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Attribute to God every good that you have received. If you take credit for something that does not belong to you, you will be guilty of theft. -- Anthony of Padua
Qu'ils mangent de la brioche. Let them eat cake. On being told that her people had no bread. Attributed to Marie-Antoinette, but remark is much older. Rousseau refers in his Confessions, 1740, to a similar remark, as a well-known saying. Others attribute the remark to the wife of Louis XIV. -- Marie Antoinette
No attribute of God is more dreadful to sinners than His holiness. -- Matthew Henry
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. -- Mahatma Gandhi
We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either. -- Niccolo Machiavelli
We always take credit for the good and attribute the bad to fortune. -- Charles Kuralt
I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse. -- Florence Nightingale
Every form is a base for colour, every colour is the attribute of a form. -- Victor Vasarely
The mistake we make is to attribute to religions the errors and fanaticism of human beings. -- Tahar Ben Jelloun
To kind of go through life not caring is a spectacular attribute. It's one I wish I had. -- Neil Cross
There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will. -- Agatha Christie
Confidence isn't optimism or pessimism, and it's not a character attribute. It's the expectation of a positive outcome. -- Rosabeth Moss Kanter
We're born with success. It is only others who point out our failures, and what they attribute to us as failure. -- Whoopi Goldberg
I suppose my best attribute, if you want to call it that, is sincerity. I can sell sincerity because that's the way I am. -- John Wayne
I think that my biggest attribute to any success that I have had is hard work. There really is no substitute for working hard. -- Maria Bartiromo
I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul. -- Mahatma Gandhi
We often attribute 'understanding' and other cognitive predicates by metaphor and analogy to cars, adding machines, and other artifacts, but nothing is proved by such attributions. -- John Searle
We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the majority of our controversies come from that. -- Marcus Aurelius
The thing women must do to rise to power is to redefine their femininity. Once, power was considered a masculine attribute. In fact, power has no sex. -- Katharine Graham
When I meet successful people I ask 100 questions as to what they attribute their success to. It is usually the same: persistence, hard work and hiring good people. -- Kiana Tom
Women attribute their success to working hard, luck, and help from other people. Men will attribute that - whatever success they have, that same success - to their own core skills. -- Sheryl Sandberg
Lutherans, whose arguments and mistakes will not be difficult to contest or discover, do not want to attribute any value to works, and they do not understand enough the scope of the justification. -- Michael Servetus
From the smallest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and everything we have comes from one attribute of man - the function of his reasoning mind. -- Ayn Rand
My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her. -- George Washington
I ate no butcher's meat, lived chiefly on fruits, vegetables, and fish, and never drank a glass of spirits or wine until my wedding day. To this I attribute my continual good health, endurance, and an iron constitution. -- John James Audubon
Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, 'This is the real me,' and when you have found that attitude, follow it. -- James Truslow Adams
The only concept or experience or core belief that I can attribute my other-ness to is that I just started out a weirdo and I stayed a weirdo. And it took me a long time to embrace my outsidership and see it as a strength rather than a weakness. -- Aisha Tyler
Somebody said to me this morning, 'To what do you attribute your longevity?' I don't know. I mean, I couldn't have planned my life out better. By all accounts I should be dead! The abuse I put my body through: the drugs, the alcohol, the lifestyle I've lived the last 30 years! -- Ozzy Osbourne
The greatest attribute of Heaven is mercy. -- Francis Beaumont
Moping is an unattractive attribute in a man. -- Graydon Carter
Satyagraha is an attribute of the spirit within. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Novelty is an essential attribute of the beautiful. -- Benjamin Disraeli
Create unselfishness as the most important team attribute. -- Bill Russell
MERCY, n. An attribute beloved of detected offenders. -- Ambrose Bierce
Mediocrity comforts the masses. Mediocrity is a likeable attribute. -- Shobhaa Dé
Beware of those who attribute petty instructions to God. -- Abdul Sattar Edhi
