Quality Quotes - Page 45

Seek the insignificant small but essential qualities, essential to life

Self-pity is the most negative quality of the human spirit. Difficulties in life are intended to make us better, not bitter.

There are three qualities a leader must exemplify to build trust: competence, connection, and character.

Fairness is not about statistical equality.

Quality performance starts with a positive attitude.

Pedants make a great rout about criticism, as if it were a science of great depth, and required much pains and knowledge--criticism however is only the result of good sense, taste and judgment--three qualities that indeed seldom are found together, and extremely seldom in a pedant, which most critics are.

The catch word is equilibrium again, informed the field what are conventional weapons or nuclear weapons of different qualities. You cannot make up for a actual or perceived disequilibrium in the conventional field by having more nuclear weapons.

Other people may complicate our lives, but life without them would be unbearably desolate. None of us can be truly human in isolation. The qualities that make us human emerge only in the ways we relate to other people.

Melody is a form of remembrance. It must have a quality of inevitability in our ears.

Practicing Dharma is the supreme method for improving the quality of our human life.

In magnanimity there is the same amount of egoism as in revenge, but egoism of a different quality.

The doctrine of equality! There exists no more poisonous poison: for it seems to be preached by justice itself, while it is the end of justice.

It's a poor rule that won't work both ways.

The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.

Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

With God, life is eternal-both in quality and length. There is no joy comparable to the joy of discovering something new from God, about God. If the continuing life is a life of joy, we will go on discovering, learning.

Any action that arises out of stress is of low quality, and it contributes to human suffering. You are making yourself and others suffer.

I many times encountered courage, real courage. Undeniable courage. I've heard it said that that was the highest quality of the human animal. I encountered that many times, in unexpected places. And I have learned to recognize it when I see it.

The one radio voice that I listened to above others belonged to Ella Fitzgerald. There was a quality to her voice that fascinated me, and I'd sing along with her, trying to catch the subtle ways she shaded her voice, the casual yet clean way she sang the words.

The trouble with the public is that there is too much of it; what we need in public is less quantity and more quality.

I believe that we carry within us a divinely inspired moral imperative to love ... We have within us the ability to change for the better and to find dignity as individuals rather than as drones in one mass movement or another. We have the ability to love, the need to be loved, and the willingness to put our own lives on the line to protect those we love, and it is in these aspects of ourselves that we can glimpse the face of God; and through the exercise of these qualities, we come to a Godlike state.

The quality of your moments produces the quality of your life. So, as thoughts come and go and the waves of mind rush on, Carpe punctum-Seize this moment. It deserves your full attention, for it will not pass your way again.

A thug is what I want and a thug is what I need. And my friends don't understand, and I think it's jealousy.

Until women learn to want economic independence, and until they work out a way to get this independence without denying themselves the joys of love and motherhood, it seems to me feminism has no roots.

Sometimes you get lucky - you don't put much work in and you're successful anyway. But over the course of time, if you really want to shape your path, I think it's about the quality of the time you put in.