Desired Traits Quotes

#1. No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.

Saul Bellow

#2. No man can discover his own talents.

Brendan Behan

#3. The trait I regard most highly in a man is kindness. Thoughtful, consistent kindness. All other qualities - whether charming, witty, handsome, enterprising, powerful, seductive, or ingenious - wither in comparison to a truly kind man.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#4. Those who wish to stand tallest must kneel lowest.

Dillon Burroughs

#5. Science is global, but solution is local.

Ellen J. Kullman

#6. The midwife knows that when there is no pain, the way for the baby cannot be opened and the mother cannot give birth. Likewise, for a new Self to be born, hardship is necessary.

Elif Shafak

#7. From women's eyes this doctrine I derive:
They sparkle still the right Promethean fire;
They are the books, the arts, the academes,
That show, contain and nourish all the world.

William Shakespeare

#8. You can never pay back, so you should always try to pay forward.

Woody Hayes

#9. When we seek after wit, we discover only foolishness.

Baron De Montesquieu

#10. If Paulus's army had capitulated before the end, the Russians would have had the advantage of withdrawing forces against Paulus and against the southern front, where I had only two Romanian armies. Therefore, the resistance of the Sixth German Army, even to the death of the last man, was necessary.

Erich Von Manstein

#11. It is important that the Muslim leaders, scholars, and intellectuals are much more vocal and explain what Islam is.

Tariq Ramadan

#12. The way you get meaning into life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning. (43)

Mitch Albom

#13. The truth is that in this country you here you're more likely to be harassed, hurt, or killed if you're a minister speaking about progress for Black people than if you are a sure enough revolutionary.

Gil Scott-Heron

#14. All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation.

W. H. Auden