Qualities Quotes

No amount of study or learning will make a man a leader unless he has the natural qualities of one.

After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it.

There are no greater treasures than the highest human qualities such as compassion, courage and hope. Not even tragic accident or disaster can destroy such treasures of the heart.

The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.

The qualities of an exceptional cook are akin to those of a successful tightrope walker: an abiding passion for the task, courage to go out on a limb and an impeccable sense of balance.

The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born-that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.

All of the qualities that you need to be a good opinion columnist tend to be qualities that aren't valued in women.

We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more.

To me, the appeal of opera lies in the fact that a myriad of singers and instruments, each possessed of different qualities of voice and sound, against the backdrop of a grand stage and beautiful costumes, come together in one complete and impressive drama.

There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of nature and the revelations of great art are equally difficult to define; we can grasp them only in the depths of our perceptive spirit.

Be able to cite three good qualities of every relative or acquaintance that you dislike.

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.

Human civilization is not something achieved against nature; it is rather the outcome of the working of the innate qualities of man.

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

People can be ignorant and still have loving, human qualities.

Precision is not one of the qualities that comes out in my work.

Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I'll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities.

It is not about the money. It's the public service aspect. Absolutely, I think it has qualities of redemption. The city gets a second chance. I get a second chance.

But it's always really difficult to find someone that has the qualities to be a great accompanist.

So much about living life, to me, is about humility and gratitude. And I've tried very hard to have those qualities and be that person and I'm just so disappointed in myself that I allowed it to slip.

Recognition of this kinship with the rest of the universe is necessary for understanding him, but his essential nature is defined by qualities found nowhere else, not by those he has in common with apes, fishes, trees, fire, or anything other than himself.

It's far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.

How do you explain certain physical qualities that somehow sell on screen? You're born with it... Certain people are just more watchable, and I was more watchable, but I don't think I understood acting or drama very well when I was a kid.

The qualities I most admire in women are confidence and kindness.

I have a lot of chameleon qualities, I get very absorbed in my surroundings.

We want to promote the great qualities of athletics - and maintain its integrity - all over the world.

If she has a good, strong, reliable father image, which is hard to find these days, that will be her image of men, probably for the rest of her life. She'll look for a husband who embodies those qualities.

At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures - be what he is. And, above all, accept these things.

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

An American Idol is someone that has all the qualities that America thinks is positive, attractive and alluring.