Qualified Quotes

• We the willing, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much, with so little, for so long, we are now qualified to do anything, with nothing.

  Mother Teresa

  Sad, Long, Ungrateful

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• You have to not listen to the nay sayers because there will be many and often they`ll be much more qualified than you and cause you to sort of doubt yourself.

  James Cameron

  Doubt, Causes

  James Cameron, Brent Dunham (2012). “James Cameron: Interviews”, p.120, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Satisfy yourself beyond all doubt that you are qualified for the course to which you now aspire.....and try to achieve something in your own land before you venture on a strange one.

  Charles Dickens

  Land, Doubt, Trying

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• God doesn't call the qualified, He qualifies the called.

  Mark Batterson

  Ministry, Marquee

  Twitter post from Sep 28, 2014

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• Organic buildings are the strength and lightness of the spiders' spinning, buildings qualified by light, bred by native character to environment, married to the ground.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Character, Artist, Light

  Jennifer Fandel, Frank Lloyd Wright (2005). “Frank Lloyd Wright”, The Creative Company

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• Magic Johnson, former basketball player, may run for mayor of L.A. in the next election. Remember the good 'ol days when only qualified people ran for office like actors and professional wrestlers.

  Jay Leno

  Basketball, Running, Player

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• Prejudice is the sole author of infamies: how many acts are so qualified by an opinion forged out of naught but prejudice!

  Marquis de Sade

  Prejudice, Opinion, Sole

  marquis de Sade (1988). “Juliette”, Grove Press

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• We were the best team in the world: European champions in 1984, we qualified without a hitch and 86 was to be the swan song for a very experienced side.

  Michel Patini

  Song, Team, Swans

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• The word "artist" means man unless qualified by the category "woman.

  Whitney Chadwick

  Mean, Artist, Men

  Whitney Chadwick (2007). “Women, Art, and Society”

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• Harriet Miers isn't qualified to play a Supreme Court justice on The West Wing , let alone to be a real one.

  Ann Coulter

  Real, Play, Wings

  " "This is what 'Advice and Consent' means" by nn Coulter, www.anncoulter.com. October 5, 2005.

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• There's good reason to be excited. You have the first woman running who is qualified, and a very attractive African-American who has demonstrated crossover appeal. I got involved in politics 40 years ago during the civil rights movement, so yes, it's an exciting thing.

  Joe Biden

  Running, Rights, Years

  "Biden officially running for president". MSNBC.com, January 31, 2007.

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• No matter how qualified or deserving we are, we will never reach a better life until we can imagine it for ourselves and allow ourselves to have it.

  Richard Bach

  Inspirational, Deserving It, Matter

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• The people who run a university are far more qualified and intelligent in handling people than someone who inherited his money and used it to buy a pro team.

  Hayden Fry

  Running, Team, Intelligent

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• I just want people who are qualified, I want them to believe in the Constitution of the United States of America. So yep, I don't have a problem with appointing an openly gay person. Because they're not going to try to put sharia law in our laws.

  Herman Cain

  Believe, Gay, Law

  "Cain Says He Would Be Ok With Appointing Gay Cabinet Members Because They Wouldn’t Impose Sharia Law". thinkprogress.org. June 06, 2011.

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• The employment laws are completely unrealistic. You cannot overcome that in only 10 years. It will take at least another generation before young people are properly qualified.

  Helen Suzman

  Years, Law, People

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• I wasn't really qualified to be on Saturday Night Live - I'm not like an impressionist or anything.

  Victoria Jackson

  Night, Saturday, Impressionists

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• No man undertakes a trade he has not learned, even the meanest; yet everyone thinks himself sufficiently qualified for the hardest of all trades, that of government.

  Socrates

  Men, Thinking, Greek Philosopher

  Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

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• A man who reviews the old so as to find out the new is qualified to teach others.

  Confucius

  Men, Reviews, Teach

  Analects ch. 2, v. 11 (translation by Wing-Tsit Chan)

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• He that is not open to conviction is not qualified for discussion.

  Richard Whately

  Argument, Conviction, Discussion

  Richard Whately (1856). “Thoughts and Apophthegms: From the Writings of Archbishop Whateley”, p.41

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• Only those who do not seek power are qualified to hold it.

  Plato

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• It is not the qualified voters, but the qualified voters who choose to vote, that constitute political power.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Political, Voters, Vote

  Abraham Lincoln (1989). “Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 2: 1859-1865: Library of America #46”, p.421, Library of America

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• Nature has left every man a capacity of being agreeable, though not of shining in company; and there are a hundred men sufficiently qualified for both who, by a very few faults, that they might correct in half an hour, are not so much as tolerable.

  Jonathan Swift

  Men, Shining, Might

  Jonathan Swift (1841). “The Works. Containing Interesting and Valuable Papers, Not Hitherto Published. With Memoir of the Author, by Thomas Roscoe”, p.293

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• Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites.

  Edmund Burke

  Men, Liberty, Moral

  Edmund Burke (1828). “The Beauties of Burke: Consisting of Selections from His Works”, p.86

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• Few are qualified to shine in company, but it is in most men's power to be agreeable.

  Jonathan Swift

  Men, Shining, Good Nature

  'Thoughts on Various Subjects' (1706)

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• Age is no better, hardly so well, qualified for an instructor as youth, for it has not profited so much as it has lost.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Age, Youth, Lost

  Henry David Thoreau, Nancy L. Rosenblum (1996). “Thoreau: Political Writings”, p.27, Cambridge University Press

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