#qualities

I love to start characters in a place where you think you know them. We can make all kinds of assumptions about them and think they have no redeeming qualities, but like everyone, they're complex. ↗

— Callie Khouri

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Self-denial and self-discipline, however, will be recognized as the outstanding qualities of a good soldier. ↗

— William Lyon Mackenzie King

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Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence. ↗

— David Seabury

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One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader. ↗

— Tacitus

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People just automatically say 'If this guy is George and Barbara Bush's son, we don't have any question about those personal qualities that we were fooled on by Clinton.' ↗

— Robert Teeter

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A companion loves some agreeable qualities which a man may possess, but a friend loves the man himself. ↗

— James Boswell

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It is better to believe that a man does possess good qualities than to assert that he does not. ↗

— John Francis Davis

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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love. ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

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I am less disposed to think of a West Point education as requisite for this business than I was at first. Good sense and energy are the qualities required. ↗

— Rutherford B. Hayes

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