Positive Characteristic Quotes

“Perseverance means to continue in a given course until we have reached a goal or objective, regardless of obstacles, opposition, and other counterinfluences ... Perseverance is a positive, active characteristic ... It gives us hope by helping us realize that the righteous suffer no failure except in giving up and no longer trying.”

— Joseph B. Wirthlin

“I am positive that flexibility is a feminine characteristic.”

— Emma Bonino

“The characteristic political attitude of today is not one of positive belief, but of despair.”

— Herbert Read

“The look that one directs at things, both outward and inward, as an artist, is not the same as that with which one would regard the same as a man, but at once colder and more passionate. As a man, you might be well-disposed, patient, loving, positive, and have a wholly uncritical inclination to look upon everything as all right, but as an artist your daemon constrains you to "observe", to take note, lightning fast and with hurtful malice, of every detail that in the literary sense would be characteristic, distinctive, significant, opening insights, typifying the race, the social or the psychological mode, recording all as mercilessly as though you had no human relationship to the observed object whatever.”

— Joseph Campbell

“Pride is tough. You go to high school, and its 'pride,' 'courage;' it's all these types of words that we use to motivate us. I don't think there's anywhere in the Scriptures through the saints' lives where pride was ever a positive characteristic of anybody.”

— Troy Polamalu

“Perseverance is a positive, active characteristic.”

— Joseph B. Wirthlin

“The misfortunes which God is represented in the book of Job as allowing Satan to inflict on Job, merely to test his faith, are indications, if not of positive malevolence, at least of a suspicious and ruthless insecurity, which is characteristic more of a tyrant than of a wholly powerful and benevolent deity.”

— A.J. Ayer

“Cubans joke and satirize everything that life gives them, and I think that's a positive characteristic.”

— Fernando Perez

“Eliminate the clutter. That's the key. Eliminate the clutter and understand the important things. First and foremost, the most important thing is affecting the people around you in a positive way. Second thing is, be one of those guys that's going to out-study every person there is on what you need to do from a game-plan standpoint, what you need to do from a characteristic standpoint to stand apart. The last thing is, throw it to the color jersey we're wearing.”

— Jim McElwain

“Monotony and repetition are characteristic of many parts of life, but these do not become sources of conscious discomfort until novelty and entertainment are built up as positive experiences.”

— Mary Catherine Bateson

“The way of a creative mind is always positive, it always asserts; it does not know the doubts which are so characteristic of the scientific mind.”

— Naum Gabo

“The assumption that the square of a unit vector
is positive unity leads to an algebra whose characteristic
quantities are non-associative.”

— Cargill Gilston Knott

“Confidence is a characteristic of a positive attitude. The greatest achievers and leaders remain confident regardless of circumstances.”

— John C. Maxwell