Trait Quotes
213 quotes by 196 authors
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You must give soldiers reasons to have confidence and pride in themselves, in their leaders, and in their units. Only then will you have loyalty.…
— George W. Dunaway
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You can't assume that kindness is an inherited trait. It is learned behavior.
— Katie Couric
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Gentleness is a divine trait: nothing is so divine as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as real strength.
— Ralph Washington Sockman
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Human beings never think for themselves... For the most part, members of our species simply repeat what they are told-and become upset if they are…
— Michael Crichton
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Curiosity has ... proven to be a great ingredient in resilience, a trait particularly valuable in an extended economic downturn. Resilient people aren't made of…
— Chip Conley
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The denial of death is openly acknowledged as a significant trait of our culture. The tears of the bereaved have become comparable to the excretions…
— Philippe Aries
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If successful people have one common trait, it's an utter lack of cynicism. The world owes them nothing. They go out and find what they…
— Mike Zimmer
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My experiments with single traits all lead to the same result: that from the seeds of hybrids, plants are obtained half of which in turn…
— Gregor Mendel
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When two plants, constantly different in one or several traits, are crossed, the traits they have in common are transmitted unchanged to the hybrids and…
— Gregor Mendel
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If there is a trait which does characterize leaders it is opportunism. Successful people are very often those who steadfastly refuse to be daunted by…
— John Viney
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A man's most valuable trait is a judicious sense of what not to believe.
— Euripides
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The fact that we are born with the potential to go from simple survival to God-consciousness is the remarkable trait that sets our nervous systems…
— Deepak Chopra
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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…
— David A. Kolb
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There is only one trait that makes the writer. He is always watching.
— Morley Callaghan
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In every story I have heard, good teachers share one trait: a strong sense of personal identity infuses their work.
— Parker J. Palmer
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The fatal trait of the times is the divorce between religion and morality.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The gift of language is the single human trait that marks us all genetically, setting us apart from the rest of life.
— Lewis Thomas
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Every trait of beauty may be referred to some virtue, as to innocence, candor, generosity, modesty, or heroism. St. Pierre To cultivate the sense of…
— Christian Nestell Bovee
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Good humor isn't a trait of character, it is an art which requires practice.
— David Seabury
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Rooney has those things that you cannot teach players - the positions he takes up just behind the front men is a European trait,
— John Toshack
Who Wrote These Trait Quotes
196 authors contributed a total of 213 Trait Quotes, led by these top contributors: