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1 " It has always seemed strange to me...The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second. "
― John Steinbeck , Cannery Row (Cannery Row, #1)
2 " What makes a hero? Courage, strength, morality, withstanding adversity? Are these the traits that truly show and create a hero? Is the light truly the source of darkness or vice versa? Is the soul a source of hope or despair? Who are these so called heroes and where do they come from? Are their origins in obscurity or in plain sight? "
― Fyodor Dostoevsky , Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
3 " I made my name”. What does this mean? It means you developed the traits that are specific to successful people, passion- the ability to stay focus focused and the determination to never, never, never give up "
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4 " Our self- development is all about cultivating the traits that we need to achieve our life purpose, success and to carry out our mission "
5 " If your Birthday is on Christmas day and you're not Jesus, you should start telling people your birthday is on June 9 or something. Just read up on the traits of a Gemini. Suddenly you're a multitasker who loves the color yellow. Because not only do you get stuck with them combo gift, you get the combo song. " We wish you a merry Christmas - and happy birthday, Terry - we wish you a merry Christmas - happy birthday, Terry - we wish you a merry Christmas and a happy New Ye - Birthday, Terry! "
6 " Replace the negative traits of your character by the traits you want to have "
7 " Imitate the traits of your creator "
8 " There seems to be a fear that if men are raised to be people of integrity, people who can love, they will be unable to be forceful and act violently if needed.... We see that females that are raised with the traits any person of integrity embodies can act with tenderness, with assertiveness, and with aggression if and when aggression is needed. "
― , The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love
9 " Mother's build character.. If one is honest or cheat.. The traits are beveled by care or ignorance of a mother.. So this mother's day let mothers take responsibility.. to eradicate dishonesty from our society..At the same time we reflect nature of our parents.. So let's not show negative traits as they reflect their upbringing...Now say... Happy Mothers Day "
10 " We do not have to be mental health professionals to identify the traits of the possible sociopaths among us. "
― P.A. Speers , Type 1 Sociopath - When Difficult People Are More Than Just Difficult People
11 " One cannot read a novel without ascribing to the heroine the traits of the one we love. "
― Alain de Botton , How Proust Can Change Your Life
12 " After a few months of talking with people and observing them, I realized that the traits of the successful fitness enthusiasts had everything in common with those of the high achievers I had spent years studying in business. "
13 " If we would take the traits that characterized the Pilgrims and make them our own, we could regain hope. We could recover the spiritual and moral strength that we have lost. We could offer a thrilling challenge to our young people. "
― Billy Graham , Billy Graham in Quotes
14 " Last days? Don't they know? These are the traits of all days, every day, everywhere. "
― Paul Theroux
15 " I have been scientifically studying the traits and dispositions of the “lower animals” (so-called,) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions of man. I find the result profoundly humiliating to me. For it obliges me to renounce my allegiance to the Darwinian theory of the Ascent of Man from the Lower Animals; since it now seems plain to me that that theory ought to be vacated in favor of a new and truer one, this new and truer one to be named the Descent of Man from the Higher Animals. "
― Mark Twain
16 " Impartial, compassionate, brave, and understanding…these are the traits that come with putting the Noble Eightfold Path into practice. By following this path, anyone can become the kind of leader the Buddha hoped to see—a leader of peace. "
― Victoria Stoklasa , Buddhism and Politics: Citizens, Politicians, and the Noble Eightfold Path
17 " Wherever one encounters members of the human race, they always show the traits of a being that is condemned to surrealistic effort. Whoever goes in search of humans will find acrobats. "
― Peter Sloterdijk , You Must Change Your Life
18 " It must be understood that in some cases the process by which a god or goddess degenerates into a fairy may occupy centuries, and that in the passage of generations such an alteration may be brought about in appearance and traits as to make it seem impossible that any relationship actually exists between the old form and the new. This may be accounted for by the circumstance that in gradually assuming the traits of fairyhood the god or goddess may also have taken on the characteristics of fairies which Already existed in the minds of the folk, the elves of a past age, who were already elves at a period when he or she still flourished in the full vigour of godhead. For in one sense Faerie represents a species of limbo, a great abyss of traditional material, into which every kind of ancient belief came to be cast as the acceptance of one new faith after another dictated the abandonment of forms and ideas unacceptable to its doctrines. The difference between god and fairy is indeed the difference between religion and folk-lore. "
― Lewis Spence , British Fairy Origins
19 " A man finds room in a few square inches of his face for the traits of all his ancestors for the expression of all his history and his wants. "
20 " If we justify war, it is because all peoples always justify the traits of which they find themselves possessed, not because war will bear an objective examination of its merits. "
