Positive Trait Quotes

#1. Even the language used by Hitler and party officials was weirdly inverted. The term "fanatical" became a positive trait. Suddenly

Erik Larson

#2. I'm tired of ignorance held up as inspiration, where vicious anti-intellectualism is considered a positive trait, and where uninformed opinion is displayed as fact.

Philip Plait

#3. I don't know what I saw. It could've been a hallucination. You get those from sniffing glue."
"You've never sniffed glue!"
"I've smelled glue," Jamie said after a pause. "In art class.

Sarah Rees Brennan

#4. The political left, which holds itself as progressive, rational and fact-based, is becoming an enemy of academic inquiry, and a practitioner of thought control on a wide variety of issues. Increasingly, from the left's perspective, there is just one acceptable viewpoint.

David Limbaugh

#5. Stubbornness usually is considered a negative; but I think that trait has been a positive for me.

Cal Ripken Jr.

#6. I have two vintage typewriters. One just about works and the other hasn't a hope in hell, bless it. But they're both beautiful, and they'll stay with me just as long as there's a roof over my head.

Matt Roper

#7. Success is doing the best you possibly can with what you've been given. There are an alarming number of wealthy failures in the world today.

John Avery

#8. I didn't want to chase movies. It's too hard. You've got to work at it - opening nights, photo shoots, publicity people, managers. I never wanted to do that. I'm too lazy.

Robert Sean Leonard

#9. Technology is anything that wasn't around when you were born.

Alan Kay

#10. I didn't have a childhood, really, because I worked my whole life and ... other reasons. So when I had some success, I went ballistic. That was my childhood, and the party kept going on.

Mickey Rourke

#11. The thought of money and fame and all that is nice to have. But it's not what's really important.

Doyle Brunson

#12. Happiness isn't something you pick up at the grocery store, nor is it something that comes to you at a certain age. It's a trait that lives within all of us, and it flourishes when you begin appreciating the things in life we take for granted.

T.A. Uner

#13. The single most outwardly identifiable trait demonstrated by a winning human being is that of positive self-expectation- which is pure and simple optimism.

Denis Waitley

#14. I admire runners older than I - they are now my heroes. I want to be like them as I grow older.

Frank Shorter

#15. It's a gift. Never lend a book.

Ronald D. Moore

#16. There are souls, he thought, whose umbilicus has never been cut. They never got weaned from the universe. They do not understand death as an enemy; they look forward to rotting and turning into humus.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#17. It's not about the things he gave us, Carine," he said softly. "It's about the memories. You can't touch those with your hands. Everything you can touch with your hands is just stuff.

Carine McCandless

#18. You know, nobody eats in England. Three or four pints of English beer a night fills you. I can't say I'm very impressed with the food in America. it's all sort of bland. Like turkey sandwiches.

Anne Dudley

#19. If the wise erred not, it would goe hard with fooles.
[If the wise erred not, it would go hard with fools.]

George Herbert

#20. But I do have time to pencil in golf, and we've got four excellent courses.

Darrell Royal