Quotes About Innate qualities

We learn, often through painful self-discipline and self-cauterization, those qualities which are supposed to be 'innate' in us: patience, self-sacrifice, the willingness to repeat endlessly the small, routine chores of socializing a human being.

Class is inherited. Calibre is earned.

Human civilization is not something achieved against nature; it is rather the outcome of the working of the innate qualities of man.

What persons are by starts they are by nature.

Humans have certain properties and characteristics which are intrinsic to them, just as every other organism does. That's human nature.

Essentialism' denotes the view that members of a group share one or more defining characteristics which are innate and unalterable.

I don't think I was a naturally born talent, surely I had some natural attributes, which perhaps helped me in my sport, but generally speaking I wasn't competitive in nature.

The word "genius" comes from the Latin, and originally referred to a guardian spirit that watched over the birth of each person; it later came to refer to the innate qualities that make each person uniquely gifted.)

What's bred in the bone is sure to come out in the flesh.

You need to know that you are a spiritual being so that you can do helpful things to allow your innate qualities to unfold and express.

we must each be what God and nature makes us. We can't change it much--only help to develop the good and control the bad elements in us.

Everything that's really worthwhile in life came to us free — our minds, our souls, our bodies, our hopes, our dreams, our ambitions, our intelligence, our love of family and children and friends and country.

Skills can be taught. Character you either have or you don't have.

Character, I am sure, lies in the genes.

You're really not right, are you? (Sin) With my background and genetic makeup, buddy, you're lucky I'm as normal as I am. (Kat)

Dissimulation is innate in woman, and almost as much a quality of the stupid as of the clever.

Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn.

You are wonderfully and powerfully made. In other words: it is no accident you are good at certain things!

I first heard about 'genes' when I was six years old. At dinner one night, I heard my mom tell my sister, 'It's in your genes.'

Kindspech ist eben das, womit man auf die Welt kommt.

Men show their superiority inside; animals, outside.

There are things in our blood that are just naturally passed down to us, whether we want to recognize them or not.

No habit or quality is more easily acquired than hypocrisy, nor any thing sooner learned than to deny the sentiments of our hearts and the principle we act from: but the seeds of every passion are innate to us, and nobody comes into the world without them.

Generosity, pleasing address, courage and propriety of conduct are not acquired, but are inbred qualities.