Quotes About Traits

Eccentricity is one of those English traits that looks like frailty but masks a concealed strength; individuality disguised as oddity.

When you are born you are done for, in the matter of your temperament. The colour of your eyes may alter, generally does; but your temperament won't. It will show itself in your last breath.

What's interesting is relative levels of introversion tend to stay the same. If you went back to your reunion from school, you would probably find that if you ranked everyone in your class into terms of levels of introversion and extroversion you'd still be the same rank.

Americans are pragmatic, relatively uncomplicated, hearty and given to broad humor.

A man's character is his fate.

Every different horse has a different personality, like a human.

I think of houses as having their own personality.

The main hindrance is one's own antagonistic frame of mind. All the systems of Yoga in India and every form of religious discipline, worship, or prayer is designed to overcome the barriers posed by the overcritical intellect, by dogma, skepticism, ego, pride, and other recalcitrant traits of the mind.

But ingenuity is often indistinguishable from foolish play, and foolish play is one of those traits I find most endearing about humanity.

But learned personality traits aren't often based on present reality but on a past from which there is no escape.

Good doctors have at least three things in common: they know how to observe, they know how to listen, and they're very tired.

Growing up in northern Kentucky, honesty, integrity and character were revered traits, and - with my family - I looked to the greatest generation of Americans who saved the world during World War II.

I don't think my sense of humor has changed at all; I was born with this, for better or for worse.

My best personality trait that I think I'm very approachable. And my worst is that I can be moody.

In our cultural value system, we have divided up human traits between the sexes and consequently have denied each sex a part of its humanity.

There's a little bit of a bitch in every woman - and a lot in every man. - Joan Crawford

I'm merely pointing out that the gene that controls intelligence skipped a generation in the Van Holtz household.

It is in trifles and when he is off his guard that a man best shows his character.

Character traits are longer-lasting and are something on which a good marriage can be built. Respect and affection can grow in a marriage if husband and wife like and respect each other.

I have sometimes thought that Catholicism is a religion not suited to the laity, or not suited, at any rate, to the American laity, in whom it seems to bring out some of the worst traits in human nature and to lend them a sort of sanctification.

He has a minor in explosives and the slightly bitter, misanthropic personality of someone who shouldn't.

Yet the evidence, from twin studies, from the children of immigrants and from adoption studies, is now staring us in the face: people get their personalities from their genes and from their peers, not from their parents.

Betsy liked to talk. Her father always said she got it from her mother, and her mother always said she got it from her father. But whomever she got it from she was certainly a talker.

Noah was many things, but funny was not one of them.