Quotes about Qualities

The truest fame, the fame that comes after death, is never heard of by its recipient; and yet he is called a happy man. His happiness lay both in the possession of those great qualities which won him fame, and in the opportunity that was granted him of developing them—the leisure he had to act as he pleased, to dedicate himself to his favorite pursuits. It is only work done from the heart that ever gains the laurel

The most important criterion is this: hire someone whose character and humility and attitude you would like to have reproduced in your church and in yourself.

Love must be chosen. It must be free, and it must be from the heart, without external motivations. But, quite frankly, it's very difficult for an all-powerful God to behave in such a way that love can occur with these qualities.

Any created thing must, for example, possess a limited set of characteristics which rules out the possibility of it possessing other characteristics incompatible with these.

Great is the faith of the flush of knowledge and of the investigation of the depths of qualities and things.

Love means admiration for qualities in the lover that promise to correct our weaknesses and imbalances; love is a search for completion.

Every cult of personality that emphasizes the distinguished qualities, virtues, and talents of another person, even though these be of an altogether spiritual nature, is worldly and has no place in the Christian community; indeed, it poisons the Christianity community.

To say a person is morally bankrupt is to say he or she is completely devoid of any decent moral qualities.

It is an infirmity of our nature to mingle our interests and prejudices with the operation of our reasoning powers, and attribute to the objects of our likes and dislikes qualities they do not possess and effects they can not produce.

W]hat is considered weakness in one gender is often strength in the other.

The honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action.

The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur.