Personal Qualities quotes
11 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"Inner resilience and the ability to bounce back are personal qualities. ... Align yourself with someone who has this kind of resilience so that your own can be strengthened. Find another oak to weather the storm with you. Anyone who is in touch with his or her core self will always respond."
"Nothing endures but personal qualities."
"Good governance never depends upon laws, but upon the personal qualities of those who govern. The machinery of government is always subordinate to the will of those who administer that machinery. The most important element of government, therefore, is the method of choosing leaders."
"The hope of any nation lies in the personal qualities of its individual members."
"The only compensation which war offers for its manifold mischiefs, is in the great personal qualities to which it gives scope and occasion."
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"Vanity is a desire of personal glory, the wish to be appreciated, honoured, and run after, not because of one's personal qualities, merits, and achievements, but because of one's individual existence. At best, therefore, it is a frivolous beauty whim it befits."
