100 Unqualified Quotes

Following is our list of unqualified quotations and slogans full of insightful wisdom and perspective about when there is no value.

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Famous Unqualified Quotes

Any appellative at all savouring of arbitrary rank is unsuitable to a man of liberal and catholic mind. — Herman Melville

I don`t think the Donald Trump`s qualified to be president of the United States, and every time he speaks, that opinion is confirmed. — Barack Obama

Ability has no school. — Turkish Proverbs

He is too illiterate, unread, unlearned for his station and reputation. — John Adams

Who has not served cannot command. — John Florio

No competence is required to be a scarecrow! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

the most important quality of an inept person is to rely on popular belief and hearsay. — Marie de Gournay

Just being a Negro doesn't qualify you to understand the race situation any more than being sick makes you an expert on medicine. — Dick Gregory

I am not in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office. — Abraham Lincoln

If it requires a uniform, it's a worthless endeavor. - George Carlin

If it requires a uniform, it's a worthless endeavor. — George Carlin

Ability without honor is useless. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent. - Laurence J. Peter

Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent. — Laurence J. Peter

Ability is not always gauged by examination. - Indira Gandhi

Ability is not always gauged by examination. — Indira Gandhi

A man who lacks reliability is utterly useless. - Confucius

A man who lacks reliability is utterly useless. — Confucius

Educated fools; from uneducated schools. - Curtis Mayfield

Educated fools; from uneducated schools. — Curtis Mayfield

Short Unqualified Quotes

  • Darren Levine has my unqualified support and gratitude for his contributions to Krav Maga. — Imi Lichtenfeld
  • When you're willing to do what you're unqualified to do, that's what qualifies you. — Bill Johnson
  • Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard. — John Steinbeck
  • Acknowledge that a more closely integrated Europe is no longer an unqualified American interest. — Richard Perle
  • Ethics is in its unqualified form extended responsibility with regard to everything that has life. — Albert Schweitzer
  • I'm unqualified for anything else. I'm barely qualified for this. — Catherine Keener
  • I'm unqualified to do anything other than music. — St. Vincent
  • I can take any amount of criticism, as long as it is unqualified praise. — Noel Coward
  • Donald Trump is uniquely unqualified to be president. — Barack Obama
  • Donald Trump is misogynist and a racist; he is thin-skinned and beyond unqualified to be president. — Chrissy Teigen

Unqualified Image Quotes

Not Value Quotes

The value of our good is not measured by what it does, but by the amount of good it does to the one concerned. — Milton S. Hershey

I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar. — Robert Brault

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life. - Charles Darwin

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life. — Charles Darwin

The most practical teaching of the Gita, and one for which it is of abiding interest and value to the men of the world with whom life is a series of struggles, is not to give way to any morbid sentimentality when duty demands sternness and the boldness to face terrible things. — Bal Gangadhar Tilak

For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes at every moment; but the surrounding atmosphere brings it to life - the light and the air which vary continually. For me, it is only the surrounding atmosphere which gives subjects their true value. — Claude Monet

The value of things is not the time they last, but the intensity with which they occur. That is why there are unforgettable moments and unique people! — Fernando Pessoa

We suffer much agony because we try to get from people what only God can give us, which is a sense of worth and value. Look to God for what you need, not to people. — Joyce Meyer

The value of life is not in its duration, but in its donation. You are not important because of how long you live, you are important because of how effective you live. And most people are concerned about growing old rather than being effective. — Myles Munroe

A country, after all, is not something you build as the pharaohs built the pyramids, and then leave standing there to defy eternity. A country is something that is built every day out of certain basic shared values. — Pierre Trudeau

Development is not about factories, dams and roads. Development is about people. The goal is material, cultural and spiritual fulfilment for the people. The human factor is of supreme value in development. — Rajiv Gandhi

When There Is No Value Quotes

There is no way anything of value can be done without some framework. It might well be that the framework is discarded or the rules opposed; that is not important. What is essential is that they exist so that one knows when one is in opposition to them. — Margot Fonteyn

Developing inner values is much like physical exercise. The more we train our abilities, the stronger they become. The difference is that, unlike the body, when it comes to training the mind, there is no limit to how far we can go. — Dalai Lama

There is no situation that could ever confront you that cannot be solved. Life takes on real meaning when you set values for yourself, regard yourself as worthwhile and elevate your thoughts to things that are of God-good. There is a Higher Power. Turn to it and use it; it is yours for the asking. — Bryan Adams

We aren't bodies at all; who we are is the love inside us, and it is that love alone that determines our value. When our minds are filled with light, there is no room for darkness. — Marianne Williamson

