Personality Quotes

He has not a single redeeming defect.

~ Benjamin Disraeli

And say to all the world This was a man!

~ Julius Caesar

Humility is no substitute for a good personality.

~ Fran Lebowitz

I am a deeply superficial person.

~ Andy Warhol

I believe that this neglected wounded inner child of the past is the major source of human misery.

~ John Bradshaw

I can't believe that out of 100 000 sperm you were the quickest.

~ Steven Pearl

I mean by this Sacrament an outward and visible sign of an inward and spiritual grace.

~ Book Of Common Prayer

I'm not hard I'm frightfully soft. But I will not be hounded.

~ Margaret Thatcher

If Ford Madox Ford were placed stark naked in a room totally empty he would contrive to turn it into a mess.

~ Ezra Pound

If I try to be like him who will be like me?

~ Yiddish Proverb

Individualism is rather like innocence there must be something unconscious about it.

~ Louis Kronenberger

It is thus with most of us we are what other people say we are. We know ourselves chiefly by hearsay.

~ Eric Hoffer

Lord Ronald said nothing he flung himself from the room flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions.

~ Stephen Leacock

Oozing charm from every pore He oiled his way around the floor.

~ Alan Jay Lerner

Self-denial is not a virtue it is only the effect of prudence on rascality.

~ George Bernard Shaw

The first time you meet Winston [Churchill] you see all his faults and the rest of your life you spend in discovering his virtues.

~ Lady Constance Lytton

The proper time to influence the character of a child is about 100 years before he is born.

~ Dean William R. Inge

There is a secret person undamaged in every individual.

~ Paul Shepard

They are proud in humility proud that they are not proud.

~ Robert Burton

We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seeded refusal of that which others have made of us.

~ Jean-Paul Sartre

When they came to shoe the horses the beetle stretched out his leg.

~ English Proverb

It is native personality and that alone that endows a man to stand before presidents or generals or in any distinguished collection with aplomb -and not culture or any intellect whatever.

~ Walt Whitman

Talents are best nurtured in solitude: character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.

~ Goethe

Style personality - deliberately adopted and therefore a mask - is the only escape from the hot-faced bargainers and money-changers.

~ William Butler Yeats

Show me a good and gracious loser and I'll show you a failure.

~ Knute Rockne

Everyone is a moon and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.

~ Mark Twain

I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

~ Tallulah Bankhead

Altruism declares that any action taken for the benefit of others is good and any action taken for one's own benefit is evil. Thus the beneficiary of an action is the only criterion of moral value - and so long as that beneficiary is anybody other than oneself anything goes.

~ Ayn Rand

To enjoy the things we ought and to hate the things we ought has the greatest bearing on excellence of character.

~ Aristotle

Character building begins in our infancy and continues until death.

~ Eleanor Roosevelt

Character is perfectly educated will.

~ Novalis

Character is long-standing habit.

~ Plutarch

I was born modest not all over but in spots.

~ Mark Twain

Moderation is an ostentatious proof of our strength of character.

~ La Rochefoucauld

If you think about what you ought to do for other people your character will take care of itself.

~ Woodrow Wilson

You cannot dream yourself into a character you must hammer and forge yourself one.

~ James A. Froude

A modest man is usually admired - if people ever hear of him.

~ Edgar Watson Howe

The clock struck eleven with the respectful unobtrusiveness of one whose mission in life is to be ignored.

~ Saki

Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.

~ Adlai Stevenson

My specialty is detached malevolence.

~ Alice Roosevelt Longworth