Best Bad Qualities Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“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.]”

Light Quality Glory Ancestor Shed Posterity Obscurity Ancestry Gloria Bad Qualities

Author:Sallust

“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.”

Needs Persons Body Jobs Success Spirit Order Quality Succeed Profession Former Latter Order To Succeed Bad Qualities

Author:Franz Grillparzer

“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.”

Men Want Faces Quality Cases Gains Advantage Notes Vices Honestly Vanity Bad Qualities

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Want Has Beens Sometimes Quality Fortune Strokes Concealed Latent Bad Qualities

Author:Greville Janner, Baron Janner of Braunstone

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

Men Quality Conscious Hatred Bad Qualities

Author:Carl Jung

“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.”

Ifs Want Quality Pride Hatred Instruments Envy Cleaning Dharma Ahimsa Ostentation Bad Qualities

Author:Sathya Sai Baba

“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.”

Men Certain Courses Social Quality Situation Depends Creatures Weak Climate Bad Qualities

Author:Judy Woodruff

“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.”

Thinking Quality Ego Bases Unity Remove Bad Qualities

Author:Sathya Sai Baba

“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.”

Mind Self Results Quality Gone Ego Rounds Centre Realisation Old Soul Bad Qualities

Book:Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi

Source: Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi

“Flesh-meats will depreciate the blood. Cook meat with spices, and eat it with rich cakes and pies, and you have a bad quality of blood.”

Quality Rich Blood Flesh Cooks Meat Cake Pie Spices Depreciate Bad Qualities

Author:Ellen G. White

“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.”

People Way Use Able Felt Quality Manipulation Constructive Bad Qualities

Book:A Good Man is Hard to Find

Source: A Good Man is Hard to Find

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

Love Love Is Quality Marriage Inspirational Love I Hate You Bad Qualities This Lullaby Needing Someone

Author:Sarah Dessen

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

Knows Wells Enough Quality Good And Bad Bad Qualities

Book:Snow Flower and the Secret Fan (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel

Source: Snow Flower and the Secret Fan (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel

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

Giving Spirit Quality Ego Giving Up Surrender Bliss Bad Qualities

Author:Sathya Sai Baba

“We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can't tolerate.”

Want Doe Quality Particular Ass Tolerate Best Friend Candor Cute Friendship Bad Qualities

Author:William James

“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.”

Made Use Fighting Games Quality Importance Chess Factors Opponents Good And Bad Chess Game Bad Qualities

Author:Emanuel Lasker

“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.”

People Has Beens Wisdom Wealth Quality Five Ignorance Pride Deeds Islamic Contentment Righteous Worldly Good Deeds Worldly Life Ostentation Bad Qualities

Author:Ali ibn Abi Talib

“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.”

Mind Has Beens Shows Quality Class Middle Republican Democrat Size Middle Class Adolescence Bourgeoisie Good Quality Bad Qualities

Author:Janet Flanner

“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.”

Doe Quality Ignorance Spring Stupidity Dues Foolish Vanity Contempt Distraction Indolence Bad Qualities

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

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

Bigs Causes Quality Rivers Disruption Bad Qualities

Author:Taiichi Ohno

“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.”

Men Doe Government Form Quality Knowing Wife Republican Forms Of Government Adopting Bad Qualities

Author:Gouverneur Morris

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

People Knows Certain Quality Convinced Bad Qualities

Book:The Collected Works of C. G. Jung: Psychology and religion, West and East

Source: The Collected Works of C. G. Jung: Psychology and religion, West and East

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

People Used Quality Bad Qualities

Author:Brian Eno

“There are some bad qualities which make great talents.”

Quality Talent Great Talent Bad Qualities

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“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.”

Truth Hurt Quality Blood Broken Truth Is Draws Harder Presses Worn Finest Adamant Bad Qualities

Book:Selections from the Writings of Walter Savage Landor

Source: Selections from the Writings of Walter Savage Landor

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

Quality Ridiculous Confession Naive Appearing Bad Qualities

Author:Gerald Brenan

“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.”

Ifs Men Life Looks Forget Quality Ten Good Quality Bad Qualities

Author:Abdu'l-Bahá