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«It always seemed strange to me that the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, aquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and selfinterest are the traits of sucess. And while men admire the quality of the first, they love the produce of the second.»
Author: John Steinbeck
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
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«Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character; it requires moral rather than athletic or intellectual effort, and it imposes on both leader and follower alike the burdens of self-restraint.»
Author: Lewis H. Lapham
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athletic, burdens, degrees, follower, imposes, moral character, restraint, self-restraint, technique, traits
«Nothing brings out the lower traits of human nature like office-seeking. Men of good character and impulses are betrayed by it into all sorts of meanness.»
«Nothing is so soothing to our self esteem as to find our bad traits in our forebears. It seems to absolve us.»
Author: Van Wyck Brooks
(Biographer, Critic, Historian)
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absolve, absolved, esteem, self esteem, soothes, soothing, traits
«If we want our children to possess the traits of character we most admire, we need to teach them what those traits are and why they deserve both admiration and allegiance. Children must learn to identify the forms and content of those traits.»
Author: William Bennett
(Author, Politician)
| About:
Character,
Children,
Teachers and teaching
| Keywords:
admiration, admire, allegiance, forms, identify, identifying, The Forms, traits
«Six traits of effective leaders: 1. Make others feel important 2. Promote a vision 3. Follow the golden rule 4. Admit mistakes 5. Criticize others only in private 6. Stay close to the action Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.»
Author: Christian Nevell Bovee
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«Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality. No one can become fully aware of the very essence of another human being unless he loves him. By his love he is enabled to see the essential traits and featur»
Author: Viktor Frankl
| About:
Love,
Mankind,
Personality,
Self-love
| Keywords:
aware, core, enabled, grasp, innermost, personality, traits
«Of the billionaires I have known, money just brings out the basic traits in them. If they were jerks before they had money, they are simply jerks with a billion dollars.»
Author: Warren Buffett
| About:
Money
| Keywords:
a billion, billion, billionaire, billionaires, dollars, jerked, jerks, traits
«A man finds room in a few square inches of his face for the traits of all his ancestors; for the expression of all his history, and his wants»
«O God! You are the friend of all because of your merits. A good person embellished with good thoughts becomes the friend or benefactor of all. Such a person influences others, because of his positive personality traits and attracts them and as a result, he befriends all. »
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