Virtue is akin to holiness, an attribute of godliness. -- Ezra Taft Benson
He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty. -- Thomas Gore
Courage is the most important attribute of a lawyer. -- Robert Kennedy
My vision is my best attribute. I can see everything. -- Marshall Faulk
Wise skepticism is the first attribute of a good critic. -- James Russell Lowell
Never attribute to malevolence what is merely due to incompetence -- Arthur C. Clarke
It is an essential attribute of the jurisdiction of every country -- Thomas Jefferson
The most important attribute a player must have is mental toughness. -- Mia Hamm
Gratitude - the meanest and most snivelling attribute in the world. -- Dorothy Parker
Modesty used to be considered a natural female attribute. No more. -- Linda Chavez
It is a natural propensity to attribute misfortune to someone's malignity. -- Bertrand Russell
My best attribute is knowing when not to answer stupid questions. -- Gina Gershon
If the ox could think, it would attribute oxality to God. -- Xenocrates
My best attribute is knowing when not to answer stupid questions -- Gina Gershon
I am selfish, but that's an attribute that all artists possess. -- Robert Mapplethorpe
People are wiser than we are willing to attribute to them. -- P. Chidambaram
We seldom attribute common sense except to those who agree with us -- Kin Hubbard
When you do your best, you are expressing an attribute of God. -- Harold Klemp
I definitely consider myself a songwriter first because that's my best attribute. -- Chad Kroeger
If you are ever uncomfortable or are unsure of something, you attribute it. -- Ari Fleischer
Not the revenge, but the forgiveness, is the attribute of a strong person. -- Debasish Mridha
The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man. -- Charles Darwin
An attribute of Rosa Hubermann, she was a good woman for a crisis. -- Markus Zusak
Good character is the single most important attribute of a successful and worthy life. -- Michael Josephson
Living in a tower, however secure it may feel, is hardly a social attribute. -- Dirk Bogarde
Mission is not primarily an activity of the church, but an attribute of God. -- David Bosch
The cat has complete emotional honesty - an attribute not often found in humans. -- Ernest Hemingway
Ambition is a commendable attribute, without which no man succeeds. Only inconsiderate ambition imperils. -- Warren G. Harding
I believe that the basic attribute of mankind is to look after each other -- Fred Hollows
Nonviolence is an attribute of the Almighty whose ways of fulfilling Himself are inscrutable. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive. -- William James
On the whole, my impression is that mercy bears richer fruits than any other attribute. -- Abraham Lincoln
The most important attribute of man as a moral being is the faculty of self-control. -- Herbert Spencer
Revenge, the attribute of gods! They stamped it with their great image on our natures. -- Thomas Otway
An important attribute of success is to be yourself. Never hide what makes you, you. -- Indra Nooyi
To talk about the senselessness of the battle was to attribute sense to war itself. -- Sten Nadolny
Every form is a base for color, every color is the attribute of a form. -- Victor Vasarely
By what aberration has suicide, the only truly normal action, become the attribute of the flawed? -- Emile M. Cioran
Coercion by government, the main fear of our founding fathers, is now its most common attribute. -- Philip K. Howard
I attribute my success to my deep driving desire and persistence to face the tremendous adversity. -- Debasish Mridha
Love is God's essence; Power but his attribute: therefore is his love greater than his power. -- Richard B. Garnett
Direct thought is not an attribute of feminity. In this, women are now centuries behind man. -- Thomas A. Edison
People who are in a fortunate position always attribute virtue to what makes them so happy. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
The greatest attribute of heaven is mercy; And 'tis the crown of justice, and the glory -- John Fletcher
Kindness is an attribute of strength, it has boldness in it and the power of love. -- Debasish Mridha
It's frustrating that people attribute something to certain songs and that's not what they're about at all. -- Matt Tong
Good Heaven, whose darling attribute we find is boundless grace, and mercy to mankind, abhors the cruel. -- John Dryden
While love is one of God's attributes, it's not his only attribute. God is also holy and just. -- Robert Jeffress
Don't attribute mishaps to a lapse in concentration - if you missed the note you don't know it. -- William Westney
Never attribute to malice or other deliberate decision what can be explained by human frailty, imperfection, or ignorance. -- Harold S. Kushner
