H. Jackson Brown, Jr. is an American author best known for his inspirational book, Life’s Little Instruction Book, which was a New York Times bestseller. Its sequel Life’s Little Instruction Book: Volume 2 also made it to the same best seller list in 1993.
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To teach is to learn again.
—H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Marriage is an empty box. It remains empty unless you put in more than you take out.
—H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
If you’re doing your best, you won’t have any time to worry about failure.
—H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Topics: Failure, Worry
Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There’s plenty of movement, but you never know if it’s going to be forward, backwards, or sideways.
—H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Topics: Talent
Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.
—H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Topics: Heart, Love, Vision
We do not see things as they are. We see things as we are.
—H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
While earning your daily bread, be sure you share a slice with those less fortunate.
—H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Topics: Helping
Perform your job better than anyone else can. That’s the best job security I know.
—H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Don’t confront me with my failures. I have not forgotten them.
—H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Topics: Failure
Read carefully anything that requires your signature. Remember the big print giveth and the small print taketh away.
—H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Topics: Advice, Reality
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: Time, Morality, Trust, Goals, Procrastination, Morals
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: Living, Happiness, Being True to Yourself
Remember that the only time you really lose is when you’re not giving it 100 percent.
—H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Topics: Winning
You can’t hire someone to practice for you.
—H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Topics: Practice
Strive for excellence, not perfection.
—H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Topics: Excellence
The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.
—H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Topics: Planning, Preparation
Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.
—H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Topics: Forgiveness, Power, Love
More look up and admire the stars. A champion climbs a mountain and grabs one.
—H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Topics: Stars
When you can’t change the direction of the wind—adjust your sails.
—H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
As you climb the ladder of success, be sure it’s leaning against the right building.
—H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Topics: Attitude, Failure, Success
Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.
—H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Topics: Integrity, Character
Life doesn’t require that we be the best—only that we try our best.
—H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Topics: Trying, Effort
Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more. .
—H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Topics: Joy, Happiness
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.
The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention.
—H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins—not through strength but by perseverance.
—H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Topics: Determination, Activism, Perseverance
When you judge others, you are revealing your own fears and prejudices.
—H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
In business or in life, don’t follow the wagon tracks too closely.
—H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Topics: Business
Remember that everyone you meet is afraid of something, loves something and has lost something.
—H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Topics: Kindness
In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins; not through strength, but through persistence.
—H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Topics: Strength, Obstacles, Persistence
Don’t work for recognition, but do work worthy of recognition.
—H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Live so that when your children think of fairness and integrity, they think of you.
—H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Topics: Parents, Parenting
Love is when the other person’s happiness is more important than your own.
—H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Topics: Happiness
Oh, the difference between nearly right and exactly right.
—H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Topics: Rightness, Right
Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends.
—H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Topics: Friendship
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.
There is never a wrong time to do the right thing.
—H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
We seldom enjoy leisure we haven’t earned.
—H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Topics: Leisure
Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor.
—H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Topics: Opportunity
A spark of kindness starts a fire of love.
—H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Topics: Kindness, Smiles
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