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Acceptance is not love. You love a person because he or she has lovable traits, but you accept everybody just because they're alive and human. -- Albert Ellis
Of the billionaires I have known, money just brings out the basic traits in them. If they were jerks before they had money, they are simply jerks with a billion dollars. -- Warren Buffett
Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character; it requires moral rather than athletic or intellectual effort, and it imposes on both leader and follower alike the burdens of self-restraint. -- Lewis H. Lapham
Obama's personality traits, coupled with his extreme-leftist agenda, make him particularly dangerous to the American ideal and to the preservation of our founding principles, as well as to the liberty and prosperity they guarantee. -- David Limbaugh
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
Each character represented a trait that resides in me. -- Chuck Jones
Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character. -- Lewis H. Lapham
Humility is not a character trait to develop, it's the natural by-product of being with Jesus. -- Louie Giglio
Doggedness depends on emotional traits - enthusiasm and persistence in the face of setbacks - above all else. -- Daniel Goleman
The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory. -- Thomas Jefferson
I have sporadic OCD cleaning moments around the house. But then I get lazy and I'm cured. It's a very inconsistent personality trait. -- Chris Hemsworth
Almost every sinful action ever committed can be traced back to a selfish motive. It is a trait we hate in other people but justify in ourselves. -- Stephen Kendrick
My thesis is that morality exists outside the human mind in the sense of being not just a trait of individual humans, but a human trait; that is, a human universal. -- Michael Shermer
Many bodybuilders sell themselves short. Erroneously attributing their lack of satisfactory progress to a poverty of the requisite genetic traits, instead of to their irrational training and dietary practices, they give up training. Don't make the same mistake -- Mike Mentzer
Character is a quality that embodies many important traits, such as integrity, courage, perseverance, confidence and wisdom. Unlike your fingerprints that you are born with and can't change, character is something that you create within yourself and must take responsibility for changing -- Jim Rohn
If we want our children to possess the traits of character we most admire, we need to teach them what those traits are and why they deserve both admiration and allegiance. Children must learn to identify the forms and content of those traits. -- William Bennett
Traits acquired during one's lifetime - muscles built up in the gym, for example - cannot be passed on to the next generation. Now with technology, as it happens, we might indeed be able to transfer some of our acquired traits on to our selected offspring by genetic engineering. -- Nick Bostrom
When you're finally up on the moon, looking back at the earth, all these differences and nationalistic traits are pretty well going to blend and you're going to get a concept that maybe this is really one world and why the hell can't we learn to live together like decent people? -- Frank Borman
If I had to select one quality, one personal characteristic that I regard as being most highly correlated with success, whatever the field, I would pick the trait of persistence. Determination. The will to endure to the end, to get knocked down seventy times and get up off the floor saying, ''Here comes number seventy-one!'' -- Richard DeVos
It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second. -- John Steinbeck
Do you know the most important trait a man can have? It is not executive ability; it is not a great mentality; it is not kindliness, nor courage, nor a sense of humor, though each of these is of tremendous importance. In my opinion, it is the ability to make friends, which, boiled down, means the ability to see the best in man. -- Dale Carnegie
Women still have an uneasy relationship with power and the traits necessary to be a leader. There is this internalized fear that if we are really powerful, we are going to be considered ruthless or pushy or strident - all of those epithets that strike right at our femininity. We are still working at trying to overcome the fear that power and womanliness are mutually exclusive. -- Arianna Huffington
Traits don't change, states of mind do. -- Elizabeth Strout
Traits like humility, courage, and empathy are easily overlooked - but it's immensely important to find them in your closest relationships. -- Laura Linney
Emotional states are fairly quick bursts of neuronal gossip. Traits, on the other hand, are more like the neuronal equivalent of committed relationships. -- Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
Emotional states are fairly quick bursts of neuronal gossip. Traits, on the other hand, are more like the neuronal equivalent of committed relationships. -- Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born. -- G. Stanley Hall
Shyness is inherently uncomfortable; introversion is not. The traits do overlap, though psychologists debate to what degree. -- Susan Cain
I don't know what I'll be like when I'm 60. I already have the traits of a retired gentleman. -- David Walliams
People should be judged on the basis of their performance, not nationality, personality, education, or personal traits and skills. -- Marvin Bower
My mother, may her soul rest in peace, shaped my personality; thanks to her, I have acquired many values, good traits and skills. -- Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum
I wish to share and pass down some of my generation's traits, and encourage young people to create their own art, music, and literature. -- David Amram
Women should not have to adopt masculine traits in order to succeed. You should be able to stay as a woman, and in tune with your femininity, and still be equal. -- Isla Fisher
