Best gains & character Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“By the study of their biographies, we receive each man as a guest into our minds, and we seem to understand their character as the result of a personal acquaintance, because we have obtained from their acts the best and most important means of forming an opinion about them. "What greater pleasure could'st thou gain than this?" What more valuable for the elevation of our own character?”

Men Mind Mean Important Character Seems Pleasure Results Opinion Study Greater Gains Valuable Guests Biographies Acquaintance Elevation

Book:Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans: Complete

Source: Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans: Complete

“The elevation of appearance over substance, of celebrity over character, of short term gains over lasting achievement displays a poverty of ambition. It distracts you from what's truly important.”

Important Character Term Poverty Achievement Ambition Gains Appearance Substance Lasting Display Short Term Elevation

Author:Barack Obama

“When the mind once allows a doubt to gain entrance, the value of deeds performed grow less, their character changes, we forget the past and dread the future.”

Mind Character Past Values Grows Forget Doubt Gains Deeds Dread Entrances Forget The Past Character Change

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Jules Verne (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Jules Verne (Illustrated)

“Universities are fantastic places to gain knowledge on a subject, develop a personal network, explore your character and learn new techniques to approach problems. I do however believe that there is a strong argument for students who have an idea they are passionate about to just try and turn it into a reality. I fell into this category and I don't regret not going to University.”

Trying Believe Ideas Character Problem Reality Turns Strong Subjects Students Regret Approach Gains Argument University Passionate Technique Fantastic Categories Don't Regret

Author:Richard Branson

“When trying a case [the famous judge] L. Cassius never failed to inquire "Who gained by it?" Man's character is such that no one undertakes crimes without hope of gain.”

Men Trying Character Cases Crime Judging Gains Greed Without Hope Cassius

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Adolescence is the time to enlarge the natural sentiments of pity, friendship, and generosity, the time to develop an understanding of human nature and the varieties of human character, the time to gain insight into the strengths and weaknesses of all men and to study the history of mankind.”

Source: Adolescence: The Farewell to Childhood

“It's often frustrating when you're a war reporter and you're covering these places that far away. You're frustrated by making stories that people can't connect to in any way. It's hard for Americans to connect to Arabic-speaking Iraqis in refugee camps or Pashto-speaking Afghans in the countryside, and having a character who is a vehicle through which you're allowed to make these relationships really allowed us to gain in an emotional weight that was difficult for us to do any other way to make it all human.”

People Way Humans War Hard Character Stories Difficult Emotional Gains Weight Camps Vehicle Far Away Frustrated Reporters Refugee Frustrating Covering Countryside Refugee Camps

Author:Rick Rowley

“I'm always in this shape, that shape, whatever shape you like the most. I am always in various stages of shapes. If the woman needs to be more soft I'll gain weight and then I'll lose weight for another film that I did where I wanted her to be more wiry. I enjoy using my body as something that helps me get to a character.”

Ifs Needs Character Helping Body Wanted Film Enjoy Loses Stage Shapes Gains Weight Various Help Me Lose Weight

Author:Sandra Bullock

“It's not what we eat but what we digest that makes us strong; not what we gain but what we save that makes us rich; not what we read but what we remember that makes us learned; and not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity.”

Giving Character Remember Strong Practice Rich Integrity Gains

Author:Francis Bacon

“Characters begin as voices, then gain presence by being viewed in others' eyes. Characters define one another in dramatic contexts. It is often very exciting, when characters meet - out of their encounters, unanticipated stories can spring.”

Character Stories Eye Voice Spring Gains Exciting Dramatic Encounters

Author:Joyce Carol Oates

“Our politics suffers from a shortage of people who put character and country before career and personal gain.”

People Country Character Suffering Careers Gains Shortage Personal Gain

Author:Cal Thomas

“Just as we can learn from our mistakes, we can gain character from our disappointments.”

Character Mistake Gains Disappointment Learning From Our Mistakes

Author:Robert Kiyosaki

“Universities are fantastic places to gain knowledge on a subject, develop a personal network, explore your character and learn new techniques to approach problems.”

Character Problem Subjects Approach Gains University Technique Fantastic

Author:Richard Branson

“It is extreme arrogance for one to think he is the only one who can govern his country and nobody else can do it. We're all human. After 10, 15 years you get tired, you run out of steam and ideas, you have to give a chance to somebody else. And whether you yourself are inclined to stay on, all those around you are pushing you to stay on for what they will gain. One has to have the strength of character to say the time has come to move on...unless you are a king.”

Thinking Giving Years Humans Ideas Country Character Running Moving Can Do Chance Kings Gains Tired Extremes Arrogance Pushing Steam Strength Of Character

Author:Kofi Annan

“As a younger actor you want to be approved of, you want to gain respect, be admired. All of those things. To say: 'This is me playing this character. And aren't I fantastic!' I don't feel that so much now.”

Want Feels Character Actors Gains Fantastic Approved This Is Me

Author:Kristin Scott Thomas

“Malicious acts are performed by people for personal gain … Sorcerers, though, have an ulterior purpose for their acts, which has nothing to do with personal gain. The fact that they enjoy their acts does not count as gain. Rather, it is a condition of their character. The average man acts only if there is a chance for profit. Warriors say they act not for profit but for the spirit.”

People Ifs Men Doe Character Facts Spirit Purpose Enjoy Chance Conditions Gains Average Profit Warrior Average Man Malicious Personal Gain

Book:Power of Silence

Source: Power of Silence

“Women without children are also the best of mothers,often, with the patience,interest, and saving grace that the constant relationship with children cannot always sustain. I come to crave our talk and our daughters gain precious aunts. Women who are not mothering their own children have the clarity and focus to see deeply into the character of children webbed by family. A child is fortuante who feels witnessed as a peron,outside relationships with parents by another adult.”

Feels Children Character Mother Parent Interest Focus Grace Daughter Adults Gains Constant Parenting Clarity Saving Crave Aunt Mothering Our Daughter Saving Grace

Author:Louise Erdrich

“No pain that we suffer, no trial that we experience is wasted. It ministers to our education, to the development of such qualities as patience, faith, fortitude and humility. All that we suffer and all that we endure, especially when we endure it patiently, builds up our characters, purifies our hearts, expands our souls, and makes us more tender and charitable, more worthy to be called the children of God . . . and it is through sorrow and suffering, toil and tribulation, that we gain the education that we come here to acquire and which will make us more like our Father and Mother in heaven.”

“You build trust with others each time you choose integrity over image, truth over convenience, or honor over personal gain.”

Inspirational Character Inspiration Honor Integrity Gains You Choose Convenience Personal Gain

Author:John C. Maxwell

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