Attribute
To ascribe; to consider (something) as due or appropriate (to); to refer, as an effect to a cause; to impute; to assign; to consider as belonging (to).
That which is attributed; a quality which is considered as belonging to, or inherent in, a person or thing; an essential or necessary property or characteristic.
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A conventional symbol of office, character, or identity, added to any particular figure; as, a club is the attribute of Hercules.
Quality, etc., denoted by an attributive; an attributive adjunct or adjective.
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Attribute Quotations
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
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
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
Mahatma Gandhi
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
We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either.
Niccolo Machiavelli
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
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
I attribute the quarrelsome nature of the Middle Ages young men entirely to the want of the soothing weed.
Jerome K. Jerome
People who are in a fortunate position always attribute virtue to what makes them so happy.
John Kenneth Galbraith
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
Attribute Translations
attribute in Dutch is bijvoeglijke bepaling, attribuut
attribute in French is attribuez, attribut, attribuons, attribuer
attribute in German is Merkmal, Atribut {n}, Attribut {n}
attribute in Latin is delego
attribute in Norwegian is kjennetegn
attribute in Portuguese is atributo
attribute in Spanish is signo, atributo
attribute in Swedish is attribut
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