Quotes About Qualities

The war had called forth the finest qualities of human nature, and with the advent of peace there seemed a risk of the world slipping back into a dull materialism. Men had begun to ask of everything its cash value, and to cherish, as if it were a virtue, a narrow utilitarian commonsense.

The best way to become a person that others are drawn to is to develop qualities that we are attracted to in others.

The best way to become a person that others are drawn to is to develop qualities that we are attracted to in others. Just

there are five nonnegotiable characteristics that every effective leader must have: a sense of calling, an ability to communicate, creativity in problem solving, generosity, and consistency.

Leaders are effective because of who they are on the inside—in the qualities that make them up as people. And to go to the highest level of leadership, people have to develop these traits from the inside out.

True leadership cannot be awarded, appointed, or assigned.

The wise man does not permit himself to set up even in his own mind any comparisons of his friends. His friendship is capable of going to extremes with many people, evoked as it is by many qualities.

Your kindness cannot be said. You open doors in the sky. You ease the heart and make God's qualities visible.

If you can die, you are confused because death is a perception of something ending and something else obviously beginning, which means we're still hung up on qualities.

The desire to impress is an efficient means of bringing out one's least impressive qualities.

To achieve our eternal destiny, we will desire and work for the qualities required to become an eternal being.

A dog has kindliness in his heart and dignity in his demeanor. The finest qualities anyone can have.

A girl has to have a beautiful smile, Beautiful eyes and she should have a good sense of humor. She should be honest, loving and trustworthy.

Humility, reverence, compassion, forbearance, sacrifice and self-control are the qualities that reveal the outcome of the true education.

Whatever the explanation, it's perfectly obvious that our educational system has nothing to do with education: it's a babysitting service designed to replicate the worst qualities of the parents.

The presence of an affordance is jointly determined by the qualities of the object and the abilities of the agent that is interacting. This relational definition of affordance gives considerable difficulty to many people. We are used to thinking that properties are associated with objects. But affordance is not a property. An affordance is a relationship. Whether an affordance exists depends upon the properties of both the object and the agent.

Maybe that's why I tend to equate physical beauty with qualities with which it has absolutely nothing to do. I see a pretty mouth or a moody pair of eyes and imagine all sorts of deep affinities, private kinships.

The older names of flowers involved a similar degree of awareness; we might guess at the qualities of plants called hound's piss and goodnight-at-noon, but it took real intimacy to name a flower courtship-and-matrimony: its sweet scent fades after picking.

Todos los detalles de cualquier percepto, todas las formas geométricas, los colores, los cambios de perspectiva y las texturas se encuentran algorítmicamente concentradas en cada punto de la Lattice. Pero en su decodificación añadimos nuestra propia estructura y organización cerebral y de la interacción entre esta y las características de la Lattice, surgen las cualidades (luz, sonido, textura, etc.) que nos son familiares.

The believers have four signs: good humor, tactfulness, kind heartedness and openhandedness.

The qualities that get a man into power are not those that lead him, once established, to use power wisely.

Your relationship with money can be a place where you bring your strengths and skills, your highest aspirations, and your deepest and most profound qualities. Whether we are millionaires or "dollar heirs," we can actually be great with our money and be great in our relationship with it.

This is a book about the most admirable of human virtues - courage. 'Grace under pressure', Earnest Hemingway defined it.

The honest poor are the moneyless vulgar rich. Poverty forces them to have good qualities and pride in other things besides money. Then when they have money they don't know what to do with it. They forget all the old virtues, which weren't real virtues anyway. They think the only virtue is to make more money and to spend. They can't imagine that there are people to whom money is nothing. That the most beautiful things are quite independent of money.