"The highest qualities of character...must be earned...."

--

Lyman Abbott

#Character Quotes #Quality Quotes

“It is harder to cut our gains than our losses.”

Source : "Haven: Short Stories, Poems, and Aphorisms".
“Sam Walton was a master storyteller who used illustrative stories to reinforce his cultural standards.”

Source : Michael Bergdahl (2004). “What I Learned From Sam Walton: How to Compete and Thrive in a Wal-Mart World”, p.69, John Wiley & Sons
“Your worth as a person does not come from what you are paid. It comes from who you are and what you give.”
“What the apartheid system was really good at doing was convincing groups to hate one another.”
“I take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear to wake me up and get going, rather than retreat.”
“I played around with the flowers and the lighting, so that was a good way to educate myself”
“We handed the most important belongings of our people -- the railroads and the banks -- to aliens who 2000 years ago had turned the temple into a house of usury. Back then there was a man who had the bravery to drive out these scoundrels with a whip! If today a national socialist is seen with such a temple-whip, he's thrown into jail.”
“As much as we sometimes roll our eyes at the ivory-tower isolation of universities, they continue to serve as remarkable engines of innovation.”

Source : "Kevin Kelly and Steven Johnson on Where Ideas Come From". Interview with Kevin Kelly, www.wired.com. September 27, 2010.

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