Essential Qualities Quotes

Energy and patience in business are two indispensable elements of success.

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

A person's true nature is revealed at times of the greatest adversity.

But a man's character is his fate... and in the end there isn't any way to disguise the nature of the knocks by acoustical work on the door or gloving the knuckles.

Character shows itself apart from genius as a special thing. The first point of measurement of any man is that of quality.

If our virtues did not go forth of us, it were all alike as if we had them not.

Human nature is what Heaven supplies.

You can get people the qualifications; But you can't teach them the qualities they're going to need. You can't teach integrity, a drive for excellence, refusal to quit under pressure. It's too late to build that into people you're going to hire.

Everything that's really worthwhile in life came to us free - our minds, our souls, our bodies, our hopes, our dreams, our ambitions, our intelligence, our love of family and children and friends and country.

I can recognize a good actor. I can recognize someone that can convey emotion and that has the essence and not get lost in the minutia of, 'Well, that person's got red hair, and so does the other.' Some of the decisions in casting that seem so important at the time, until you get on set and you're starting to shoot.

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.

History will not judge our endeavors--and a government cannot be selected--merely on the basis of color or creed or even party affiliation. Neither will competence and loyalty and stature, while essential to the utmost, suffice in times such as these.

You are born with a character; it is given, a gift, as the old stories say, from the guardians upon your birth...Each person enters the world called.

Fundamentals - everybody has that. I definitely have that.

To make any endeavor truly successful, integrity, inspiration, and insight are integral.

Seek the insignificant small but essential qualities, essential to life

That had always been my purpose: to get people back in touch with what makes us so valuable as a human race.

They that examine into the Nature of Man, abstract from Art and Education, may observe, that what renders him a Sociable Animal, consists not in his desire of Company, Good-nature, Pity, Affability, and other Graces of a fair Outside; but that his vilest and most hateful Qualities are the most necessary Accomplishments to fit him for the largest, and, according to the World, the happiest and most flourishing Societies.

He who fails to please in his salutation and address is at once rejected, and never obtains an opportunity of showing his latest excellences or essential qualities.