Qualities Quotes

I was lucky to have the right heroes. Tell me who your heroes are and I'll tell you how you'll turn out to be. The qualities of the one you admire are the traits that you, with a little practice, can make your own, and that, if practiced, will become habit forming.

There is more than just words to define a person.

Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

In looking for people to hire, look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence and energy. And if they don't have the first, the other two will kill you.

Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.

I've always thought Anne-Marie Slaughter would make a fantastic United States Senator or something. She's a real intellectual, but she's got enormous communicative skills and she's got government experience. The thing that drives me slightly crazy is the way we think about intellectuals as wooly, hopeless, arrogant, self-deceived, incapable.

Make sure you look after people around you and it holds you in good stead going forward in terms of leadership. Look at all the best leaders and they have those qualities.

When I interview someone, I know in the first two minutes if I like them or not. I find that if it's easy to talk to someone and I see an openness and honesty and integrity, then I usually hire them.

Leadership is like beauty - it's hard to define but you know it when you see it.

The recipe for any character is always very interesting, as far as what doses of certain qualities you want.

But it's always really difficult to find someone that has the qualities to be a great accompanist.

It's not beauty but fine qualities, my girl, that keep a husband.

The truth properly means the sum of all true propositions, what omniscience would assert, the whole ideal system of qualities andrelations which the world has exemplified or will exemplify. The truth is all things seen under the form of eternity.

As important as issues are, as important as money is ..., you've got to have good candidates.

I believe in a world where there are no heroes, and I've read and know humanity a lot. There are moments that I admire in a person courage, intellect, hard work. These are the qualities I admire in an intellectual, in a writer, and there are so many people who have these things.

I look for people who have drive, who have ambition, who are humble. I've hired many people at very strange places.

As young people, you want to see people who in some way look like you to some degree, because it makes it a little easier for you to aspire to take on the qualities of those people.

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

The companion of an evening, and the companion for life, require very different qualifications.

For me, the biggest thing is someone who's kind. I'm not into the bad-boy thing.

One should choose for a wife only such a woman as he would choose for a friend, were she a man.

If you're a leader, can communicate, and have a great work ethic, those are the things you're looking for.

Wherever there are qualities there are likewise quantities, but not always vice versa.

It's better to have a lot of different qualities in the team; it's a good mix.

The art of putting into play mediocre qualities often begets more reputation than is achieved by true merit.