Rare Qualities Quotes

It is curious–curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare.

Courage, of all national qualities, is the most precarious; because it is exerted only at intervals, and by a few in every nation; whereas industry, knowledge, civility, may be of constant and universal use, and for several ages, may become habitual to the whole people.

You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public men.

Most of my heroes are just decent people. Decency is rare and underrated.

Courage and wisdom are, indeed, rarities amongst men, but of all that is good, a just man it would seem is the most scarce.

The rarest of the good qualities in human beings is courage

Compassion, loyalty, and respect sum up love for me - it's a mix that's very rare to find and even harder to imbibe.

I like a girl with old-fashioned values - and they are very hard to find, particularly in L.A.

Perhaps here we have a clue to the reason why royal rule used to exist formerly, namely the difficulty of finding enough men of outstanding virtue.

There are plenty of good people, but only a very, very few are precise and disciplined.

To be capable of respect is almost as rare as to be worthy of it.

There are people of spirit and there are people of passion, both less common than one might think. Rarer still are the people of spirit and passion. But rarest of all is a passionable spirit.

As human beings, our job in life is to help people realize how rare and valuable each one of us really is, that each of us has something that no one else has-or ever will have-something inside that is unique to all time.

John Kerry speaks French fluently. Democrats are saying he's one in a million. A war hero who speaks French, isn't it more like one in a trillion?

All really great pictures exhibit the general habits of nature, manifested in some peculiar, rare, and beautiful way.

Valor is common but great souls are rare.

Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.

Good women are rare too, none of them have come close

I suspect that even today, with all the progress we have made in liberal thought, the quality of true tolerance is as rare as the quality of mercy.

Elements of the heroic exist in almost every individual: it is only the felicitous development of them all in one that is rare.

The gentleman had also a young daughter, of rare goodness and sweetness of temper, which she took from her mother, who was the best creature in the world.

Very rare, the intelligence of the heart. The intelligence of the whimsical brain is less rare, less attaching, sometimes tedious.