Essential Traits Quotes

Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality. No one can become fully aware of the very essence of another human being unless he loves him. By his love he is enabled to see the essential traits and features.

A great writer has all 4 - but you can still be a good writer with only 1 and 2.

Honesty first; then courage; then brains - and all are indispensable.

These, then, are the qualities of my ideal diplomatist. Truth, accuracy, calm, patience, good temper, modesty and loyalty. They are also the qualities of an ideal diplomacy. But, the reader may object, you have forgotten intelligence, knowledge, discernment, prudence, hospitality, charm, industry, courage and even tact. I have not forgotten them. I have taken them for granted.

Any educated person recognizes that curiosity and creativity aren't just important; they are among the essential human activities.

You can get people the qualifications; But you can't teach them the qualities they're going to need. You can't teach integrity, a drive for excellence, refusal to quit under pressure. It's too late to build that into people you're going to hire.

The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication.

Characters are born from necessity.

Fundamentals - everybody has that. I definitely have that.

Nothing endures but personal qualities.

Seek the insignificant small but essential qualities, essential to life

You can free things from alien or accidental laws, but not from the laws of their own nature. You may, if you like, free a tiger from his bars; but do not free him from his stripes.

Sadly, at a time when so much sophisticated cultural criticism by hip intellectuals from diverse locations extols a vision of cultural hybridity, border crossing, subjectivity constructed out of plurality, the vast majority of folks in this society still believe in a notion of identity that is rooted in a sense of essential traits and characteristics that are fixed and static.