Self-discipline, although difficult, and not always easy while combating negative emotions, should be a defensive measure. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Sincerity is the indispensable ground of all conscientiousness, and by consequence of all heartfelt religion. — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Some aim to be deft, others to be laboriously careful. Neither dexterity nor conscientiousness is enough. — Chai Lu Copy Share Image
Public money ought to be touched with the most scrupulous consciousness of honor. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“We attract to our lives what we desire most and our intent enhances our ability to ascend or may serve as a… — Seraphine Abrams Copy Share Image
Persons who reach the higher rungs in business management, selling, engineering, religious work, writing, acting, and in every other pursuit get there… — David J. Schwartz Copy Share Image
“...the results have consistently suggested that introversion and extroversion, like other major personality traits such as agreeableness and conscientiousness, are about 40… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
Safe popular freedom consists of four things, the diffusion of liberty, of intelligence, of property, and of conscientiousness, and cannot be compounded… — Joseph Cook Copy Share Image
Newspapers. . . give us the bald, sordid, disgusting facts of life. They chronicle, with degrading avidity, the sins of the second-rate,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Public money ought to be touched with the most scrupulous conscientiousness of honor. It is not the produce of riches only, but… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“The 'big five' factors of personality are neuroticism (which reflects emotional stability), extroversion (seeking the company of others), openness (interest in new… — Donald O. Clifton Copy Share Image
“The men and women who scored highest on conscientiousness—that is, who control their impulses, who were dependable and goal-oriented—had 89 percent lower… — Barbara Bradley Hagerty Copy Share Image
“What matters, instead, is whether we are able to help her develop a very different set of qualities, a list that includes… — Paul Tough Copy Share Image
Self-discipline, although difficult, and not always easy while combating negative emotions, should be a defensive measure. At least we will be able… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Affirmative action was designed originally for "women and other minorities" but the phrase has become just another tortured euphemism. Female conscientiousness and… — Florence King Copy Share Image
I daily examine myself on three points: In planning for others, have I failed in conscientiousness? In intercourse with friends, have I… — Confucius Copy Share Image
The so-called conscientiousness of the majority of painters is only perfection applied to the art of boring. — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
Not curiosity, not vanity, not the consideration of expediency, not duty and conscientiousness, but an unquenchable, unhappy thirst that brooks no compromise… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
“Perseverance, the unwavering resolve that fuels our journey. It is the echo of our footsteps on the path of purpose, never ceasing,… — Kevin L. Michel Copy Share Image
The right-wingers don't want to admit that for some people, there are no jobs; they think that conscientiousness in and of itself… — Jordan Peterson Copy Share Image
People high in conscientiousness get better grades in high school and college; they commit fewer crimes; and they stay married longer. — Paul Tough Copy Share Image
Modesty and conscientiousness receive their reward only in novels. In life they are exploited and then shoved aside. — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
“Someday, maybe, there will exist a well-informed, well considered and yet fervent public conviction that the most deadly of all possible sins… — Erik Erikson Copy Share Image
“Openness (artistic, curious, imaginative, with a wide range of interests) Conscientiousness (efficient, organized, responsible, ambitious, able to delay gratification) Extroversion (assertive, energetic,… — Brian Hare Copy Share Image
Good teachers don't approach a child of this age with overzealousness or with destructive conscientiousness. They're not drill-masters in the military or… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
Industriousness and conscientiousness are often at odds, because industriousness wants to pick the still sour fruit from the tree,while conscientiousness lets it… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Of the thousands of ways that humans differ from one another, turns out there's this one cluster of traits called conscientiousness that… — Daniel Levitin Copy Share Image
“What matters, instead, is whether we are able to help her develop a very different set of qualities, a list that includes… — Paul Tough Copy Share Image
His constant fight is with the Nafs (self-interest), the root of all disharmony and the only enemy of man. By crushing this… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
Superstitions, and especially the early cultivation of religion, with its "fear of the Lord" and of unknown mysterious agencies, are especially potent… — Boris Sidis Copy Share Image
What matters most in a child’s development, they say, is not how much information we can stuff into her brain in the… — Paul Tough Copy Share Image
I write incessantly, I'm very productive, I write for a dozen publications and blogs and websites. A lot of very hardcore political… — Ted Nugent Copy Share Image