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“You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.”

“Quality is not an act, it is a habit.”

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Author:Aristotle

“Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.”

“Chinese were bornwith an accumulated wisdom, a natural sophistication, an intelligent naivete, and unless they were transplanted too young, these qualities ripened in them.... If ever I am homesick for China, now that I am home in my own country, it is when I discover here no philosophy. Our people have opinions and creeds and prejudices and ideas but as yet no philosophy.”

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Author:Pearl S. Buck

“An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.”

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Book:Pragmatism and Other Writings

Source: Pragmatism and Other Writings

“As my personal explorations continued, I experienced this quality of inner reality more and more and could no longer doubt that the meaning of God lay in this direction. At the same time, these undeniable experiences lit up and were in turn illuminated by all the philosophical and historical knowledge I had by then amassed and I began to understand in an entirely new way the teachings of both Judaism and Christianity as well as the teachings of Buddhism, Hinduism and Islam.”

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Author:Jacob Needleman

“All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.”

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Author:Baruch Spinoza

“Music expresses feeling, that is to say, gives shape and habitation to feeling, not in space but in time. To the extent that music has a history that is more than a history of its formal evolution, our feelings must have a history too. Perhaps certain qualities of feeling that found expression in music can be recorded by being notated on paper, have become so remote that we can no longer inhabit them as feelings, can get a grasp of them only after long training in the history and philosophy of music, the philosophical history of music, the history of music as a history of the feeling soul.”

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Author:J. M. Coetzee

“One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.”

“It is quality rather than quantity that matters.”

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Author:Seneca the Younger

“The philosophical underpinnings of my approach to acting are that there are universal human qualities, and that every character is actually available within each one of us, that if we tap down into that universal humanness, we can find whatever character it is that we need to play already there within ourselves, and it's just a matter of peeling apart the onion that is you and finding that character within you, because of this universal human quality.”

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Author:Misha Collins

“Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.”

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Author:Confucius

“I welcome this chance to further strengthen the unbreakable ties between the United States and Israel and to assure you of our commitment to Israel's security and well-being. Israel and America may be thousands of miles apart, but we are philosophical neighbors sharing a strong commitment to democracy and the rule of law. What we hold in common are the bonds of trust and friendship, qualities that in our eyes make Israel a great nation. No people have fought longer, struggled harder, or sacrificed more than yours in order to survive, to grow, and to live in freedom”