Innate Character Quotes

Personality is the supreme realization of the innate idiosyncracy of a living being. It is an act of high courage flung in the face of life, the absolute affirmation of all that constitutes the individual, the most successful adaptation to the universal conditions of existence coupled with the greatest possible freedom for self-determination.

Character, I am sure, lies in the genes.

Is base in kind, and born to be a slave.

Change of habit cannot alter Nature.

Manner is personality—the outward manifestation of one’s innate character and attitude toward life.

Nobody is born evil.

People are not born evil, although we all have evil within us.

No matter where they are or who they're with, dogs are incapable of being anything but themselves. Show me a dog that puts on airs or laughs politely at an unfunny joke and I'll show you a human in a dog costume, possibly one owned and licensed by the Walt Disney Company.

Be not over solicitous about education. It may be able to do much, but it does not do as much as expected from it. It may mould and direct the character, but it rarely alters it.

The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.

Once a wolf, always a wolf.

Manners are made up of trivialities of deportment which can be easily learned if one does not happen to know them; manner is personality - the outward manifestation of one's innate character and attitude toward life.... Etiquette must, if it is to be of more than trifling use, include ethics as well as manners. Certainly what one is, is of far greater importance than what one appears to be.

That which we call character is a reserved force which acts directly by presence, and without means. It is conceived of as a certain undemonstrable force, a familiar or genius, by whose impulses the man is guided, but whose counsels he cannot impart.

Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character.

Coal-black is better than another hue In that it scorns to bear another hue; For all the water in the ocean Can never turn the swan's black legs to white, Although she lave them hourly in the flood.

Human nature is eternal; therefore one who follows his nature keeps his original nature, in the end.

Brands are born, not created.