Quotes about charisma
Susan C. Young - The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact
Self-confident people Inspire confidence in others they would much rather build people up than tear them down.
Lee Goldberg - Mr. Monk on the Couch
I had to wonder, though, if there's something about a murderer, particularly a confident one, that gives him a certain charisma or charm that I, in particular, am susceptible to.I mean, there's a reason more women are attracted to Dracula than repelled by him.I made a resolution to myself. From now on, I'd assume that every man I was attracted to was a murderer until proven otherwise.Perhaps it wasn't the most promising strategy for starting a relationship, but I might live longer.
Peter Ajisafe -
Charisma without character is postponed calamity.
Oscar Wilde - Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories
If a woman cannot make her mistakes charming, she is only a female.
Flannery O'Connor -
He had measured five feet four inches of pure gamecock.
Olivia Fox Cabane - The Charisma Myth: Master the Art of Personal Magnetism
Human beings remember "firsts"- the first time something happens, or the begining of an experience- and we tend to remember "lasts" as well. So when you are about to make a critical/negative delivery , start your criticism with a positive begining, it will affect the rest of the experience. Start by giving them solid ground to stand by expressing the fact that you value them and they matter. Once they are reassured of their own worth, people will accept your comments far more easily and they'll
Robert A. Caro - Master of the Senate
(LBJ) had what a journalist calls “a genius for analogy”— made the point unforgettably, in dialect, in the rhythmic cadences of a great storyteller. Master of the senate
Harvey Mansfield -
He was a man with a chest, and he wanted to give thoughtful expression to the passion of his heart.
Philip Zaleski - Charles Williams
J.R.R. Tolkien, said a student, "could turn a lecture room into a mead hall in which he was the bard and we were the feasting, listening guests.
Ortega y Gasset José -
The few individuals who are capable of spontaneous and joyous effort stand out. These are the select men, the nobles, the only ones who are active and not merely reactive, for whom life is a perpetual striving, an incessant course of training.
Greg Cootsona -
As his former student Alastair Fowler once remarked, "Lewis seemed always on the verge of hilarity -- between a chuckle and a roar.
Philip Zaleski - Charles Williams
He called himself Jack, a plain handshake of a name, a far cry from the Clive Staples he had been christened, and to be Jack was the hard work of a lifetime.
Myles Horton - We Make the Road by Walking: Conversations on Education and Social Change
No one is charismatic. Someone becomes charismatic in history, socially. The question for me is once again the problem of humility. If the leader discovers that he is becoming charismatic not because of his or her qualities but because mainly he or she is being able to express the expectations of a great mass of people, then he or she is much more of a translator of the aspirations and dreams of the people, instead of being the creator of the dreams. In expressing the dreams, he or she is recrea
David Halberstam - The Powers That Be
They (the media) found little quality of depth to him, that when she said on the platform with that which he said to them in private. The qualities of introspection and reflectiveness that they particularly treasured were missing.
Rick Perlstein - The Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan
One does not hold a conversation with him. One holds a symposium. – Elizabeth Drew
Hazel Butler - Chasing Azrael
Joshua had always been able to get away with things—things for which he should never have been forgiven. He was a lot like James in that respect, for while my husband had bought his grace with his brilliance, Joshua did so with his looks. I considered that a moment, before turning away, suddenly finding I could not bear to look at him for fear of what I might forgive next.
Jon Meacham - Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power
Jefferson was the rare leader who stood out from the crowd without intimidating it.
Lisa Kleypas - Blue-Eyed Devil
The look of experience suited him, especially because somewhere deep in those eyes, there still lurked a dangerous invitation to play. He had a quality of masculine confidence that was a thousand times more potent than mere handsomeness. Perfect goodlooks could leave you cold, but this kind of sexy charisma went straight to your knees. -Haven Travis
C. Stephen Jaeger -
Bernard of Clairvaux shared with Goethe and Balzac the art of charging narratives with his own charisma (and this is probably the only context in which those three names can be mentioned in one breath). On the surface self-representation was not the purpose of such narratives; they presented themselves as fiction or as commentaries on scripture. Let me suggest the word 'autography' to describe the process. 'Autography' is writing yourself into your own composition, not by describing yourself, bu
Ramana Pemmaraju -
Most of them are remembered for their works, few are remembered in spite of them...for their finesse!
David Pietrusza - 1960--LBJ vs. JFK vs. Nixon: The Epic Campaign That Forged Three Presidencies
For Jack Kennedy, who only made campaigning LOOK easy, it was, in fact, anything but.
Sally Bedell Smith - Grace and Power: The Private World of the Kennedy White House
Jack Kennedy brought an "intense concentration" and a "gently teasing humor" to the dinner table, along with what Katherine Graham called his habit of "vacuum cleaning your brain.
Emma Wildes - Our Wicked Mistake
Actually, Elizabeth realized, when he laughed like that, he did look quite handsome. His dark brown hair and his eyes, so light a brown as to seem almost gold in color, were not quite as nondescript as she'd once thought. Maybe the giggling young ingenues weren't completely daft. Despite his maddening tendencies to be deliberately obtuse and tease her relentlessly, he had a certain charisma.
