Personality Quotes

He (William Cort) had some desire to be successful, but it did not burn so strongly in him that he was prepared to overcome his character to achieve it.

~ Iain Pears

Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open.

~ Elmer Leterman

Playing safe, hiding among the masses, will rarely get you noticed.

~ Fennel Hudson

Every person is the master of his or her own destiny. What we think about alters our character. Our character organizes our personality, and our personality scripts how successfully we interact with other people and respond to a changing environment.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Her character was like a country which on first acquaintance seems grand, but inhospitable; but in which presently you discover smiling little villages among fruit trees in the folds of the majestic mountains, and pleasant ambling rivers that flow kindly through lush meadows. But these comfortable scenes, though they surprise and even reassure you, are not enough to make you feel at home in the land of tawny heights and windswept spaces.

~ M. Somerset Maugham

Your reputation has no duplicate. You are one till the end of time. Once it is damaged, a fresh personality cannot spring from the old one.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Character is a question of time. It lasts for a certain length of time, just like a glove. There are good ones that last a long time. But they don't last forever.

~ Bertolt Brecht

To say that he 'nailed a subject's soul to the canvas' makes the assumption that we persons, as well as artists, can see one another's souls.Maybe we do. Maybe we all have the ability to perceive another's soul, and do so every day, only we take it for granted, and don't even know it when we're doing it. We call it knowing someone's 'character' or 'personality.

~ Lynn Cullen

If you put yourself in the emotion that you want from others, you are more likely to receive it.

~ Shannon L. Alder

It was like every attitude or action which reveals a man's deep and hidden character; they bear no relation to what he has previously said, and we cannot confirm our suspicions by the culprit's evidence, for he will admit nothing; we are reduced to the evidence of our own senses, and we ask ourselves, in the face of this detached and incoherent fragment of recollection, whether indeed our senses have not been the victims of a hallucination...

~ Marcel Proust

A 'real' person, profoundly as we may sympathise with him, is in a great measure perceptible only through our senses, that is to say, he remains opaque, offers a dead weight which our sensibilities have not the strength to lift.

~ Marcel Proust

Personal qualities are much more important than qualifications.

~ P.k. Shaw

Nature evaluates a character on the basis of its merits, not demerits.

~ Raheel Farooq

For Aristotle, it's not enough simply to act in accordance with the reason once in a while. We must cultivate habits of virtue that develop into a firmly established moral character over a lifetime.

~ John Mark Reynolds

Excitement about things became a habit, a part of my personality, and the expectation that I should enjoy new experiences often engendered the enjoyment itself.

~ Doris Kearns Goodwin

WHO WHAT WHERE WHY WHENPersonality redefines character through phases of wisdom at different ages

~ Kamil Ali

Oh, I have always been proud, I always wanted all or nothing! You see it was just because I am not one who will accept half a happiness, but always wanted all

~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky

She was herself in their company but a very specific version of herself.

~ Sara Sheridan

You have to be somebody before you can share yourself.

~ Jaron Lanier

Your attitude defines your personality. Your personality refines your attitude. Together they make up your character.

~ Tanya Masse

There is no index of character as sure as the voice.

~ Benjamin Disraeli

He lost the great big outward thing, the good- looking package, and the real parts endured. They shine through like crazy, the brillian mind and humor, the depth of generosity, the intense blue yes, those beautiful hands.

~ Anne Lamott

A hero without faults is like an omelet without little bits of eggshell in it.

~ Colin Cotterill

Journey gives us a chance to start all over again and be a new personality

~ Dian Nafi

Life is, if anything, the art of combination. Of discrimination. Of freely picking one's own personal pattern out of a hundred choices. Not letting it be picked for you—either by the Establishment, or by the Rebels. Conformity of Hip is no better than Conformity of Square.

~ Sydney J. Harris

The most effective attitude to adopt is one of supreme acceptance. The world is full of people with different characters and temperaments. We all have a dark side, a tendency to manipulate, and aggressive desires. The most dangerous types are those who repress their desires or deny the existence of them, often acting them out in the most underhanded ways. Some people have dark qualities that are especially pronounced. You cannot change such people at their core, but must merely avoid becoming their victim. You are an observer of the human comedy, and by being as tolerant as possible, you gain a much greater ability to understand people and to influence their behavior when necessary

~ Robert Greene

His features made him look striking, and I wondered if that was actually his personality.

~ Binta Userkaf

There's no right or wrong way to hurt. Everybody does it their own way. It's how we respond to pain that tells the kind of person we are.

~ Bethany Crandell

You never can tell about these mild-mannered boys.

~ James Carl Nelson

Elegance is a personality.

~ Petek Kabakci

I think if there was a boarding school for personality makeovers, you'd probably get a scholarship.

~ Lauren Layne

The reason some people put on a mask in not in their blood but it is in their fear that we judge them too soon.

~ Ameya Agrawal

There are people that will settle for nothing, people that will fight for something, and those that are fooled striving to have everything.

~ Anthony Liccione

Only the wearer knows where the shoe pinches...

~ Samaa

so many people would be afraid to look in the mirror if the saw their character and not their face…it would be like american horror story.

~ Turcois Ominek

Don't ever confuse my personality with my attitude. My personality is who I am. My attitude always depends on who you are.

~ Ziad K. Abdelnour

So it's not all that important who people really are. Honestly, you could end up spending your life with almost anyone, and it wouldn't matter who - because the person they are to you is totally dependent on your view of them.

~ Steph Bowe

Wisdom is not measured by age ,Intelligence is not measured by grades ,Personality is not measured by what others say

~ O.z Osama Alzoubi

Don't worry about wanting to change; start worrying when you don't feel like changing anymore. And in the meantime, enjoy every version of yourself you ever meet, because not everybody who discovers their true identity likes what they find.

~ Antony John

I am a baby, I am a child, I am the innocent wonder in my eyes I am a glimpse, I am a sign, of someone I can be, someone I might I am not one, I am not two, but I am a million things entwined I am a piece, I am a slice, strung together by the yarns of time.

~ Sanober Khan