Qualities Quotes
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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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I am old enough to know only too well my good and bad qualities, which were often one in the same.
Lisa See
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Moral qualities are so constituted as to be destroyed by excess and by deficiency. . .
Aristotle
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As a Buddhist, I was trained to be tolerant of everything except intolerance. I was brought up not only to develop the spirit of tolerance but also to cherish moral and spiritual qualities such as modesty, humility, compassion, and, most important, to attain a certain degree of emotional equilibrium.
U Thant
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I have a deep and ongoing love of Iceland, particular the landscape, and when writing 'Burial Rites,' I was constantly trying to see whether I could distill its extraordinary and ineffable qualities into a kind of poetry.
Hannah Kent
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Character gives us qualities, but it is in our actions — what we do — that we are happy or the reverse.
Aristotle
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Self-denial and self-discipline, however, will be recognized as the outstanding qualities of a good soldier.
Mackenzie King
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The two qualities which chiefly inspire regard and affection are that a thing is your own and that it is your only one.
Aristotle
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Happiness, whether consisting in pleasure or virtue, or both, is more often found with those who are highly cultivated in their minds and in their character, and have only a moderate share of external goods, than among those who possess external goods to a useless extent but are deficient in higher qualities.
Aristotle
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I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
Oliver Goldsmith
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The honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action.
Aristotle
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Whoever comes to me finds me a mirror to whatever is in his heart. Thus, I try to help him to see qualities in himself that he needs to overcome.
Paramahansa Yogananda
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Everybody puts their best foot forward usually. Plus, everyone has their set of negative qualities. It’s best to focus on the positives. It’s not like I have to marry the person. I have many negative qualities too. So if you like a few good qualities about someone, stick to those. Let the negatives be.
Salman Khan
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I am very much a girly girl as well as being this tough, athletic fighter. I grew up a tomboy. I got my first four wheeler when I was eight. I got my first dirt bike shortly after. So, I have a lot of these manly qualities, I guess you would say. But, I also like to go get dressed up every weekend.
Paige VanZant
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My goal is this: always to put myself in the place in which I am best able to serve, wherever my gifts and qualities find the best soil to grow, the widest field of action. There is no other goal.
Hermann Hesse
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Happy the man when he has not the defects of his qualities.
Isaac D'Israeli
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I love to start characters in a place where you think you know them. We can make all kinds of assumptions about them and think they have no redeeming qualities, but like everyone, they're complex.
Callie Khouri
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One sees qualities at a distance and defects at close range.
Victor Hugo
