Quotes About Traits

Everyone has their own individuality and character.

My mom is a big scaredy cat, and I inherited that from her.

We all grow up with inherited genes and inherited sensibilities, and they run very, very deep.

My grandfather is from Burma and while the tanned skin and Cleopatra eyes skipped my genetic make-up, I inherited the full hairy gene.

Perfect Melancholies have high standards they do everything to perfection, but when they impose their standards on others, this trait becomes a weakness.

Los rasgos de personalidad se caracterizan por tanto por la forma habitual de percibir nuestro entorno y a nosotros mismos, así como las maneras habituales de comportarse y reaccionar.

If we would take the traits that characterized the Pilgrims and make them our own, we could regain hope. We could recover the spiritual and moral strength that we have lost. We could offer a thrilling challenge to our young people.

The names were supposed to describe the shape of your spirit as well as your physical characteristics.

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, Cannery Row

There're all sorts of cats—just like there're all sorts of people.

I'd like to think my brand shares some of those characteristics we like to think of as classically American - a certain straightforwardness, honesty, a sense of humor, inclusiveness, practicality - all those great Yankee traits. And I don't mean the baseball team.

I've trained myself to illuminate the things in my personality that are likable and to hide and protect the things that are less likeable.

When hypocrisy is a character trait, it also affects one's thinking, because it consists in the negation of all the aspects of reality that one finds disagreeable, irrational or repugnant.

The psychoanalysis of neurotics has taught us to recognize the intimate connection between wetting the bed and the character trait of ambition.

Each character represented a trait that resides in me.

When my husband tells our daughter, 'You get that trait from Mom,' she lights up with pride. We all know who he's talking about. And it's not me. I'm fine with this.

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.

Dedication plays a key role and in 'India's Next Top Model,' that will be a major trait on which I will be judging the girls.

Jews are known for many things, but strength, swiftness, and agility are not among them. There is one trait, as controversial as it is familiar, for which Jews are above all known, and that is shrewdness in business.

I don't think language could have evolved if it was the only distinctive trait. It goes hand in hand with our ability to develop tools and technologies, and also with the fact that we cooperate with nonrelatives.

I watch action movies, and you don't remember when Jason Statham does a kick or punch. It's character trait stuff you remember.

To disregard the obvious is not a good trait in a leader in any situation.

I'm not sensitive about my lisp, but a lot of people are, and it's not the type of trait people should mock.

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.