Quotes About Admirable Qualities

#1. Channel the power of anger into the admirable qualities of passion, strength, and conviction or courage. Use quiet, carefully modulated words surrounding an edge of steel.

Gerald J. Lieberman

#2. I made dangerous choices in those years, thinking myself bold and adventurous. Later I would come to understand that I hadn't been daring at all, just driven by confusion and hormones. The person capable of true daring, I knew now, possessed two admirable qualities: curiosity and courage.

Alice Steinbach

#3. every man's admirable qualities (kindness, charm, intelligence, cute butt--you name it) had an evil twin waiting in the shadows to bite her in the ass when she'd least expected it. It hadn't taken a Ph.D. in philosophy to teach Jessica James that virtue was just the flip side of vice. A

Kelly Oliver

#4. 5. You feel he has a lot of admirable qualities.

Bisco Hatori

#5. Anwar Sadat once said that if you see a good person with admirable qualities, try to adapt those qualities to yourself, and he was such a great man.

Harry Hamlin

#6. Mac had many admirable qualities, but not tact. He was the sort of man who would have tried to cheer Napoleon up by talking about the Winter Sports at Moscow.

P.G. Wodehouse

#7. We only want to link up with people whom we like, admire, and trust ... We do not wish to join with managers who lack admirable qualities, no matter how attractive the prospects of their business. We've never succeeded in making a good deal with a bad person.

Warren Buffett

#8. Finesse and refinement are admirable qualities, but they are not the artist's ultimate goals; and, indeed, they can stand in the way of those goals.

Sam Inglis

#9. If one cannot command attention by one's admirable qualities one can at least be a nuisance.

Margery Allingham

#10. A friend cannot be considered a friend until he is tested in three occasions: in timeof need, behind your back, and after your death.

Ali Ibn Abi Talib

#11. That's a very admirable quality in a wife. The ability to admit she is in the wrong.

Lindsay Armstrong

#12. That's good. Go on, read some more.

Warren G. Harding

#13. Anything you write, even if you have to start over, is valuable. I let the story write itself through the characters.

Steve Buscemi

#14. Lonely you linger in a league above poetry.

Mie Hansson

#15. Christ's kingdom has no frontier, ye ken.

Laura Frantz

#16. There is no shame in confusion or fear. "There was only shame in the silence fear had produced ... It was the silence that betrayed us."

Barack Obama

#17. It must be powerful language if you canna make oout what the heel it's goin' on aboot!

Terry Pratchett

#18. When you find somebody good, keep them in your life.

Tom Ford

#19. Once you learn to do something consciously, you can move it into the subconscious and do it well. Everything you do well will be done subconsciously.

Zig Ziglar

#20. I do not know whether you are fond of chemical reading. There are some things in this science worth reading.

Thomas Jefferson

#21. She is a bold and passionate woman, fighting to earn respect as a farm owner and over the course of the novel she has to endure much suffering, which enhances her better qualities while diminishing some elements of her less admirable traits.

Thomas Hardy

#22. Attending to your own words and ideas as well as those of others is an admirable trait in any person, but a necessity in a leader.

Jennifer Frick-Ruppert

#23. It's simple, sir. We kick ass and go home," Sergeant Catz said to smiles and clapping. "Would you care to elaborate for those of us who weren't paying attention?

C.R. Daems

#24. People should practice an art in order to make their souls grow and not to make money or become famous. Paint a picture. Write.

Kurt Vonnegut

#25. Richard Gavin is one of the bright new stars in contemporary weird fiction. His richly textured style, deft character portrayal, and powerful horrific conceptions make every one of his tales a pleasure to read.

S.T. Joshi

#26. It was an instinctive testimony to Little Dorrit's worth and difference from all the rest, that the poor young fellow honoured and loved her for being simply what she was.

Charles Dickens

#27. Think of many things. Never place your happiness in one person's power. Be just to yourself.

Vikram Seth

#28. Of all the human qualities, the one I admire the most is competence. A tailor who is really able to cut and fit a coat seems to me an admirable man, and by the same token a university professor who knows little or nothing of the thing he presumes to teach seems to me to be a fraud and a rascal.

H.L. Mencken

#29. What exists in this heart is not imaginary. This hand would not grasp air in trying to hold you, nor this eye blind itself in searching for you in vain.

Chrissy Moon

#30. I have spent my spare time studying literature popular with young women of this planet. One should always study the battlefield."
Sean glanced at him. "And?"
"I suggest you give up now. According to my research, in a vampire-werewolf love triangle, the vampire always gets the girl.

Ilona Andrews