A Quote by Helen Gahagan Douglas

Character isn't inherited.

Helen Gahagan Douglas

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Character Inherited

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Helen Gahagan Douglas
American - Actress
November 25, 1900 - June 28, 1980

Character grows in the soil of experience with the fertilization of example, the moisture of ambition, and the sunshine of satisfaction. Character cannot be purchased, bargained for, inherited, rented or imported from afar. It must be home-grown. Purely intellectual development without commensurate internal character development makes as much sense as putting a high-powered sports car in the hands of a teenager who is high on drugs. Yet all too often in the academic world, that's exactly what we do by not focusing on the character development of young people.

Stephen Covey

Character isn't inherited. One builds it daily by how one thinks and acts.

Helen Gahagan Douglas

A good character is something you must make for yourself. It cannot be inherited from parents.

L. Tom Perry

I have inherited pace from my dad, and in terms of the physical side with the balance, I have inherited that from my mum.

Leroy Sane

Instead of promoting inherited wealth for the few, I want to tackle inherited disadvantage for the many.

Liz Kendall

We have inherited new difficulties because we have inherited more privileges.

Abram L. Sachar

Inherited wealth may be something easily squandered, but inherited poverty is a legacy almost impossible to lose.

Eric L. Haney

When speaking of a "body of knowledge" or of "the results of research," e.g., we tacitly assign the same cognitive status to inherited knowledge and to independently acquired knowledge. To counteract this tendency a special effort is required to transform inherited knowledge into genuine knowledge by revitalizing its original discovery, and to discriminate between the genuine and the spurious elements of what claims to be inherited knowledge.

Leo Strauss

I may not have inherited wealth, but I have some inherited humility.

Carole Radziwill

You have inherited a lifetime of tribulation. Everybody has inherited it. Take it over, make the most of it and when you have decided you know the right way, do the best you can with it.

Murray Bowen

I inherited that penchant for intellectualism, a character flaw that these days can only be thoroughly eradicated by getting Z’ed up.

John Green

People say I inherited my feisty attitude on the cricket pitch from my dad, but he and I might disagree. The most useful trait I've inherited from my mother is to make sure that I'm always organised.