Quotes About Traits

Every species, human and subhuman, has some distinguishing mark, so that you can tell a man from a beast, or a dog from a cow.

All men come to resemble their fathers. That isn't a tragedy. But you need a hell of a sense of humor to handle it.

Wine does but draw forth a man's natural qualities.

The Frenchman is first and foremost a man. He is likeable often just because of his weaknesses, which are always thoroughly human, even if despicable.

A man without characteristics is a most insipid character.

The history of a man is in his character.

I'm a good blend of both my mom and dad.

I can definitely tell when mum has got money because then she likes to go shopping to spend it, whereas dad is steadier and avoids splurges. I like to think I've inherited both sides.

Mother was a talkative person, and I was a lot like her.

I was very fortunate in my gene mix. The gambling instincts I inherited from my father were matched by my mother's gift for analysis.

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.

Family traits, like murder, will out. Nature has but so many molds.

There are few uglier traits of human nature than this tendency—which I now witnessed in men no worse than their neighbours—to grow cruel, merely because they possessed the power of inflicting harm.

If a man has character, he has also his typical experience, which always recurs.

The essence of warrior traits are demonstrated by : integrity with self, and honesty with others

Character depends on characters. Few people are character. Other's should try to opt one but they don't, they lose.

Let your personality be your profit and not your punishment.

Money and success don't change people they merely amplify what is already there.

In a major study, researchers in Queensland collated the results of 2,748 papers and concluded the average variation across all human traits and diseases is caused by 49 per cent genetic factors and 51 per cent environmental factors.

You know that I am a great believer that the faults of people are very often more determining than their qualities.

Features alone do not run in the blood; vices and virtues, genius and folly, are transmitted through the same sure but unseen channel.

narcissistic personality disorder. This is the one you probably know something about. Its primary characteristics are grandiosity and lack of empathy.

NPD is not a chemical imbalance. And it is not genetic. It is a complex of behaviors, a deeply ingrained habit.