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Personal Qualities Quotes

If you have a choice between qualifications and personal qualities when it comes to hiring people, go with personal qualities. You can teach them the job.

If you have a choice between qualifications and personal qualities when it comes to hiring people, go with personal qualities. You can teach them the job.

Roger Ailes
Jobs, Personal Qualities, People

Good governance never depends upon laws, but upon the personal qualities of those who govern. The machinery of government is always subordinate to the will of those who administer that machinery. The most important element of government, therefore, is the method of choosing leaders.

Frank Herbert
Government, Law, Personal Qualities
Frank Herbert (2008). “Children of Dune”, p.156, Penguin

The true measure of a man is how he behaves when death is close.

Alma Katsu
Men, Helping Others, Personal Qualities
Alma Katsu (2011). “The Taker: Book One of the Taker Trilogy”, p.246, Simon and Schuster

Inner resilience and the ability to bounce back are personal qualities. ... Align yourself with someone who has this kind of resilience so that your own can be strengthened. Find another oak to weather the storm with you. Anyone who is in touch with his or her core self will always respond.

Deepak Chopra
Self, Weather, Personal Qualities

Nothing endures but personal qualities.

Walt Whitman
Personal Qualities, Quality, Endurance
Walt Whitman “Annotated LEAVES OF GRASS with English Grammar Exercises: by Walt Whitman (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, Powell Publications, LLC

The hope of any nation lies in the personal qualities of its individual members.

Margery Wilson
Lying, Personal Qualities, Quality

It is a grand old name, that of gentleman, and has been recognized as a rank and power in all stages of society. To possess this character is a dignity of itself, commanding the instinctive homage of every generous mind, and those who will not bow to titular rank will yet do homage to the gentleman. His qualities depend not upon fashion or manners, but upon moral worth; not on personal possessions, but on personal qualities.

Samuel Smiles
Fashion, Character, Personal Qualities

What I used to respect was not really aristocracy, but a set of personal qualities which aristocracy then developed better than any other system . . . a set of qualities, however, whose merit lay only in a psychology of non-calculative, non-competitive disinterestedness, truthfulness, courage, and generosity fostered by good education, minimum economic stress, and assumed position, AND JUST AS ACHIEVABLE THROUGH SOCIALISM AS THROUGH ARISTOCRACY.

H. P. Lovecraft
Stress, Personal Qualities, Generosity
Letter to C.L. Moore (c. mid-October 1936), in "H.P. Lovecraft, a Life" by S.T. Joshi, (p. 566), 1996.

The only compensation which war offers for its manifold mischiefs, is in the great personal qualities to which it gives scope and occasion.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
War, Personal Qualities, Giving
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1911). “Works: English traits, Conduct of life”

Vanity is a desire of personal glory, the wish to be appreciated, honoured, and run after, not because of one's personal qualities, merits, and achievements, but because of one's individual existence. At best, therefore, it is a frivolous beauty whim it befits.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Running, Personal Qualities, Vanity
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). “Maxims and Reflections”, p.134, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

All our distinctions ire accidental; beauty and deformity, though personal qualities, are neither entitled to praise nor censure; yet it so happens that they color our opinion of those qualities to which mankind have attached responsibility.

Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann
Responsibility, Color, Personal Qualities

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