Top 100 Trait Quotes
#2. The great trap for non-American actors trying to play Americans, I think, is to start thinking of American-ness as a characteristic. It isn't. It is no more a character trait than height. It is just a physical fact, and that's all there is to it.
Hugh Laurie
#3. Any negative trait, if known, becomes your ultimate trait. Unless you are Batman.
Nikhil Sharda
#4. 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
#5. Stubborness we deprecate,
Firmness we condone,
The former is our neighbors trait,
The latter is our own.
John Wooden
#6. Attending to your own words and ideas as well as those of others is an admirable trait in any person, but a necessity in a leader.
Jennifer Frick-Ruppert
#7. 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
#8. The derogation of feminine status in lesser males is a consistent patriarchal trait. Like
Kate Millett
#9. Decision-making is a skill. Wisdom is a leadership trait.
Mark Miller
#10. 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
#11. Showing the addiction and unusual sexual practices are ways of just outlining a much bigger character trait.
James Franco
#12. When a trait is universal, evolutionary biologists look for a genetic explanation and wonder how that gene or genes might enhance survival or reproductive success.
Robin Marantz Henig
#13. Even the language used by Hitler and party officials was weirdly inverted. The term "fanatical" became a positive trait. Suddenly
Erik Larson
#14. Eggs is great at leading the Boxtrolls, and that's probably my favorite trait of his. He is a Boxtroll, but he hasn't lost all of his human virtues. He can get out of his box, and he can fight back, which the Boxtrolls can't.
Isaac Hempstead-Wright
#15. Madame Tallien shared honors with Josephine Beauharnais in being mistress to Barras, an ex-nobleman and ex-terrorist whose appetite for beautiful women, beautiful young men, and money was the only wholesome trait in his character.
J. Christopher Herold
#16. Humility isn't as much a character trait as an action. We must clothe ourselves with it. We choose to wear it or we don't. If God has to humble us, it's too late - and that's going to be a bad day. We all have to demonstrate the humility of Christ in our actions.
Ross Parsley
#17. Courage was an admirable trait in a man. In a woman, he decided, it was a pain in the ass.
Judith McNaught
#18. The public must be reduced to passivity in the political realm, but for submissiveness to become a reliable trait, it must be entrenched in the realm of belief as well.
Noam Chomsky
#19. Every trait of beauty may be referred to some virtue, as to innocence, candor, generosity, modesty, or heroism. St. Pierre To cultivate the sense of the beautiful, is one of the most effectual ways of cultivating an appreciation of the divine goodness.
Christian Nestell Bovee
#20. Haven't you ever heard that modesty is an attractive trait?"
"Only from ugly people," Jace confided. "The meek may inherit the earth, but at the moment it belongs to the conceited. Like me." He winked at the girls, who giggled and hid behind their hair.
Cassandra Clare
#21. Sooner or later that which is now life shall be poetry, and every fair and manly trait shall add a richer strain to the song.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#22. Another maternal insight --- you always dislike about your children that which you dislike about yourself because you understand the danger about that trait. ~ Dorothea Benton Frank, The Hurricane Sisters, p. 115.
Dorothea Benton Frank
#23. People who do not succeed have one distinguishing trait in common. They know all the reasons for failure, and have what they believe to be air-tight alibis to explain away their own lack of achievement.
Napoleon Hill
#24. Among the droves of men with political ambitions in the United States, I found very few with that virile candor, that manly independence of thought, that often distinguished Americans in earlier times and that is invariably the preeminent trait of great characters wherever it exists.
Alexis De Tocqueville
#25. Rooney has those things that you cannot teach players - the positions he takes up just behind the front men is a European trait,
John Toshack
#26. I guess the will to survive, to see another dawn, is the trait we humans value most.
Manel Loureiro
#27. Valerie Feigen watched in near bewilderment as her husband acquired, haltingly, in fits and starts, a trait resembling tact.
Michael Lewis
#28. 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
#29. No author can create a character out of nothing. He must have a model to give him a starting point; but then his imagination goes to work, he builds him up, adding a trait here, a trait there, which his model did not possess.
W. Somerset Maugham
#30. Agression is a trait common to men and new gods.
Emil Cioran
#31. Typically, when you look for role models, you want someone who has your interests and came from the same background. Well, look how restricting that is. What people should do is take role models a la carte. If there's someone whose character you appreciated, you respect that trait.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#32. Integrity is not a character trait that one possesses more or less of but a sophisticated state of processing experience in the world one enters into in varying degrees. Integrating is a major developmental task at every stage of life.
David A. Kolb
#33. Be true! Be true! Be true! Show freely to the world, if not your worst, yet some trait whereby the worst may be inferred!
