Top 1200 Personal Qualities Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

People thrive on positive reinforcement. They can take only a certain amount of criticism and you may lose them altogether if you criticize them in a personal way... you can make a point without being personal. Don't insult or belittle your people. Instead of getting more out of them you will get less

I always have a very complex personal life as far as romance goes. Sometimes I have a little too much time to get into too much trouble... and drama. It's either I'm working, or I have nothing to do but focus on my personal life. It's a little hectic.

Grace, respect, reserve, and empathetic listening are qualities sorely missing from the public discourse now.

Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

You can be revered for all sorts of qualities, but to be truly charismatic is rare. Elizabeth Taylor was, for me, one of those rarities.

My Head of House said I lacked certain necessary qualities...like the ability to behave myself.

Trauma survivors have a deficiency in their capacity to regulate emotions - they're too prolonged and too intense and too negative. As a corollary to affect regulation, self-esteem, sense of self and inter-personal functioning all goes downhill. And that's a chronic thing that's solved in an-inter personal context.

Obstinacy and contention are common qualities, most appearing in, and best becoming, a mean and illiterate soul.

Act with purpose, courage, confidence, competence and intelligence until these qualities 'lock in' to your subconscious mind.

Golf puts a man's character on the anvil and his richest qualities - patience, poise, restraint - to the flame.

As you become more senior in your career, it can be thin at the top - It's harder and harder to get unbiased and direct feedback when making decisions. You want people who will speak truth to power. Say no to any 'yes men or women' on your personal board. When you face a personal crossroads, you need honest advisors.

The particular qualities and intentions of photographs tend to be swallowed up in the generalized pathos of time past.

Writing a book is very personal. It's a very personal relationship. A book will start with something as simple as two men talking about work. That gets the fire going. Sustaining that fire is the hard work. It takes attention and empathy to hone the characters.

For if there is one thing I have learned over the years about men, it is that feelings of powerlessness do not usually bring forth their finest qualities.

One of the qualities that all the leaders have is a voracious appetite to learn whatever they do not as yet know and understand, coupled with an openness to new experiences.

A lot of my fighting qualities I inherited from my parents. They set tremendous examples right through my life.

For me, a sexy man has three very important qualities: a great sense of humour, intelligence, and loyalty.

I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won't presume to probe into the faults of others.

When it comes to the qualities that I look for in a partner, I'd say looks are a factor but the inner beauty is more important as it adds to the personality.

It is clear I have enough qualities to be in the starting XI of Liverpool. But when you never get a real chance, it's difficult.

If you can just focus on creating your art whether that's music or writing a book or painting trust me it is really hard to balance that with a personal life. You have to be willing to sacrifice sometimes things in your personal life if your ultimate goal is to pursue things as an artist.

Results aside, the ability to have complete faith in another human being is one of the finest qualities a person can possess.

As the primary end of History is to record truth, impartiality, fidelity and accuracy are the fundamental qualities of an Historian.

My earthly parents don't know my potential or my divine qualities. They weren't taught how to diagnose or be aware of such things.

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities - because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

Adversity has the effect of drawing out strength and qualities of a man that would have laid dormant in its absence.

Great potential for personal empowerment can be found in attending to our awareness of global problems and to our understanding of how they connect with each other and with our personal lives. The process of naming the danger, saying aloud that the threats to life on earth are real, moves us from the numbness of denial to the aliveness that makes action possible.

A single son endowed with good qualities is far better than a hundred devoid of them.

I think one of my best qualities is my ability to empathize with people. Perhaps it's because my journey has been so bumpy.

When our friends are alive, we see the good qualities they lack; dead, we remember only those they possessed.

The qualities of creativity and genius are within you, awaiting your decision to match up with the power of intention.

If the individuals who make up a group have personal egos, and their identities lie in these egos, then their egoic identities will shift to the group. It might look as if they are losing their personal egos, but the ego simply shifts to the group.

