Quotes About Traits

I'm a pleaser. That's my character.

I've got my mother's acceptance of things and my dad's drive - not such a bad combination.

Centenarians tend to be assertive, suspicious, and practical.

Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Miss Beryl was not unaware of Mr. Wirfly's shortcomings, but she steadfastly maintained that he was not so much incompetent as unambitious, a character trait almost impossible to find in a lawyer.

Like your zodiac sign?' Percy asked. 'I'm a Leo.' 'No, stupid,' Leo said. 'I'm a Leo. You're a Percy.

Your DNA is not you. It is more like the basic instructions for you. DNA is to a person as a blueprint is to a house.

daredevil nature as a young man. When I read what William Roth had written, I sighed. So that was where my own two boys had gotten the trait that was turning their mother's hair gray.

What is bred in the bone will come out in the flesh.

I identified four inherited traits that lead to criminal behaviour: impulsiveness, fearlessness, aggression and hyperactivity. But my big theory is that certain ways of raising children counteract those traits and turn potential criminals into good citizens.

With prayer, you may be able to start one discipline or habit that will overflow into many more positive, God-honoring traits.

You're being paranoid," Vein said. "It's one of your better traits.

true leader exhibited five essential characteristics: intelligence, commitment, integrity, courage, and resourcefulness.

Good humor isn't a trait of character, it is an art which requires practice.

As I researched an article for The Atlantic that served as a launch point for this book, speaking to many people, characteristics of Invisibles began to crystallize. Fascinatingly, I found they all consistently embody Three Traits: 1) Ambivalence toward recognition 2) Meticulousness 3) Savoring of responsibility

Here's what I think: the five most unattractive traits in people are cheapness, clinginess, neediness, unwillingness to change and jealousy. Jealousy is the worst, and by far the hardest to conceal.

I encountered among my comrades the most varied human traits, from frankness to reserve, from goodness, uprightness and kindness, to brutality and baseness.

Actions determine what kind of characteristics are developed.

You can't assume that kindness is an inherited trait. It is learned behavior.

The essential thing is not knowledge, but character.

The authority is God's. Although mediated through various styles, the fundamental authority of God in counseling must be evident in all biblical counseling. Any personality traits that interfere with, rather than mediate the message must be altered. That is why the Lord changed the apostle Peter from a weak, vacillating, fearful disciple to the bold fearless disciple who told the authorities, "We must obey God rather than men" (Acts 5:29).

Children are contemptuous, haughty, irritable, envious, sneaky, selfish, lazy, flighty, timid, liars and hypocrites, quick to laugh and cry, extreme in expressing joy and sorrow, especially about trifles, they'll do anything to avoid pain but they enjoy inflicting it: little men already.

Common early indicators of serial murder are bed-wetting, fire-starting, and animal torture, sometimes called the McDonald Triad

that was Evelyn's weakness. She was too kind, and too truthful. Both, I have found, are inconvenient character traits.