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1 Timothy 3 lists only one gift, teaching, then follows w a list of character traits. -- Derwin L. Gray
Every man whose character traits all lie in the mean is called a wise man. -- Maimonides
As adults, we try to develop the character traits that would have rescued our parents. -- Alain de Botton
Humility is not a character trait to develop, it's the natural by-product of being with Jesus. -- Louie Giglio
The psychoanalysis of neurotics has taught us to recognize the intimate connection between wetting the bed and the character trait of ambition. -- Sigmund Freud
You never want to play too vampiric or generically evil, so you look for emotions or character traits that you can relate to. -- Joseph Morgan
Well, you know, I don't think anyone who writes a television series has a master plan from the beginning, and knows all the character traits, and everything that's going to happen. -- Charlie Day
I think I'm a real good person off the field. I've got good character traits, I go to Church often, and I do community service. I think I'm a really good role model. -- Jeremy Shockey
Children who reach the age of eighteen with their entire skills set composed on Nintendo and eating Doritos have been neglected. Their parents neglected to give them the character traits necessary to live successfully. -- Dave Ramsey
It is practically an axiom in psychiatry that precocious intellect combined with physical weakness can give rise to many unpleasant character traits - avarice, delusions of grandeur , and obsessive masturbation, to name just a few. -- Sam Savage
Contrary to what we've been taught, genes do not determine physical and character traits on their own. Rather, they interact with the environment in a dynamic, ongoing process that produces and continually refines an individual -- David Shenk
I might have some character traits that some might see as innocence or naive. That's because I discovered peace and happiness in my soul. And with this knowledge, I also see the beauty of human life. -- Tobey Maguire
Integrity is not a character trait that one possesses more or less of but a sophisticated state of processing experience in the world one enters into in varying degrees. Integrating is a major developmental task at every stage of life. -- David A. Kolb
Marriage provides an ideal setting for overcoming any tendency to be selfish or self-centered. I think one of the reasons that we are counseled to get married early in life is to avoid developing inappropriate character traits that are hard to change. -- Richard G. Scott
It's the one thing, a compromise I guess. On network it's the one thing you can't smoke on network. That's one of his character traits. We're working around that. We're trying to get aspects of it in there as much as possible. We'll see. -- Neil Marshall
I like to comprehend more or less everything around me - apart from the creation of my music. It's an obsessive character trait that's getting worse. I don't switch the light on and off 15 times before I leave the room yet, but something's going wrong. -- Robert Plant
We must learn and then teach our children that niceness does not equal goodness. Niceness is a decision, a strategy of social interaction; it is not a character trait. People seeking to control others almost always present the image of a nice person in the beginning. -- Gavin de Becker
The opposite of success is not failure. Unsuccessful efforts are not failures unless they so discourage you that you abandon further efforts to achieve your goal. Even then, the venture or effort may be a failure but you are not. Failure is an event not a character trait. -- Michael Josephson
I think that when you look at the great politicians, the two greatest in my view were George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, they certainly had character traits. You also know Abraham Lincoln overcame severe depression problems that he had when he was younger, which gave him the strength and the character later on. -- John McCain
There's a point I can get to where I start writing character and then through the dialogue, after all of this preparation, the thing starts to feel like it's a character developing through the dialogue. A lot of character traits do come from writing dialogue, but I have to be ready to do it. -- Charlie Kaufman
What you are as a single person, you will be as a married person, only to a greater degree. Any negative character trait will be intensified in a marriage relationship, because you will feel free to let your guard down -- that person has committed himself to you and you no longer have to worry about scaring him off. -- Josh McDowell
The fruit of patience in all its aspects - long-suffering, forbearance, endurance, and perseverance - is a fruit that is most intimately associated with our devotion to God. All character traits of godliness grow out of and have their foundation in our devotion to God, but the fruit of patience must grow out of that relationship in a particular way. -- Jerry Bridges
Understand: you are one of a kind. Your character traits are a kind of chemical mix that will never be repeated in history. There are ideas unique to you, a specific rhythm and perspective that are your strengths, not your weaknesses. You must not be afraid of your uniqueness and you must care less and less what people think of you. -- Robert Greene
Each character represented a trait that resides in me. -- Chuck Jones
Character is more important than any other leadership trait. -- John Wooden
Good humor isn't a trait of character, it is an art which requires practice. -- David Seabury
Niceness is a decision, a strategy of social interaction; it is not a character trait. -- Gavin de Becker
Curiosity was a bad character trait for a private investigator to have. It created work. -- Dee Henderson
Hotness is not a redeemable character trait. It's actually not a character trait at all. -- Navessa Allen
Remarkable trait in the American Character is the union, not very infrequent, of Yankee cleverness with spiritualism. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Showing the addiction and unusual sexual practices are ways of just outlining a much bigger character trait. -- James Franco
It is a beautiful trait in the lover's character, that they think no evil of the object loved. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
There is tremendous life and personality in a name. It should be at least as agonized over as any character trait. -- Travis Beacham
Consider meekness as a character trait to develop and then you will leave a leagcy as a leader who influenced and touched lives. -- -Shandel Slaten
One trait in the philosopher's character we can assume is his love of the knowledge that reveals eternal reality, the realm unaffected by change and decay. -- Plato
Being nice doesn't necessarily mean you're weak. You can be nice and be strong at the same time. That's a character trait that we need more in Washington. -- Shelley Moore Capito
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. -- Octavio Paz
I think successful movies that are based on books are their own thing. I think if you're too faithful, word by word, character trait to character trait, it can hurt the movie. -- Peter Dinklage
Credulity as a character trait is encouraged in every child who grows up with religious training, which invariably insists on the virtue of blind faith and the sinfulness of doubting and questioning. -- Barbara G. Walker
We like to put people on a pedestal, give them one character trait, and if they step outside of that shrinelike area that we blocked out for them, then we will punish them. -- Madonna Ciccone

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