Mental Quality Quotes

A person of any mental quality has ideas of his own. This is common sense.

Compassion is a mental quality that can bring us true lasting inner peace and inner strength.

Satire is at once the most agreeable and most dangerous of mental qualities. It always pleases when it is refined, but we always fear those who use it too much; yet satire should be allowed when unmixed with spite, and when the person satirized can join in the satire.

Literary people are forever judging the quality of the mind by the turn of expression.

In football, you have to be strong in the head. The mentality is important, and I do have this quality so I can keep going.

The quality of a man's mind can generally be judged by the size of his wastepaper basket.

It isn't the instrument that influences High-Minded or Low-Minded; it's the quality of Mind itself.

Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.

Penetration has an air of divination; it pleases our vanity more than any other quality of the mind.

Success is a process, a quality of mind and way of being, an outgoing affirmation of life.

But no work from a first rate mind is ever really second rate.

No taste is so acquired as that for someone else's quality of mind.

If one admits that the influence of the outside world is essentially beneficial, the lack of such influence during sleep would tend to diminish the value of our dream activity so as to render it inferior to the mental activity that takes place when we are awake, when we are exposed to these beneficial influences of surrounding reality. But how can one say that the influence of reality is exclusively beneficial. Could it not also be damaging, and could its absence not give access to qualities superior to those that we have when awake?