Quotes about Traits
I have been studying the traits and dispositions of the lower animals (so called) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions of man. I find the result humiliating to me.
- Mark Twain
It often runs in families," she remarked: "just as a love for pastry does.
- Lewis Carroll
As adults, we try to develop the character traits that would have rescued our parents.
- Alain de Botton
If you stop and think about it, you will realize that most godly character traits can only be developed through adversity.
- Jerry Bridges
I like chicken a lot because chicken is generous - that is to say, it's obedient. It will do whatever you tell it to do.
- Maya Angelou
The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory.
- Thomas Jefferson
Aristocracy's only an admission that certain traits which we call fine - courage and honor and beauty and all that sort of thing - can best be developed in a favorable environment, where you don't have the warpings of ignorance and necessity.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
The world's religions have certain traits in common, but until the gospel of Jesus Christ burst upon the Mediterranean world, no one in the history of human imagination had conceived of such a thing as the worship of a crucified man.
- Fleming Rutledge
Your success stops where your character stops. You can never rise above the limitations of your character.
- John Maxwell
still wanted those genetic characteristics carried by the Atreides.
- Frank Herbert
You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.
- Ronald Reagan
Men's natures are alike; it is their habits that separate them.
- Confucius