Character Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Fundamentally, we are a product of choice, not nature (genes) or nurture (upbringing, environment).

— Stephen Covey

Neither heredity nor environment determine character. But whether we give in to or overcome the negative messages we are exposed to as we wend…

— Michael Josephson

The prevailing tendency to regard all the marked distinctions of human character as innate, and in the main indelible, and to ignore the irresistible…

— John Stuart Mill

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

In the search for character and commitment, we must rid ourselves of our inherited, even cherished biases and prejudices. Character, ability and intelligence are…

— J. Irwin Miller

“This is implied in the assertion that a man shows certain behavior because he was “born that way.” To object to this is not…

— B.F. Skinner

We are fashioned not by our genes, but by our environment - by the family and socio-historic conditions in which we evolve.

— Michel Onfray

“Character is more like a bundle of habits and tendencies and interests, loosely bound together and dependent, at certain times, on circumstance and context.…

— Malcolm Gladwell

“Character is nature and nurture. It is nature cultured and disciplined, so that natural tendencies are brought under the sway of the moral motive.…

— William Straton Bruce

“An accurate view of evolution, in all its multifaceted and anarchic glory... We are all evolved creatures who share a common way or perceiving…

— Greg Graffin

Heredity is a splendid phenomenon that relieves us of responsibility for our shortcomings.

— Doug Larson

We cannot understand all the traits we have inherited. Sometimes we can be strangers to ourselves.

— V. S. Naipaul