Good Quality Quotes - Page 3

If a man has ten good qualities and one bad one, to look at the ten and forget the one, and if a man has ten bad qualities and one good one, to look at the one and forget the ten.

Abdu'l-Bahá

Life, Men, Quality

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For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.

Thomas Carlyle

Men, Judging, Quality

Thomas Carlyle, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Swasey McKean, Charles Stearns Wheeler (1838). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays”, p.280

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How many solutions are found to family problems if we take time to reflect? If we think of a husband or wife and we dream about their good qualities that they have? Don’t ever lose the illusion of when you were boyfriend and girlfriend!

Pope Francis

Dream, Girlfriend, Husband

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Let us carefully observe those good qualities wherein our enemies excel us; and endeavor to excel them, by avoiding what is faulty, and imitating what is excellent in them.

Plutarch

Enemy, Quality, Excellent

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I knew I was dog meat. Luckily, I'm the high-priced dog meat that everybody wants. I'm the good-quality dog meat. I'm the Alpo of the NBA.

Shaquille O'Neal

Funny, Basketball, Dog

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As artists, I think that one of the good qualities we have is that we're imaginative. We're resourceful. We like challenges.

Meredith Monk

Artist, Thinking, Challenges

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Many a man's vices have at first been nothing worse than good qualities run wild.

Augustus William Hare

Running, Men, Quality

Julius Charles Hare, Augustus William Hare, Edward Hayes Plumptre (1851). “Guesses at Truth by Two Brothers: First Series”, p.342

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I think one of the areas of favor and grace that God has allowed us to see is internally he's just given us a strong sense of work ethic and craftsmanship. We really do work hard to make GOOD quality music.

LeCrae

Strong, Hard Work, Thinking

Source: thegospelguru.com

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Therefore it is unnecessary for a prince to have all the good qualities I have enumerated, but it is very necessary to appear to have them. And I shall dare to say this also, that to have them and always to observe them is injurious, and that to appear to have them is useful; to appear merciful, faithful, humane, religious, upright, and to be so, but with a mind so framed that should you require not to be so, you may be able and know how to change to the opposite.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Religious, Opposites, Faithful

Niccolo Machiavelli (2010). “The Prince”, p.73, FastPencil Inc

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If you think of someone's good qualities as the umeboshi in an onigiri it's as if their qualities are stuck to their back! Maybe the reason people get jealous of each other is because they can see so clearly the umeboshi on other people's backs.

Natsuki Takaya

Jealous, Thinking, People

"Fictional character: Tohru Honda". "Fruits Basket", 1998 - 2006.

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She lived frugally, but her meals were the only things on which she deliberately spent her money. She never compromised on the quality of her groceries, and drank only good-quality wines.

Haruki Murakami

Wine, Quality, Meals

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Your enemy is one who misunderstands you; why should you not rise above the fog and see his error and respect him for the good qualities you find in him?

Elbert Hubbard

Respect, Errors, Fog

Elbert Hubbard (2009). “Love, Life & Work: Being a Book of Opinions Reasonably Good-Natured Concerning How to Attain the Highest Happiness for One's Self with the Least Possible Harm to Others”, p.66, The Floating Press

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To be aware of a single shortcoming within oneself is more useful than to be aware of a thousand in somebody else. Rather than speaking badly about people and in ways that will produce friction and unrest in their lives, we should practice a purer perception of them, and when we speak of others, speak of their good qualities.

Dalai Lama

Practice, People, Perception

Dalai Lama (1994). “The Path to Enlightenment”, p.114, Shambhala

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That's exactly the way parents develop positive, successful kids. Don't look for the flaws, warts, and blemishes. Look for the gold, not for the dirt; the good, not the bad. Look for the positive aspects of life. Like everything else, the more good qualities we look for in our children, the more good qualities we are going to find.

Zig Ziglar

Positive, Children, Kids

Zig Ziglar (2002). “Raising Positive Kids in a Negative World”, p.29, Thomas Nelson Inc

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If human beings can be trained for cruelty and greed and a belief in power which comes through hate and fear and force, certainly we can train equally well for greatness and mercy and the power of love which comes because of the strength of the good qualities to be found in the soul of every human being.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Hate, Helping Others, Greatness

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It is with certain good qualities as with the senses; those who have them not can neither appreciate nor comprehend them in others.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Appreciation, Appreciate, Quality

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

Aristotle

Inspirational, Spiritual, Fall

"Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics".

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With the realization of ones own potential and self-confidence in ones ability, one can build a better world. According to my own experience, self-confidence is very important. That sort of confidence is not a blind one; it is an awareness of ones own potential. On that basis, human beings can transform themselves by increasing the good qualities and reducing the negative qualities.

Dalai Lama

Confidence, Wise, Wisdom

His Holiness the Dalai Lama (2013). “The Dalai Lama’s Little Book of Wisdom”, p.7, HarperCollins UK

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While we are indifferent to our good qualities, we keep on deceiving ourselves in regard to our faults, until we come to look on them as virtues.

Heinrich Heine

Self Esteem, Lying, Self Respect

Heinrich Heine (1873). “Scintillations from the Prose Works of Heinrich Heine: I. Florentine Nights. II. Excerpts”, p.87

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Never do anything that taints your mind. Wrong actions cause negative or evil mental vibrations that are reflected in your whole appearance and personality. Engage in those actions and thoughts that nurture the good qualities you want to have.

Paramahansa Yogananda

Yoga, Evil, Personality

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Anna Petrovna: Never talk to women about your own good qualities. Let them find out for themselves.

Anton Chekhov

Quality, Anna

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But we can also ask for something we are much more likely to get, and that is to find a person or two, somewhere in our travels, who will tell us that we are noble enough, whether it is true or not. We can ask for someone who will say, “You are noble enough,” and remind us of our good qualities when we have forgotten them, or cast them into doubt.

Daniel Handler

Two, Doubt, Quality

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I still don’t know if this is a good quality or a bad one, to be able to be in the moment and then step out of it.

David Levithan

Quality, Able, Steps

David Levithan (2011). “The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel”, p.69, Macmillan

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A close, daily intimacy between two people has to be paid for: it requires a great deal of experience of life, logic, and warmth of heart on both sides to enjoy each other’s good qualities without being irritated by each other’s shortcomings and blaming each other for them.

Ivan Goncharov

Heart, Two, People

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Selfishness is one of the principal fruits of the corruption of human nature; and it is obvious that selfishness disposes us to over-rate our good qualities, and to overlook or extenuate our defects.

William Wilberforce

Quality, Selfishness, Fruit

William Wilberforce (1797). “A Practical View of the Prevailing Religious System of Professed Christians: In the Higher and Middle Classes in this Country, Contrasted with Real Christianity”, p.424

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