Top 751 Characteristics Quotes & Sayings

Perfectibility is one of the most unequivocal characteristics of the human species.

The hope for the twentieth century rests on recognition that war and depression are man-made, and needless. They can be avoided in the future by turning from the nineteenth-century characteristics just mentioned (materialism, selfishness, false values, hypocrisy, and secret vices) and going back to other characteristics that our Western Society has always regarded as virtues: generosity, compassion, cooperation, rationality, and foresight, and finding a increased role in human life for love, spirituality, charity, and self discipline.

Animals engage in a struggle for existence; for resources, to avoid being eaten and to breed. Environmental factors influence organisms to develop new characteristics to ensure survival, thus transforming into new species. Animals that survive to breed can pass on their successful characteristics to offspring.

One of the characteristics of successful scientists is having courage.

The expression of Christian character is not good doing, but God-likeness. If the Spirit of God has transformed you within, you will exhibit Divine characteristics in your life, not good human characteristics . God's life in us expresses itself as God's life, not as human life trying to be godly.

Just as the unique characteristics of both males and females contribute to the completeness of a marriage relationship, so those same characteristics are vital to the rearing, nurturing, and teaching of children.

Actions determine what kind of characteristics are developed.

As a coach you need to choose the characteristics your players can contribute. I don't think it's a good thing for a coach to analyse his team by looking for something he sees in other teams. He has to pay close attention to the characteristics his team have, and make the most of those.

Feminists are those who cannot stand female characteristics.

One of the characteristics of plays that are made into films is that they can be very talky.

We're all different, and we have to accept and tolerate each other's characteristics.

Every flying machine has its own unique characteristics, some good, some not so good. Pilots naturally fly the craft in such a manner as to take advantage of its good characteristics and avoid the areas where it is not so good.

Islam is not a race, yet Islamophobia partakes of racist characteristics.

Universal human characteristics are a good base for great art.

Tolerance and tranquility are two characteristics of true love.

Your intent to find a mate sends out 'strands of consciousness' however, composed of desire and intent. Like detectives, these search the world, looking in a completely different way than a physical sleuth. The world is probed with your characteristics in mind, seeking for someone else with characteristics that will best suit your own.

A man without characteristics is a most insipid character.

The Dalmatian breed of dog has many primitive characteristics.

Let's not pretend that mental phenomena can be mapped on to the characteristics of billiard balls.

Neumann, to a physicist seeking help with a difficult problem: Simple. This can be solved by using the method of characteristics. Physicist: I'm afraid I don't understand the method of characteristics. Neumann: In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.

Humility and Gratitude are the twin characteristics of happiness.

Characteristics which define beauty are wholeness, harmony and radiance.

I have to know the characteristics of the players. I have to adapt myself to the characteristics of the championship and the players. Now I study my players.

I suppose the textbook definition of an anti-hero is pretty straightforward - a protagonist who embodies not only heroic characteristics but also some characteristics typically deemed non-heroic, even villainous.

A commodity doesn't have the same characteristics as a security, characteristics that allow for analysis. Other than a recent sale or appreciation due to inflation, analyzing the current or future worth of a commodity is nearly impossible.

As much as we admire all the characteristics of a Ronald Reagan, as soon as something goes wrong, people will hate those same characteristics.

I notice I have both African and Belgian characteristics.

In the name of feminism, we denied some essential aspects of our authentic selves. While feminism should have been nothing if not a celebration of our own unique characteristics, we insisted that we had no unique characteristics... that gender differences were hogwash, and a feminine woman was nothing more than a plaything for men.

In no system which shows mental characteristics can any part have unilateral control over the whole. In other words, the mental characteristics of the system are imminent, not in some part, but in the system as a whole.

Science is to do research because of the target's fascinating and interesting characteristics.

When you gossip about another person, listeners unconsciously associate you with the characteristics you are describing, ultimately leading to those characteristics' being “transferred” to you. So, say positive and pleasant things about friends and colleagues, and you are seen as a nice person. In contrast, constantly complain about their failings, and people will unconsciously apply the negative traits and incompetence to you.

Characteristics cling to families.

One of the most inexplicable characteristics of the Germans is their love of kitsch.

Each tribe has its characteristics, it is true.

One of the characteristics of the young is "I want it now."

That is one of the characteristics of fascism, the idea that the state can provide all of the answers for everyone.

The U.S. increasingly has taken on the characteristics of what we describe as 'failed states.'

Particularity and separability are infirmities of the mind, not characteristics of the universe.

Good temper and moderation are the characteristics of parliamentary language.

The inability to experience regret is one of the diagnostic characteristics of sociopaths.

Superiority to circumstances is one of the most prominent characteristics of great men.

In excess, most endeavors and possessions take on the characteristics of their opposite.

Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.

Success does not implant bad characteristics in people. It merely steps up the growth rate of the bad characteristics they already had.

The puzzling thing is that there is really a curious coincidence between astrological and psychological facts, so that one can isolate time from the characteristics of an individual, and also, one can deduce characteristics from a certain time.

I have confronted theoretical positions whose protagonists claim that what I take to be historically produced characteristics of what is specifically modern are in fact the timelessly necessary characteristics of all and any moral judgment, of all and any selfhood.

He has all the characteristics of a dog - except loyalty.

Women have different characteristics and needs than men do.

Philanthropy is one of the most hopeful characteristics of our time.

The cool thing is that jazz is really a wonderful example of the great characteristics of Buddhism and great characteristics of the human spirit. Because in jazz we share, we listen to each other, we respect each other, we are creating in the moment. At our best, we're non-judgmental.

One of the strongest characteristics of genius is the power of lighting its own fire.

The first essential characteristics of nonviolent action is that it is creative.

Species can be recognized by their morphological characteristics and songs.

I despise in others my own characteristics.

Entrepreneurs and rowers show characteristics of curiosity and wanting to learn.

The marvellous thing about writing, whether it be fiction or journalism, is that it is simultaneously the most intimate and the most anonymous of meetings between people. It is profoundly intimate in reaching into the psyche of another, at the same time as being devoid of social characteristics, cultural characteristics, economic characteristics.

I believe that all genial classrooms share at least five characteristics that guide their instruction regardless of content or grade level. These characteristics are (1) freedom to choose, (2) open-ended exploration, (3) freedom from judgment, (4) honoring every student's experience, and (5) belief in every student's genius.

Love of place is one of the characteristics I enjoy most about novelists.

Recognizing the good, not just in one's own personal circumstances, but in the world, makes anything possible. When I am asked about the important characteristics of leadership, being of good, positive mind is at the top of my list. If a leader can focus on the meritorious characteristics of other people and try to play to their strengths as well as find value in even the most difficult situation, she can inspire hope and faith in others and motivate them to move forward.

One of the chief characteristics of a mob is its quickness. It is sudden. It pounces.