Characteristics Quotes

792 Characteristics quotes by 648 unique authors

Our life's journey of self-discovery is not a straight-line rise from one level of consciousness to another. Instead, it is a series of steep climbs… — Stuart Wilde
If I had to name the single characteristic shared by all truly successful individuals, I’d say it’s the ability to create and nurture a network… — Harvey Mackay
Animals engage in a struggle for existence; for resources, to avoid being eaten and to breed. Environmental factors influence organisms to develop new characteristics to… — Al-Jahiz
The hope that God has provided for you is not merely a wish. Neither is it dependent on other people, possessions, or circumstances for its… — John C. Broger
It’s one of the characteristics of a leader that he not doubt for one moment the capacity of the people he’s leading to realize whatever… — Benjamin Zander
Among the minor, yet striking characteristics of mathematics, may be mentioned the fleshless and skeletal build of its propositions; the peculiar difficulty, complication, and stress… — Charles Sanders Peirce
I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal… — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
The level of potential physical productivity of a society depends on both the development of the intellect of its members, and a minimal standard of… — Robert Trout
It is characteristic of genius to be hopeful and aspiring. — Harriet Martineau
Sheer egoism... Writers share this characteristic with scientists, artists, politicians, lawyers, soldiers, successful businessmen - in short, with the whole top crust of humanity. — George Orwell
After World War II great strides were made in modern Japanese architecture, not only in advanced technology, allowing earthquake resistant tall buildings, but expressing and… — Harry Seidler
I consider nothing low but ignorance, vice, and meanness, characteristics generally found where the animal propensities predominate over the higher sentiments. — William John Wills
If we want to be a person of integrity, we act as if we have integrity and we will be a person of integrity. If… — Royden G. Derrick
Warren Berger’s book is a cure for a disease in large enterprises. A More Beautiful Question provides a framework to help leaders ask the most important… — Jim Stengel
Cherishing Columbus is a characteristic of white history, not American history. — James W. Loewen
I speak for the colored women of the South, because it is there that the millions of blacks in this country have watered the soil… — Anna Julia Cooper
We feel strongly that the spirit characteristic of America at its noblest, above all the pursuit of higher learning, cannot admit of any conditions as… — Abraham Flexner
I have tried to show as clearly as possible that the very characteristics and weaknesses of temperament with which we were born...can be transformed into… — Hannah Hurnard
The ecstatic state of wholeness is bound to be transient because it has no part in the total pattern of ‘adaptation through maladaptation’ which is… — Anthony Storr
Particularity and separability are infirmities of the mind, not characteristics of the universe. — Dee Hock
Anyone developing new products and new technology needs one characteristic above all else: hope. — James Dyson
This is a lesson mankind has not yet learned. We identify, and stratify, and treat persons largely on the basis of their accidental (physical) characteristics,… — Sydney J. Harris
Every sensation shares the same characteristic: it arises and passes away, arises and passes away. It is this arising and passing that we have to… — S. N. Goenka
We declare that only man exists. This is not to say that material, inorganic nature and nonhuman beings-animals and plants-are in any sense unreal, insubstantial,… — Medard Boss
Whether he is aware of it or not, every human being dwells in tradition and history. Human memory is this constant dwelling in tradition. It… — Medard Boss

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