First Impressions Quotes

Charisma and charm are endearing qualities which go hand in hand to make others feel “lighter, happier, and a little in love” when they are around you.

~ Susan C. Young

People with the gift of charm exude a delightful demeanor—an attractive likability that enwraps you in their warmth.

~ Susan C. Young

When they are authentically engaged, their positive impressions create memorable moments and leave a lasting impact. Physical beauty becomes irrelevant because their exuberance and engagement bring out the beauty in you.

~ Susan C. Young

People who exude genuine charm & charisma seem to possess a heightened sensitivity to the feelings of others—delivering gentle manners, gracious compliments, and sincere interest.

~ Susan C. Young

They emanate an essence of caring, love, and compassion towards the people they know, and generously extend their aura to the new people they encounter.

~ Susan C. Young

Their engaging manner is grounded in consideration as they seek to get along well with others. People who exhibit charisma and charm are also said to be alluring, bewitching, captivating, magnetic, fascinating, enchanting, and seductive.

~ Susan C. Young

Charisma (presence, poise, magnetism) and charm (enchantment, attraction, fascination) are behaviors which can be learned and practiced.

~ Susan C. Young

There are differing opinions as to whether charisma and charm are innate qualities which we are born with or learned personality styles. I believe it is a combination of both. Young children demonstrate a propensity for this enthusiasm. However, smart adults realize that they can get further in life when they develop these special traits.

~ Susan C. Young

These people do exist and are a pleasure to know. Their keen communication skills are attentive to what you want, what you are thinking, saying, or not saying. They want to hear how you are and what you’ve been up to.

~ Susan C. Young

The key is to keep charisma and charm positive and underpinned with sincere and good intentions.

~ Susan C. Young

While it may seem to be a mysterious, ineffable quality—charisma is enhanced and enriched by a person’s attitude and confidence, their aims and optimism, expressive body language, and natural effervescence.

~ Susan C. Young

Your charisma and charm can make your moments more memorable for amazing first impressions.

~ Susan C. Young

What do confidence and command look like when you see them? Moving one step past a healthy self-esteem, they project an air of authority, respect, and deliberate intention.

~ Susan C. Young

Confidence is silent, cool, self-assurance.

~ Susan C. Young

Developing a commanding presence is essential for leadership and a powerful impact.

~ Susan C. Young

There can be a fine line between being confident and cocky.

~ Susan C. Young

True confidence is not something that can always be determined by a first impression. It may take a few interactions to detect whether a person is full of false bravado or if they are the real McCoy.

~ Susan C. Young

Their confidence gives those they lead the assurance that their words and their actions are reliable.

~ Susan C. Young

We tend to listen to the people who believe in their own words as opposed to those who don’t. When we feel their conviction, they earn our buy-in.

~ Susan C. Young

Even something as simple as ending a sentence with the tone of a question mark rather than a period can diminish a person’s authority and credibility.

~ Susan C. Young

In our natural world, it is the strongest of the species that claim their space, seek out new territories, explore their surroundings, and learn how to survive and thrive. It is those same qualities that enable us to apply confidence and command to transcend the mediocre and achieve outstanding results.

~ Susan C. Young

When you feel low self-confidence, it is usually the result of the negative thoughts your inner critic whispers in the darkness of your mind.

~ Susan C. Young

When your inner critic undermines your confidence, inner conflict, anxiety, and agitation take over. It tells you that you are not good enough, smart enough, handsome enough, worthy enough, or basically just plain NOT enough. It takes a toll on your self-confidence, doesn’t it?

~ Susan C. Young

If your self-talk leans toward the negative, the continual bashing will become debilitating

~ Susan C. Young

Notice when negativity spins in your head and disrupt it immediately before it has a chance to take hold and stick.

~ Susan C. Young

Even the smartest and most successful of people will experience lower self-confidence occasionally, but the difference is that they deliberately shift out of it and refuse to stay there.

~ Susan C. Young

Self-confident people Inspire confidence in others, they would much rather build people up than tear them down.

~ Susan C. Young

Confidence is silent, humble self-assurance. Moving one step past a healthy self-esteem, confidence projects an air of authority, trust, and respect—a commanding, respected presence.

~ Susan C. Young

I swallowed, feeling like I'd just gotten the wind knocked out of me. He was breathtaking.

~ Tijan

That's when I caught my first glimpse of Blaine Crabtree. He was sandwiched in between two guys that were laughing at who knows what. At first I didn't notice anything but a big mop of bleached blonde hair, then he looked up from his pack of cloves and I was locked into the bluest eyes that I had ever seen. His expression didn't change, he didn't smile and didn't blink. It seemed like I was lost in his eyes, like he was using them to do the most calculated math problem, and that math problem was me.

~ Magan Vernon

Like it or not, your life—what works well and what doesn't—is largely the result of the first impressions you have created along the way.

~ Susan C. Young

He looks at me and then, reverting to the voice he'd used with Kendra, says, 'If homegirls wanna see me as ghetto trash'--he stops and switches to his lispy, sassy voice--'or big-ass queer'--now he switches to his deepest Shakespeare voice--'I shall not take it upon myself to disabuse them.

~ Gayle Forman

If you want to be successful, how you show up to life matters.

~ Susan C. Young

Honour, in her modern self-confidence, had grown up never having to face actual raw, passionate, drop-down-dead-hostility. She didn't really understand what was going to happen

~ Ruth Ahmed

*You only get one chance to make a first impression.* Ah, whatever!!! Who said you get three chances to make the second impression?!!

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Don’t conclude so fast, you may never know what is behind the fact you know!

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah