Best Character Trait Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: The Basic Writings of Sigmund Freud

“What would you love to achieve and accomplish? What would you feel great about doing in your life? What meaningful goals would you wish to reach? Imagine achieving and accomplishing everything that you would wish [dream] for. Picture yourself reaching your highest aspirations and your most meaningful goals. Visualize yourself speaking and acting the way you would wish with the highest and best character traits.”

Way Feels Character Dream Wish Goal Acting Imagine Achieve Highest Accomplish Meaningful Aspiration Reaching Traits Anticipation Most Meaningful Character Trait Best Character

Author:Zelig Pliskin

“You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.”

Source: The Nemesis of Faith

“There is tremendous life and personality in a name. It should be at least as agonized over as any character trait.”

Should Character Names Personality Traits Character Trait

Author:Travis Beacham

“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”

Character Individual Process Environment Produce Taught Determine Contrary Genes Traits Ongoing Character Trait

Book:The Genius in All of Us: New Insights into Genetics, Talent, and IQ

Source: The Genius in All of Us: New Insights into Genetics, Talent, and IQ

“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.”

Children Character Grows Religious Growing Up Virtue Doubt Training Blind Traits Questioning Blind Faith Credulity Gullibility Sinfulness Character Trait

Author:Barbara G. Walker

“Modern schools and universities push students into habits of depersonalized learning, alienation from nature and sexuality, obedience to hierarchy, fear of authority, self-objectification, and chilling competitiveness. These character traits are the essence of the twisted personality-type of modern industrialism. They are precisely the character traits needed to maintain a social system that is utterly out of touch with nature, sexuality and real human needs.”

Source: Witchcraft and the Gay counterculture: a radical view of Western civilization and some of the people it has tried to destroy

“Niceness is a decision, a strategy of social interaction; it is not a character trait.”

Character Social Decision Strategy Interaction Traits Social Interaction Niceness Character Trait

Book:The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals that Protect Us from Violence

Source: The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals that Protect Us from Violence

“You never want to play too vampiric or generically evil, so you look for emotions or character traits that you can relate to.”

Want Looks Play Character Evil Emotion Relate Traits Character Trait

Author:Joseph Morgan

“1 Timothy 3 lists only one gift, teaching, then follows w a list of character traits.”

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Author:Derwin L. Gray

“In the years of the Roman Republic, before the Christian era, Roman education was meant to produce those character traits that would make the ideal family man. Children were taught primarily to be good to their families. To revere gods, one's parents, and the laws of the state were the primary lessons for Roman boys. Cicero described the goal of their child rearing as "self- control, combined with dutiful affection to parents, and kindliness to kindred.”

“Every man whose character traits all lie in the mean is called a wise man.”

Men Mean Character Lying Wise Every Man Traits Character Trait

Book:Ethical Writings of Maimonides

Source: Ethical Writings of Maimonides

“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.”

Source: The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals that Protect Us from Violence

“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.”

Thinking Persons Real Character Community Church Roles Fields Models Role Models Traits Good Person Good Character Community Service Good Role Models Character Trait

Author:Jeremy Shockey

“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.”

Trying Character One Thing Aspect Compromise Smoke Traits Character Trait

Author:Neil Marshall

“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.”

May Character Goal Effort Achieve Events Opposites Abandon Traits Venture Discouraging Unsuccessful Achieving Your Goals Character Trait

Author:Michael Josephson

“I've never been about trying to promote a brand of Squarepusher. I've never been keen on that idea that these are the character traits that I've got to stick with and amplify and keep pushing forward and pushing on the public. I'm really happy to throw it all away and start each record with a blank slate but I concede you've got a point, there are things I can't get rid of, no matter how hard I try.”

Trying I Can Ideas Matter Hard Character Records Sticks Brands Pushing Traits Blank Really Happy Slate Amplify Blank Slates Character Trait Pushing On Pushing Forward

Author:Squarepusher

“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.”

Feels Writing I Can Character Ready Dialogue Developing Preparation Traits Character Trait Writing Dialogue

Author:Charlie Kaufman

“Showing the addiction and unusual sexual practices are ways of just outlining a much bigger character trait.”

Way Character Practice Bigger Addiction Unusual Traits Character Trait Outlining

Author:James Franco

“The biggest thing that comes out of improv that gets built on is just character traits. You know, for me the singing was born out of improv.”

Knows Character Born Singing Built Traits Character Trait

Author:Ed Helms

“I am not committed in any way to the traditional concept of character - the concept of "character trait" as involving predictable behavior. I am committed to a view in the neighborhood - the view that the moral worth of one's actions depends on the quality of will expressed in them.”

Character Action Quality Moral Behavior Committed Neighborhood Traits Predictable Character Trait

Author:Nomy Arpaly

“Though we think intrinsic desires tend to be pretty stable, we do not think they imply anything like the amount of predictability in behavior that traditional virtue ethics requires for someone to have a one-word-in-English character trait such as "benevolence". Other things being equal, a person with more of a desire for other people's wellbeing will do more for other people's wellbeing, but things are almost never equal.”

Thinking Character Desire Virtue Equal Behavior Ethics Traits Benevolence Wellbeing Predictability Being Equal Character Trait

Author:Nomy Arpaly

“The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.”

“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.”

Humans Soul Character Might My Soul Innocence Human Life Traits Naive Peace And Happiness Character Trait

Author:Tobey Maguire

“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.”

Character Light Rooms Creation Traits Obsessive And Off Character Trait

Author:Robert Plant

“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.”

Giving Children Has Beens Character Age Parent Skills Eating Traits Neglected Eighteen Nintendo Character Trait Doritos

Author:Dave Ramsey

“People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.”

“The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.”

“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.”

Giving Character Names Weakness Intellect Delusion Traits Psychiatry Grandeur Avarice Obsessive Axioms Masturbation Precocious Character Trait Delusions Of Grandeur

Author:Sam Savage

“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.”

Feels Persons Character Marriage Worry Greater Degrees Married Negative Dating Committed Traits Single Person Character Trait

Author:Josh McDowell

“As adults, we try to develop the character traits that would have rescued our parents.”

Trying Character Parent Adults Traits Character Trait

Author:Alain de Botton

“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.”

World States Character Stage Integrity Degrees Majors Ethics Tasks Traits Sophisticated Integrating Processing Stages Of Life Developmental Character Trait

Author:David A. Kolb

“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.”

Thinking Knows Inspirational Looks Two Character Problem Strong Views Strength Politician Traits Severe Abraham Character Trait

Author:John McCain

“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.”

Source: The practice of godliness

“Humility is not a character trait to develop, it's the natural by-product of being with Jesus.”

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Author:Louie Giglio

“What a man's mind can create, man's character can control.”

Men Mind Character Spirituality Consciousness Angel Insightful Mind Control Personality Flaws Character Trait

Author:Thomas A. Edison

“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.”

Thinking Self Hard Reason Character Life Is Married Ideals Overcoming Selfish Setting Tendencies Settings Developing Traits Self Centered Inappropriate Being Selfish Character Trait

Author:Richard G. Scott

“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.”

People Thinking Kind Ideas Character Care Perspective Unique Weakness Rhythm Chemicals Traits Uniqueness Think Of You One Of A Kind Character Trait

Author:Robert Greene

“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.”

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Author:Charlie Day

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