Action Quote by Helen Gahagan Douglas

Character isn't inherited. One builds it daily by how one thinks and acts.

— Helen Gahagan Douglas

If one lets fear or hate or anger take possession of the mind, they become self-forged chains.

— Helen Gahagan Douglas

Character isn't inherited.

— Helen Gahagan Douglas

Hereditary property sophisticates the mind, and the unfortunate victims to it ... swathed from their birth, seldom exert the locomotive faculty of body or…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

You may derive thoughts from others; your way of thinking, the mould in which your thoughts are cast, must be your own.

— Charles Lamb

A good character is something you must make for yourself. It cannot be inherited from parents.

— L. Tom Perry

“I imagine everyone wears layered masks, and parades around a variety or panoply of false selves depending on the occasion. Normal people do that…

— Wendy Hoffman

The average mind is easily content with inherited and acquired things, or with the dicta of parents and teachers, because it is much easier…

— Emma Goldman

But your mind is warped by an innate principle of general integrity, and, therefore, not accessible to the cool reasonings of family partiality, or…

— Jane Austen

Nothing about character is hereditary. Everyone, regardless of social background, financial status, race, or sex, enters the world with an equal opportunity to become…

— Michael Josephson

Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocre minds. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary…

— Albert Einstein

When a character is born, he acquires at once such an independence, even of his own author, that he can be imagined by everybody…

— Luigi Pirandello