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#34. That adult trait of being convinced of anything by an assumption of silent superiority
William Faulkner
#35. I have to admit that trying to force me into admitting I love you is pretty low, and such an uncommon trait for someone who claims to be a submissive.
Johnny Stone
#36. Cruelty isn't a personality trait. Cruelty is a habit.
Rick Yancey
#37. 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
#39. 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
#40. The Darwinian adaptive trait of our time is the ability to figure out when we are being lied to on television.
Dick Morris
#41. Integrating in the society is a fundamental scriptural Christian trait. This integration is a must - moderate constructive integration. All of us, as Egyptians, have to participate.
Pope Theodoros II
#42. Optimism is the most important human trait, because it allows us to evolve our ideas, to improve our situation, and to hope for a better tomorrow.
Seth Godin
#43. Fluid intelligence is not a Big Five personality trait: It's a measurement of one's ability to rapidly learn and apply a rule set. As an entrepreneur, you're rapidly dealing with different issues, and your ability to switch from one issue to another is very important.
Adeo Ressi
#44. I am my own worst enemy. This, more than any other trait, proves my fundamental humanity.
Dean Koontz
#45. I didn't bother to explain about the glitter in my hair. I figured they could think it was a family trait. We all glittered, just like the Cullens in Twilight.
Janette Rallison
#46. Darwin called such a process artificial, as opposed to natural, selection, but from the flower's point of view, this is a distinction without a difference: individual plants in which a trait desired by either bees or Turks occurred wound up with more offspring.
Michael Pollan
#47. Staying silent is like a slow growing cancer to the soul and a trait of a true coward. There is nothing intelligent about not standing up for yourself. You may not win every battle. However, everyone will at least know what you stood for - YOU.
Shannon L. Alder
#48. Embracing failure is the most important trait I've developed in my career. I have tried to learn from my failures, and I believe it has made me stronger, more confident and more resilient.
Reshma Saujani
#49. My loyalty to the past - my most dangerous trait, the one that has cost me most.
Susan Sontag
#50. One universally common trait in ultra successful people (including the ones with ADHD!) is the ability to consistently take action in a specific direction. This has three components: 1) Direction 2) SMART goals 3) Consistency
Grant Weherley
#51. Revenge is a human trait, one that has been the cause of the destruction of civilisations many times over. But the goblins live on in peace and harmony, taking little notice of us and our mistakes.
Count Anton Dance Of The Goblins
#52. You must give soldiers reasons to have confidence and pride in themselves, in their leaders, and in their units. Only then will you have loyalty. Loyalty was the primary trait I looked for in soldiers.
George W. Dunaway
#53. Jealousy is the worst trait in any person.
Adam DeVine
#54. If I were called upon to identify briefly the principal trait of the entire 20th century ... I would be unable to find anything more precise and pithy than to repeat once again: Men have forgotten God.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
#55. Curiosity is thought to be a natural trait among the Fae, leading to knowledge of the world around us.
Anna Kyss
#57. I love people who really turn their lives around. I think it's such a wonderful human trait.
Abbie Cornish
#58. Just about ANY personality trait or skill can be learned: simply find it in someone you know and copy it. Then watch what happens.
Steve Goodier
#59. Credulity as a character trait is encouraged in every child who grows up with religious training, which invariably insists on the virtue of blind faith and the sinfulness of doubting and questioning.
Barbara G. Walker
#60. Do not judge an entire species based on the actions of their worst few. That is the trait of the Genjix. The Prophus choose to look at the best of humanity.
Wesley Chu
#61. 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
#62. In every story I have heard, good teachers share one trait: a strong sense of personal identity infuses their work.
Parker J. Palmer
#63. more needful that my heart should swell with loving admiration at some trait of gentle goodness in the faulty people who sit at the same hearth with me, or
George Eliot
#64. Oh, here we go, firing questions right and left. I sort of missed that part. [Mina's most endearing trait?]
Maria Grazia Swan
#65. We often find ourselves at ease with that with which we are most familiar, regardless of whether or not the trait serves us well in the end. Is that not yet another example of how we enslave ourselves?
Andrew Levkoff
#66. I look on Sculpture as history. I do not think the Apollo and the Jove impossible in flesh and blood. Every trait the artist recorded in stone, he had seen in life, and better than his copy.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#67. You're too sensitive' victims of sexual abuse are told over and over by those whose reality depends on being insensitive. Most adults who have been in the victim role cringe when anyone tells them they are sensitive. In fact, sensitivity is a lovely trait and one to be cherished in any human being.
Renee Fredrickson
#68. Deception was an inherent trait of intelligent beings. Even his love, in her ample ardor, would weave him a guilty lie for his own good. And he treasured her just as well for those tales he was sure she'd already spun.
