These qualities quotes will inspire you. Qualities are the standard of something as measured against other things of a similar kind; the degree of excellence of something or a distinctive attribute or characteristic possessed by someone or something.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging qualities quotes, qualities sayings, and qualities proverbs.
Best Qualities Quotes
- “Good human qualities-honesty, sincerity, a good heart-cannot be bought with money, nor can they be produced my machines, but only by the mind itself. We can call this the inner light, or God’s blessing, or human qualitity. This is the essence of mankind.” ~ Dalai Lama
- “The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.” ~ Samuel Johnson
- “The purpose of our life needs to be positive. We weren’t born with the purpose of causing trouble, harming others. For our life to be of value, I think we must develop basic good human qualities – warmth, kindness, compassion. Then our life becomes meaningful and more peaceful – happier.” ~ Dalai Lama
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“Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.” ~ Aristotle
- “Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.” ~ Carl Jung
- “…the rarest of all human qualities is consistency.” ~ Jeremy Bentham
- “This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.” ~ Winston Churchill
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“This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.” ~ Winston Churchill
- “To bring the best human qualities to anything like perfection, to fill them with the sweet juices of courtesy and charity, prosperity, or, at all events, a moderate amount of it, is required,–just as sunshine is needed for the ripening of peaches and apricots.” ~ Alexander Smith
- “Religion is not something separate and apart from ordinary life. It is life – life of every kind viewed from the standpoint of meaning and purpose: life lived in the fuller awareness of its human quality and spiritual significance.” ~ A. Powell Davies
- “Of one thing we can be sure: our own future is inseparable from the larger community that brought us into being and which sustains us in every expression of our human quality of life, in our aesthetic and emotional sensitivities, our intellectual perceptions, our sense of the divine, as well as in our physical nourishment and bodily healing.” ~ Thomas Berry
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“The true measure of a man is how he behaves when death is close.” ~ Alma Katsu
- “I believe that at every level of society the key to a happier world is the growth of compassion. We do not need to become religious, nor do we need to believe in an ideology. All that is necessary is for each of us to develop our good human qualities.” ~ Dalai Lama , Good qualities quotes
- “Scientists are convinced that they, as scientists, possess a number of very admirable human qualities, such as accuracy, observation, reasoning power, intellectual curiosity, tolerance, and even humility.” ~ Anthony Standen
- “You learn about gratitude by giving. You learn about humility by receiving, and in the pecking order of human qualities, I’d probably put humility somewhere before gratitude.” ~ Jean Harris
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“To my mind, having a care and concern for others is the highest of the human qualities.” ~ Fred Hollows
- “I should say tact was worth much more than wealth as a road to leadership…. I mean that subtle apprehension which teaches a person how to do and say the right thing at the right time. It coexists with very ordinary qualities, and yet many great geniuses are without it. Of all human qualities I consider it the most convenient–not always the highest; yet I would rather have it than many more shining qualities.” ~ M. E. W. Sherwood
- “We all have a thirst for wonder. It’s a deeply human quality. Science and religion are both bound up with it. What I’m saying is, you don’t have to make stories up, you don’t have to exaggerate. There’s wonder and awe enough in the real world. Nature’s a lot better at inventing wonders than we are.” ~ Carl Sagan
- “Learn to laugh. Seriousness is a sin, and it is a disease. Laughter has tremendous beauty, a lightness. It will bring lightness to you, and it will give you wings to fly. And life is so full of opportunities. You just need the sensitivity. And create chances for other people to laugh. Laughter should be one of the most valued, cherished qualities of human beings – because only man can laugh, no animals are capable of it. Because it is human, it must be of the highest order. To repress it is to destroy a human quality.” ~ Rajneesh
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“I love the idea of birds having human qualities…I think all humans want to be birds so we can fly.” ~ Aoife O’Donovan
- “The one human quality that must be developed is self discipline for success. The will power to force yourself to do what you know you should do when you should do it, whether you like it or not, whether you feel like it or not. Success is tons of discipline.” ~ Brian Tracy
- “Social grace, inner discipline and joy. These are the birthright of the human being who has been allowed to develop essential human qualities.” ~ Maria Montessori
- “Creativity is an inherent human quality of the highest order. When we create, we become more than the sum of our parts.” ~ Yanni
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“Integrity is the human quality most necessary to business success.” ~ John C. Maxwell
- “I think a lot of times when people play superheroes, they stick with this, ‘I am a superhero,’ but the truth is that we’re all human, and that human quality is really important to bring.” ~ Molly Quinn
- “I have no skills with machines. I fear them, and because I cannot help attributing human qualities to them, I suspect that they hate me and will kill me if they can.” ~ Robertson Davies
