Personality Quotes

Like language, books serve to express us, but also to complete us, furnishing, through a variety of excerpted and reworked fragments, the missing elements of our personality.

~ Pierre Bayard

Satan will make your own principles and inclinations to betray you.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

When it comes to carving out a unique niche in the over-congested world of football ‘personalities,’ Jürgen Norbert Klopp has it down.

~ Trevor Downey

There are two distinct groups of people in the world: the ones who tell stories, and those who pay attention.

~ Daniel Gonçalves

He would never need a knife to spread a pat of butter on his toast. That smile would quickly melt it.

~ Dean Koontz

...your personality is the only permanent thing in your, ultimately, temporary life...that's all the more reason to cherish it...

~ Isabella Koldras

A library is never -- for lovers of the written word -- simply a place for conserving or storing books but rather a sort of living creature with a personality and even moods which we should understand and learn to live with.

~ Francisco Márquez Villanueva

She looked at him for a long moment. There really is more substance to you than you let on, isn't there?£

~ Jen Turano

If you don't love Jesus out loud, then it must not be real love. It's not enough to forge your own spiritual connection to the Divine. It must be displayed publicly.

~ Susan Cain

This isn’t a duality. I’m not one of the Balfour Academy soldiers, drinking a potion to become virile, ugly, and monstrously strong. There isn’t a lever inside me that determines which of me you’re talking to at once. A knife can cut or stab. The label doesn’t change. It’s still a knife.

~ Wildbow

Of the classic fIve W's and an H, Amy's approach seemed to be that when you have a handle on the WHO, the rest will more or less reveal itself accordingly.

~ Caitlin Keiper

A man can never have too many books. Neither can he have too many fountain pens, hats, fishing rods, waistcoats, tea caddies, paintings or whatever helps him to feel at home in his surroundings and communicate his personality to the world.

~ Fennel Hudson

Grandmother was like an opal. You could never be sure which colors were really there and which were just tricks of the light.

~ Michelle Moran

A lot of people who are straight-shooting…they’re only happy to be so blunt when talking about others. They’re not so upfront about who they are, what flaws they have, and what their issues are.

~ Suzanne Wright

Fuck your personality if your best selfie doesn't get a hundred likes on Facebook.

~ Himanshu Rajput

A 'sadist' of her kind is an artist in evil, which a wholly wicked person could not be...

~ Marcel Proust

If your dog, your best friend turns on you, take a good look at yourself. You may have a serious personality disorder.

~ Will Leamon

Even when she had to make some one a present of the kind called 'useful,' when she had to give an armchair or some table-silver or a walking-stick, she would choose 'antiques,' as though their long desuetude had effaced from them any semblance of utility and fitted them rather to instruct us in the lives of the men of other days than to serve the common requirements of our own.

~ Marcel Proust

I never allow myself to be influenced in the smallest degree either by atmospheric disturbances or by the arbitrary divisions of what is known as Time.

~ Marcel Proust

But at some point you have to make peace with what you were given and if God wanted me to be a shy girl with thick, dark hair, He would have made me that way, but He didn't Useful, then, might be to accept how I was made and embody myself fully therein.

~ Elizabeth Gilbert

Swann, with that almost arrogant charity of a man of the world who, amid the dissolution of all his own moral prejudices, finds in another's shame merely a reason for treating him with a friendly benevolence...

~ Marcel Proust

How come you're so different, I asked once, as we sat in the shade of the pine tree. Yukiko's answer, a sentence learned by heart: Because I fell from a star.

~ Milena Michiko Flašar

People tend to be more tofu-like, able to absorb whatever environment they're dropped into. But where does the adaptability end and your actual personality begin?

~ Sloane Crosley

I might be a freak, but I preferred to keep that part of my personality private.

~ Tara Spears

I, Lexi Anderson, am proud to say that I do, indeed, have a great personality.And it's only a matter of time before the Beautiful People will be wishing they had great personalities, too.Good luck with that, oh Beautiful Ones.Because we Great Girls are the rarest breed.

~ Elizabeth Eulberg

I don't blame you one iota for feeling as you do. If I were you I would undoubtedly feel just as you do.(...) You can say that and be 100 percent sincere, because if you were the other person you, of course, would feel just as he does (...) Suppose you had inherited the same body and temperament and mind (...) Suppose you had had his environment and experiences. You would then be precisely what he was - and where he was. For it is those things -and only those things - that made him what he was. (...) You deserve very little credit for being what you are - and remember, the people who come to you irritated, bigoted, unreasoning, deserve very little discredit for being what they are.

~ Dale Carnegie

Chemically, I'm as off as I can be. But you fix me.

~ Crystal Woods

Dissociative parts of the personality are not actually separate identities or personalities in one body, but rather parts of a single individual that are not yet functioning together in a smooth, coordinated, flexible way. P14

~ Suzette Boon

Probably more than any concrete vice or failing Amory despised his own personality - he loathed knowing that to-morrow and the thousand days after he would sell pompously at a compliment and sulk at an ill word like a third-rate musician or a first-class actor.

~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

People who are overwhelmed with troubles never do look back.They know only too well that misfortune follows in their wake.

~ Victor Hugo

Love her personality.. Not her body!And all i meant.. Don't u ever choose her body over her personality.. Cause if u did this u will eventually find someone with a great body then her's..

~ Eyad Ayman Kaifi

The personality is determined by a variety of interventions that enter the head like big symbolic flags in the conquered soil which seldom knows its defeat.

~ Andrew Durbin

Copy everything you see on television, from hair styles to the clothes and don't think too often, just do exactly how you were told, how your parents told you, and you will make your own personality that is you.

~ Auliq Ice

You need to stop caring what people who don't matter think of you. Be who you are and let everybody else be who they are. Differences are a good thing.

~ Holly Smale

...Our stories are drive by who we are and what we do, and not by the events that happens to us.

~ Holly Smale

I do not like these painted faces that look all alike; and I think women are foolish to dull their expression and obscure their personality with powder, rouge, and lipstick.

~ W. Somerset Maugham

The formation of Stalin’s character is particularly important because the nature of his rule was so personal.

~ Simon Sebag Montefiore

I take quite a lot of pride in not knowing what´s cool.

~ John Green

The DID patient is a single person who experiences himself or herself as having separate alternate identities that have relative psychological autonomy from one another. At various times, these subjective identities may take executive control of the person’s body and behavior and/or influence his or her experience and behavior from “within.” Taken together, all of the alternate identities make up the identity or personality of the human being with DID.- Guidelines for Treating Dissociative Identity Disorder in Adults, Third Revision, p7

~ James A. Chu

Excitement is a crossroad which runs in all directions. No man lacks personality, he just never connected with you at the intersection.

~ Criss Jami