Qualities Quotes
1291 Qualities quotes by 941 unique authors
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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…
— Mark Twain
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We all wear some disguise, make some professions, use some artifice, to set ourselves off as being better than we are; and yet it is…
— William Hazlitt
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Abstract qualities begin With capitals alway: The True, the Good, the Beautiful- Those are the things that pay!
— Lewis Carroll
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It is obvious that the best qualities in man must atrophy in a standing-room-only environment.
— Stewart Udall
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You cannot throw words like heroism and sacrifice and nobility and honor away without abandoning the qualities they express.
— Marya Mannes
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There is a sort of charm in ugliness, if the person has some redeeming qualities and is only ugly enough.
— Josh Billings
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Faith, courage, and intelligent and uninterrupted awareness - these qualities are to be present whether one is wide awake, half asleep, or in deep slumber.…
— B.K.S. Iyengar
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The qualities that made for success in a fighter-pilot seemed to be just those sturdy qualities that made for success in other professions; observation, initiative,…
— Jim Bailey
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I am among those who believe that our Western civilization is on its way to perishing. It has many commendable qualities, most of which it…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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Loving-kindness is the better part of goodness. It lends grace to the sterner qualities of which this consists.
— W. Somerset Maugham
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I have known some men possessed of good qualities which were very serviceable to others, but useless to themselves; like a sun-dial on the front…
— Jonathan Swift
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Happy the man when he has not the defects of his qualities.
— Isaac D'Israeli
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Anarchism asserts the possibility of an organization without discipline, fear, or punishment, and without the pressure of poverty: a new social organism which will make…
— Emma Goldman
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Persons unmask their evilest qualities when they do quarrel.
— George Herbert
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Love is the admiration and cherishing of the amiable qualities of the beloved person, upon the condition of yourself being the object of their action.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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We confess our bad qualities to others out of fear of appearing naive or ridiculous by not being aware of them.
— Gerald Brenan
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As a result of 50 years of emancipation, feminine qualities were dying out or being transferred to the males. Pansies of both sexes were everywhere,…
— Ian Fleming
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I don't suppose God laughs at the people who think He doesn't exist. He's above jokes. But the devil isn't. That's one of his most…
— Robertson Davies
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I have no skills with machines. I fear them, and because I cannot help attributing human qualities to them, I suspect that they hate me…
— Robertson Davies
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The silver ore of pure charity is an expensive article in the catalogue of a man's good qualities.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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Heroic people take risks to themselves to help others. There's nothing heroic about accepting $5 million to go out and run around chasing a ball,…
— Gregg Easterbrook
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Some people who've read my story think I had a terrible childhood and that I was neglected or even abused, while others feel that my…
— Jeannette Walls
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All attributes ascribed to God are attributes of His acts, and do not imply that God has any qualities.
— Maimonides
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Not the least of the qualities that go into the making of a great ruler is the ability of letting others serve him.
— Cardinal Richelieu
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In the past, traditional art was based on making manifest what is enduring in man, like love, jealousy, hatred, envy, and greed... . Today art…
— Tawfiq al-Hakim
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