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珠璣集 – 品格

假如你沒有敵人，一定也沒有性格。

If you don’t have enemies, you don’t have character.

Paul Newman  演員

品格就是勇於承擔自己的責任，所以有品格才會有自尊。

Character—the willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life—is the source from which self-respect.

Joan Didion  作家

把自己看得最為重要的人，最是卑瑣。

People are never so trivial as when they take themselves very seriously.

Oscar Wilde  愛爾蘭製作家 / 詩人

一個人品格的最佳尺度是：(1)看他怎樣對待無利於他者；(2) 看他怎樣對待無還手之力者。

The best index to a person’s character is (a) how he treats people who can’t do him any good and (b) how he treats people who can’t fight back.           

   Abigail Van Buren  專欄作家

苦難是對品格的考驗。

Calamity is the test of integrity.

Samuel Richardson  英國作家

有人曾說選擇員工要看三個條件：品格、智慧、幹勁。但假如員工缺乏第一個條件，其餘二者將會是你的大患。

Somebody once said that in looking for people to hire, you look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence, and energy. But if they don’t have the first, the other two will kill you.

Warren Buffett  股神 / 慈善家

多數人都能吃苦。但要真正了解其為人，不妨給他們權力。

Most people can bear adversity. But if you wish to know what a man really is, give him power.

Robert G. Ingersoll  美國內戰老兵 / 政治家

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