Qualities Quotes
1291 Qualities quotes by 941 unique authors
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It is not enough to have great qualities; We should also have the management of them.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of…
— Marquis de Sade
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We say nothing essential about the cathedral when we speak of its stones. We say nothing essential about Man when we seek to define him…
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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As we look around, it's very clear that in this world people do outrageous things to one another all of the time. It's not that…
— Sharon Salzberg
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I think I'm an actor because I have very strong imagination and empathy. I never studied acting, but those two qualities are exactly the qualities…
— Susan Sarandon
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Be able to cite three good qualities of every relative or acquaintance that you dislike.
— Marilyn vos Savant
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All beautiful and noble qualities have been united in me... I shall be the fruit which will leave eternal vitality behind even after its decay.…
— Egon Schiele
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Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes…
— David Seabury
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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…
— Giorgos Seferis
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The future continues to preoccupy me as a reliable source of hopes, fears and anxieties, but increasingly the present seems to have no outstanding qualities…
— Will Self
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The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.
— George Bernard Shaw
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Manners are like the shadows of virtues, they are the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love and respect.
— Sydney Smith
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I think President Obama could have handled politics and policies differently. But he has been decisive, strong, and consistent - important qualities in a president.…
— Eliot Spitzer
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What I'm trying to do now in my life - not just with the building, but with everything - is to construct things that will…
— Sylvester Stallone
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It may be that the very qualities that help people get ahead are the ones that make them ill-suited for managing crises. It's hard to…
— James Surowiecki
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I'm a Sagittarius, and one of our major qualities is that we're blindly optimistic.
— Taylor Swift
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We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects.
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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One can say that three pre-eminent qualities are decisive for the politician: passion, a feeling of responsibility, and a sense of proportion.
— Max Weber
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True love is not a strong, fiery, impetuous passion. It is, on the contrary, an element calm and deep. It looks beyond mere externals, and…
— Ellen G. White
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Nothing endures but personal qualities.
— Walt Whitman
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For me, the peculiar qualities of faith are a logical outcome of this level of biological organization.
— E. O. Wilson
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The biological evolutionary perception of life and of human qualities is radically different from that of traditional religion, whether it's Southern Baptist or Islam or…
— E. O. Wilson
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Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.
— Frank Lloyd Wright
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I know a lot of people with obsessive qualities, and there's a positive and negative part to it. There's the appeal of someone who's so…
— Callum Keith Rennie
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