Personal Traits Quotes

I had a critical father. I'm more like my father. He was a sales rep for pharmaceutical companies.

A lot of the characters I play are very naive, and I don't think I'm like that. And I'm not stupid!

I'm not hard to get along with.

Respect and a gentlemanly character - those are marks of a Nebraskan.

Some people think I'm mean, until they get to know me.

I never could keep a promise. I do not blame myself for this weakness, because the fault must lie in my physical organization. It is likely that such a very liberal amount of space was given to the organ which enables me to make promises that the organ which should enable me to keep them was crowded out. But I grieve not. I like no half-way things. I had rather have one faculty nobly developed than two faculties of mere ordinary capacity.

I admire traits in people. I 'respect' certain things about them but I think that word gets thrown around too much.

Most people probably don't know that Joe has a romantic side to him.

A man is known by the books he reads, by the company he keeps, by the praise he gives, by his dress, by his tastes, by his distastes, by the stories he tells, by his gait, by the notion of his eye, by the look of his house, of his chamber; for nothing on earth is solitary but every thing hath affinities infinite.

It's easy enough to get into power. You can make promises and try to be all things to all people. But the moment you have to make decisions, you're going to annoy at least half of them. Whatever you do, in the end you're almost certain to be brought down by your own character traits.

When I select a leader I look for a person with integrity, intelligence and ambition. If he doesn’t have integrity I hope he doesn’t have the other two either.

I think Hannah gets nervous just like any other person would. She's like a dork, personally. She's just really, really fun.

Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.

I think of myself as pretty chill and down-to-earth.

Partying isn't every aspect to my personality.

First I'm a sportsman and then a politician.

I look for people who have drive, who have ambition, who are humble. I've hired many people at very strange places.

I'm incredibly competitive in all sports in a way that is so mystifying to my wife because she grew up playing the violin and piano. I've always been like that.

If any personal description of me is thought desirable, it may be said, I am, in height, six feet, four inches, nearly; lean in flesh, weighing on an average one hundred and eighty pounds; dark complexion, with coarse black hair, and grey eyes -- no other marks or brands recollected.

Life is what our character makes it. We fashion it, as a snail does its shell. A man can say: I never made a fortune because it is not in my character to be rich.

He [President Warren G. Harding] is a kind, companionable fellow to go with on a fishing expedition or to play cards with; but he is not the man to have as President or leader.

My mother was a writer. She acted in one film before she decided that Bollywood wasn't good enough for her. My two sisters and I probably learned from her how to get under other people's skin. In contrast, my father was a simple man despite his success at business. He was a people person, and I think that's what led him to join politics.

I was always a neat kid. I never wanted my hands dirty. I wasn't a dirty kid. A lot of kids like to run around. If I was rolling around the dirt, I went home and took a shower. That's just the way I was. I'm not sure. I might have been born with it.

It's very difficult to escape your background. You know, I don't think it's necessary to even try to escape it. More and more, I start to think that it's necessary to see exactly what it is that you inherited on both ends of the stick: your timidity, your courage, your self-deceit, and your honesty - and all the rest of it.