Quotes About Qualities

Men of great and shining qualities do not always succeed in life, but the fault lies more often in themselves than in others.

The average woman sees only the weak points in a strong man, and the good points in a weak one.

The essence of a man is found in his faults.

We should not judge a man's merits by his great qualities, but by the use he makes of them.

Our society mirrors the qualities of the Adaptive Child—black and white, rigid, perfectionistic, unrealistic, and unforgiving.

Thus, from the very outset, and in typically effusive fashion, did Marion Crawford set out the thesis that characterizes her celebrated, indeed notorious, book, The Little Princesses. By contrasting the sterling qualities of the future Queen with her younger sister's more capricious personality, Crawfie gave authority to what – by the time of the book's publication in 1950 – many people already believed.

The problems differ from generation to generation, but the qualities needed to solve them remain unchanged from world's end to world's end

A sure way of retaining the grace of heaven is to disregard outward appearances, and diligently to cultivate such things as foster amendment of life and fervour of soul, rather than to cultivate those qualities that seem most popular.

For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.

a station which raises a man too eminently above the level of his fellow-creatures is not the most favourable to moral or to intellectual qualities

It's not what you like but what you are like that's important.

Mi genio, si se puede decir así, consiste en combinar un montón de cualidades medias en una representación compacta.

You're all right, young Magee. You're all right. Since you are, I'll tell you this. That lovely lass inside Gallagher's won't settle for less in a man than hot blood, a strong backbone, and a clever brain. I'm considering you have all three.

But if we pay heed to the ancient sources, we will recognize that the virtues are related to a much thicker and deeper moral reality. We will see the virtues as the qualities of character that we need in order to steer our way through the complicated and mysterious sea of morality into which we all have been placed. For such journeying a pocketful of values is neither sufficient ballast nor a substitute for sails, compass, or sextant. C

There is perhaps a kinship among qualities; one draws another along with it; and the biographer should here call attention to the fact that this clumsiness is often mated with a love of solitude. Having stumbled over a chest, Orlando naturally loved solitary places, vast views, and to feel himself for ever and ever and ever alone.

There are perhaps more of the qualities that matter among the ignorant then among the learned. But again, what a vile thing the rabble is!

Quick! what's the Proust line? – that we're attracted to those people who have qualities we hate in ourselves?

These are all theological claims that arose as reflective responses to the acts of this God that exhibit these qualities and attributes.

Men are like a deck of cards. You'll find the occasional king, but most are jacks.

The perfection of the human state, al-insân al-kâmil, means the perfection of both the masculine and feminine qualities together, and is symbolized by the marriage of Imam 'Ali (the nephew and brother-in-law of Muhammad) and Fatima (the daughter of Muhammad).

He [Crowley] realized that humanity is being asked to pray to some sky deity to be forgiven for expressing the needs of the very bodies which this deity supposedly created for humanity. In short, creation is being punished for having the very qualities it was created to have.

The solution: do not pursue perfection (for that is a patriarchal and intellectual notion), rather work on developing each of your qualities and aspects into a Complete Holistic Human Being.

A person becomes great not by sitting on some high seat, but through higher qualities. A crow does not become an eagle by simply sitting on the top of a palatial building.

Man is a social animal; his character is a social product. The purely human qualities not only lose their value when divorced from social relationships, it is these relationships that provide the only medium for their activity. To say that a person is free to express moral qualities in the absence of his fellows is meaningless, since it is only in their presence that the manifestation of them is possible.