The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such. All leaders whose fitness is questioned are clearly lacking in force.
ANDRE MAUROISWe appreciate frankness from those who like us. Frankness from others is called insolence.
More Andre Maurois Quotes
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Business is a combination of war and sport.
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The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one’s opinion but rather to know it.
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We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity – romantic love and gunpowder.
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The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.
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The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.
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Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations.
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No one can be profoundly original who does not avoid eccentricity.
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Style is the hallmark of a temperament stamped upon the material at hand.
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An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.
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Memory is a great artist. For every man and for every woman it makes the recollection of his or her life a work of art and an unfaithful record.
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If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny.
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The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool.
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The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.
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A contemptuous indifference turns into an enemy a woman who, well treated, might have been an angel.
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Smile, for everyone lacks self-confidence and more than any other one thing a smile reassures them.
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