- “Authenticity is about imperfection. And authenticity is a very human quality. To be authentic is to be at peace with your imperfections. The great leaders are not the strongest, they are the ones who are honest about their weaknesses. The great leaders are not the smartest; they are the ones who admit how much they don’t know. The great leaders can’t do everything; they are the ones who look to others to help them. Great leaders don’t see themselves as great; they see themselves as human.” ~ Simon Sinek , Leadership qualities quotes
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“If virtue were its own reward, it would no longer be a human quality, but supernatural.” ~ Luc de Clapiers
- “Though the word beautification makes the concept sound merely cosmetic, it involves much more: clean water, clean air, clean roadsides, safe waste disposal and preservation of valued old landmarks as well as great parks and wilderness areas. To me … beautification means our total concern for the physical and human quality we pass on to our children and the future.” ~ Lady Bird Johnson
- “A summons home to the nature that nourishes the best human qualities of creativity, intelligence, connection, and compassion.” ~ David W. Orr
- “We come here because we too feel a responsibility for the human community. To preserve and develop a human quality of life is the common responsibility of us all. It is not fitting that those concerned with the various aspects of the human be alienated from each other. Both you and ourselves represent forces too profound and aim at objectives too significant for either of us to succeed completely without the assistance of the other. The urgency of our work impels us to get on with our common task lest a new period of disaster erupt over the Earth.” ~ Thomas Berry
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It is time to dare and endure.” ~ Winston Churchill
- “To give generously but appropriately and then, most difficult of all, and as the full apotheosis of the art, with feeling, in the moment and spontaneously, has always been recognized as one of the greatest of human qualities.” ~ David Whyte
- “Of all the human values, three are most important. The foremost is love of God. Where there is love there is sacrifice. There arises purity of heart. There should be a fusion of love, sacrifice and purity. They are not mere human qualities. They constitute vital organs of a human being. They are as essential for a human being as the head, hands and legs for the body. Without these attributes, no one is a complete human being.” ~ Sathya Sai Baba
- “If you consider that the gender roles are just political, then what you come to see is that the full circle of human qualities is divided up so that two-thirds are masculine and one-third is feminine. Women are missing more of their human qualities, so you’ll find us on the fore-front of trying to change this.” ~ Gloria Steinem
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Women are missing more of their human qualities, so you’ll find us on the forefront of trying to change this.” ~ Gloria Steinem
- “When the accumulation of wealth is no longer of high social importance, there will be great changes in the code of morals. We shall be able to rid ourselves of many of the pseudo-moral principles which have hag-ridden us for two hundred years, by which we have exulted some of the most distasteful of human qualities into the highest virtues.” ~ John Maynard Keynes
- “[Some of the people I’d met] were wonderful people as human beings, and some people were more difficult. I could not see a correlation between their particular genius in playing chess and music and mathematics, etc. … with human qualities. Some were really good, wonderful people, and some were difficult characters, but there was no clear correlation. But when I met some spiritual masters, [I thought that] there had to be a correlation, and it turned out to be true.” ~ Matthieu Ricard
- “Now that we are rid of this syndrome of imposing the communist model on people, now that we’ve given them the chance to get rid of this dogma, I have to tell you Americans that you’ve been pushing your American way of life for decades. You thought it was perfection itself, the ultimate achievement of human thought… There has to be a different approach… Americans have to be more modest in their desires. We have to stimulate human qualities in people rather than greed.” ~ Mikhail Gorbachev
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“Planning other people’s actions means to prevent them from planning for themselves, means to deprive them of their essentially human quality, means enslaving them.” ~ Ludwig von Mises
- “we seem determined to give human qualities to objects and content to treat each other as things.” ~ Sherry Turkle
- “Well, I think the Yoruba gods are truthful. Truthful in the sense that i consider religion and the construct of deities simply an extension of human qualities taken, if you like, to the nth degree. i mistrust gods who become so separated from humanity that enormous crimes can be committed in their names. i prefer gods who can be brought down to earth and judged, if you like.” ~ Wole Soyinka
- “Perhaps both men and women in America may hunger, in our material, outward, active, masculine culture, for the supposedly feminine qualities of heart, mind and spirit — qualities which are actually neither masculine nor feminine, but simply human qualities that have been neglected.” ~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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“Genius is an exceedingly common human quality, probably natural to most of us.” ~ John Taylor Gatto
- “To have compassion for those who suffer is a human quality which everyone should possess, especially those who have required comfort themselves in the past and have managed to find it in others.” ~ Giovanni Boccaccio
- “The biological evolutionary perception of life and of human qualities is radically different from that of traditional religion, whether it’s Southern Baptist or Islam or any religion that believes in a supernatural supervalance over humanity.” ~ E. O. Wilson
