These attributes quotes will inspire you. Attributes regard something as being caused by (someone or something).
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging attributes quotes, attributes sayings, and attributes proverbs.
Famous Attributes Quotes
- “I attribute the little I know to my not having been ashamed to ask for information, and to my rule of conversing with all descriptions of men on those topics that form their own peculiar professions and pursuits.” ~ John Locke
- “People are wiser than we are willing to attribute to them.” ~ P. Chidambaram
- “Life is ever giving of Itself. We must receive, utilize and extend the gift. Success and prosperity are spiritual attributes belonging to all people.” ~ Ernest Holmes
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“Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results, not attributes.” ~ Peter Drucker
- “The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.” ~ Charles Darwin
- “A wise skepticism is the first attribute of a good critic.” ~ James Russell Lowell
- “Moping is an unattractive attribute in a man.” ~ Graydon Carter
- “The capacity to blunder slightly is the real marvel of DNA. Without this special attribute, we would still be anaerobic bacteria and there would be no music.” ~ Lewis Thomas
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“We always take credit for the good and attribute the bad to fortune.” ~ Charles Kuralt
- “In the land of my birth, I cannot vote, whereas a young person of eighteen can vote. And why? Because he or she possesses that wonderful biological attribute – a white skin.” ~ Desmond Tutu
- “I argued that I didn’t have any of the attributes to pose for cheesecake. I said I would have to make good on my acting ability, which was the only attribute I could offer.” ~ Teresa Wright
- “The Times has much less power than you think. I believe we attribute power to the media generally that it simply doesn’t have. It’s very convenient to blame the media, the same way we blame television for everything that’s going wrong in society.” ~ Michael Pollan
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“I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.” ~ Florence Nightingale
- “It’s one of the strangest attributes of this profession that when we writers get exhausted writing one thing, we relax by writing another.” ~ Dan Simmons
- “The role seemed to demand that I keep myself worked up to fever pitch, so I took on the actual attributes of the horrible vampire, Dracula.” ~ Bela Lugosi
- “The object of man’s worship, whatever it be, will naturally be his standard of perfection. He clothes it with every attribute, belonging, in his view, to a perfect character; and this character he himself endeavors to attain.” ~ Simon Greenleaf
- “We’re teaching our kids that attributes as vague and relatively meaningless as a toothy smile or a fine head of hair make a fine statement about a person.” ~ Neil Cavuto
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“We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either.” ~ Niccolo Machiavelli
- “Somebody said to me this morning, ‘To what do you attribute your longevity?’ I don’t know. I mean, I couldn’t have planned my life out better. By all accounts, I should be dead! The abuse I put my body through: the drugs, the alcohol, the lifestyle I’ve lived the last 30 years!” ~ Ozzy Osbourne
- “To be a good executive you have to be strong, and you have to have a simple attribute that people have forgotten about – courage.” ~ John Milius
- “My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.” ~ George Washington
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“Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.” ~ William James
- “I attribute my entire football career, as far as getting me started, getting me interested, keeping me that way was my father. He went to every game even though he was crippled and wasn’t real healthy.” ~ Bob Lilly
- “The pretended physical philosophy of modern days strips Man of all his moral attributes, or holds them of no account in the estimate of his origin and place in the created world.” ~ Adam Sedgwick
- “To these ideals which were instilled in me when I was a youth, I attribute in a large degree the success that was mine on the bicycle tracks of the world.” ~ Major Taylor
- “Lutherans, whose arguments and mistakes will not be difficult to contest or discover, do not want to attribute any value to works, and they do not understand enough the scope of the justification.” ~ Michael Servetus
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“If any performer has quality in his voice he can almost always be helped to develop all the other necessary attributes.” ~ Lawrence Welk
- “From the smallest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and everything we have comes from one attribute of man – the function of his reasoning mind.” ~ Ayn Rand
- “A changing environment will affect Alaska more than any other state, because of our location. I’m not one though who would attribute it to being man-made.” ~ Sarah Palin
- “Of course, I also attribute some of my hearing loss to being in the infantry in World War II. It’s probably a combination of heredity and noise exposure.” ~ George Kennedy
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“I attribute the quarrelsome nature of the Middle Ages young men entirely to the want of the soothing weed.” ~ Jerome K. Jerome
- “What to do? We yanked the dress up over her lovely attributes and with the addition of a scarf, the problem was solved. Sorry, guys, blame that stuffy censor. He hated surprises.” ~ Audrey Meadows
