Top 100 Quotes About Qualities
#1. A lot of reality TV is repellent, but that doesn't diminish the qualities of some of the people who take part. There are decent people in there who have no alternatives.
Val McDermid
#2. Women with power and authority tend to intimidate people far more than men with the same qualities, particularly if those women deserve the position they have achieved.
Helene Tursten
#3. Tis misfortune that awakens ingenuity, or fortitude, or endurance, in hearts where these qualities had never come to life but for the circumstance which gave them a being.
William Makepeace Thackeray
#4. Love will keep us safe when we commit to choosing the kind of qualities, characteristics, and relationships that we would recommend to someone we love.
Bill Crawford
#5. REVIEW, v.t. To set your wisdom (holding not a doubt of it./ Although in truth there's neither bone nor skin to it)/ At work upon a book, and so read out of it/ The qualities that you have first read into it.
Ambrose Bierce
#6. Mike, who was taking on the qualities of a golden retriever, walked faithfully by my side to class.
Stephenie Meyer
#7. Life cannot find reasons to sustain it, cannot be a source of decent mutual regard, unless each of us resolves to breathe such qualities into it.
Frank Herbert
#8. To be joyful and peaceful within yourself every moment of your life, to be able to perceive life beyond its physical limitations - these are not superhuman qualities. These are human possibilities. Yoga is not about being superhuman; it is about realizing that being human is super.
Sadhguru
#9. But it is a noteworthy fact that eminent qualities in men may often be traced to similar qualities in their mothers.
Unknown
#10. If we keep on talking about masculine and feminine and following those stereotypes, then we will make women suppress and despise their so called masculine qualities and men suppress and despise their so called feminine ones, and that's where all the trouble starts.
Gloria Steinem
#11. illusory superiority." It is a phenomenon whereby people tend to overemphasize their positive qualities and underemphasize their negative qualities.
Steven Shaer
#12. Since all motives at bottom are selfish and ignoble, we may judge acts and qualities only be their effects.
H.P. Lovecraft
#13. Wiles and deceit are female qualities.
Aeschylus
#14. 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
#15. You can think of spiritual practice as a kind of spiritual re-parenting ... You're offering yourself the two qualities that make up good parenting: understanding - seeing yourself for who you truly are - and relating to what you see with unconditional love.
Tara Brach
#16. There may be one fault in a man that conceals a thousand qualities, or one excellence that conceals a thousand faults. The little indicates much.
Shams Tabrizi
#17. Joy, I think, is the main fruit of the Spirit missing among Christians, and peace and self-control are the main fruits or qualities that seem to be missing among those who are not Christian.
Lisa Bedrick
#18. Use and respond to the initial fresh qualities but consider them absolutely expendable.
Richard Diebenkorn
#19. The fear of this delicate and fierce feminine has more to do with our fear of being vulnerable again, getting hurt again, than it does by our actual distaste for the beauty of the feminine and Her qualities.
Alanis Morissette
#20. When one has truly imbibed spiritual qualities, they will spontaneously be reflected in one's thoughts and actions.
Mata Amritanandamayi
#21. Two quite opposite qualities equally bias our minds - habits and novelty.
Jean De La Bruyere
#22. The pilasters reaching down were adorned with a glistering substance (I know not what) under glass (as it seemed), resembling - a homely fancy, but I judged it to be sugar-candy; yet to my raised imagination, divested of its homelier qualities, it appeared a glorified candy.
Charles Lamb
#23. Where are you looking for samadhi (enlightened blissful state)? You just come into your own original Self-form of the Soul, final liberation and samadhi are the natural qualities of the Soul!
Dada Bhagwan
#24. I think being a mum gives you extra qualities. I'm more feisty, fiercely protective and less selfish. The main trait I want to instill in my kids is kindness. I think it's the most important thing. If you're kind, you'll go a long way.
Rebecca Ferguson
#25. As for King Hussein of Jordan, I cannot praise him enough. He is not only a friend, but a brother. His qualities as a man and his goodness of heart are enhanced by great courage and a true love of his country.
Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
#26. The Twelve Signs of the Zodiac represents the twelve lessons of human existence, the 12 qualities to be developed in the formation of the perfect man (and woman).
Vera Stanley Alder
#27. evolution only happens by learning new skills, developing these skills and qualities, and then embodying them.
Martin Faulks
#28. Any one who wishes to become a good writer should endeavour, before he allows himself to be tempted by the more showy qualities, to be direct, simple, brief, vigorous, and lucid.
Henry Watson Fowler
#29. Social grace, inner discipline and joy. These are the birthright of the human being who has been allowed to develop essential human qualities.
Maria Montessori
#30. Precision is not one of the qualities that comes out in my work.
Gil Kane
#31. I've yet to meet a bitter teenager. Bitterness, jealousy and jadedness, I think, are the most unattractive qualities in a person, and unfortunately they do seem to come with age.
Jane Goldman
#32. It is a tragic paradox that the very qualities that have led to man's extraordinary capacity for success are also those most likely to destroy him.
Anthony Storr
#33. The greatest results in life are usually attained by simple means and the exercise of ordinary qualities. These may for the most part be summed up in these two - common sense and perseverance.
Owen Feltham
#35. Women's strong qualities have become despised because of their weakness. The obvious remedy is to create a feminine character with all the strength of Superman plus all the allure of a good and beautiful woman.
William Moulton Marston
#36. People are subject to moods, to temptations and fears, lethargy and aberration and ignorance, and the staunchest qualities shift under the stresses and strains of daily life.
Ilka Chase
#37. It is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them - the character, the heart, generous qualities, progressive ideas.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
#38. I find it terrible when talents are rejected based on computer stats. Based on the criteria at Ajax now I would have been rejected. When I was 15, I couldn't kick a ball 15 meters with my left and maybe 20 with my right. My qualities technique and vision, are not detectable by a computer.
Johan Cruijff
#39. The knowledge that [he] had passed a loveless, institutionalized childhood and had escaped from his origins by prodigies of pure intellect, at the cost of all other human qualities, helped one to understand him - but not to like him.
Arthur C. Clarke
#40. It must be quite difficult, concealing your superior male qualities behind a mask of feigned humility.
Why, Gillian, it's that very ability that makes us so superior.
Victoria Alexander
#41. Leadership is not just one quality, but rather a blend of many qualities; and while no one individual possesses all of the needed talents that go into leadership, each man can develop a combination to make him a leader.
Vince Lombardi
#42. Courage, of all national qualities, is the most precarious; because it is exerted only at intervals, and by a few in every nation; whereas industry, knowledge, civility, may be of constant and universal use, and for several ages, may become habitual to the whole people.
David Hume
#43. When I was a kid growing up in New York, I was pretty unaware of racism. I think when we're young - before we lose our innocence - we're sort of unaware of the more flawed qualities of each other.
Dave Matthews
#44. A lot of the qualities in 'Killing and Dying' is sort of a response to work I'd done previously. I wanted to push myself in some different directions.
Adrian Tomine
#45. All good qualities in a child are the result of environment, while all the bad ones are the result of poor heredity on the side of the other parent
Elinor Smith
#46. For me, nothing brings out my 'born yesterday' idiotic qualities quite like having my photograph taken.
Sloane Crosley
#47. I believe that at every level of society the key to a happier world is the growth of compassion. We do not need to become religious, nor do we need to believe in an ideology. All that is necessary is for each of us to develop our good human qualities.
Dalai Lama
#48. To succeed in life ... we must constantly work on restraining ourselves from negative thoughts ... strengthening our positive qualities in the process.
Timothy Pina
#49. The idea of God, as meaning an infinitely intelligent, wise and good Being, arises from reflecting on the operations of our own mind, and augmenting, without limit, those qualities of goodness and wisdom.
David Hume
#50. Why am I with you? You're so conceited, arrogant - " "Narcissistic," I add, "attractive, lovable, brilliant." "That wasn't an invitation for you to compliment yourself." "No? My bad, I thought we were listing my best qualities.
