Trait Quotes

The higher mental development of woman, the less possible it is for her to meet a congenial male who will see in her, not only sex, but also the human being, the friend, the comrade and strong individuality, who cannot and ought not lose a single trait of her character.
Emma Goldman

Strong, Character, Sex

No trait is more justified than revenge in the right time and place.
Meir Kahane

Time, Revenge, Place

The psychoanalysis of neurotics has taught us to recognize the intimate connection between wetting the bed and the character trait of ambition.
Sigmund Freud

Character, Between, Ambition

I have sporadic OCD cleaning moments around the house. But then I get lazy and I'm cured. It's a very inconsistent personality trait.
Chris Hemsworth

Lazy, Around, House

It is a beautiful trait in the lover's character, that they think no evil of the object loved.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Beautiful, Character, Evil

Prejudice is a learned trait. You're not born prejudiced; you're taught it.
Charles R. Swindoll

Learned, Born, Taught

It just seems to be a human trait to want to protect the speech of people with whom we agree. For the First Amendment, that is not good enough. So it is really important that we protect First Amendment rights of people no matter what side of the line they are on.
Floyd Abrams

Good, Important, Human

This, to me, is the ultimately heroic trait of ordinary people; they say no to the tyrant and they calmly take the consequences of this resistance.
Philip K. Dick

Ordinary, Heroic, Resistance

I like to comprehend more or less everything around me - apart from the creation of my music. It's an obsessive character trait that's getting worse. I don't switch the light on and off 15 times before I leave the room yet, but something's going wrong.
Robert Plant

Music, Character, Everything

The compulsion to do good is an innate American trait. Only North Americans seem to believe that they always should, may, and actually can choose somebody with whom to share their blessings. Ultimately this attitude leads to bombing people into the acceptance of gifts.
Ivan Illich

Good, Attitude, Blessings

The most common trait of all primitive peoples is a reverence for the life-giving earth, and the Native American shared this elemental ethic: The land was alive to his loving touch, and he, its son, was brother to all creatures.
Stewart Udall

Son, American, Brother

I think self-knowledge is the rarest trait in a human being.
Elizabeth Edwards

Clemency is the noblest trait which can reveal a true monarch to the world.
Pierre Corneille

True, Reveal, Noblest

Obama is capable - as evidenced by his first-term success with health care reform. But mandate-building requires humility, a trait not easily associated with him.
Ron Fournier

Success, Health, Care

If I ever loved a woman, the more I loved her, the more I wanted to hurt her. Frida was only the most obvious victim of this disgusting trait.
Diego Rivera

Hurt, Woman, Wanted

Indeed, the best way to think of willpower is not as some shapeless behavioral trait but as a sort of psychic muscle, one that can atrophy or grow stronger depending on how it's used.
Jeffrey Kluger

Best, Used, Grow

I see nothing wrong with the human trait to desire. In fact, I consider it integral to our success mechanism. Becoming attached to what we desire is what causes the trouble. If you must have it in order to be happy, then you are denying the happiness of the here and now.
Peter McWilliams

Success, Happiness, Happy

I was an observer. I liked to listen rather than openly express myself. This trait is something that I've retained over the years.
Giorgio Armani

Rather, Listen, Express

No human trait deserves less tolerance in everyday life, and gets less, than intolerance.
Giacomo Leopardi

Life, Human, Everyday

One trait of addictive families is that we never recognize our own addictions.
Lorna Luft

Families, Addictive, Addictions

Sarcasm is a Manchester trait.
Peter Hook

Sarcasm, Manchester

I was diagnosed a number of years ago with obsessive-compulsive disorder - which everyone has, to some degree - and I have this really annoying trait where in conversation, I always steer it back to something that happened to me.
Paula Poundstone

Everyone, Number, Annoying

Humility is not a trait I often associate with America.
Mira Nair

Humility, America, Often

A trait which differentiated New York from European cities was the incredible freedom and ease in which life, including sexual life, could be carried on, on many levels.
Jerzy Kosinski

Life, Freedom, York

Each character represented a trait that resides in me.
Chuck Jones

Character, Resides

What is the thing that Hollywood demands most? Sincerity. No place in the world will pay such a high price for this admirable trait.
Hattie McDaniel

Place, High, Sincerity

I build a wall around myself. I'm hard to get to know. Any trait you have, it gets worse as you go along.
Diane Keaton

Hard, Around, Along

I think I've always had that bird's-eye view of myself. I think it's an actor trait... Sometimes it's best just to get lost out there, but other times you have to be aware of where the light's hitting you.
Allison Williams

Best, Lost, Light

Good humor isn't a trait of character, it is an art which requires practice.
David Seabury

Humor, Good, Art

There's really no way to be perfect. Perfectionism is a silly trait to have, so in a lot of ways that inspired the world of 'Divergent,' in which everyone is striving toward that ideal and falling short of it.
Veronica Roth

Perfect, Short, Everyone

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