I love working with customers. Sales has really influenced everything I do. It has instilled in me the important traits of operating with a sense of urgency and listening to people. -- Jeffrey R. Immelt
All personality traits have their good side and their bad side. But for a long time, we've seen introversion only through its negative side and extroversion mostly through its positive side. -- Susan Cain
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
I can tell you character traits I admire and work to develop in myself - perseverance, self-discipline, courage to stand up for what is right even when it is against one's friends or one's self. -- Dalia Mogahed
We admire elephants in part because they demonstrate what we consider the finest human traits: empathy, self-awareness, and social intelligence. But the way we treat them puts on display the very worst of human behavior. -- Graydon Carter
Netanyahu is pressured easily, gets into a panic, and loses his senses... to run a country like Israel a leader needs to have reason and judgment and nerves of steel, two traits he does not have. -- Ariel Sharon
We do not discuss the anatomical, physiological, and mental characteristics of man considered as an individual; but we are interested in the diversity of these traits in groups of men found in different geographical areas and in different social classes. -- Franz Boas
Identical twins are ideal lab specimens for studying the difference between learned and inherited traits since they come from the womb preloaded with matching genetic operating systems. Any meaningful differences in their behaviors or personalities are thus likely to have been acquired, not innate. -- Jeffrey Kluger
Arrogance, ignorance, and incompetence. Not a pretty cocktail of personality traits in the best of situations. No sirree. Not a pretty cocktail in an office-mate and not a pretty cocktail in a head of state. In fact, in a leader, it's a lethal cocktail. -- Graydon Carter
I think in the end, when you're famous, people like to narrow you down to a few personality traits. I think I've just become this ambitious, say-whatever's-on-her-mind, intimidating person. And that's part of my personality, but it's certainly not anywhere near the whole thing. -- Madonna Ciccone
There are two possibilities: Either the kiss is a human universal, one of the constellation of innate traits, including language and laughter, that unites us as a species, or it is an invention, like fire or wearing clothes, an idea so good that it was bound to metastasize across the globe. -- Joshua Foer
Havin' fun while freedom fightin' must be one of those lunatic Texas traits we get from the water - which is known to have lithium in it - because it goes all the way back to Sam Houston, surely the most lovable, the most human, and the funniest of all the great men this country has ever produced. -- Molly Ivins
All people - African, European, American - worry about being different. But I've learned that the traits we'd rush to get rid of are the very ones that others desire. People always covet what they don't have. That's why we should look at ourselves every now and then and say, 'I'm proud of myself. I like the way I'm made.' -- Freida Pinto
Negroid traits, dark skin, flat, thick nose. -- Frederick Hertz
Courage is the rarest of all good traits -- Dennis Prager
A slew of cognitive traits predisposes us to faith, -- Pascal Boyer
Who wins a... competition [between two traits] is massively context sensitive. -- Jerry Fodor
The goal of spiritual life is not altered states, but altered traits -- Huston Smith
Family traits, like murder, will out. Nature has but so many molds ... -- Louise Imogen Guiney
Fight to preserve these traits of civilization, that made us go forward. -- Janusz Korwin-Mikke
Heredity: the traits that a disobedient child gets from the other parent. -- Luther Burbank
Different groups in different areas developed different traits to assure their survival. -- Jim Goad
Courage, self-reliance and decisiveness are the main traits that define a man. -- Ogwo David Emenike
Have you heard that modesty is an attractive traits? Only to ugly people -- Cassandra Clare
Merciless criticism and independent thinking are the two necessary traits of revolutionary thinking. -- Bhagat Singh
We should strive to develop within ourselves the traits of character of the Savior. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
College professors have two bad traits. They are logical and they are easily flattered. -- Gertrude Stein
1 Timothy 3 lists only one gift, teaching, then follows w a list of character traits. -- Derwin L. Gray
Magnus had a list of favored traits in a partner-black hair, blue eyes, honest... -- Cassandra Clare
The love of weaponry is often a manifestation of infantile traits in an adult. -- Hayao Miyazaki
The screenwriters I know share a few personality traits and one of them is anxiety. -- Tony Gilroy
A chaste and lucid style is indicative of the same personal traits in the author. -- Hosea Ballou
Every man whose character traits all lie in the mean is called a wise man. -- Maimonides
The three traits speculators must learn to manage within themselves are confidence, fear, and aggressiveness. -- Larry Williams
Recognize the skills and traits you don't possess, and hire the people who have them. -- Warren G. Bennis
As adults, we try to develop the character traits that would have rescued our parents. -- Alain de Botton
My not-so-fun traits are that I get very impatient and I can be really stubborn. -- Bitsie Tulloch
Familiarity confounds all traits of distinction; interest and prejudice take away the power of judging. -- William Hazlitt
The theory of founder effects does not explain how novel features like plumage traits arise. -- Peter R. Grant
We cannot understand all the traits we have inherited. Sometimes we can be strangers to ourselves. -- V. S. Naipaul
The traits in career politicians the public detests most are produced when ego triumphs over principle. -- Tom Coburn
Once again we're talking to Brian Kenny, a man of many traits, a master of nothing. -- Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
Even in the case of a god, audiences - paradoxically - enjoy recognizing the human traits. -- Kenneth Branagh
