Qualities Quotes

1291 Qualities quotes by 941 unique authors

It is not enough to have great qualities; We should also have the management of them. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities a sense of humor and a sense of proportion. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
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
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
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
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
Be able to cite three good qualities of every relative or acquaintance that you dislike. — Marilyn vos Savant
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
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
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
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
The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier. — George Bernard Shaw
Manners are like the shadows of virtues, they are the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love and respect. — Sydney Smith
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
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
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
I'm a Sagittarius, and one of our major qualities is that we're blindly optimistic. — Taylor Swift
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
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
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
Nothing endures but personal qualities. — Walt Whitman
For me, the peculiar qualities of faith are a logical outcome of this level of biological organization. — E. O. Wilson
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
Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art. — Frank Lloyd Wright
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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