People sometimes attribute my success to my genius; all the genius I know anything about is hard work. -- Alexander Hamilton
I attribute much of my success in New York to my ability to understand and avoid unnecessary distractions. -- Derek Jeter
Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. Never underestimate the power of human stupidity. -- Robert A. Heinlein
The deserving are not always blest. That peculiar attribute known as personality is as potent a factor as genius. -- Walter J. Phillips
Self efficacious children tend to attribute their successes to ability, but ability attributions affect performance indirectly through perceived self-efficacy -- Albert Bandura
Ahimsa is an attribute of the brave. Cowardice and ahimsa don't go together any more that water and fire. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I attribute the quarrelsome nature of the Middle Ages young men entirely to the want of the soothing weed. -- Jerome K. Jerome
I'm lucky to attribute my success to the foundation my family gave me. I've always felt grounded in them. -- Mandy Moore
I attribute my success on the battlefield to always being on the spot to see and do everything for myself -- Duke of Wellington
Generosity is a lovely attribute, and we only practice it when relationships are more important to us than our possessions. -- Michael Wright
the identity of an individual is essentially a function of her choices, rather than the discovery of an immutable attribute -- Amartya Sen
But freedom, liberty, is an attribute of the soul and it may exist even when the body is in bondage. -- Ralph Adams Cram
I don't attribute an actor's great success to their own individual performance when it's something as collaborative as a movie. -- Jesse Eisenberg
I believe that a smile is the attribute of a positive attitude, both for yourself and the perception of others. -- Jeffrey Gitomer
The passion to explore and not be afraid to fail - that's something I will always attribute to the Groundlings. -- Jim Rash
Courage... is not a selfish attribute: it is only possible if you are pursuing a wider and more worthy goal. -- Ted Malloch
Strong families cultivate an attribute of effective communication. They talk out their problems, make plans together, and cooperate toward common objectives. -- Ezra Taft Benson
It is to the body alone that we should attribute everything that can be observed in us to oppose our reason. -- Rene Descartes
Why is it that we understand playing the cello will require work, but we attribute writing to the magic of inspiration? -- Ann Patchett
The second most important attribute of winners, after understanding the human dimension, is knowing what questions to ask, the rhetorical nature. -- Frank Luntz
Cats are anthropomorphised in art because they are so laid back that you automatically attribute human thoughts and feelings to them. -- Jim Davis
As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for. -- Josh Billings
To attribute rights to animals is to ignore the purpose and justification of rights - to protect the interests of man. -- Alex Epstein
Political ignorance helps explain Americans' perpetual disappointment with politicians generally, and presidents especially, to whom voters unrealistically attribute abilities to control events. -- George Will
The innovative spirit was America's strongest attribute, transforming everything into a brave new world, but there lingered an insecurity about the arts. -- Arthur Erickson
PERFECTION, n. An imaginary state of quality distinguished from the actual by an element known as excellence; an attribute of the critic. -- Ambrose Bierce
It is a tragedy indeed that new generations, taking office, attribute failures in governance to insufficient power, and seek more of it. -- Mike Pence
Never attribute to malice what can be explained by incompetence. Think about it. People aren't out to get you, they're just stupid. -- Jane Espenson
An intelligence analyst may attribute an attack to al Qaeda, whereas a policy maker could opt for the more general 'extremist.' -- Michael Hayden
Genius is a starry word; but if there ever was a chess player to whom that attribute applied, it was Paul Morphy. -- Andrew Soltis
Always keep a smile. I attribute my long life to that. I believe I will die laughing. That's part of my program. -- Jeanne Calment
An interesting attribute of public banks is that they don't only de-risk the downside, but also get a share of the upside. -- Mariana Mazzucato
The natural consequence of being connected to the depth, what I call the soul, or your essence, is the attribute of joy. -- Tony Samara
The mind is the attribute of man. When man is born, he comes into existence with only one weapon with him--The reasoning mind. -- Ayn Rand

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