Qualities Quotes

1291 Qualities quotes by 941 unique authors

Therefore it is unnecessary for a prince to have all the good qualities I have enumerated, but it is very necessary to appear to have… — Niccolo Machiavelli
My Head of House said I lacked certain necessary qualities...like the ability to behave myself. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
I believe that we carry within us a divinely inspired moral imperative to love ... We have within us the ability to change for the… — Dean Koontz
I am struck by how sharing our weakness and difficulties is more nourishing to others than sharing our qualities and successes. — Jean Vanier
This twenty-year-old boy was distinguished from childhood by strange qualities, a dreamer and an eccentric. A girl fell in love with him, and he went… — Mikhail Bulgakov
The most important aspect of Christianity is not the work we do, but the relationship we maintain and the surrounding influence and qualities produced by… — Oswald Chambers
Miss Vesper Holly has the digestive talents of a goat and the mind of a chess master. She is familiar with half a dozen languages… — Lloyd Alexander
Things exist either because they have recently come into existence or because they have qualities that made them unlikely to be destroyed in the past. — Richard Dawkins
If you strip away self-effacement, charm and the spirit of mischief-qualities that make determination and ambition tolerable- you're left with a right ar**hole. — Russell Brand
Beatrix puts a distance between herself and the rest of the world. She’s very engaging, but also quite private in nature. I see the same… — Lisa Kleypas
If you try to find a replacement, you'll be sadly disappointed, I can't be replaced. I'm the only man in all the world who possesses… — Loretta Chase
For if there is one thing I have learned over the years about men, it is that feelings of powerlessness do not usually bring forth… — Elizabeth Gilbert
You do not know how much they mean to me, my friends, And how, how rare and strange it is, to find In a life… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
You have qualities which I had not before supposed to exist in such a degree in any human creature. You have some touches of the… — Jane Austen
Within the universe of the extraordinary, those qualities we designate to human concepts of gender are often shared, exchanged, or even completely obliterated. Because of… — Aberjhani
5. You feel he has a lot of admirable qualities. — Bisco Hatori
Relationships are mysterious. We doubt the positive qualities in others, seldom the negative. You will say to your partner: do you really love me? Are… — Christopher Pike
Every human soul has seen, perhaps before their birth pure forms such as justice, temperance, beauty and all the great moral qualities which we hold… — Iris Murdoch
Music expresses feeling, that is to say, gives shape and habitation to feeling, not in space but in time. To the extent that music has… — J M Coetzee
The grandiose person is never really free; first because he is excessively dependent on admiration from others, and second, because his self-respect is dependent on… — Alice Miller
Owing to the fact he was a mute they were able to give him all the qualities they wanted him to have. — Carson McCullers
I am very happy, Jane; and when you hear that I am dead, you must be sure and not grieve: there is nothing to grieve… — Charlotte Bronte
Sloppy language and sloppy ways go together. Those who are truly educated have learned more than the sciences, the humanities, law, engineering, and the arts.… — Gordon B. Hinckley
I suppose no one is as handsome or as beautiful as he or she wishes, or as brilliant in school or as witty in speech… — Jeffrey R. Holland
He had in abundance youth’s most dangerous qualities: optimism and relentlessness. He would risk everything he had to fly the plane that could carry the… — John Irving

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