Quotes About Innate qualities

I want to know what the difference between the essence of a man and woman is.

Introverts living under the Extroversion Ideal are like women in a man's world, discounted because of a trait that goes to the core of who they are.

While men define themselves by deeds, women simply "are" beauty, grace, faith and goodness. Men tend to be rational and objective, women subjective, intuitive and emotional.

He was not to blame for being born with an irrepressible charachter and a mind some how constrained.

The meditation technique itself cultivate precision, gentleness, and the ability to let go - qualities that are innate within us.

People don't change that much. Instead of trying to put in what God left out, try drawing out what God left in!

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.

Sigamos, pues, hablando y escuchando por turno, pero recordando antes el lugar en que describíamos las cualidades innatas que había de reunir forzosamente quien hubiera de ser hombre de bien. Y su principal y primera cualidad era, si lo recuerdas, la verdad, la cual debía él perseguir en todo asunto y por todas partes si no era un embustero que nada tuviese que ver con la verda­dera filosofía.

I wonder how long it takes before the polish given by nature gets worn off by nurture.

It's a no-win argument—that business of what we're born with and what our environment does to us. And it's a boring argument, because it simplifies the mysteries that attend both our birth and our growth.

It is not what you have in life that counts, but what you are.

Your spirited child possesses personality traits that we value in adults. It is never too early to begin proclaiming her virtues.