Qualities Quotes

• We fought no better, perhaps, than they. We exhibited, perhaps, no higher individual qualities.

  

  Joshua Chamberlain
  • Better
  • Qualities
  • Fought

• 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
  • Think
  • Characters
  • Complex

• Some of the qualities of #‎ God must be merged into us before our #‎ prayers can be fit for His acceptance.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Acceptance
  • Prayers

• All are agreed that the various moral qualities are in a sense bestowed by nature: we are just, and capable of temperance, and brave, and possessed of the other virtues from the moment of our birth. But nevertheless we expect to find that true goodness is something different, and that the virtues in the true sense come to belong to us in another way. For even children and wild animals possess the natural dispositions, yet without Intelligence these may manifestly be harmful.

  

  Aristotle
  • Moral
  • Brave
  • Virtues

• I'm a Sagittarius, and one of our major qualities is that we're blindly optimistic.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Optimistic
  • Major
  • Blindly

• We Germans should know that we're good at constructing cars, and we have a lot of good qualities. But we're not the funniest.

  

  Daniel Bruhl
  • Good
  • Know
  • Qualities

• Kindness and a caring mind are two separate qualities. Kindness is manners. It is superficial custom, an acquired practice. Not so the mind. The mind is deeper, stronger, and, I believe, it is far more inconstant.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Practice
  • Kindness
  • Manners

• Therefore it is unnecessary for a prince to have all the good qualities I have enumerated, but it is very necessary to appear to have them. And I shall dare to say this also, that to have them and always to observe them is injurious, and that to appear to have them is useful; to appear merciful, faithful, humane, religious, upright, and to be so, but with a mind so framed that should you require not to be so, you may be able and know how to change to the opposite.

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
  • Prince
  • Unnecessary
  • Enumerated

• The emotional qualities are antagonistic to clear reasoning.

  

  Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Qualities
  • Reasoning
  • Antagonistic

• American movie audiences now just don’t seem to be very interested in any kind of ambiguity or any kind of real complexity of character or narrative - I’m talking in large numbers, there are always some, but enough to make hits out of movies that have those qualities. I think those qualities are now being seen on television and that people who want to see stories that have those kinds of qualities are watching television.

  

  Steven Soderbergh
  • Character
  • Television
  • Audiences

• We feel neither extreme heat nor extreme cold; qualities that are in excess are so much at variance with our feelings that they are impalpable: we do not feel them, though we suffer from their effects.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Suffer
  • Extreme
  • Variance

• I always fall in love with qualities of people I work with.

  

  Laura Dern
  • People
  • Work
  • Always

• The nobler sort of man emphasizes the good qualities in others, and does not accentuate the bad. The inferior does.

  

  Confucius
  • Qualities
  • Emphasize
  • Accentuate

• There are certain qualities of light that blur the years.

  

  Emily St. John Mandel
  • Light
  • Qualities
  • Blur

• There are four qualities essential to a great jazzman. They are taste, courage, individuality, and irreverence. These are the qualities I want to retain in my music.

  

  Stan Getz
  • Qualities
  • Retain
  • Jazz Man

• Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • Qualities
  • Comparison
  • Diminishes

• The vain.- We are like shop windows in which we are continually arranging, concealing or illuminating the supposed qualities other ascribe to us - in order to deceive ourselves.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Qualities
  • Vain
  • Illuminating

• I don’t eat meat because meat brings out negative qualities such as fear, anger, anxiety, aggressiveness, etc. Vegetables peacefully offer themselves to the earth when ripe, thus allowing a sublime and peaceful thought-conscio usness.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • Meat
  • Vegetables
  • Ripe

• For me, the peculiar qualities of faith are a logical outcome of this level of biological organization.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Faith
  • Organization
  • Level

• Mental toughness is spartanism with qualities of sacrifice, self-denial, dedication. It is fearlessness, and it is love.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • Sacrifice
  • Dedication
  • Fearlessness

• Once we recognize the fact that every individual is a treasury of hidden and unsuspected qualities, our lives become richer, our judgement better, and our world is more right. It is not love that is blind, it is only the unnoticing eye that cannot see the real qualities of people.

  

  Charles H. Percy
  • People
  • World
  • Real

• I am sure you will agree that all children deserve time, attention, and love from the adults in their lives. These basic qualities are so much more valuable than the always-changing material and social concerns that can seem so important to young people.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • People
  • Time
  • Children

• Okay," Claire finally said. "I admit, he has significant ninja qualities." "Booyah. I will summon the ninja. Oh, and take a lunch break while we burgle." "You’re going too?" "Am I not ninja enough? Are you saying that I lack ninja?

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Qualities
  • Ninja
  • Burgle

• But I accepted that because God gave me other qualities and I’m grateful.

  

  Jean Chretien
  • God
  • Grateful
  • Qualities

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