A different species a different set of values a world completely unlike your own. There is a feeling you can only get when you meet the unknown and open your mind. - Nakajima (Gin no Saji) — Hiromu Arakawa

It's a huge thing when people realize across the culture that paper money is paper. And that there's no fixed value - it's all political. That all value is set by a political authority, basically. — John Currin

We should challenge the relativism that tells us there is no right or wrong, when every instinct of our mind knows it is not so, and is a mere excuse to allow us to indulge in what we believe we can get away with. A world without values quickly becomes a world without value. — Jonathan Sacks

There is no solution or perfect model you can follow. The best thing I can say is you've got to get close to what you really value. When you strip away your role as a parent, as a mother, and as an executive, what really makes your heart sing? How can you make your mark? — Maureen Chiquet

And it is a quiet terrible thing, too, to discover the value of love this way [after loss] - when the object of love is no longer there, when love dies or goes away or changes. When it is too late. — Vera Nazarian

Art is good when it springs from necessity. This kind of origin is the guarantee of its value; there is no other. — Neal Cassady

Not Qualified Quotes

Other than He cannot be qualified by two (opposite) qualities at one time; yet With Him they do not create opposition. He is hidden in His manifestation, manifest in His concealing. — Mansur Al-Hallaj

Don't terrorize. Organize. Don't burn. Give kids a chance to learn . . . The real answer to race problems in this country is education. Not burning and killing. Be ready. Be qualified. Own something. Be somebody. That's Black Power. — James Brown

Evolution is not a fact. Evolution doesn't even qualify as a theory or as a hypothesis. It is a metaphysical research program, and it is not really testable science. — Karl Popper

So, to say Barack Obama is progress is saying that he's the first black person that is qualified to be president. That's not black progress. That's white progress. — Chris Rock

I do not see how the manager of a publicly traded company is qualified to require a shareholder to sell his shares. — Bernard Arnault

Whether it is to be Utopia or Oblivion will be a touch-and-go relay race right up to the final moment.... Humanity is in 'final exam' as to whether or not it qualifies for continuance in Universe. — Richard Buckminster Fuller

I never make moral judgments; I'm not qualified to do so. I am not a censor, a priest, or a politician. — Federico Fellini

Possessiveness isn’t love. I’m not even sure it qualifies as an emotion. — Ann Aguirre

The truth about not having everything you need, not being fully equipped or qualified or allowed is that these limits are the nebula of creative genius. When you have total freedom i.e: no limits at all. You stop trying to make the best of things — Augusten Burroughs

Science, history and politics are not suited for discussion except by experts. Others are simply in the position of requiring more information; and, till they have acquired all available information, cannot do anything but accept on authority the opinions of those better qualified. — Frank P. Ramsey

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More Unqualified Quotes

The best way to accomplish serious design ... is to be totally and completely unqualified for the job. — Paula Scher

To each there comes in their lifetime a special moment when they are figuratively tapped on the shoulder and offered the chance to do a very special thing, unique to them and fitted to their talents. What a tragedy if that moment finds them unprepared or unqualified for that which could have been their finest hour. — Winston Churchill

Most institutions demand unqualified faith; but the institution of science makes skepticism a virtue. — Robert K. Merton

Patriotism means unqualified and unwavering love for the nation, which implies not uncritical eagerness to serve, not support for unjust claims, but frank assessment of its vices and sins, and penitence for them. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Ukraine has smeared peace advocates, outlawed peace talks, urged preemptive strikes by the West, and insists on retaking Crimea at risk of nuclear war. It does not deserve unqualified, unconditional, and unlimited US support. — David O. Sacks

Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man. To decide against your conviction is to be an unqualified and excusable traitor, both to yourself and to your country, let men label you as they may. — Mark Twain

I place my own hope for the United States in the growth of belief among the unqualified that they are in fact qualified: they can articulate and be responsible and hold power — Stokely Carmichael

Market value is irrelevant to intrinsic value. ... Unqualified judgment can at most claim to decide the market-value - a value that can be in inverse proportion to the intrinsic value. — Arnold Schoenberg

It was not nails that held Jesus to that wretched cross; it was his unqualified resolution, out of love for his Father, to do his Father's will-and it was his love for sinners like me. — D. A. Carson

A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin. — Henrik Ibsen

I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be. — Charles Dickens

The purpose of love, sex, and marriage is the production and raising of children. But look about you: Most people have no business having children. They are unqualified, either genetically or culturally or both, to reproduce such sorry specimens as themselves. Of all our privileges, the license to breed is the one most grossly abused. — Edward Abbey

[Dean Martin] is an absolute, unqualified drunk. And if we ever develop an Olympic drinking team, he's gonna be the coach... Dean Martin has been stoned more often than the United States embassies. — Frank Sinatra

