Backgrounds Quote by Michael Josephson

No one is born with good character; it's not a hereditary trait. And it isn't determined by a single noble act. Character is established…

— Michael Josephson

Character isn't inherited.

— Helen Gahagan Douglas

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

— L. Tom Perry

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

— Helen Gahagan Douglas

I suppose that when I'm building a character, it's usually related to what their family is like and who their parents are, as well…

— Henry Cavill

I can say that I put a lot of personal feelings into 'Hereditary', though I can also say that none of the characters in…

— Ari Aster

I hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.

— Beatrix Potter

A good character is something you must make for yourself. It cannot be inherited from parents. It cannot be created by having extraordinary advantages.…

— L. Tom Perry

Character is better than ancestry, and personal conduct is more important than the highest parentage.

— Thomas John Barnardo

Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Every character when born is a stereotype.

— Michael Patrick King

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