Qualities Quotes

1291 Qualities quotes by 941 unique authors

You really have to be a character to serve it properly. Obviously, you're acting, but you have to have those things in yourself, whether it's… — Greg Bryk
The fragrance of the heart is made up of the qualities and virtues of our spirit. Most of us have learned how to keep our… — Rajneesh
Satire is at once the most agreeable and most dangerous of mental qualities. It always pleases when it is refined, but we always fear those… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Obstinacy and contention are common qualities, most appearing in, and best becoming, a mean and illiterate soul. — Michel de Montaigne
Obedience insures greatness, whilst disobedience leads to a repulse. Whosoever possesseth the qualities of righteousness placeth his head on the threshold of obedience. — Saadi
How can we eliminate the deepest source of all unsatisfactory experience? Only by cultivating certain qualities within our mindstream. — Dalai Lama
Patience is one of those feminine qualities which have their origin in our oppression but should be preserved after our liberation. — Simone de Beauvoir
The work produced is a thing among things, able to be experienced and described as a sum of qualities. But from time to time it… — Martin Buber
Like simplicity and candor, and other much-commented qualities, enthusiasm is charming until we meet it face to face, and cannot escape from its charm. — Agnes Repplier
It has been well said that the food one consumes determines one's thoughts. By eating the flesh of various animals, the qualities of these animals… — Sathya Sai Baba
A work of art rests its merits in traditional qualities. It may constitute a remarkable feat in craftsmanship; it may be a searching study of… — Ben Shahn
There is a man whose qualities can be savored by people who are getting old... The painter qualities are carried to the highest point in… — Eugene Delacroix
Other people may complicate our lives, but life without them would be unbearably desolate. None of us can be truly human in isolation. The qualities… — Harold S. Kushner
It is perhaps common in the world for individuals and nations to suffer for their noble qualities more than for their ignoble ones. For nobility… — Daniel Patrick Moynihan
If all the qualities which a painter took from the model for his picture were really taken, no person could be painted twice. — Lucian Freud
Yet in a kingdom containing seven constituent parts, which is upheld like the triple staff ,of an ascetic , there is no ,single part more… — Guru Nanak
The best way I can mentor and lead those around me is to embody these qualities myself. — Richard Davidson
People accuse me of being Methody, but I'm not at all. The one thing I don't want people to see is me. I don't want… — Kristin Scott Thomas
Annoyance arises from the feared implication that we are copyists in subject or treatment, or both, whereas the common qualities that establish the relationship result… — Walter J. Phillips
Most people still don't think of qualities like happiness as being a skill, that can be enhanced through training. — Richard Davidson
When you want to organize knowledge. you will be careful to base the classification upon essential qualities. You will thus derive classes in which the… — Barrows Dunham
It is exceptional and difficult to find in one man all the qualities necessary for a great general. — Napoleon Bonaparte
We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to… — Theodore Roosevelt
From the sexual, or amatorial, generation of plants new varieties, or improvements, are frequently obtained; as many of the young plants from seeds are dissimilar… — Erasmus Darwin
There are two kinds of success. One is the rare kind that comes to the person who has the power to do what no one… — Theodore Roosevelt

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