Inherent Qualities Quotes

Children inherit the qualities of the parents, no less than their physical features. Environment does play an important part, but the original capital on which a child starts in life is inherited from its ancestors. I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.

It is easy enough to arouse in a listener a desire for what is honorable; for in every one of us nature has laid the foundations or sown the seeds of the virtues. We are born to them all, all of us, and when a person comes along with the necessary stimulus, then those qualities of the personality are awakened, so to speak, from their slumber.

I think that personality traits that come through when somebody is really sincere is what makes them beautiful.

You just are born the way that you're born.

A man's ledger does not tell what he is, or what he is worth. Count what is in man, not what is on him, if you would know what he is worth-whether rich or poor.

Personality is immediately apparent, from birth, and I don't think it really changes.

We are all as God made us and frequently much worse.

You can't suppress the things that make us human. It's pointless to try.

(Clothes) cannot change a man's nature. He's either kind or he isn't, with or without clothes.

You can put wings on a pig, but you don't make it an eagle.

There are certain things you can't coach, you've got to watch a guy do it.

Do people ever get over being shy? I think it’s with you for life-like the color of your eyes.

Contrary to what some parents might believe or hope for, children are not born a blank slate. Rather, they come into the world with predetermined abilities, proclivities and temperaments that nurturing parents may be able to foster or modify, but can rarely reverse.

My reason taught me that I could not have made one of my own qualities - they were forced upon me by Nature; that my language, religion, and habits were forced upon me by Society; and that I was entirely the child of Nature and Society; that Nature gave the qualities and Society directed them. Thus was I forced, through seeing the error of their foundation, to abandon all belief in every religion which had been taught by man.

Change of habit cannot alter Nature.

Why, man alive, Laura! Just look about you a little. What do you see? A world full of common people! All of 'em born and all of em' going to die! Which of them has one-tenth of your good points! Or mine! Or anyone else's, as far as that goes - gosh! Everybody excels in some one thing. Some in many!

Good people are not trained, they are found. If you are training too much, you may not have the right people.

At the end of the day, you can't reinvent yourself past a point, because you are you, and there are things that are inherently you that are always going to be there.

Everything has what is innate,everything has what is necessary.

Some of us were born to hate and some of us were born to be great.

You cannot change the stripes of a leopard.

Human nature refers to what is in people but which they cannot study or work at achieving.

The thing about legs is you're born with them. Anybody can go out and buy boobs. But you're either blessed with attractive legs or you're not. That's what makes them so sexy.

Such as we are made of, such we be.

Human nature is what Heaven supplies.