He taught us the art of unqualified love. How to give it, how to accept it. Where there is that, most other pieces fall into place. — John Grogan

Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man. — Thomas Tusser

I will feel equality has arrived when we can elect to office women who are as unqualified as some of the men who are already there. — Maureen Reagan

I avow that I do not hold that complete and instantaneous love for the freedom of the press that one accords to things whose nature is unqualifiedly good. I love it out of consideration for the evils it prevents much more than for the good it does. — Alexis de Tocqueville

There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses. If it would confine itself to equal protection, and, as Heaven does its rains, shower its favors alike on the high and the low, the rich and the poor, it would be an unqualified blessing. — Andrew Jackson

When I write, I try to represent the ordinary person in the pew, which means that, ironically, I'm qualified to write about prayer by being unqualified! — Mo Yan

I must assert in the most unqualified way that it is primarily and mainly for the sake of saving the soul that I seek the salvation of the body. — William Booth

But if you don't have that memory of being loved, you are condemned to search the world for something to fill you up. But no matter how much money you make or how famous you become, you will still feel empty. What you are really searching for is unconditional love, unqualified acceptance. And that was the one thing that was denied to you at birth. — Michael Jackson

The doctrine of blind obedience and unqualified submission to any human power, whether civil or ecclesiastical, is the doctrine of despotism. — Angelina Grimke

The reason to preserve wilderness is that we need it. We need wilderness of all kinds, large and small, public and private. Wee need to go now and again into places where our work is disallowed, where our hopes and plans have no standing. We need to come into the presence of the unqualified and mysterious formality of Creation. — Wendell Berry

A major Iowa newspaper published an op-ed against Trump calling him a 'self-absorbed, wholly unqualified feckless blowhard.' Or as Trump put it, 'You forgot very rich ... I'm a very rich, self-absorbed, wholly unqualified feckless blowhard. Very, very rich.' — Jimmy Fallon

If any group of citizens is uniquely unqualified to tell someone else how to vote, it's those of us who live in the sheltered, privileged arena of celebrity hood......Trust me, one's view of the world isn't any clearer from the back seat of a limo. — Pat Sajak

Has the art of politics no apparent utility? Does it appear to be unqualifiedly ratty, raffish, sordid, obscene, and low down, andits salient virtuosi a gang of unmitigated scoundrels? Then let us not forget its high capacity to soothe and tickle the midriff, its incomparable services as a maker of entertainment. — H. L. Mencken

In many places, classrooms are overcrowded and curricula are outdated. Most of our qualified teachers are underpaid, and many of our paid teachers are unqualified. So we must give every child a place to sit and a teacher to learn from. Poverty must not be a bar to learning, and learning must offer an escape from poverty. — Lyndon B. Johnson

The artist who really loves people loves them so well the way they are he sees no need to disguise their characteristics-he loves them whole, without retouching. Yet the word used for this unqualifying affection is 'cynicism'. — Dawn Powell

Don't get stampeded by what people around you value. The task is to figure out what YOU value - and value highly enough to throw yourself into with unqualified passion. — David Maister

It is the unqualified result of all my experience with the sick that, second only to their need of fresh air, is their need of light; that, after a close room, what hurts them most is a dark room and that it is not only light but direct sunlight they want. — Florence Nightingale

Well, I'm not a member of the permanent political establishment, and I've learned quickly these last few days that if you're not a member in good standing of the Washington elite, then some in the media consider a candidate unqualified for that reason alone. — Sarah Palin

Intellectuals ... regard over-simplification as the original sin of the mind and have no use for the slogans, the unqualified assertions and sweeping generalizations. — Aldous Huxley

I have all this time between projects, and I'm not so sure that's a healthy thing. It's scary, because at 36 I'm woefully unqualified for anything else. — Jason Patric

I see myself as an old man and an unqualified teacher to the nation. I think being a teacher is probably the most important thing you can be in politics. — Tony Benn

Give unqualified assent to no propositions but those the truth of which is so clear and distinct that they cannot be doubted. The enunciation of this first great commandment of science consecrated doubt. — Thomas Huxley

Adulterers, in the first stages of the church, were excommunicated forever, and unqualified all their lives for bearing a part in Christian assemblies, notwithstanding they might seek it with tears, and all the appearances of the most unfeigned repentance. — Joseph Addison

If we feel unqualified and feel grateful for an opportunity to serve, then Krishna will bestow in our hearts. — Radhanath Swami

I didn't know you were having a hard time. I really am unqualified to be a teacher. Hurting you there...I'm really sorry. — Cheon Eunbi

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