Personal Qualities Quotes

In this world, the greatest rewards of success, wealth and happiness are usually obtained not through the exercise of special powers such a genius or intellect but through one's energetic use of simple means and ordinary qualities.

The fundamental, longtime American attitude has been to ask not where a person comes from but what are his personal qualities. On this basis men and women migrated from every quarter of the globe. By their hard work and their enormously varied talents they hewed a great nation out of a wilderness. By their dedication to liberty and equality they created a society reflecting man's most cherished ideas.

Genius is talent in which character makes itself heard.

To be courageous requires no exceptional qualifications, no magic formula, no special combination of time, place, and circumstance. It is an opportunity that sooner or later is presented to us all.

Leadership is all about emotional intelligence. Management is taught, while leadership is experienced.

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Good people are found not changed. They can change themselves, but you can't change them. You want good people, you have to find them. If you want motivated people, you have to find them, not motivate them.

It is not in everyone's power to secure wealth, office, or honors; but everyone may be good, generous, and wise.

Being an actor in Hollywood involves lots of things beyond acting. Charm really helps.

The superior man cannot be known in little matters, but he may be entrusted with great concerns. The small man may not be entrusted with great concerns, but he may be known in little matters.

Strong emotional experiences are for the most part impersonal. Anyone who has hated another person so much that only chance stands between that person and death knows this, as does whoever has fallen into the catastrophe of a deep depression, anyone who has loved a woman to the dregs, anyone who has beaten others bloody or ever come up behind another person with muscles trembling. "Losing one's head," language calls it. Emotional experience is, in itself, poor in qualities; qualities are brought to it by the person who has the experience.

Just as the habit does not make the monk, the sceptre does not make the king.

Way back in the day, I used to cook for Thomas Keller at Rakel in New York City. Keller is a down to earth, kind, supportive person. I wish people could see that.

People might think that my queen should be highly educated, beautiful and the best of the best. Jetsun Pema is a kind-hearted girl who is very supportive and whom I can trust. I cannot say how she might appear to the people, but to me, she is the one.

Become the kind of person the kind of person you would like to marry would like to marry.

When choosing sexual partners, remember: Talent is not sexually transmittable.

I've always felt that I'm a natural leader.

I think boldness is not the only thing in my personality, but there is lot more.

There are some people who physically are not beautiful. But the way they are, the way they treat people, they become beautiful, and you forget all about [their looks].

Look at a person's light, not their lampshade.

He [President Warren G. Harding] is a kind, companionable fellow to go with on a fishing expedition or to play cards with; but he is not the man to have as President or leader.

Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.

Honesty first; then courage; then brains - and all are indispensable.

The average American is more focused on leadership than likeability. And more focused on qualifications than quality of speakership.

It is more offensive to outshine in dignity than in personal attractions.