No amount of study or learning will make a man a leader unless he has the natural qualities of one.
Archibald Wavell

No publisher in America improved a paper so quickly on so grand a scale, took a paper that was marginal in qualities and brought it to excellence as Otis Chandler did.
David Halberstam

Nothing endures but personal qualities.
Walt Whitman

Olympism... exalting and combining in a balanced whole the qualities of body, mind and will.
Pierre de Coubertin

One can say that three pre-eminent qualities are decisive for the politician: passion, a feeling of responsibility, and a sense of proportion.
Max Weber

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

One of the qualities of liberty is that, as long as it is being striven after, it goes on expanding. Therefore, the man who stands in the midst of the struggle and says, "I have it," merely shows by doing so that he has just lost it.
Henrik Ibsen

One sees qualities at a distance and defects at close range.
Victor Hugo

One succeeds in obtaining an equivalent production at a lower price by improving the arts, trades and agriculture and by developing the physical and moral qualities of workers, farmers and craftsmen.
Antoine Lavoisier

People accuse me of being Methody, but I'm not at all. The one thing I don't want people to see is me. I don't want them to be able to recognize my faults and failures and qualities, and I won't use those things to spark off emotions or to illustrate.
Kristin Scott Thomas

People can be ignorant and still have loving, human qualities.
Rob Reiner

People just automatically say 'If this guy is George and Barbara Bush's son, we don't have any question about those personal qualities that we were fooled on by Clinton.'
Robert Teeter

People who meet me think of Jill and transfer her strong qualities to me.
Patricia Richardson

Physical qualities don't really matter much.
Frank Langella

Precision is not one of the qualities that comes out in my work.
Gil Kane

Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus

Recognition of this kinship with the rest of the universe is necessary for understanding him, but his essential nature is defined by qualities found nowhere else, not by those he has in common with apes, fishes, trees, fire, or anything other than himself.
George G. Simpson

Resume: a written exaggeration of only the good things a person has done in the past, as well as a wish list of the qualities a person would like to have.
Bo Bennett

Self-denial and self-discipline, however, will be recognized as the outstanding qualities of a good soldier.
William Lyon Mackenzie King

Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
Nathaniel Hawthorne