Attributes Quotes
May your efforts to develop Christlike attributes be successful so that His image may be engraven in your countenance and His attributes manifest in your behavior
Beauty and truth may be attributes of good writing, but if the writer deliberately aims at truth, he is likely to find that what he has hit is the didactic.
Whatever is newly expensive has two attributes: wonderful past returns and, in most cases, lousy future returns.
True and False are attributes of speech, not of things. And where speech is not, there is neither Truth nor Falsehood.
Successful leadership is not about being tough or soft, sensitive or assertive, but about a set of attributes. First and foremost is character
The fame which bids fair to live the longest resembles that which Horace attributes to Marcellus, whose progress he compares to the silent, imperceptible growth of a tree.
Man is not man simply because of bodily attributes. The standard of divine measure and judgment is his intelligence and spirit
The principle of love within us is an attribute of the Deity, and it is placed within us to be dispensed independently according to our own will.
I think that my God-given physical attributes, big hands, and big feet, the way that I'm built, proportion-wise, just made basketball the most inviting sport for me to play.
The stored-program digital computer has three major attributes: it is fast, it is accurate, and it is stupid. The first two attributes are often used to disguise the third.
In remaking the world in the likeness of a steam-heated, air-conditioned metropolis of apartment buildings we have violated one of our essential attributes-our kinship with nature.
Courage... is not a selfish attribute: it is only possible if you are pursuing a wider and more worthy goal.
Names and attributes must be accommodated to the essence of things, and not the essence to the names, since things come first and names afterwards.
This unceasing interplay between experience and narrative is a uniquely human attribute. We are the storytellers, the ones who put life into words.
The man who meets with a failure attributes this failure rather to the ill will of another than to fate.
What we mean by Tao is the way or course of Nature. This way has nothing good or bad, it is a mere flowing of things following the development and decline attributes of the moment.
Humor must be one of the chief attributes of God. Plants and animals that are distinctly humorous in form and characteristics are God's jokes.
The companies that look after their people are the companies that do really well. I'm sure we'd like a few other attributes, but that would be the most important one.
The machine technology takes no cognizance of conventionally established rules of precedence; it knows neither manners nor breeding and can make no use of any of the attributes of worth.
All this contains much that is obviously true, and much that is relevant; unfortunately, what is obviously true is not relevant, and what is relevant is not obviously true.
The valuable attributes of research men are conscious ignorance and active curiosity.
The precept to worship God 'in spirit and in truth' recommand to worship him as an inward and moral force, without physical attributes and with no relation to fears and egoist wishes.
Self efficacious children tend to attribute their successes to ability, but ability attributions affect performance indirectly through perceived self-efficacy
...and knowledge is one of the finest attributes of man - though often it is most loudly voiced by those who strive for it the least.
A good novel is an indivisible sum; every scene, sequence and passage of a good novel has to involve, contribute to and advance all three of its major attributes: theme, plot, characterization.
If people ask, 'Are you Sherlock Holmes?', it's horribly naff, but I say, 'I'm not, I just look a bit like him' - which is how I feel. There are bad attributes of his that I really don't share!
It is best not to study too much on who gets what they deserve. It can lead to an overly complicated interpretation of God's personal attributes.
I wonder sometimes, though, if we intentionally or just unknowingly mask the beauty of God in the gospel by minimizing his various attributes.
The artist's quest is to succeed in combining and balancing all compositional attributes and physical elements into those that are purely spiritual. That is the secret of art.
God is compassionate and just, loving and holy, wrathful and forgiving. WE can't sideline His more difficult attributes to make room for the palatable ones.
God is so clear in spelling out His attributes in scripture in order that others would know what He is really like.
The Tibetan Buddhist realization is that mind does not have any particular qualities or attributes of its own. It's clear - clear light.
One will seldom go wrong if one attributes extreme actions to vanity, average ones to habit, and pretty ones to fear.
I can't really attribute my success onscreen to any formula and suggest you "do this or that" to make it as an actor.
No real-world human being brings to the U.S. presidency the range of attributes necessary for full success in the job.
If we have a heart to learn and a willingness to follow the example of children, their divine attributes can hold a key to unlocking our own spiritual growth.