Darrell Drake
#69. Your fortune is yet doubtful: when I examined your face, one trait contradicted another.
Charlotte Bronte
#70. I am man enough to be able to admit my own mistakes. I think that is an important trait to have.
Peter Hook
#71. Wretched excess is an unfortunate human trait that turns a perfectly good idea such as Christmas into a frenzy of last-minute shopping.
Jon Anderson
#72. The common trait of all evil is nothing other than egoism ... Basically all human evil comes from what we call the selfishness.
Rudolf Steiner
#73. I'd like to think that I'm brave. That's a really wonderful personality trait to have. I would love to think I'm the type of person to go rescue someone.
Rosie Huntington-Whiteley
#74. Self-deceit is a most damaging trait. The remedy, for an artist, is to paint a self-portrait!
Scott Kahn
#75. Of all the virtues we can learn no trait is more useful, more essential for survival, and more likely to improve the quality of life than the ability to transform adversity into an enjoyable challenge.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
#76. Raphael says, "Honor is a trait not often found in men, but when it is, it can change everything.
Daniel O'Connell
#77. Her pride had once been a mile wide. So fierce and strong that she'd thought she could survive on the trait alone. The constant ache in her belly, the desperation, Kenny's fate ... all had shown her otherwise.
Anne Mallory
#78. I was always the kid at school who thought it was a good idea to set off the fire alarm. And much as I'm aware that that's a trait which also propels other things which are good, I wish I could just pause and go, 'Is this really what you want to do?'
James Corden
#79. I think the most important trait for an entrepreneur is persistence. When you try to do something new and difficult, you are more likely to fail than to succeed.
Trip Adler
#80. Understanding someone, and loving him despite that understanding, is a trait more often found in angels than in mankind.
Elizabeth Lowell
#81. Laziness, I am afraid, was Charles's distinguishing trait.
John Fowles
#83. The personality trait most associated with an interest in the arts is called openness, the tendency to seek out novelty in intellectual, aesthetic, and emotional pursuits.
Adam Grant
#84. Whereas recessive traits require two bad copies of a gene to become noticeable, a dominant trait expresses itself no matter what the other copy does. A benign example of dominance: If you inherit one gene for sticky wet earwax and one gene for dry earwax, the sticky earwax gene wins out every time.
Sam Kean
#85. The most disgusting human trait is bias, because it typically leads to propaganda, hate and violence.
Lori Goodwin
#86. Very important people have told me that they prefer good listeners to good talkers, but the ability to listen seems rarer than almost any other good trait.
Dale Carnegie
#87. War is, we have been forced to admit, even in the face of its huge place in our civilization, an asocial trait.
Ruth Benedict
#88. If only I had discipline, but alas, it is only an obsessive-compulsive trait and the beauty of habit that causes me to return again and again to my work.
Louise Erdrich
#89. We like to put people on a pedestal, give them one character trait, and if they step outside of that shrinelike area that we blocked out for them, then we will punish them.
Madonna Ciccone
#90. His deepest need was that people should like him. An admirable trait that; in a spaniel. Or a whore.
Michael Dobbs
#91. Man's principle trait is a readiness to believe anything. Otherwise, how could the Church have survived for almost two thousand years in the absense of universal gullibility?
Umberto Eco
#92. A most highly multiplying trait in point of far-reaching influences is that of ability to discover and use strong men. This trait stands out impressively in Rothschild's 'Lincoln, Master of Men'.
John Mott
#93. We like annoying people. It's a Manchester thing. It's a trait. We just like pissing people off.
Noel Gallagher
#94. Gradually, however, she revealed a frustration with the willful ignorance that is an abiding human trait, an indignation at the cruelty that people visit upon one another. She might see the world as hopeless, but she believed it did not have to remain that way.
Dean Koontz
#95. The shadow disguises itself in our projections, when we react intensely to a trait in others that we fail to see in ourselves.
Connie Zweig
#96. Introversion and shyness are not synonymous. Introversion is a natural personality trait where we go inside ourselves to process our experiences. Shyness, on the other hand, is a condition marked by fear or extreme anxiety in social situations.
Adam S. McHugh
#97. It's very important when making a friend to check and see if they have a private plane. People think a good personality trait in a friend is kindness or a sense of humor. No, in a friend a good personality trait is a Gulfstream.
Fran Lebowitz
#98. There is a kid and king trait in everyone - the one you tends to expresses who you are
Ikechukwu Joseph
#99. The capacity to admire others is not my most fully developed trait.
Henry A. Kissinger
#100. There is something about boys," she said, "that makes them think it is unmanly to show any feelings other than scorn and irritation or any enthusiasm for anything. It is a very unattractive trait.
Mary Balogh
