Quality Quotes - Page 39

• The highest spiritual quality, the noblest property of mind a man can have, is this of loyalty.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Loyalty, Spiritual, Men

  Algernon Charles Swinburne (1968). “The Complete Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne: Prose works”

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• Dislike what deserves it, but never hate: for that is of the nature of malice; which is almost ever to persons, not things, and is one of the blackest qualities sin begets in the soul.

  William Penn

  Hate, Hatred, Soul

  William Penn (1841). “Fruits of Solitude, in Reflections and Maxims Relating to the Conduct of Human Life”, p.51

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• The basis of self-government and freedom requires the development of character and self-restraint and perseverance and the long view. And these are qualities which require many years of training and education.

  John F. Kennedy

  Perseverance, Freedom, Character

  Address at the University of Washington's 100th Anniversary Program, November 16, 1961.

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• We grant God the possession of all the qualities of mind except the one that keeps the others healthy; that watches over their dignity; that focuses their vision true--humor.

  Mark Twain

  God, Healthy, Mind

  Mark Twain, William M. Gibson (1969). “Mark Twain's Mysterious Stranger Manuscripts”, p.26, Univ of California Press

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• As one sees a river pass into the ocean, lose itself in it, its water for a time distinguished from that of the sea, till it gradually becomes transformed into the same sea, and possesses all its qualities; so was my soul lost in God, who communicated to it His qualities, having drawn it out of all that it had of its own. Its life is an inconceivable innocence, not known or comprehended of those who are still shut up in themselves or only live for themselves.

  Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon

  God, Ocean, Sea

  Jeanne Marie Bouvier de La Motte Guyon (1806). “The Exemplary Life of the Pious Lady Guion”, p.234

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• The truest mark of being born with great qualities is to be born without envy.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Happiness, Jealousy, Envy

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• It has been my fate in a long life of production to be credited chiefly with the equivocal virtue of industry, a quality so excellent in morals, so little satisfactory in art.

  Margaret Oliphant

  Art, Fate, Long

  Margaret Oliphant Wilson Oliphant, Mrs. Oliphant (Margaret) (1892). “The Heir Presumptive and the Heir Apparent”

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• Pioneering spirit should continue, not to conquer the planet or space ... but rather to improve the quality of life.

  Bertrand Piccard

  Health, Space, Spirit

  Twitter post from Mar 26, 2016

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• So you see, the quality of humor is not a personal or a national monopoly. It's as free as salvation, and, I am afraid, far more widely distributed. But it has its value, I think. The hard and sordid things of life are too hard and too sordid and too cruel for us to know and touch them year after year without some mitigating influence, some kindly veil to draw over them, from time to time, to blur the craggy outlines, and make the thorns less sharp and the cruelties less malignant.

  Mark Twain

  Humor, Thinking, Years

  Mark Twain, Gary Scharnhorst (2009). “Mainly the truth: interviews with Mark Twain”, University Alabama Press

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• Quality requires your Presence.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Humor, Deep Thought, Your Presence

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.165, Penguin

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• Intelligence is the effort to do the best you can at your particular job; the quality that gives dignity to that job, whether it happens to be scrubbing a floor or running a corporation.

  James Cash Penney

  Running, Jobs, Giving

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• The truest mark of being born with great qualities is being born without envy.
  Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld
  That awareness is my teaching. Never fight with greed, ego, anger, jealousy, hatred - all those enemies that the religions have been telling you, 'Fight with them, crush them, kill them. You cannot kill them, you cannot crush them, you cannot fight with them; all that you can do is just be aware of them.' And the moment you are aware, they are gone. In the light, the darkness simply disappears.

  Rajneesh

  Jealousy, Crush, Teaching

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• What is envy? It is nothing but passive jealousy. Maybe jealousy is too strong a phenomenon; envy is a little passive. The difference may be of degrees, but it is not of quality, it is only of quantity. Envy can become jealousy at any moment; envy is just jealousy in progress. Mind has to drop all envies and jealousies.