After a certain age, the more one becomes oneself, the more obvious one's family traits become. -- Marcel Proust
It is as common for tastes to change as it is uncommon for traits of character. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Running and science draw on similar traits - stamina, ambition, patience, and the ability to overcome limits. -- Wolfgang Ketterle
The traits of our sexual culture are still speechlessness, loneliness, violence and not enough desire and love. -- Volkmar Sigusch
I suspect that these traits-desire, commitment, and good work habits-are important in all facets of our lives. . . -- LaVell Edwards
When there are miles to go before we sleep, altered traits are more important than altered states. -- Huston Smith
We rarely improve our habits and traits while floating on the placid pool of ease and comfort. -- Rand Olson
We are all a mess of contradictions; some of our traits work for us, some against us. -- Lisa Lutz
Express your admiration for the traits, possessions or accomplishments of your customer. Little things mean a lot. -- Brian Tracy
I think that personality traits that come through when somebody is really sincere is what makes them beautiful. -- Taylor Swift
I think the negative traits are what makes us love other human beings, the foibles and the flaws. -- Denise Mina
Most people are average. Founders are not. Founders' traits seem to have an inverse normal distribution to them. -- Peter Thiel
Did you ever see a portrait of a great man without perceiving strong traits of pain and anxiety? -- John Adams
I was told I have obsessive behavioral traits. I looked up everything to do with obsession after that. -- Willow Madison
A presidential debate is a job interview. And voters look for certain traits in people applying to be president. -- Ron Fournier
Race is an invention, not a noticeable genetic presence, and cultural traits are brute concoctions of the social sciences. -- Gerald Vizenor
Each race (or variety) is characterized by a more or less distinct combination of inherited morphological, behavioral, physiological traits. -- J. Philippe Rushton
...one of the traits of genius is not to drag its thought through the rut worn by vulgar minds. -- Stendhal
You're never going to be able to delve into the character traits of a Michelle Obama or Hillary Clinton. -- Robin Wright
We do not have to be mental health professionals to identify the traits of the possible sociopaths among us. -- P.A. Speers
By definition, love made you better than good enough; it redefined perfection to include your traits, instead of excluding them. -- Jodi Picoult
The joy of killing! the joy of seeing killing done - these are traits of the human race at large. -- Mark Twain
I'm a vague, conjunctured personality, more made up of opinions and academic prepossessions than of human traits and red corpuscles. -- Woodrow Wilson
Just as mental toughness and physical energy are the primary traits of an army, they also mark God's beautiful woman. -- Elizabeth George
We must promote solid traits such as work ethics, a dignified lifestyle, matching actions to rhetoric, performance rather than grandstanding. -- Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
Through microscopic examination one can find in almost every life incidents or traits that can be destructive when they are magnified. -- Marvin J. Ashton
Nothing is so soothing to our self-esteem as to find our bad traits in our forebears. It seems to absolve us. -- Van Wyck Brooks
People talk about curing autism. But if you got rid of all those traits, who's going to make the next computer? -- Temple Grandin
The English possess too many agreeable traits to permit them to be as much disliked as they think and hope they are. -- Agnes Repplier
There are many more traits that the climate deniers share with the creationists and Holocaust deniers and others who distort the truth. -- Donald R. Prothero
One could mention many lovable traits in Smee. For instance, after killing, it was his spectacles he wiped instead of his weapon. -- James M. Barrie
Two other personality traits could also make more likely [Donald] Trump's use of nuclear weapons: his impulsiveness and his lack of predictability. -- Donald Trump
Appliances have idiosyncracies, just like us. Unfortunately they have picked up our less attractive traits - they are proud, spiteful, and unforgiving. -- Mary McGrory
To possess a rich life of wholeness that brings happiness into the soul; is to show loving and caring characteristic traits toward others. -- Ellen J. Barrier
Loss of social standing is an ever-present threat for individuals whose social acceptance is based on behavioral traits rather than unconditional human value. -- Melissa Harris-Perry
It is profound philosophy to sound the depths of feeling and distinguish traits of character. Men must be studied as deeply as books. -- Baltasar Gracian
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
That's what novels are: They're amalgams of archetypes, collections of random traits one observes in other people through life, blended into fresh characters. -- Michael Callahan
The history of agriculture is the history of humans breeding seeds and animals to produce traits we want in our crops and livestock. -- Michael Specter
I have a lot of different traits to my personality, depending on who I'm around, and what the dynamic in the situation is. -- Mary Elizabeth Winstead
It has amazed me that the most incongruous traits should exist in the same person and, for all that, yield a plausible harmony. -- W. Somerset Maugham
I encountered among my comrades the most varied human traits, from frankness to reserve, from goodness, uprightness and kindness, to brutality and baseness. -- Georg Brandes
Loss of social standing is an ever-present threat for individuals whose social acceptance is based on behavioral traits rather than unconditional human value. -- Melissa Harris-Perry
There are certain narrow, umimaginative, and autocratic old people who seem to call out the most mischievous and sometimes the worst traits in children. -- Kate Douglas Wiggin

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