Krista Ritchie
#51. BLACKBERRY. Also know as "Crackberry" for it's addictive qualities. It is the modern girl's weapon. It allow her to bid on ebay while walking down the street, map out her shopping route for maximum productivity, and sneak out of work and still get her messages as she peruses the sales racks ...
Nina Garcia
#52. I believe that curiosity, wonder and passion are defining qualities of imaginative minds and great teachers; that restlessness and discontent are vital things; and that intense experience and suffering instruct us in ways that less intense emotions can never do.
Kay Redfield Jamison
#53. Anyone who's read all of Proust plus The Man withour Qualities is bound t be missing out on a few other titles.
Lorrie Moore
#54. There are many men - such as those often to be found among the Indians - who are refined until they have qualities often attributed to the female sex. Yet they are men, and strong ones.
Agnes Smedley
#55. The truth and regularity of a character is not, in justice, to be looked upon as broken, from any one single act or omission which may seem a contradiction to it:Mthe best of men appear sometimes to be strange compounds of contradictory qualities.
Laurence Sterne
#56. If one starts to draw comparisons between what is and what is not, it is the poorer qualities of the former that strike you, the impurities, the flaws; in short, you can only really feel safe with nothingness.
Italo Calvino
#57. Changing prejudice often inverts the value of words while preserving most of their sense; virtues are turned into vices, artistic qualities become defects.
John Shearman
#58. Humility is my best friend, I've always valued it above all other spiritual qualities.
Frederick Lenz
#59. Only after I saw women who were attracted to distant, condescending, even violent men did I begin to understand that having a distant, condescending, even violent father could make those qualities seem inevitable, even feel like home. Because of my father, only kindness felt like home.
Gloria Steinem
#60. A friend once asked me what qualities were needed for SAS. I would say to be self-motivated and resilient; to be calm, yet have the ability to smile when it is grim; to be unflappable, be able to react fast and to have an 'improvise, adapt and overcome' mentality.
Bear Grylls
#61. Your kindness cannot be said.
You open doors in the sky.
You ease the heart and make
God's qualities visible.
Rumi
#62. Anyone who does not share his moments of joy and discouragement with others will never fully know his own qualities and his own defects
Paulo Coelho
#63. Not the least of the qualities that go into the making of a great ruler is the ability of letting others serve him.
Cardinal Richelieu
#65. Love brings to light a lover's noble and hidden qualities-his rare and exceptional traits: it is thus liable to be deceptive of his normal qualities.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#66. Into what boundless life, does education admit us. Every truth gained through it expands a moment of time into illimitable being
positively enlarges our existence, and endows us with qualities which time cannot weaken or destroy.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
#67. Life's burdens may only be overcome by a summoning of inner resources: by a dependence not upon others, but upon the qualities of spirit and mind.
Stephanie Barron
#68. A good teacher will appreciate the good qualities of his students. If one good quality is allowed to emerge, a world of good qualities will emerge from that one.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
#69. Forethought and prudence are the proper qualities of a leader.
[Lat., Ratio et consilium, propriae ducis artes.]
Tacitus
#70. People think me a sort of Florence Nightingale, but I have no heroic qualities. I simply don't feel very much.
Franny Billingsley
#71. A political career brings out the basest qualities in human nature.
James Bryce
#72. I paint to evoke a changing language of symbols, a language with which to remark upon the qualities of our mysterious capacities which direct us toward ultimate reality.
Morris Graves
#73. In meditation and in our daily lives there are three qualities that we can nurture, cultivate, and bring out. We already possess these, but they can be ripened: precision, gentleness, and the ability to let go.
Pema Chodron
#74. The best player ever? Pele. Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo are both great players with specific qualities, but Pele was better.
Osvaldo Ardiles
#75. I intend to work for this dance of the future. I do not know whether I have the necessary qualities; I may have neither genius nor talent nor temperament. But I know that I have a Will; and will and energy sometimes prove greater than either genius or talent or temperament.
Isadora Duncan
#77. The grave is a crucible where memory is purified; we only remember a dead friend by those qualities which make him regretted.
Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
#78. If a boy is not trained to endure and to bear trouble, he will grow up a girl; and a boy that is a girl has all a girl's weakness without any of her regal qualities. A woman made out of a woman is God's noblest work; a woman made out of a man is His meanest.
