qualities quotes

You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.

We all have our imperfections. But I’m human, and you know, it’s important to concentrate on other qualities besides outer beauty.

We never love a person, but only qualities.

The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding.

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

Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.

The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, ‚We did it ourselves.‘

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.

Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior.

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