Quotes About Positive Traits

#1. All positive traits, states, and experiences have costs that at high levels may begin to outweigh their benefits.

Malcolm Gladwell

#2. [R]aising children ... was about identifying and amplifying their strengths and virtues, and helping them find the niche where they can live these positive traits to the fullest.

Martin E.P. Seligman

#3. God, I am hurt, and my mind is wounded, and it needs to be healed by forgetting the offense. I give thee permission to heal my mind so that I no longer remember the incident. Help me to see this person as you see him. Help me only consider his positive traits. Help me to see him as you see him.

Kirk Wilkinson

#4. Edify a person in advance for the positive traits you want him or her to have, and you'll find them making a concerted effort to live up to your praise.

Bob Burg

#5. The eye always fills in the imperfections.

Rabih Alameddine

#6. Voices in the study of positive psychology, framed the traits as hope, wisdom, creativity, future-mindedness, courage, spirituality, responsibility, and perseverance. V. Paraphrased from a speech given by Bruce Springsteen

Martin Dugard

#7. If people begin to use the full power of conscience in all the choices they make in their everyday life, from presidential elections to purchasing things in the grocery store, the world will change.

Ilchi Lee

#8. Of course. I am well aware that the streets of New York are not safe, but then there is no longer any place in the world which is safe. One cannot live in perpetual fear, one has to be as prudent as possible, and get on with life. - A Severed Wasp

Madeleine L'Engle

#9. An abuser isn't abusive 24/7. They usually demonstrate positive character traits most of the time. That's what makes the abuse so confusing when it happens, and what makes leaving so much more difficult.

Miya Yamanouchi

#10. I live in paradise within the pages of a book.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#11. In my case, I write in the past because I'm not really part of the present. I have nothing valid to say about anything current, though I have something to say about what existed then.

Patrick O'Brian

#12. You are blessed, You are great. You are not alone. You are powerful.

Amit Ray

#13. All personality traits have their good side and their bad side. But for a long time, we've seen introversion only through its negative side and extroversion mostly through its positive side.

Susan Cain

#14. Through awareness, you get a certain attitude. That's the way, you see, to achieve more peaceful, more compassion, more friendship through that way.

Dalai Lama

#15. The best evangelists, the best preachers, the best teachers are desperate people.

Tullian Tchividjian

#16. I'm neither a good cop nor a bad cop, Jerome. Like yourself, I'm a complex amalgam of positive and negative personality traits that emerge or not, depending on circumstances.

Mick Stevens

#17. Freedom and destiny are solemnly promised to one another and linked together in meaning.

Martin Buber

#18. The revenge of history is more powerful than the revenge of the most powerful General Secretary.

Leon Trotsky