Henry Ward Beecher
#79. In the great battle of life, no brilliancy of intellect, no perfection of bodily development, will count when weighed in the balance against the assemblage of virtues, active and passive, of moral qualities which we group together under the name of character.
Theodore Roosevelt
#80. 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
#81. Abstract qualities begin With capitals alway: The True, the Good, the Beautiful- Those are the things that pay!
Lewis Carroll
#82. I think we need the feminine qualities of leadership, which include attention to aesthetics and the environment, nurturing, affection, intuition and the qualities that make people feel safe and cared for.
Deepak Chopra
#83. What a funny thing painting is. The abstract painters always insist on their connection with the visible reality, while the so called figurative artists insist that what they really care about, is the abstract qualities of life.
Marlene Dumas
#84. Times change, as do our wills, What we are - is ever changing; All the world is made of change, And forever attaining new qualities.
Luis Vaz De Camoes
#85. Mental toughness is Spartanism, with all its qualities of self-denial, sacrifice, dedication, fearlessness, and love.
Vince Lombardi
#86. And if you've got the wrong plans, I don't care how many positive qualities you've got, you're going to end up in the wrong place.
Zig Ziglar
#87. The beautiful thing having a vision for life is it adds energy, enthusiasm, winning spirit, patience, dedication and productive inner qualities in you.
Deepak Burfiwala
#88. I think that one of Tim's great qualities and abilities is in what seems like a thumbnail sketch to get something quite telling, very simply, when you're doing it or being in that thumbnail sketch, you don't feel that it's important.
Albert Finney
#89. More careful reflection teaches us, however, that the special theory of relativity does not compel us to deny ether...To deny the ether is ultimately to assume that empty space has no physical qualities whatever.
Albert Einstein
#90. Even though these are different times, right now we are particularly thinking about what is leadership, and Washington's qualities are as needed today as they were at the founding of this great nation.
Igor Babailov
#91. She is the creature of life, the giver of life, and the giver of abundant love, care and protection. Such are the great qualities of a mother. The bond between a mother and her child is the only real and purest bond in the world, the only true love we can ever find in our lifetime.
Ama H. Vanniarachchy
#92. AMERICANISM, n. 1) The desire to purge America of all those qualities which make it a more or less tolerable place in which to live; 2) The ability to simultaneously kiss ass, follow your boss's orders, swallow a pay cut, piss in a bottle, cower in fear of job loss, and brag about your freedom.
Ambrose Bierce
#93. Numbers have neither substance, nor meaning, nor qualities. They are nothing but marks, and all that is in them we have put into them by the simple rule of straight succession.
Hermann Weyl
#94. The trend of all knowledge at the present is to specialize, but archaeology has in it all the qualities that call for the wide view of the human race, of its growth from the savage to the civilized, which is seen in all stages of social and religious development.
Margaret Murray
#95. Then his heart and imagination were more in the ascendency. Now he had begun to admire the intellectual qualities of that literature more, and its imaginative less; for he had begun to think truth attainable through the forces of the brain, sole and supreme.
George MacDonald
#96. Just as cherry, plum, peach and damson blossoms all possess their own unique qualities, each person is unique. We cannot become someone else. The important thing is that we live true to ourselves and cause the great flower of our lives to blossom.
Daisaku Ikeda
#97. Courage and determination are qualities often overlooked in conflict. However, both foes can possess both qualities. The difference is which one counts goodness with courage and determination that more times than not overcome evil.
S. Foster
#98. The benevolence of wrapping the partridge in a vine leaf brings out its quality, just as the barrel of Diogenes brought forth the qualities of the great thinker.
Emmanuel Des Essarts
#99. A human being has many divine qualities. But there has never been another unparalleled divine quality like man's self-sacrifice, nor can there ever be.
Sri Chinmoy
#100. It is hard to combine and unite these two qualities, the carefulness of one who is affected by circumstances, and the intrepidity of one who heeds them not. But it is not impossible: else
were happiness also impossible.
Epictetus
