, Living, Happiness
Life doesn’t require that we be the best—only that we try our best.
—H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Topics: Effort, Trying
When you’ve found another soul who see’s in to your own… take good care of each other… and remember to be kind.
—H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Empower your dreams with deadlines.
—H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Topics: Dreams
We do not see things as they are. We see things as we are.
—H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
There is never a wrong time to do the right thing.
—H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor.
—H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Topics: Opportunity
Perform your job better than anyone else can. That’s the best job security I know.
—H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Be bold and courageous. When you look back on your life, you’ll regret the things you didn’t do more than the ones you did.
—H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
We seldom enjoy leisure we haven’t earned.
—H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Topics: Leisure
You can’t hire someone to practice for you.
—H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Topics: Practice
While earning your daily bread, be sure you share a slice with those less fortunate.
—H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Topics: Helping
In business or in life, don’t follow the wagon tracks too closely.
—H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Topics: Business
Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people’s bad manners.
—H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Topics: Manners
Don’t say you don’t have enough time.
You have exactly the same number of hours per day
that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur,
Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci,
Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.
—H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Topics: Procrastination, Morals, Goals, Morality, Time, Trust
All that mankind has ever learned is nothing more than
a single grain of sand on a beach that reaches to infinity.
—H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Read carefully anything that requires your signature. Remember the big print giveth and the small print taketh away.
—H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Topics: Reality, Advice
Find a job you like and you add five days to every week.
—H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Topics: Work, Jobs
If you’re doing your best, you won’t have any time to worry about failure.
—H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Topics: Worry, Failure
No matter how close to yours another’s steps have grown, in the end there is one dance you’ll do alone.
—H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Topics: Solitude
A spark of kindness starts a fire of love.
—H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Topics: Smiles, Kindness
Live so that when your children think of fairness and integrity, they think of you.
—H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Topics: Parents, Parenting
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.
Topics: Criticism
Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.
—H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Topics: Growth
When you tell the truth, you never have to worry about your lousy memory.
—H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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