Traits Quotes

If you want someone to develop a specific trait, treat them as though they already had it.

Tis a human trait to hate one you have wronged

A chaste and lucid style is indicative of the same personal traits in the author.

We cannot understand all the traits we have inherited. Sometimes we can be strangers to ourselves.

Humility is not a trait I often associate with America.

Why is it that, among men, physical courage is a trait so plenteous yet moral courage is a trait so rare?

Jealousy is the worst trait in any person.

Each character represented a trait that resides in me.

A tendency to exaggeration was a Roman trait.

Character is more important than any other leadership trait.

I build a wall around myself. I'm hard to get to know. Any trait you have, it gets worse as you go along.

A slew of cognitive traits predisposes us to faith.

There is only one trait that makes the writer. He is always watching.

Courage is the rarest of all good traits

It is a very natural human trait to destroy that which frightens us.

Verbosity was an established Victorian trait.

Pride is about the ugliest trait somebody can have.

Selfishness, if but reasonably tempered with wisdom, is not such an evil trait.

I definitely did not play myself. As the writer of the script, I have traits of all the characters. I can relate to all of the characters.

Although self-control is inheritable and does run in families and has a genetic component, it's more like height than anything else. Height is one of the most strongly inherited traits that human beings have and yet when we improve the nutrition of the population everybody gets taller. So you can shift the entire population by an effective intervention.

One trait of addictive families is that we never recognize our own addictions.

The brain, Schopenhauer says, is the 'one great tool' that has enabled a creature endowed with neither sharp teeth nor claws to survive in a competitive environment. Moreover simplification of data, and indeed judicious falsification, are adaptive traits.