Bad Qualities Quotes

• Love is needing someone. Love is putting up with someone's bad qualities because they somehow complete you.

  Sarah Dessen

  Love, Marriage, I Hate You

  "This Lullaby". Book by Sarah Dessen, 2002.

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• Give up all bad qualities in you, banish the ego and develop the spirit of surrender. You will then experience Bliss.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Giving Up, Ego, Quality

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• We are convinced that certain people have all the bad qualities we do not know in ourselves.

  Carl Jung

  People, Quality, Certain

  Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Michael Scott Montague Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1969). “The Collected Works of C. G. Jung: Psychology and religion, West and East”

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• It's amazing how quickly people get used to bad quality.

  Brian Eno

  People, Quality, Used

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• All bad qualities centre round the ego. When the ego is gone, Realisation results by itself. There are neither good nor bad qualities in the Self. The Self is free from all qualities. Qualities pertain to the mind only.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Self, Ego, Mind

  Maharshi Ramana, Swami Saraswati Ramananda (1963). “Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi”

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• In adopting the republican form of government, I not only took it as a man does his wife, for better, for worse, but, what few men do with their wives, I took it knowing all its bad qualities.

  Gouverneur Morris

  Men, Knowing, Wife

  Statement to John Dickinson, May 23, 1803.

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• The ego is a very bad quality. Ego sees everything as sep­arate; it sees everything as dual. You must remove this ego and see only the Unity. Think only of Unity; think only of the basis of everything.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Thinking, Ego, Unity

  Source: souljourns.net

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• If a man has ten good qualities and one bad one, to look at the ten and forget the one, and if a man has ten bad qualities and one good one, to look at the one and forget the ten.

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Life, Men, Quality

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• The glory of ancestors sheds a light around posterity; it allows neither good nor bad qualities to remain in obscurity.
  [Lat., Majorum gloria posteris lumen est, neque bona neque mala in occulto patitur.]

  Sallust

  Light, Quality, Ancestry

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• In order to succeed in a profession, a person not only needs to have its good, but also its bad qualities. The former are the spirit, the latter is the body of the job.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Success, Jobs, Order

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• Whether a man hides his bad qualities and vices or confesses them openly, his vanity wants to gain an advantage by it in both cases: just note how subtly he distinguishes between those he will hide his bad qualities from and those he will face honestly and candidly.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Vanity, Quality

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• There sometimes wants only a stroke of fortune to discover numberless latent good or bad qualities, which would otherwise have been eternally concealed.

  Greville Janner, Baron Janner of Braunstone

  Quality, Want, Sometimes

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• A man's hatred is always concentrated upon that which makes him conscious of his bad qualities.

  Carl Jung

  Men, Hatred, Quality

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• If we want to eliminate bad qualities like hatred, envy, pride and ostentation, we have to employ Sathya, Dharma, Santhi and Prema and Ahimsa as the cleaning instruments.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Pride, Envy, Hatred

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• Of course, man is also a weak creature with many bad qualities. And it depends on which of his qualities will in a certain social situation and in a certain climate prevail, which qualities will awaken. The totalitarian system was masterful in how it managed to mobilize all the bad qualities.

  Judy Woodruff

  Men, Quality, Climate

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• We confess our bad qualities to others out of fear of appearing naive or ridiculous by not being aware of them.

  Gerald Brenan

  Quality, Ridiculous, Confession

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• Truth is a point, the subtlest and finest; harder than adamant; never to be broken, worn away, or blunted. Its only bad quality is, that it is sure to hurt those who touch it; and likely to draw blood, perhaps the life blood, of those who press earnestly upon it.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Hurt, Truth, Blood

  Walter Savage Landor (1856). “Selections from the Writings of Walter Savage Landor”, p.238

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• There are some bad qualities which make great talents.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Quality, Talent, Great Talent

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• A chess game, after all, is a fight in which all possible factors must be made use of, and in which a knowledge of the opponent's good and bad qualities is of the greatest importance.

  Emanuel Lasker

  Fighting, Games, Chess Game

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• Had there not been five bad qualities, all the people would have been righteous. Contentment with ignorance; love for worldly life; miserliness inspite of much wealth; ostentation in (good) deeds; and pride in their own intelligence.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Wisdom, Islamic, Ignorance

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• I am invariably and have been since adolescence inimical to the Republican mind which shows at the most inflated size the bad qualities of the bourgeoisie rather than the good qualities of the middle class which the Democrats call forth.

  Janet Flanner

  Class, Mind, Quality

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• Discourtesy does not spring merely from one bad quality, but from several--from foolish vanity, from ignorance of what is due to others, from indolence, from stupidity, from distraction of thought, from contempt of others, from jealousy.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Spring, Ignorance, Vanity

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• Also, bad quality causes big disruptions in my river system.

  Taiichi Ohno

  Rivers, Quality, Causes

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• I am old enough to know only too well my good and bad qualities, which were often one in the same.

  Lisa See

  Quality, Enough, Good And Bad

  Lisa See (2011). “Snow Flower and the Secret Fan (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel”, p.5, Random House

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• Mrs. Hopewell had no bad qualities of her own but she was able to use other people's in such a constructive way that she never felt the lack.

  Flannery O'Connor

  People, Quality, Use

  Flannery O'Connor (2016). “A Good Man is Hard to Find”, p.116, Faber & Faber

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