Personality Quotes

I've always been a big fan of Mariah Carey. I think it's her personality. As much as she has an amazing voice, she has a crazy personality and I love the fact that she's not afraid to hide that.

~ Jessica Mauboy

I think Freddie Mercury is probably the best of all time in terms of a rock voice. There was a vulnerability to it, his technical ability was amazing, and so much of his personality would come out through his voice. I'm not even a guy to buy Queen records, really, and I still think he's one of the best.

~ Chris Cornell

Personality has power to uplift, power to depress, power to curse, and power to bless.

~ Paul Harris

We are given to the cult of personality; when things go badly we look to some messiah to save us. If by chance we think we have found one, it will not be long before we destroy him.

~ Constantine Karamanlis

With commentating, I've had a chance to show the humorous side of my personality that I didn't use on the court. It's fun, and I don't take myself too seriously. I have good broadcast teams with me, but I'm not a huge stats guy. I think they post the numbers too quickly, and I'd rather let the match play out a bit first.

~ John Mcenroe

Man is important in one sense only. He was made in the image of God: That is his importance. He is not important for his body, ego, or personality. His constant affirmation of ego-consciousness is the source of all his problems.

~ Paramahansa Yogananda

Dogs got personality. Personality goes a long way.

~ Quentin Tarantino

Acting is a very personal process. It has to do with expressing your own personality, and discovering the character you're playing through your own experience - so we're all different.

~ Ian Mckellen

I hesitate to use a pathologizing label, but underneath the so-called narcissistic personality is definitely shame and the paralyzing fear of being ordinary.

~ Brené Brown

The first step is to distinguish the loving parts of your personality that are active from the frightened parts of your personality that are active - in other words, to learn to distinguish love from fear in you. The second step is to choose love, no matter what.

~ Gary Zukav

This is about systemic, institutional corruption, not personality. To ask the Democratic leadership to clean things up would be like asking the old Soviet bureaucracy under Brezhnev to reform itself. It ain't going to happen.

~ Newt Gingrich

I think leadership is most effective when it's your own personality. But I feel like it's a natural progression as a quarterback, as well.

~ Andrew Luck

I think national issues play into gubernatorial races less than, obviously, in Senate and Congressional races. Much less. They tend to be more decided by personality, leadership qualities and by state or local issues. They still have some effect, no question about it, but not as much as Senate and Congressional races.

~ Ed Rendell

I have a completely addictive personality. Diet Coke is my last - God, I know people counting days off Diet Coke; I'm such a Diet Cokehead. Now I won't let myself buy it.

~ Mary Karr

Even fictional characters sometimes receive unwarranted medical opinions. Doctors have diagnosed Ebenezer Scrooge with OCD, Sherlock Holmes with autism, and Darth Vader with borderline personality disorder.

~ Sam Kean

It becomes more necessary to see the truth as it is if you realize that the only vehicle for change are these people who have lost their personality.

~ Steven Biko

Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.

~ Soren Kierkegaard

One of the things that makes Hamlet unique among Shakespeare's characters is his courage to face up to the darker elements of his personality.

~ Kenneth Branagh

I grew up in a very westernised environment and went to a private American school. But my personality was shy and quiet, and I wanted to wear the hijab but didn't have the courage, as I knew my friends would talk me out of it.

~ Leila Aboulela

We are all born with a unique genetic blueprint, which lays out the basic characteristics of our personality as well as our physical health and appearance... And yet, we all know that life experiences do change us.

~ Joan D. Vinge

All personality traits have their good side and their bad side. But for a long time, we've seen introversion only through its negative side and extroversion mostly through its positive side.

~ Susan Cain

The content I create reflects my personality: goofy, fun, positive, a bit clumsy, family-friendly, educational and helpful.

~ Rosanna Pansino

I try and stay positive; being negative isn't good for my personality. I don't just bring myself down, I bring everyone around me down. It's like a dark cloud, 'Uh oh, here we go,' and have to snap out of it.

~ Catherine Zeta-Jones

An image is not simply a trademark, a design, a slogan or an easily remembered picture. It is a studiously crafted personality profile of an individual, institution, corporation, product or service.

~ Daniel J. Boorstin

I think it's really important to design things with a kind of personality.

~ Marc Newson

I design things to help people to hopefully express their personality.

~ Vivienne Westwood

When I meet celebrities, I have to know what they are like and only then can I design. The clothes have to fit their personality.

~ Donatella Versace

I am interested in the idea of 'taste.' And by 'taste,' I mean opinion, inspiration and the craft of creating a personality through fabric and design.

~ Olivier Theyskens

Driven to design by what she refers to as the lack of glamour in the industry, Bar Or creates for the modern woman who is a fashion risk-taker, one who is confident and, perhaps, has a larger than life personality.

~ Aslaug Magnusdottir

Unless a design is infused with a personality - and by that, I mean mine or someone else who really understands what design is all about - it will never, ever have any mystery.

~ Anouska Hempel

I like the personality of the Belgians. They're deeply eccentric, which is something that comes across in their design - terrific.

~ Miranda Richardson

I have always maintained a strong opposition to marriage because I would have to be in serious denial to pretend I wasn't born with a personality for divorce. Whatever the opposite of amicable is, that's how my breakups tend to play out.

~ Chelsea Handler

The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

~ Peter De Vries

The characteristics of an authentically empowered personality are humbleness, clarity, forgiveness and love.

~ Gary Zukav

I think there are very few people who have a real style, a real personality, and real beauty.

~ Marisa Berenson

Glamour comes from within. My beauty regime begins with my personality.

~ Barry Humphries

For me, the beauty of a person is a matter of the whole package. You have to look at the whole thing, not just a matter of outward appearance or whatever. It has to do with one's character, personality, upbringing and so on.

~ Gong Li

Thanks to capitalism, the importance placed on beauty has never been so manipulated. We are the guinea pigs force-fed ads that tell us how pathetic we are: that we will never be loved, happy or valuable unless we have the body, the face, the hair, even the personality that will apparently be ours, if only we buy their products.

~ Beth Ditto

Beauty is not skin-deep; it can be a means of self-affirmation, a true indicator of personality and confidence.

~ Aimee Mullins

I have an unfortunate personality.

~ Orson Welles