Traits Quotes - Page 8

• It is one of the best traits of good people that they love where they pity. And this is truer of women than of men.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Men, People, Pity

  Marilynne Robinson (2004). “Gilead: A Novel”, p.186, Macmillan

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• Be true! Be true! Be true! Show freely to the world, if not your worst, yet some trait whereby the worst may be inferred!

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  World, May, Worst

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (1992). “The Scarlet Letter”, p.10, Wordsworth Editions

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• Americans worship technology. It's an inherent trait in the national zeitgeist.

  Max Brooks

  Technology, Worship, World War Z

  Max Brooks (2006). “World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War”, p.166, Broadway Books

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• It's a very American trait, this wanting people to think well of us. It's a young want, and I am ashamed of it in myself. I am not always a good daughter, even though my lacks are in areas different from her complaints. Haven't I learned yet that the desire to be perfect is always disastrous and, at the least, loses me in the mire of false guilt?

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Daughter, Thinking, People

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “The Summer of the Great-Grandmother”, p.84, Open Road Media

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• By definition, love made you better than good enough; it redefined perfection to include your traits, instead of excluding them.

  Jodi Picoult

  Perfection, Definitions, Good Enough

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.475, Simon and Schuster

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• But love wasn't about sacrifice, and it wasn't about falling short of someone's expectations. By definition, love made you better than good enough; it redefined perfection to include your traits, instead of excluding them. All any of us wanted, really, was to know that we counted. That someone else's life would not have been as rich without us here.

  Jodi Picoult

  Fall, Sacrifice, Expectations

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.457, Simon and Schuster

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• Carlisle has a theory...he believes that we all bring something of our strongest human traits with us into the next life, where they are intensified - like our minds, and our senses.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Believe, Mind, Next

  Stephenie Meyer (2009). “Twilight: Twilight”, p.205, Hachette UK

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• Anything outside yourself, this you can see and apply your logic to it. But it's a human trait that when we encounter personal problems, these things most deeply personal are the most difficult to bring out for our logic to scan. We tend to flounder around, blaming everything but the actual, deep-seated thing that's really chewing on us.

  Frank Herbert

  Encounters, Logic, Blame

  "Dune". Book by Frank Herbert, 1965.

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• I think that personality traits that come through when somebody is really sincere is what makes them beautiful.

  Taylor Swift

  Beautiful, Thinking, Personality

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• 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

  Ignorance, Honor, Aristocracy

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2010). “The Beautiful and Damned”, p.639, The Floating Press

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• If your Birthday is on Christmas day and you're not Jesus, you should start telling people your birthday is on June 9 or something. Just read up on the traits of a Gemini. Suddenly you're a multitasker who loves the color yellow. Because not only do you get stuck with them combo gift, you get the combo song. "We wish you a merry Christmas - and happy birthday, Terry - we wish you a merry Christmas - happy birthday, Terry - we wish you a merry Christmas and a happy New Ye - Birthday, Terry!

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Song, Jesus, Merry Christmas

  Ellen DeGeneres (2011). “Seriously...I'm Kidding”, p.102, Hachette UK

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• ...one of the traits of genius is not to drag its thought through the rut worn by vulgar minds.

  Stendhal

  Mind, Genius, Ruts

  Stendhal (1969). “Red and black: a new translation, backgrounds and sources, criticism”

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• So odd. Most women of his acquaintance relied on physical beauty and charm to mask their less-pleasant traits. This girl did the opposite, hiding everything interesting about herself behind a prim, plain facade. What other surprises was she concealing?

  Tessa Dare

  Girl, Opposites, Interesting

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• The selective voluntary blindness of human beings allows them to ignore the moral consequences of their choices. It has been one of the species' most valuable traits, in terms of the survival of any particular human community.

  Orson Scott Card

  Choices, Community, Survival

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• One of the most unattractive human traits, and so easy to fall into, is resentment at the sudden shared popularity of a previously private pleasure. Which of us hasn't been annoyed when a band, writer, artist or television series that had been a minority interest of ours has suddenly achieved mainstream popularity? When it was at a cult level we moaned at the philistinism of a world that didn't appreciate it, and now that they do appreciate it we're all resentful and dog-in-the-manger about it.

  Stephen Fry

  Dog, Fall, Artist

  Stephen Fry (2012). “The Fry Chronicles: An Autobiography”, p.204, The Overlook Press

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• Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Character, Men, Suits

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• Listen to me: I never married because I was too easily bored. It's an awful, self-defeating trait to have. It's much better to be too easily interested.

  Rachel Cohn

  Self, Bored, Awful

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• After all the fears, the warnings, after all, a woman's mistakes are different from a girl's. They are written by fire on stone. They are a trait and not an error.

  Janet Fitch

  Girl, Mistake, Fire

  Janet Fitch (2013). “White Oleander”, p.76, Hachette UK

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• I worry that there are people who are put in positions of authority because they're good talkers, but they don't have good ideas. It's so easy to confuse schmoozing ability with talent. Someone seems like a good presenter, easy to get along with, and those traits are rewarded. Well, why is that? They're valuable traits, but we put too much of a premium on presenting and not enough on substance and critical thinking.

  Susan Cain

  Thinking, Ideas, Worry

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• Introversion- along with its cousins sensitivity, seriousness, and shyness- is now a second-class personality trait, somewhere between a disappointment and a pathology. Introverts living in the Extrovert Ideal are like women in a man's world, discounted because of a trait that goes to the core of who they are. Extroversion is an enormously appealing personality style, but we've turned it into an oppressive standard to which most of us feel we must conform.

  Susan Cain

  Cousin, Disappointment, Class

  Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.12, Penguin UK

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• In this respect fundamentalism has demonic traits. It destroys the humble honesty of the search for truth, it splits the conscience of its thoughtful adherents, and it makes them fanatical because they are forced to suppress elements of truth of which they are dimly aware

  Paul Tillich

  Honesty, Humble, Thoughtful

  Paul Tillich (2012). “Systematic Theology”, p.3, University of Chicago Press

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• No one tells the truth to people they don't actually know, and if they do it is a horrible trait. Everyone wants something smaller, something neater than the truth.

  Ann Patchett

  Want Something, People, Telling The Truth

  Ann Patchett (2012). “State of Wonder”, p.382, A&C Black

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• Satan had two conditions [to his plan]: the first was the denial of agency, and the second, that he would have the honor. In other words, something had to be in it for him. And thus he became the father of lies and selfishness. Taking up one's cross and following the Savior means overcoming selfishness; it is a commitment to serve others. Selfishness is one of the baser human traits, which must be subdued and overcome. We torture our souls when we focus on getting rather than giving.

  James E. Faust

  Selfish, Lying, Father

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• the heart of religion is not altered states but altered traits of character. For me, then, the test of a substance's religious worth or validity is not what kind of far-out experience it can produce, but is the life improved by its use? That's the test. Now, on that score, if you remove the "religious cocoon," the experiences don't seem to have much in the way of discernible, traceable effects.

  Huston Smith

  Religious, Heart, Character

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• I have been scientifically 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 profoundly humiliating to me. For it obliges me to renounce my allegiance to the Darwinian theory of the Ascent of Man from the Lower Animals; since it now seems plain to me that that theory ought to be vacated in favor of a new and truer one, this new and truer one to be named the Descent of Man from the Higher Animals.

  Mark Twain

  Science, Animal, Men

  Mark Twain (1973). “What Is Man? and Other Philosophical Writings”, p.81, Univ of California Press

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