Quotes with qualities

  • While we are indifferent to our good qualities, we keep on deceiving ourselves in regard to our faults, until we come to look on them as virtues.
  • One can say that three pre-eminent qualities are decisive for the politician: passion, a feeling of responsibility, and a sense of proportion.
  • Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.
  • Human relations are built on feeling, not on reason or knowledge. And feeling is not an exact science; like all spiritual qualities, it has the vagueness of greatness about it.
  • The sea - this truth must be confessed - has no generosity. No display of manly qualities - courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness - has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power.
  • Two qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that, even in the darkest hour, retains some glimmerings of the inner light which leads to truth; and second, the courage to follow this faint light wherever it may lead.
  • Sure of their qualities and demanding praise, more go to ruined fortunes than are raised.
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  • Lyman Abbott The highest qualities of character… must be earned.
    Lyman Abbott
    American Congregationalist theologian, editor, and author. (1835 - 1922)
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  • Benjamin Millepied 'Swan Lake' is the most difficult thing to portray for a female ballet dancer; it really requires such specific qualities of articulation, agility, strength, and the arm work is something that takes a lot of training.
    Benjamin Millepied
    French dancer and choreographer (1977 - )
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  • James Russell Lowell A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions.
    James Russell Lowell
    American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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  • William Shenstone A man generally has the good or ill qualities he attributes to mankind.
    William Shenstone
    English poet (1714 - 1763)
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  • Allen Tate A poem may be an instance of morality, of social conditions, of psychological history; it may instance all its qualities, but never one of them alone, nor any two or three; never less than all.
    Allen Tate
    American poet and essayist (1899 - 1979)
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  • Carrie Fisher Acting engenders and harbours qualities that are best left way behind in adolescence.
    Carrie Fisher
    American actress, writer and comedienne (1956 - 2016)
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  • Bhagavad Gita Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.
    Bhagavad Gita
    Indian Hindu storybook
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  • Samuel Johnson Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Queen Elizabeth I Although I may not be a lioness, I am a lion's cub, and inherit many of his qualities; and as long as the King of France treats me gently he will find me as gentle and tractable as he can desire; but if he be rough, I shall take the trouble to be just as troublesome and offensive to him as I can.
    Queen Elizabeth I
    Queen of England and Ireland (1533 - 1603)
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  • Paula Nelson Americans want action for their money. They are fascinated by its self-reproducing qualities if it's put to work. Gold-hoarding goes against the American grain; it fits in better with European pessimism than with America's traditional optimism.
    Paula Nelson
     
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  • Mark Twain As a thinker and planner the ant is the equal of any savage race of men; as a self-educated specialist in several arts she is the superior of any savage race of men; and in one or two high mental qualities she is above the reach of any man, savage or civilized!
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Albert Camus At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures - be what he is. And, above all, accept these things.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Erich Fromm Authority is not a quality one person ''has,'' in the sense that he has property or physical qualities. Authority refers to an interpersonal relation in which one person looks upon another as somebody superior to him.
    Erich Fromm
    German - American philosopher and psychologist (1900 - 1980)
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  • Bernie S. Siegel Being a survivor doesn't mean being strong - it's telling people when you need a meal or a ride, company, whatever. It's paying attention to heart wisdom, feelings, not living a role, but having a unique, authentic life, having something to contribute, finding time to love and laugh. All these things are qualities of survivors.
    Bernie S. Siegel
    American writer and pediatric surgeon (1932 - )
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  • Winston Churchill Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Aristotle Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Charles de Gaulle Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.
    Charles de Gaulle
    French statesman (1890 - 1970)
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  • Thomas Carlyle For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Billy Casper Golf puts a man's character on the anvil and his richest qualities patience, poise, and restraint to the flame.
    Billy Casper
    American professional golfer (1931 - )
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  • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle He possesses two out of the three qualities necessary for the ideal detective. He has the power of observation and that of deduction. He is only wanting in knowledge.
    The Sign of the Four (1890)
    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
    British author (1859 - 1930)
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