Quotes About Traits

Courage is the rarest of all good traits

Of course, he said, he who is of a certain nature, is like those who are of a certain nature; he who is not, not.

Listen to me: I never married because I was too easily bored. It's an awful, self-defeating trait to have. It's much better to be too easily interested.

Some say that as many as 10 percent of human beings are sociopaths.

One of humanity's most common character traits is ingratitude.

The child who prefers feeling becomes more adult in the handling of human relationships. The child who prefers thinking grows more adept in the organization of facts and ideas. Their basic preference for the personal or the impersonal approach to life results in distinguishing surface traits.

In the sample of accountants, 64 percent were ST, and among the finance and

The current edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-V) cautions: "Many highly successful individuals display personality traits that might be considered narcissistic. Only when those traits are inflexible, maladaptive, and persisting, and cause significant functional impairment or subjective distress do they constitute narcissistic personality disorder

People born in the fall and winter are more likely to be larks;

a particular complex of personality traits, including excessive competition drive, aggressiveness, impatience, and a harrying sense of time urgency. Individuals displaying this pattern seem to be engaged in a chronic, ceaseless, and often fruitless struggle—with themselves, with others, with circumstances, with time, sometimes with life itself.

Across the thirty-five studies, the correlation between extraversion and sales performance was a minuscule 0.07.)

Booker T. Washington wrote that "character, not circumstances", makes the person. Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote, "No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character." While character makes for a good story or poem, in reality we are less shaped by character traits than we think, and more than we realize by the circumstances that life deals us - and our responses to those circumstances.

Having an awakened mind means using the mental processes of attention, awareness, and intention to activate new states of mind that, with repeated practice, can become intentionally sculpted traits in a person's life.

However superficial prevailing views of heredity seem to be, it must be admitted that a person is indeed the bearer of inherited characteristics. This is the one aspect. He must often battle against these inherited traits and rid himself of them in order to bring to fulfillment the talents laid into him before he entered earthly existence.

The interaction of the variation in our genes is what's responsible for lots of our attributes and vigor.

I don't have any characteristics that are usually associated with a villain. Like I am not tall, broad-framed or have any scars on my face.

If astrology is real, I guess I'm a pretty quintessential Virgo.

Either you are a good Virgo or a crazy Virgo! The good Virgo side of me is educating and raising the children - being there for them.

If you believe in astrology, I'm a Virgo, so I'm very controlling; I'm very neat, and I'm very organized.

The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.

Spike is sensitive not only in that he is easily hurt but also in the "feminine" way of being attuned to situations, relationships, and underlying emotions, as his frequently perceptive comments demonstrate. this ability to articulate his emotions also explains why his character fits so well into "Buffy", a show that consistently values this trait...

It's very rare that a character comes to mind complete in himself. He needs additional traits that I often pick from actual people. One way you can cover your tracks is to change the sex.

I didn't know it then, but my persistence, perseverance, and unwillingness to accept defeat when things looked all but hopeless were part of the very character traits I would need to make it through World War II alive.

Ruth's FINE? Fucked up, Insecure, Neurotic and Egotistical?