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

  Source: m.washingtontimes.com

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Obama is capable - as evidenced by his first-term success with health care reform. But mandate-building requires humility, a trait not easily associated with him.

  Ron Fournier

  Humility, Reform, Care

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• A presidential debate is a job interview. And voters look for certain traits in people applying to be president.

  Ron Fournier

  Jobs, People, Presidential

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• Clemency is the noblest trait which can reveal a true monarch to the world.

  Pierre Corneille

  World, Clemency, Monarchs

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