#grit

Somebody once said that in looking for people to hire, you look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence, and energy. And if you don’t have the first, the other two will kill you. You think about it; it’s true. If you hire somebody without [integrity], you really want them to be dumb and lazy. ↗

— Warren Buffett

#integrity #morality #intelligence

We always felt that if you do something with quality and integrity, then it's going to come back to you. ↗

— Herb Alpert

#back #come #felt #going #integrity

. . . car il n'est point vrai que l'oeuvre de l'homme est finie que nous n'avons rien à faire au monde que nous parasitons le monde qu'il suffit que nous nous mettions au pas du monde mais l'oeuvre de l'homme vient seulement de commencer et il reste à l'homme à conquérir toute interdiction immobilisée aux coins de sa ferveur et aucune race ne possède le monopole de la beauté, de l'intelligence, de la force . . . ↗

— Aimé Césaire

#négritude #poetry #intelligence

You think intelligence and grit can succeed by themselves, but I'm telling you that's a pretty illusion. ↗

— Nancy Kress

#self-reliance #success #intelligence

...Regardless, I still do not believe that your duty is to do as the people wish. Your duty is to lead as best you can, following the dictates of your conscience. You must be true. Your Majesty, to the man you wish to become.... ↗

— Brandon Sanderson

#integrity #leadership #politics #leadership

Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#nobility #religion #life

Our deeds still travel with us from afar/And what we have been makes us what we are. ↗

— George Eliot

#life

Govern thy life and thy thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one, and read the other. ↗

— Thomas Fuller

#life

The Leadership Training Institute of America trains and equips young men and women to be leaders with high standards of personal morality and integrity. ↗

— Michael Burgess

#equips #high #high standards #institute #integrity

The Commission has five commissioners from each side, plus three alternates, so all together sixteen members, people who are independent from the two governments, who have a lot of integrity, professional competence, and who have credibility in their respective countries. ↗

— Jose Ramos-Horta

#commissioners #competence #countries #credibility #each