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When you are in business for a long time, you go through good times and bad times. When you go through bad times, you learn to control costs, satisfy customers better, satisfy employees better and become more transparent. Therefore, you build character in the company. N. R. Narayana Murthy
Time Good Character You Business Better Long Long Time Employees Build Become Control Bad More Costs Through Bad Times Good Times Learn Go Times Customers Transparent Therefore Company Satisfy
When hypocrisy is a character trait, it also affects one's thinking, because it consists in the negation of all the aspects of reality that one finds disagreeable, irrational or repugnant. Octavio Paz
Character Reality Hypocrisy Thinking Negation Consists Finds Disagreeable Also Because Affects Trait Irrational Repugnant Aspects
I believe in doing the right things; that is my character and personality. Gianluigi Buffon
Character Personality Believe Right Things Doing Right Things
We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around us. John Locke
Character Our Those Moral Moral Character Color Take Like Around Hue Us Who
Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel. Napoleon Hill
Character Persistence Man Steel Carbon
As one digs deeper into the national character of the Americans, one sees that they have sought the value of everything in this world only in the answer to this single question: how much money will it bring in? Alexis de Tocqueville
Character World Money Will Value Single National Everything Only Sees Sought Answer How How Much How Much Money National Character Question American Much Deeper Bring
Winning takes talent, to repeat takes character. John Wooden
Character Winning Takes Talent Repeat
A man's natural rights are his own, against the whole world; and any infringement of them is equally a crime, whether committed by one man, or by millions; whether committed by one man, calling himself a robber, (or by any other name indicating his true character,) or by millions, calling themselves a government. Lysander Spooner
Government Character Man Rights Natural World Crime Own Other One-Man True True Character Name Robber Calling Himself Equally His Committed Any Whether Against Them Themselves Natural Rights Whole Millions
Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike. Theodore Roosevelt
Life Character Long Alike Run Factor Individual Long Run Nations Decisive
Our language is the reflection of ourselves. A language is an exact reflection of the character and growth of its speakers. Cesar Chavez
Character Reflection Language Our Ourselves Exact Speakers Growth
The higher mental development of woman, the less possible it is for her to meet a congenial male who will see in her, not only sex, but also the human being, the friend, the comrade and strong individuality, who cannot and ought not lose a single trait of her character. Emma Goldman
Character Woman Human Being Strong Will Sex Single Lose Meet Ought Possible See Mental Only Higher Comrade Individuality Development Also Male Friend Trait Human Being Cannot Congenial Less Who Her
Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there. Stevie Wonder
Character You Top Ability Takes Get May Keep
When a human being becomes a set of data on a website like Facebook, he or she is reduced. Everything shrinks. Individual character. Friendships. Language. Sensibility. Zadie Smith
Website Character Facebook Human Being Language Everything Data Individual He He Or She Like She Becomes Reduced Friendships Human Being Sensibility Shrinks Set
We have to be bold in our national ambitions. First, we must win the fight against poverty within the next decade. Second, we must improve moral standards in government and society to provide a strong foundation for good governance. Third, we must change the character of our politics to promote fertile ground for reforms. Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
Politics Government Good Character Change Fight Strong Win Poverty First National Ambition Society Our Moral Must Promote Within Governance Provide Fertile Decade Improve Reforms Against Next Ground Standards Bold Foundation Good Governance Second Third
As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved. Marcus Tullius Cicero
Character Man Water Fire Down Once Unmoved Out Vanishes Threats Purest Brought Thrown Put Over Also Himself False Accusation Heaven Against Sea Standing Boils
Good character consists of recognizing the selfishness that inheres in each of us and trying to balance it against the altruism to which we should all aspire. It is a difficult balance to strike, but no definition of goodness can be complete without it. Alan Dershowitz
Good Character Balance Goodness Difficult Complete Strike Consists Definition Recognizing Without Altruism Selfishness Trying Which Against Us Should Aspire Good Character Each
Someone said adversity builds character, but someone else said adversity reveals character. I'm pleasantly surprised with my resilience. I persevere, and not just blindly. I take the best, get rid of the rest, and move on, realizing that you can make a choice to take the good. Brooke Shields
Best Good Adversity Character You Rest Blindly Move On Else Pleasantly Someone Take Make Reveals Said Builds Surprised Persevere Get Move Just Realizing Choice Rid Resilience
Obama is a man of first-class intellect and first-class temperament. But his character remains highly suspect. Charles Krauthammer
Character Man Obama Temperament Remains Highly His Intellect Suspect
Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time. Elbert Hubbard
Attitude Time Character Result Our Spend Way Our Time Mental Mental Attitude Things Two
By constant self-discipline and self-control you can develop greatness of character. Grenville Kleiser
Character You Constant Develop Self-Control Self-Discipline Greatness
A man of personality can formulate ideals, but only a man of character can achieve them. Herbert Read
Character Man Personality Achieve Only Ideals Formulate Them
The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit... a reputation, character. John D. Rockefeller
Character Man Important Young Reputation Most Most Important Thing Important Thing Establish The Most Important Young Man Credit Thing
The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out. Thomas Babington Macaulay
Character Man Out Would Never He Knew Real Real Character Measure Found
Love is the expression of one's values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved in your character and person, the emotional price paid by one man for the joy he receives from the virtues of another. Ayn Rand
Love Character You Man Love Is Joy Reward Values Earn Virtues Moral One-Man Price Emotional He Qualities Another Greatest Greatest Reward Person Achieved Paid Your Expression Receives
As a former Airman First Class in the United States Air Force, like many veterans in America, my military experience played an important part in instilling in me a sense of character and discipline that has served me throughout my life. Chuck Norris
Life Character Me Class Air Force Experience Discipline Veterans My Life First Important Sense Military Air States Throughout Part Instilling First Class Like Force Important Part America Former Many United United States Served Played
A man's character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him. Frederick Douglass
Character Man About More More Or Less Color Takes Him Always Hue Form Less Things
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