  Rajneesh

  Jealousy, Strong, Differences

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• According to the technical language of old writers, a thing and its qualities are described as subject and attributes; and thus a man's faculties and acts are attributes of which he is the subject. The mind is the subject in which ideas inhere. Moreover, the man's faculties and acts are employed upon external objects; and from objects all his sensations arise. Hence the part of a man's knowledge which belongs to his own mind, is subjective: that which flows in upon him from the world external to him, is objective.

  William Whewell

  Knowledge, Men, Ideas

  William Whewell (1858). “History of Scientific Ideas: Being the First Part of The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences”, p.35

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• There are five fundamental qualities that make every team great: communication, trust, collective responsibility, caring and pride. I like to think of each as a separate finger on the fist. Any one individually is important. But all of them together are unbeatable

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Volleyball, Team, Communication

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• As with all great teachers, his curriculum was an insignificant part of what he communicated. From him you didn't learn a subject, but a life...Tolerance and justice, fearlessness and pride, reverence and pity, are learned in a course on long division if the teacher has those qualities.

  William Alexander Percy

  Teacher, Pride, Justice

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• Authentic love is obviously something good... When we love, we become most fully ourselves, most fully human... People often think they are being loving when actually they are being possessive or manipulative. People sometimes treat others as objects to satisfy their own needs... How easy it is to be deceived by the many voices in our society that advocate a permissive approach to sexuality, without regard for modesty, self-respect or the moral values that bring quality to human relationships! This is worship of a false god. Instead of bringing life, it brings death.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Life, Love Is, Self

  Pope Benedict XVI's Address at the Meeting with a Group of Disadvantaged Young People of The Rehabilitation Community of The University Of Notre Dame in Sydney, w2.vatican.va. July 18, 2008.

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• But I am all for love, and I am against marriage, particularly the arranged kind, because the arranged marriage gives you satisfaction. And love? - love can never satisfy you. It gives you more and more thirst for a better and better love, it makes you more and more long for it, it gives you tremendous discontentment. And that discontent is the beginning of the search for God. When love fails many times, you start looking for a new kind of lover, a new kind of love, a new quality of love. That love affair is prayer, meditation, sannyas.

  Rajneesh

  Marriage, Prayer, Long

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• Have you watched it? A man who is too greedy about money, by and by starts having the qualities of money. He becomes just money. He loses spirituality, he is no more a spirit. He is reduced to a thing. If you love money, you will become like money. If you love your house, by and by you will become material. Whatsoever you love, you become. Love is alchemical. Never love the wrong thing, because it will transform you. Nothing is so transforming as love. Love something which can raise you higher, to higher altitudes. Love something beyond you.

  Rajneesh

  Money, Love You, Love Is

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• If there is a defining aspect of UNC women's soccer, and its success, it is what we call the competitive cauldron. It is the pinnacle of our program. The great part about the cauldron is that it fosters a quality we can all possess. It isn't a talent we are born with. Competitive drive is not governed by innate ability, but by self-discipline and desire

  Anson Dorrance

  Soccer, Volleyball, Self

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• What we hear is the quality of our listening.

  Robert Fripp

  Music, Listening, Jazz

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• High horns, low horns, silence, and finally a pandemonium of trumpets, rattles, croaks, and cries that almost shakes the bog with its nearness ... A new day has begun on the crane marsh. A sense of time lies thick and heavy on such a place ... Our ability to perceive quality in nature begins, as in art, with the pretty. It expands through successive stages of the beautiful to values as yet uncaptured by language.

  Aldo Leopold

  Beautiful, Art, Nature

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• Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request.
  It is by attempting to reach the top in a single leap that so much misery is produced in the world.

  William Cobbett

  Patience, Men, Stories

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• The ruling quality of leaders adaptive capacity, is what allows true leaders to make the nimble decisions that bring success. Adaptive capacity is also what allows some people to transcend the setbacks and losses that come with age and to reinvent themselves again and again.

  Warren G

  Loss, People, Decision

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• Our aims in political activism are not, and should not be, to create a perfect utopia. What we seek is more simply to improve the quality of human life while at the same time respecting the natural environment which sustains it: 'Not a heaven on earth but a better earth on earth.' This is not at all a timid agenda, far from it. The work ahead of us is enormous!

  Paul Wellstone

  Perfect, Political, Heaven

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