Innate Qualities Quotes

Good people are found not changed. They can change themselves, but you can't change them. You want good people, you have to find them. If you want motivated people, you have to find them, not motivate them.

All women are ambitious naturallie

Try as one may, it is impossible to deny one's nature

Women of genius commonly have masculine faces, figures and manners. In transplanting brains to an alien soil God leaves a little of the original earth clinging to the roots.

You can't teach passion. You can teach everything else.

Humans have certain properties and characteristics which are intrinsic to them, just as every other organism does. That's human nature.

Leadership can't be forced or contrived. It has to be your personality.

Neither instinct nor style ..can be bought or taught.

The greatness of the human personality begins at the hour of birth.

Generosity, pleasing address, courage and propriety of conduct are not acquired, but are inbred qualities.

For any particular thing, ask: What is it in itself? What is its nature?

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

Nature makes all the noblemen; wealth, education, or pedigree never made one yet.

Whether he wants it or not, man is the instrument of nature; she imposes on him character and appearance.

One thing you will discover is that life is based less than you think on what you’ve learned and much more than you think on what you have inside you from the beginning." Memoir From Antproof Case

Good people are found, not changed.

Man's cleverness is almost indefinite, and stretches like an elastic band, but human nature is like an iron ring. You can go round and round it, you can polish it highly, you can even flatten it a little on one side, whereby you will make it bulge out the other, but you will NEVER, while the world endures and man is man, increase its total circumference.

Wit and wisdom are born with a man.

You are born with a character; it is given, a gift, as the old stories say, from the guardians upon your birth...Each person enters the world called.

Innately, there are qualities in human beings that are always repetitive. There are things like love and hate and jealousy that are just going to be there forever.

The nature of men and women - their essential nature - is so vile and despicable that if you were to portray a person as he really is, no one would believe you.

You can't learn to be ambitious and driven.

Something nonhuman doesn’t become human by getting older and bigger; whatever is human is human from the beginning.

Not everyone is born a witch or a saint. Not everyone is born talented, or crooked, or blessed; some are born definite in no particular at all. We are a fountain of shimmering contradictions, most of us. Beautiful in the concept, if we're lucky, but frequently tedious or regrettable as we flesh ourselves out.

Tear man out of his outward circumstances; and what he then is; that only is he.