When you can’t change the direction of the wind—adjust your sails.
—H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention.
—H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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
Always kiss your children goodnight, even if they’re already asleep.
—H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Topics: Kiss
Don’t work for recognition, but do work worthy of recognition.
—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
While earning your daily bread, be sure you share a slice with those less fortunate.
—H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Topics: Helping
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
To teach is to learn again.
—H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.
—H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Topics: Planning, Preparation
Oh, the difference between nearly right and exactly right.
—H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Topics: Right, Rightness
There are no unimportant jobs, no unimportant people, no unimportant acts of kindness.
—H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Empower your dreams with deadlines.
—H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Topics: Dreams
Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more. .
—H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Topics: Happiness, Joy
More look up and admire the stars. A champion climbs a mountain and grabs one.
—H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Topics: Stars
Remember that the only time you really lose is when you’re not giving it 100 percent.
—H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Topics: Winning
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, Persistence, Obstacles
Don’t confront me with my failures. I have not forgotten them.
—H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Topics: Failure
The display of status symbols is usually a result of low self-esteem. The self-confident person can afford to project a modest image.
—H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
We do not see things as they are. We see things as we are.
—H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Strive for excellence, not perfection.
—H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Topics: Excellence
There is never a wrong time to do the right thing.
—H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Be good to yourself. Be patient. Be kind.
Be forgiving. After all, you’re all you’ve got.
—H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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
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: Trust, Goals, Morality, Time, Morals, Procrastination
If you’re doing your best, you won’t have any time to worry about failure.
—H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Topics: Failure, Worry
Don’t wait for your ship to come in. Row out to meet it.
—H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Topics: Humankind, Action
Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends.
—H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Topics: Friendship
The greatest ignorance is to reject something you know nothing about.
—H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Topics: Ignorance
In business or in life, don’t follow the wagon tracks too closely.
—H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Topics: Business
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