Quotes about qualities
Deb Caletti - The Secret Life of Prince Charming
I used to think that finding the right one was about the man having a list of certain qualities. If he has them, we'd be compatible and happy. Sort of a checkmark system that was a complete failure. But I found out that a healthy relationship isn't so much about sense of humor or intelligence or attractive. It's about avoiding partners with harmful traits and personality types. And then it's about being with a good person. A good person on his own, and a good person with you. Where the space bet
Dada Bhagwan -
To become a leader through one’s merit karma is not a big deal. One should become a leader through his virtues [innate qualities].
J. Ruth Gendler - The Book of Qualities
Beauty is startling. She wears a gold shawl in the summer and sells seven kinds of honey at the flea market. She is young and old at once, my daughter and my grandmother. In school she excelled in mathematics and poetry. . . Beauty will dance with anyone who is brave enough to ask her.
Elizabeth George - A Woman's High Calling
We must look to God for His grace and His power to perfect godly qualities in our lives.
J. Ruth Gendler - The Book of Qualities
Pain is subtle. He has cold grey fingers. His voice is horse from crying & screaming... When people try to avoid him, he follows them silently & turns upas the bartender, or the bus driver... Pain has an elaborate filing system for keeping track of everyone... Pain respects people who are willing to take risks. If you... face him directly, he will give you a special ointment so your wounds don't fester.
Sunday Adelaja -
We need to be strong on the inside and have God’s character and qualities
Israelmore Ayivor - Leaders' Ladder
You can’t lead people if you can’t lead yourself. Self-leadership qualities qualifies you to become a co-operate leader.
Darren Shan - Palace of the Damned
Humans elect leaders on the basis of the promises they make. We [vampires] try to elect ours based solely on the strength of their character.
Hanif Kureishi - The Nothing
People go their whole lives wanting to be admired for their hidden qualities.
Sunday Adelaja -
Our assignment is to show the people all the qualities of God
Erik Pevernagie -
Relatedness is vital in a time when so many people suffer from social deafness. Emotional insensitivity being caused by a redoubtable “tin ear” makes it impossible to hear any signs of empathy or capture the vibrant qualities of ‘sharing’. ("Only needed a light ")
Sunday Adelaja -
We can achieve even more than we could expect if we try to be less distracted by the fuss of life and concentrate more on developing some qualities or characteristic of our soul and character
Sunday Adelaja -
Trials makes you to develop the qualities of a successful man
Thiruvalluvar - Thirukkural
Consider a man’s good qualities, and consider his faults; and judge his character by that which is more.
Subroto Bagchi -
There are three qualities that make someone a true professional. These are the ability to work unsupervised, the ability to certify the completion of a job or task and, finally, the ability to behave with integrity at all times.
Michael Bassey Johnson -
An exceptional woman with all the desired qualities exists only in a man's imagination.
Yellow Tanabe -
Stupidity isn't the only thing humans carry inside of them. I'll show you that we also have the power to purify.
Amaka Imani Nkosazana -
If you can only do one thing today, choose to help someone in need. There are many who are less fortunate. Take some time to lend a helping hand. You will be surprised by how much you will uplift their spirit.
David Nicholls - One Day
Self-pitying, self-righteous, self-important, all the selfs except self-confident, the quality that she always needed the most.
Elizabeth George -
Model the qualities that you want your children to show to each other.
Elizabeth I - Collected Works
As for my own part I care not for death, for all men are mortal; and though I be a woman yet I have as good a courage answerable to my place as ever my father had. I am your anointed Queen. I will never be by violence constrained to do anything. I thank God I am indeed endowed with such qualities that if I were turned out of the realm in my petticoat I were able to live in any place in Christendom.
Craig D. Lounsbrough -
It might not be about perfection. Rather, it may be that that which is imperfect is that which has the most character.
C.S. Lewis -
The pretence leads up to the real thing. When you are not feeling particularly friendly but know you ought to be, the best thing you can do, very often, is put on a friendly manner and behave as if you were a nicer person than you actually are. And in a few minutes, as we have all noticed, you will be really feeling friendlier than you were. Very often the only way to get a quality in reality is to start behaving as if you had it already.
Flannery O'Connor - A Good Man is Hard to Find and Other Stories
Mrs. Hopewell had no bad qualities of her own but she was able to use other people's in such a constructive way that she never felt the lack.
Sunday Adelaja -
Only through delayed gratification could you be able to come up with other virtues, character, trait that will really qualify you to call yourself a human being.
Renée Fleming - The Inner Voice: The Making of a Singer
This is often the way we put together our lives, adding the striking qualities of others into our own character.
H. Burke Peterson -
The Man of Power is one who presides—By persuasion. He uses no demeaning words or behavior, does not manipulate others, appeals to the best in everyone, and respects the dignity andagency of all humankind—men, women, boys, and girls.By long-suffering. He waits when necessary and listens to the humblest or youngest person. He is tolerant of the ideas of others and avoids quick judgments and anger. By gentleness. He uses a smile more often than a frown. He is not gruff or loud or frightening; he d
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
This general eclipse of ambition and determination and fortitude, all of the very qualities on which I have prided myself, is ridiculous, and, I must admit, somewhat obscene.
Sunday Adelaja -
Your destination, your special gift, your personal qualities and your potential are interrelated
Georgi Y. Johnson - I Am Here: Opening the Windows of Life and Beauty
Through our awareness, we can open the inheritance of our qualities or talents, and behind that, reside in the stillness of being, present in the sanctity of universal love.
Bahá'u'lláh -
All that ye potentially possess can…be manifested only as a result of your own volition.”Bahá’u’lláh
Kiki Archer - But She Is My Student
I love everything. The way she strokes her earlobe when she's thinking. The way she chews her pen when she's writing. The way she laughs. The way she smiles. The way she's kind. The way she cares. The way she listens. Just everything. She's just incredible. I've never met anyone quite like her before.
H.L. Mencken - Treatise on the Gods
The Jews could be put down very plausible as the most unpleasant race ever heard of. As commonly encountered they lack any of the qualities that mark the civilized man: courage, dignity, incorruptibility, ease, confidence. They have vanity without pride, voluptuousness without taste, and learning without wisdom. Their fortitude such as it is, is wasted upon puerile objects, and their charity is mainly a form of display.
Lynn Austin - Candle in the Darkness
The war has changed you, too, Caroline. Your faith is stronger, your compassion deeper, your love more intense than ever before. It's as if all the qualities I saw in you and fell in love with have been refined and purified.
Craig D. Lounsbrough - An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus
To fully understand how utterly amazing we really are we must first understand all of the things about us that are not, and then we must make our habitation where they are not.
Jim George -
Faithfulness and character are noble qualities that God honors.
Mike Basevic - Mastering the Mental Edge
Remember that you are perfect and to start appreciating yourself for your amazing qualities.
Ramana Pemmaraju -
Being a Gentleman, has more to do with hiding his flaws, than exhibiting the virtues!
Marcus Aurelius - Meditations
Look beneath the surface let not the several quality of a thing nor its worth escape thee.
Lindsay Armstrong - Leave Love Alone
That's a very admirable quality in a wife. The ability to admit she is in the wrong.
Walt Whitman -
Nothing endures but personal qualities.
Alexis de Tocqueville -
We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects.
Marie Curie -
After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it.
E. O. Wilson -
For me, the peculiar qualities of faith are a logical outcome of this level of biological organization.
John Rhys-Davies -
I've always been attracted to films which explore the qualities of courage.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
It is not enough to have great qualities We should also have the management of them.
Madame de Stael -
Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.