When my daddy died I was going through a lot of his papers. He had the quote below written down on one side of a piece of scratch paper.
"When everything is said and done, be sure more is done than said."
On the other side it read:
"Don't let anyone steal your dreams!"
"Always forgive your enemies, nothing annoys them as much!"
That was 17 years ago.
I laminated it and carry those words in my wallet, but hold them in my heart.
I try to live by them, not because I have to, but because it feels right.