Some of the qualities of #? God must be merged into us before our #? prayers can be fit for His acceptance.

Moral crusade: Public activity undertaken by middle-aged men who are cheating on their wives or diddling little boys. Moral crusades are particularly popular among those seeking power for their own personal pleasure, politicians who can't think of anything useful to do with their mandates, and religious professionals suffering from a personal inability to communicate with their god.

The truth is that History, with its imposing capital H, is simply the amalgamation of many quotidian lives lived in very ordinary ways. History is always personal. If you read Holocaust survivor or American slavery survivor narratives, you realize all too well that these great Historical moments were personal to someone at some time.

... he that will live in this World, must be endu'd with the three rare Qualities of Dissimulation, Equivocation, and mental Reservation.

I don’t have a problem with someone using their talents to become successful, I just don’t think the highest calling is success. Things like freedom and the expansion of knowledge are beyond success, beyond the personal. Personal success is not wrong, but it is limited in importance, and once you have enough of it it is a shame to keep striving for that, instead of for truth, beauty, or justice.

What do you conceive God to be like? Some would say to believe at all in a personal God requires a giant leap of faith - but I am convinced that belief in God is a far more reasonable position than atheism. Nature, the personal experience of literally billions of people, and something innate in the heart of man all testify to the existence of God.

All things are poisons, for there is nothing without poisonous qualities. It is only the dose which makes a thing poison.

Anything outside yourself, this you can see and apply your logic to it. But it's a human trait that when we encounter personal problems, these things most deeply personal are the most difficult to bring out for our logic to scan. We tend to flounder around, blaming everything but the actual, deep-seated thing that's really chewing on us.

Humility, reverence, compassion, forbearance, sacrifice and self-control are the qualities that reveal the outcome of the true education.

Generosity is nothing more seen than in a candid estimation of other men's virtues and good qualities.

If there's anything my kids have taught me, it's that my general belief in the good qualities of college athletics is alive and well.

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

I have always believed women have so many natural leadership qualities. They just need opportunities and access.

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

Leonard [Nimoy] was such a teacher for me. He was one of the most fully realized human beings I have ever known on every level - in his personal life with his personal relationships and his love for his wife and his evolution with his family. Then as an artist, as an actor, as a writer, as a poet, and as a photographer. He never stopped.

The people who could most benefit from the self-reflective ego-dissolving qualities of cannabis are the ones that want it to be illegal.

To be able to shut off your emotions drastically, I think that the only way you can do that is if you have some of sociopathic qualities.

There is no surer mark of the absence of the highest moral and intellectual qualities than a cold reception of excellence.

Patience, self-belief and regularity are three qualities that would take a young player to great heights.

I think the more important task for a young person than developing a personal brand is figuring out what she's great at, what she loves to do, and how she can use that to leave an imprint in the world. Those are tough questions, but essential ones. Answer those - and the personal brand follows.

In baseball, even the best hitters fail seven of ten times, and of those seven failures there are different reasons why. Some are personal failures, others are losses to the pitcher. You just get beat. In those personal failures, I felt I could have done better.

One of the interesting things about Twitter is looking how famous people choose to use it. Take someone like Steve Martin, who I follow: it's all sorts of comic gems, nothing private, nothing personal - all jokes. Other celebrities are overtly personal - like Charlie Sheen. I do a mix of observations and updates.

One of the many qualities that separate self-made billionaires from the rest of us is their ability to ask the right questions.

Executives of the company must have the necessary qualities to direct the personnel by showing them the way to do things.

It's very flattering that those who have assessed my work over the years think that I have the qualities to be an England manager.

Human civilization is not something achieved against nature; it is rather the outcome of the working of the innate qualities of man.

People say, "John, what's your personal growth?" And ask "How do you grow?" And I tell them. I thought, "Why do I keep telling them, why don't I just write a book on what I call personal growth?" And that's what this [Today Matters] book is.

It is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them — the character, the heart, generous qualities, progressive ideas.