Noun
The act of qualifying, or the condition of being qualified.
That which qualifies; any natural endowment, or any acquirement, which fits a person for a place, office, or employment, or which enables him to sustian any character with success; an enabling quality or circumstance; requisite capacity or possession.
The act of limiting, or the state of being limited; that which qualifies by limiting; modification; restriction; hence, abatement; diminution; as, to use words without any qualification.
Source: Webster's dictionaryHigh achievements demand some other unusual qualification besides an unusual desire for high prizes. George Eliot
The best Qualification of a Prophet is to have a good Memory. George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head. Arthur Schopenhauer
Great minds that are healthy are never considered geniuses, while this sublime qualification is lavished on brains that are often inferior but are slightly touched by madness. Guy de Maupassant
The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error. Hannah Arendt
I would not be like those Authors, who forgive themselves some particular lines for the sake of a whole Poem, and vice versa a whole Poem for the sake of some particular lines. I believe no one qualification is so likely to make a good writer, as the power of rejecting his own thoughts. Alexander Pope