Quotation Explorer - 'Attribute'

We falsely attribute to men a determined character - putting together all their yesterdays - and averaging them - we presume we know them. Pity the man who has character to support - it is worse than a large family - he is the silent poor indeed. - Henry David Thoreau
MERCY, n. An attribute beloved of detected offenders. - Ambrose Bierce
To what do I attribute our decline? It's far easier to be shocking than charming. - Fernando A. Torres
Kindness is an attribute of strength, it has boldness in it and the power of love. - Debasish Mridha
Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity. - Unknown
He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty. - Thomas P. Gore
Once, power was considered a masculine attribute. In fact, power has no sex. - Katherine Graham
If you see a group of people struggling over generations and you attribute those struggles to bad character, then you do not truly believe we are all created equally. - Jonathan R. Miller
I prefer to make up my own quotes and attribute them to very smart people, so that I can use them to win arguments - Albert Einstein
We seldom attribute common sense except to those who agree with us.
God gives out good gifts of wisdom, talent, beauty, and skill 'graciously'--that is, in a completely unmerited way. He casts them across all humanity, regardless of religious conviction, race, gender, or any other attribute to enrich, brighten, and preserve the world. - Timothy J. Keller
You actually cannot sell the idea of freedom, democracy, diversity, as if it were a brand attribute and not reality -- not at the same time as you're bombing people, you can't. - Naomi Klein
It is an infirmity of our nature to mingle our interests and prejudices with the operation of our reasoning powers, and attribute to the objects of our likes and dislikes qualities they do not possess and effects they can not produce. - Andrew Jackson
I attribute my success to my deep driving desire and persistence to face the tremendous adversity. - Debasish Mridha
Speaking the truth is the main attribute of a pure hearted person. - Eraldo Banovac
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. - Mahatma Gandhi
The will to believe is perhaps the most powerful, but certainly the most dangerous human attribute.
"We regularly attribute our own failures to circumstance and the failures of others to bad character."
Measure your own worth by the worth you attribute to others. - Marty Rubin
People unfit for freedom - who cannot do much with it - are hungry for power. The desire for freedom is an attribute of a "have" type of self. It says: leave me alone and I shall grow, learn, and realize my capacities. The desire for power is basically an attribute of a "have not" type of self. - Eric Hoffer
There's a big difference on being wise and being crafty. The former is the attribute of God, and the latter is that of Satan. - Michael Bassey Johnson
Tolerance is an attribute of egoism. - Dada Bhagwan
My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her. - George Washington
Being a blesséd writer is a cursed attribute, when you wish to no longer be encompassed by someone and yet you are surrounded by loose leaf papers filled with the sound of his voice. - Elizabeth Brooks
A person's practical experience can attribute him or her to teach his or her fellow learners the value of real life responsibilities and its consequences. - Saaif Alam
You kind of attribute this magic to music and as you meet the people you realize that they don’t contain the magic. They just channel it a little bit sometimes, but they never possess it. They never own it. - Kyle Morton
More than any other attribute of Jesus, his humility is the key to a healthy marriage. If two people make it their goal to imitate the humility of Christ, everything else will take care of itself. - Francis Chan
Whether you attribute it to some mysterious triple package or to your own Horatio Alger story, to succeed in America is, somehow, to be complicit with the idea of America—which means that at some level you’ve made peace with its rather ugly past. - Vijay Iyer
Gratitude is one of the virtues of the noble man. It is the hallmark of a life lived well. It is a trademark of the righteous man. It is an attribute that significantly impacts on your personal happiness and how sound your relationship will be with others. - Sesan Kareem
Beauty, then, is not mere decoration, but rather an essential element of the liturgical action, since it is an attribute of God himself and his revelation. These considerations should make us realize the care which is needed, if the liturgical action is to reflect its innate splendour. - Pope Benedict XVI
The natural consequence of being connected to the depth, what I call the soul, or your essence, is the attribute of joy. - Tony Samara
Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. - Robert A. Heinlein
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