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The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
Mahatma Gandhi

Strong, Forgive, Weak

My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.
George Washington

Life, Success, Education

I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.
Mahatma Gandhi

Children, Evil, Soul

But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless there is soul, but only that of which time is an attribute, i.e. if change can exist without soul.
Aristotle

Change, Time, Mind

From the smallest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and everything we have comes from one attribute of man - the function of his reasoning mind.
Ayn Rand

Mind, Everything, Religious

We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the majority of our controversies come from that.
Marcus Aurelius

Single, Cause, Majority

We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Cannot, Either, Virtue

I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse.
Florence Nightingale

Success, Took, Gave

There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will.
Agatha Christie

God, Free, Evils

No attribute of God is more dreadful to sinners than His holiness.
Matthew Henry

God, Sinners, Holiness

People who are in a fortunate position always attribute virtue to what makes them so happy.
John Kenneth Galbraith

Happy, Makes, Virtue

To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature; to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man.
Joseph Addison

Nature, Divine, Glory

I attribute the little I know to my not having been ashamed to ask for information, and to my rule of conversing with all descriptions of men on those topics that form their own peculiar professions and pursuits.
John Locke

In the land of my birth I cannot vote, whereas a young person of eighteen can vote. And why? Because he or she possesses that wonderful biological attribute - a white skin.
Desmond Tutu

Person, Why, Cannot

The innovative spirit was America's strongest attribute, transforming everything into a brave new world, but there lingered an insecurity about the arts.
Arthur Erickson

Insecurity, Everything, America

We always take credit for the good and attribute the bad to fortune.
Charles Kuralt

Good, Bad, Credit

I've been accused of being old before my time more than once. It's true that I've always felt an affinity for, and been comfortable around, older people. I attribute this to a childhood spent around my grandparents - and even a great-grandparent or two. I wouldn't trade those experiences for anything.
Jon Meacham

Time, True, Two

I attribute the quarrelsome nature of the Middle Ages young men entirely to the want of the soothing weed.
Jerome K. Jerome

Nature, Men, Young

The mistake we make is to attribute to religions the errors and fanaticism of human beings.
Tahar Ben Jelloun

Human, Mistake, Religions

Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, 'This is the real me,' and when you have found that attitude, follow it.
James Truslow Adams

Attitude, Real, Makes

I am selfish, but that's an attribute that all artists possess.
Robert Mapplethorpe

Selfish, Artists, Possess

I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.
Baruch Spinoza

Beauty, Nature, Beautiful

Somebody said to me this morning, 'To what do you attribute your longevity?' I don't know. I mean, I couldn't have planned my life out better. By all accounts I should be dead! The abuse I put my body through: the drugs, the alcohol, the lifestyle I've lived the last 30 years!
Ozzy Osbourne

Life, Morning, Mean

A changing environment will affect Alaska more than any other state, because of our location. I'm not one though who would attribute it to being man-made.
Sarah Palin

State, Though, Changing

Cats are anthropomorphised in art because they are so laid back that you automatically attribute human thoughts and feelings to them.
Jim Davis

Art, Human, Feelings

Once, power was considered a masculine attribute. In fact, power has no sex.
Katharine Graham

Power, Sex, Fact

Never attribute to malice, that which can be reasonably explained by stupidity.
Spider Robinson

Stupidity, Malice, Reasonably

When I meet successful people I ask 100 questions as to what they attribute their success to. It is usually the same: persistence, hard work and hiring good people.
Kiana Tom

Success, Work, Good

If you can attribute your success entirely to your own mental effort, to your own attitude, to some spiritual essence that you have that is better than other people's, then that must feel pretty good.
Barbara Ehrenreich

Success, Good, Attitude

I think that my biggest attribute to any success that I have had is hard work. There really is no substitute for working hard.
Maria Bartiromo

Success, Work, Hard

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