Unqualified Quotes

• When you're willing to do what you're unqualified to do, that's what qualifies you.

  Bill Johnson

  Willing

  Bill Johnson (2012). “Hosting the Presence: Unveiling Heaven's Agenda”, p.36, Destiny Image Publishers

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• To each there comes in their lifetime a special moment when they are figuratively tapped on the shoulder and offered the chance to do a very special thing, unique to them and fitted to their talents. What a tragedy if that moment finds them unprepared or unqualified for that which could have been their finest hour.

  Winston Churchill

  Life, Motivational, Success

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• I have always known that, because God so miraculously rescued me that he would also use me. God always uses the unqualified to fulfill his commission. This ensures that no man can take credit. God likes those of us that are pulled from the depths of sin and anoints us to do the same for others. We are those who have the testimony that begins with.... "If it had not been for Jesus!"

  Jay Haizlip

  Christian, Religious, Jesus

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• The doctrine of blind obedience and unqualified submission to any human power, whether civil or ecclesiastical, is the doctrine of despotism.

  Angelina Grimke

  Doctrine, Libertarian, Blind

  Sarah Grimke, Angelina Grimke (2015). “On Slavery and Abolitionism: Essays and Letters”, p.97, Penguin

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• Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man. To decide against your conviction is to be an unqualified and excusable traitor, both to yourself and to your
  country, let men label you as they may.

  Mark Twain

  Country, Integrity, 4th Of July

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• The amazing thing is that throughout Scripture and history it seems God has chosen the most seemingly unlikely and unqualified people to fulfill his plan and purpose on the earth. Most often, the response of those people has been to insist on their own unworthiness. And if they don’t-the people around them may do so, loudly and shrilly. And therein lies a danger: If we allow other people to tell us what we are and are not qualified to do, we will limit what God wants to do with us.

  Christine Caine

  Lying, People, Purpose

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• Well, I'm not a member of the permanent political establishment, and I've learned quickly these last few days that if you're not a member in good standing of the Washington elite, then some in the media consider a candidate unqualified for that reason alone.

  Sarah Palin

  Media, Political, Lasts

  Republican Vice Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speech, delivered 3 September 2008, Minneapolis-Saint Paul, Minnesota

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• I place my own hope for the United States in the growth of belief among the unqualified that they are in fact qualified: they can articulate and be responsible and hold power

  Stokely Carmichael

  Growth, United States, Facts

  Stokely Carmichael (1971). “Stokely speaks; Black power back to Pan-Africanism”, Random House (NY)

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• I'm unqualified for anything else. I'm barely qualified for this.

  Catherine Keener

  Qualified

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• Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard.

  John Steinbeck

  Giving, Praise, Reviewers

  "The Affluent Society". Book by John Kenneth Galbraith. Introduction, 1977.

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• Acknowledge that a more closely integrated Europe is no longer an unqualified American interest.

  Richard Perle

  Europe, Interest, Integrated

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• I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.

  Charles Dickens

  Romantic Love, Expectations, Promise

  1860-1 Great Expectations, ch.29.

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• Most institutions demand unqualified faith; but the institution of science makes skepticism a virtue.

  Robert K. Merton

  Inspirational, Faith, Science

  Robert K. Merton (1973). “The Sociology of Science: Theoretical and Empirical Investigations”, p.265, University of Chicago Press

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• I love criticism just so long as it's unqualified praise.

  Noel Coward

  Funny, Humor, Long

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• Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man.

  Thomas Tusser

  Peace, Integrity, Patriotic

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• I must assert in the most unqualified way that it is primarily and mainly for the sake of saving the soul that I seek the salvation of the body.

  William Booth

  Soul, Body, Saving

  William Booth (2014). “In Darkest England and the Way Out”, p.45, Cambridge University Press

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• A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Marriage, Agreement, Deception

  Henrik Ibsen, James Walter McFarlane, Graham Orton (1960). “The Oxford Ibsen: An enemy of the people. The wild duck. Rosmersholm”

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• I am working for the time when unqualified blacks, browns and women join the unqualified men in running our government.

  Frances Farenthold

  Running, Men, Justice

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• Ethics is in its unqualified form extended responsibility with regard to everything that has life.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Respect, Responsibility, Vegetarianism

  "Civilization and Ethics".

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• Patriotism means unqualified and unwavering love for the nation, which implies not uncritical eagerness to serve, not support for unjust claims, but frank assessment of its vices and sins, and penitence for them.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Peace, War, Mean

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• Your responsibility as a parent is not as great as you might imagine. You need not supply the world with the next conqueror of disease or major motion picture star. If your child simply grows up to be someone who does not use the word "collectible" as a noun, you can consider yourself an unqualified success.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Stars, Children, Growing Up

  FaceBook post by Fran Lebowitz from May 08, 2010

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• America is an idea. And it's the solemn responsibility of each 'temporary' president to protect and nurture that noblest of all ideas - with integrity. This man, Mitt Romney, has shown - not through his experience, but through his actions and words - that he is unqualified to carry out that responsibility.

  Jennifer Granholm

  Integrity, Responsibility, Men

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• Don't get stampeded by what people around you value. The task is to figure out what YOU value - and value highly enough to throw yourself into with unqualified passion.

  David Maister

  Passion, People, Tasks

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• The nature of impending fatherhood is that you are doing something that you're unqualified to do, and then you become qualified while doing it.

  John Green

  Fathers Day, Dad, Fatherhood

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• The republican principle demands that the deliberate sense of the community should govern the conduct of those to whom they intrust the management of their affairs; but it does not require an unqualified complaisance to every sudden breeze of passion or to every transient impulse which the people may receive from the arts of men, who flatter their prejudices to betray their interests.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Art, Passion, Men

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2016). “The Federalist Papers and the Constitution of the United States: The Principles of the American Government”, p.383, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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