- “The novels I love, the ones I remember, the ones I re-read, have an empathetic human quality, or ’emotional truth’. This quality is difficult to fully define, but I always recognise it when I see it: it is different from honesty and more resilient than fact, something that exists not in the kind of fiction that explains but in the kind that shows.” ~ Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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“There are no greater treasures than the highest human qualities such as compassion, courage and hope. Not even tragic accident or disaster can destroy such treasures of the heart.” ~ Daisaku Ikeda
- “The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no less than war, requires idealism and self-sacrifice and a righteous and dynamic faith.” ~ John Foster Dulles
- “I blame it on Walt Disney, where animals are given human qualities. People don’t understand that a wild animal is not something that is nice to pat. It can seriously harm you.” ~ James Cameron
- “In the theatre we reach out and touch the past through literature, history and memory so that we might receive and relive significant and relevant human qualities in the present and then pass them on to future generations.” ~ Anne Bogart
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“I think all of us as women have this super-human quality. We create life, we give life, we are the sources of life for our children – we’re all pretty bionic.” ~ Christina Aguilera
- “The struggle for justice should never be abandoned because of the apparent overwhelming power of those who seem invincible in their determination to hold on to it. That apparent power has, again and again, proved vulnerable to human qualities less measurable than bombs and dollars: moral fervor, determination, unity, organization, sacrifice, wit, ingenuity, courage, patience.” ~ Howard Zinn
- “You have a dream and you have obstacles in front of you as we all do. None of us ever get through this life without heartache, without turmoil, and if you believe and you have faith and you can get knocked down and get back up again and you believe in perseverance as a great human quality, you find your way.” ~ Diana Nyad
- “What is the importance of human lives? Is it their continuing alive for so many years like animals in a menagerie? The value of a man cannot be judged by the number of diseases from which he escapes. The value of a man is in his human qualities: in his character, in his conscience, in the nobility and magnanimity, of his soul. Torturing animals to prolong human life has separated science from the most important thing that life has produced – the human conscience.” ~ John Cowper Powys
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“Anger is the real destroyer of our good human qualities; an enemy with a weapon cannot destroy these qualities, but anger can. Anger is our real enemy.” ~ Dalai Lama
- “If we live our lives as a gift it is possible to reach a blissful state of eternal happiness. It is those who live their life with a sense of entitlement that undermine peace , freedom and liberty. Know that every breath is a miracle and every moment a blessing and you will achieve your dreams. Planning other people’s actions means to prevent them from planning for themselves, means to deprive them of their essentially human quality, means enslaving them.” ~ Ludwig von Mises
- “Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting, and fairly serene, but my eighties are passionate. I grow more intense as I age. To my own surprise I burst out with hot conviction. Only a few years ago I enjoyed my tranquility; now I am so disturbed by the outer world and by human quality in general that I want to put things right, as though I still owed a debt to life. I must calm down. I am far too frail to indulge in moral fervor.” ~ Florida Scott-Maxwell
- “It’s what non-car people don’t get. They see all cars as just a ton and a half, two tons of wires, glass, metal, and rubber, and that’s all they see. People like you or I know we have an unshakable belief that cars are living entities… You can develop a relationship with a car and that’s what non-car people don’t get… When something has foibles and won’t handle properly, that gives it a particularly human quality because it makes mistakes, and that’s how you can build a relationship with a car that other people won’t get.” ~ Jeremy Clarkson
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“Switching off perfection switched on the human quality” ~ Questlove
- “The philosophical underpinnings of my approach to acting are that there are universal human qualities, and that every character is actually available within each one of us, that if we tap down into that universal humanness, we can find whatever character it is that we need to play already there within ourselves, and it’s just a matter of peeling apart the onion that is you and finding that character within you, because of this universal human quality.” ~ Misha Collins
- “The human qualities of the raw materials show through. Naivety, error, contradiction, even (as in the cursing Psalms) wickedness are not removed. The total result is not “the Word of God” in the sense that every passage in itself, gives impeccable science or history. It carries the Word of God.” ~ C. S. Lewis
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“People can be ignorant and still have loving, human qualities.” ~ Rob Reiner
- “Men and kings must be judged in the testing moments of their lives. Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities, because, as has been said, it is the quality which guarantees all others.” ~ Winston Churchill
- “One of the main problems of our time is that men are deprived of their human qualities that are wrongly called feminine, and women are deprived of their human qualities that are wrongly called masculine.” ~ Gloria Steinem