- “Thing, body, matter, are nothing apart from the combinations of the elements, – the colours, sounds, and so forth – nothing apart from their so-called attributes.” ~ Ernst Mach
- “God preordained, for his own glory and the display of His attributes of mercy and justice, a part of the human race, without any merit of their own, to eternal salvation, and another part, in just punishment of their sin, to eternal damnation.” ~ John Calvin
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“One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.” ~ Simone de Beauvoir
- “To think straight, it is advisable to expect all qualities and attributes, adjectives, and so on to refer to at least two sets of interactions in time.” ~ Gregory Bateson
- “Simplicity, clarity, singleness: These are the attributes that give our lives power and vividness and joy as they are also the marks of great art. They seem to be the purpose of God for his whole creation.” ~ Richard Holloway
- “The One, the Good, the True, and the Beautiful, these are what we call the transcendental attributes of Being because they surpass all the limits of essences and are coextensive with Being.” ~ Hans Urs von Balthasar
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“But freedom, liberty, is an attribute of the soul and it may exist even when the body is in bondage.” ~ Ralph Adams Cram
- “We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the majority of our controversies come from that.” ~ Marcus Aurelius
- “Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, ‘This is the real me,’ and when you have found that attitude, follow it.” ~ William James
- “I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.” ~ Baruch Spinoza
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“Modesty used to be considered a natural female attribute. No more.” ~ Linda Chavez
- “The essential attribute of a new sense is, not the perception of external objects or influences which ordinarily do not act upon the senses, but that external causes should excite in it a new and peculiar kind of sensation different from all the sensations of our five senses.” ~ Johannes Peter Muller
- “The interaction of the variation in our genes is what’s responsible for lots of our attributes and vigor.” ~ Walter Gilbert
- “Most importantly, nothing has happened to change my conviction that freedom and the love of liberty remain the essential defining attributes of our national character as a people.” ~ Ibrahim Babangida
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“I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
- “Classical philosophical theism maintained the ontological distinction between God and creative world that is necessary for any genuine theism by conceiving them to be of different substances, with particular attributes predicated of each.” ~ Arthur Peacocke , God attributes quotes
- “People who are in a fortunate position always attribute virtue to what makes them so happy.” ~ John Kenneth Galbraith
- “Our second phase was to develop a school curriculum that teaches tolerance, respect for differences, conflict resolution, anger management, and other attributes of peace.” ~ Eddie Bernice Johnson
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“I am selfish, but that’s an attribute that all artists possess.” ~ Robert Mapplethorpe
- “The innovative spirit was America’s strongest attribute, transforming everything into a brave new world, but there lingered an insecurity about the arts.” ~ Arthur Erickson
- “Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.” ~ Michel Foucault
- “When I started writing a business column 15 years ago, I knew I’d found the perfect job for myself. As a columnist I could pick my own topic, do my own analysis, say what I wanted to say and attribute it to myself. Best of all, I could write in my own voice.” ~ Allan Sloan
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“There’s too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will.” ~ Agatha Christie
- “But to be the Vicar of Christ, to claim to exercise his prerogatives on earth, does involve a claim to his attributes, and therefore our opposition to Popery is opposition to a man claiming to be God.” ~ Charles Hodge
- “I pattern my actions and life after what I want. No two people are alike. You might admire attributes in others, but use these only as a guide in improving yourself in your own unique way. I don’t go for carbon copies. Individualism is sacred!” ~ Richard Chamberlain
- “Leadership is defined by results not attributes.” ~ Peter Drucker , Leadership attributes quotes
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“I think that my biggest attribute to any success that I have had is hard work. There really is no substitute for working hard.” ~ Maria Bartiromo
- “We often attribute ‘understanding’ and other cognitive predicates by metaphor and analogy to cars, adding machines, and other artifacts, but nothing is proved by such attributions.” ~ John Searle
- “A man has generally the good or ill qualities which he attributes to mankind.” ~ William Shenstone
- “After the knowledge of, and obedience to, the will of God, the next aim must be to know something of His attributes of wisdom, power and goodness as evidenced by His handiwork.” ~ James Prescott Joule
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“My best attribute is knowing when not to answer stupid questions” ~ Gina Gershon
- “When I meet successful people I ask 100 questions as to what they attribute their success to. It is usually the same: persistence, hard work and hiring good people.” ~ Kiana Tom
- “The attributes of God tell us what He is and who He is.” ~ William Ames
