Traits Quotes

Acceptance is not love. You love a person because he or she has lovable traits, but you accept everybody just because they're alive and human.

Albert Ellis

Love, Acceptance, Alive

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Doubt is a very important trait. Out of doubt comes thinking, decisions, choices. We learn stuff. We learn to make mistakes. Or not to.

Martin Landau

Mistake, Thinking, Choices

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Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character.

Lewis H. Lapham

Leadership, Character, Technique

Lewis H. Lapham (1985). “High Technology and Human Freedom”

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Negroid traits, dark skin, flat, thick nose.

Frederick Hertz

Dark, Skins, Noses

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The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory.

Thomas Jefferson

Love Life, Imagination, Favors

Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson”

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You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

James Anthony Froude

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

James Anthony Froude (1849). “The nemesis of faith”, p.4

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Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Leadership, Art, Business

Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1960). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1954”, p.477, Best Books on

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My thesis is that morality exists outside the human mind in the sense of being not just a trait of individual humans, but a human trait; that is, a human universal.

Michael Shermer

Mind, Morality, Individual

Michael Shermer (2005). “The Science of Good and Evil: Why People Cheat, Gossip, Care, Share, and Follow the Golden Rule”, p.51, Macmillan

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People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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Of the billionaires I have known, money just brings out the basic traits in them. If they were jerks before they had money, they are simply jerks with a billion dollars.

Warren Buffett

Money, Business, Dollars

"Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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As adults, we try to develop the character traits that would have rescued our parents.

Alain de Botton

Character, Parent, Trying

Twitter post from Aug 16, 2017

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I might have some character traits that some might see as innocence or naive. That's because I discovered peace and happiness in my soul. And with this knowledge, I also see the beauty of human life.

Tobey Maguire

Character, Soul, Might

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It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.

John Steinbeck

Love, Wisdom, Appreciation

John Steinbeck (1963). “The short novels of John Steinbeck: Tortilla Flat, The red pony, Of mice and men, The moon is down, Cannery Row, The pearl”

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Obama's personality traits, coupled with his extreme-leftist agenda, make him particularly dangerous to the American ideal and to the preservation of our founding principles, as well as to the liberty and prosperity they guarantee.

David Limbaugh

Personality, Liberty, Guarantees

"Unpresidential Plummet". Interview with Kathryn Jean Lopez, www.nationalreview.com. September 2, 2010.

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If we want our children to possess the traits of character we most admire, we need to teach them what those traits are and why they deserve both admiration and allegiance. Children must learn to identify the forms and content of those traits.

William Bennett

Children, Character, Angel

William J. Bennett (1993). “The Book of Virtues: A Treasury of Great Moral Stories”, Simon and Schuster

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Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character; it requires moral rather than athletic or intellectual effort, and it imposes on both leader and follower alike the burdens of self-restraint.

Lewis H. Lapham

Leadership, Integrity, Character

Lewis H. Lapham (1985). “High Technology and Human Freedom”

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Anti-social behavior is a trait of intelligence in a world full of conformists.

Nikola Tesla

Intelligence, Social Behavior, World

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I have sporadic OCD cleaning moments around the house. But then I get lazy and I'm cured. It's a very inconsistent personality trait.

Chris Hemsworth

House, Personality, Lazy

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Humility is not a character trait to develop, it's the natural by-product of being with Jesus.

Louie Giglio

Christian, Religious, Jesus

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You don't have to agree with me, but I think the heart of who we are stays pretty much the same," Hope said, "What changes is how those core traits manifest themselves over time.

Megan McCafferty

Heart, Thinking, Who We Are

Megan McCafferty (2007). “Fourth Comings: A Jessica Darling Novel”, p.337, Broadway Books

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Heredity: the traits that a disobedient child gets from the other parent.

Luther Burbank

Children, Parent, Heredity

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A way of life can be shared among individuals of different ages, status, and social activity. It can yield intense relations not resembling those that are institutionalized. It seems to me that a way of life can yield a culture and an ethics. To be "gay," I think, is not to identify with the psychological traits and the visible masks of the homosexual but to try and define and develop a way of life.

Michel Foucault

Gay, Thinking, Yield

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I just want to portray a very honest character that displays traits that people can truly relate to and can help them - the audience and myself because I learn from the characters as well - help them see themselves in a perspective that is outside of what they know already, and grow from that experience.

Kristin Kreuk

Character, People, Perspective

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... the friendship of worthless people has a bad effect (because they take part, unstable as they are, in worthless pursuits, and actually become bad through each other's influence). But the friendship of the good is good, and increases in goodness because of their association. They seem even to become better men by exercising their friendship and improving each other; for the traits that they admire in each other get transferred to themselves.

Aristotle

Exercise, Men, People

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The most Indian thing about the Indian is surely not his moccasins or his calumet, his wampum or his stone hatched, but traits of character and sagacity, skill, or passion.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Passion, Native American, Character

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edward Waldo Emerson, Waldo Emerson Forbes (1911). “Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1820-1872 [1876] Ed”

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