Marianne Williamson - and Miracles
Love makes us wake up in the morning with a sense of purpose and a flow of creative ideas. Love floods our nervous system with positive energy, making us far more attractive to prospective employers, clients, and creative partners. Love fills us with powerful charisma, enabling us to produce new ideas and new projects, even within circumstances that seem to be limited. Love leads us to atone for our errors and clean up the mess when we've made mistakes. Love leads us to act with impeccability, i
Cindy Ann Peterson - My Way: Top Experts Reveal How to Create Yours Today
Project a confident image through good body posture.
Cindy Ann Peterson - My Way: Top Experts Reveal How to Create Yours Today
Stand tall and be proud. Realize confidence is charismatic and something that is something money can't buy, it radiates from within you.
Cindy Ann Peterson - My Way: Top Experts Reveal How to Create Yours Today
A great attitude toward your approach to an interview—demonstrated by your good posture—is everything.
Cindy Ann Peterson - My Way: Top Experts Reveal How to Create Yours Today
It does not take the striking pose of a high-fashion model or the strict stance of someone in uniform to earn respect and admiration.
Cindy Ann Peterson - My Way: Top Experts Reveal How to Create Yours Today
Healthy posture is based on natural positions that balance and support your skeletal system’s curves and weight-bearing abilities against the force of gravity.
Cindy Ann Peterson - My Way: Top Experts Reveal How to Create Yours Today
Posture Power, when interviewing for a job remember. Poor posture shows uncertainty and a lack of confidence and ability. Good posture conveys confidence and an air of capability.
Cindy Ann Peterson - My Way: Top Experts Reveal How to Create Yours Today
Working conditions at the computer and long seated sessions can lead to weakness and pronounced posture problems.
Cindy Ann Peterson - My Way: Top Experts Reveal How to Create Yours Today
Stress can also lead to poor posture because it causes you to breathe more shallowly, which leads to slumping.
Cindy Ann Peterson - My Way: Top Experts Reveal How to Create Yours Today
Good posture can be beneficial to your health.
Cindy Ann Peterson - My Way: Top Experts Reveal How to Create Yours Today
Posture and Social Status...During the 18th century in European and American society, aspects including station in life, status and dress could easily identify those of financial means. In fact, the garments of this era would hold the wearer in a position that would support and require proper posture. Women, and sometimes men, wore stays in order to shape the torso. Among the more privileged, even children wore stays since people believed these improved their posture and enhanced straight spinal
Cindy Ann Peterson - My Way: Top Experts Reveal How to Create Yours Today
Good posture is the correct alignment of body parts supported by the right amount of muscle tension.
Cindy Ann Peterson - My Way: Top Experts Reveal How to Create Yours Today
Think of good posture as your body’s projection of a positive message to those you meet.
Cindy Ann Peterson - My Way: Top Experts Reveal How to Create Yours Today
It is still relevant today to project a confident image through good body posture.
Cindy Ann Peterson - My Way: Top Experts Reveal How to Create Yours Today
Your posture can have a great deal of influence on your personal presentation and image, revealing your attitude toward yourself and others.
Cindy Ann Peterson - My Way: Top Experts Reveal How to Create Yours Today
Good posture is important for health reasons, as well as for your appearance, because it reflects your personal attitude.
Cindy Ann Peterson - My Way: Top Experts Reveal How to Create Yours Today
More than attitude, posture has also been used throughout history to communicate one’s status in society.
Cindy Ann Peterson - My Way: Top Experts Reveal How to Create Yours Today
Your image is your brand and you have only one opportunity to make that first impression. Choose to make a positive first impression.
John Fowles - The Magus
He had the charm of all people who believe implicitly in themselves, that of integration.
Doris Kearns Goodwin -
Teddy Roosevelt "had relished "every hour" of every day as president. Indeed, (he was) fearing the "dull thud" he would experience upon returning to private life.
David Halberstam - The Powers That Be
All professions have some element of theater to them.
Bono -
David was "a star, the Elvis of the Bible." An unusually for such a rockstar with his lust for power, lust for women, lust for life, he had humility of one who knew his gift work harder than he ever would.
Salman Rushdie - The Enchantress of Florence
...that witchcraft requires no potions, familiar spirits, or magic wands. Language upon a silver tongue affords enchantment enough.
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ -
They are like men: if bold, the better of scolding; if timid, the better of praise and flattery.
Ramana Pemmaraju -
Ah! That glance of yours did some magic on me, you were not aware of. For once I died and was reborn. To put it simple you did (CRL+ALT+DELETE) to my mind!
Ramana Pemmaraju -
Ah! That glance of yours did some magic on me, you were not aware of. For once I died and was reborn. To put it simply: you did (CRL+ALT+DELETE) to my mind!
D.T. Suzuki - First Series
While the founder [of any religious or spiritual system] was still walking among his followers and disciples, the latter did not distinguish between the person of their leader and his teaching; for the teaching was realized in the person and the person was livingly explained in the teaching. To embrace the teaching was to follow his steps - that is, to believe in him. His presence among them was enough to inspire them and convince them of the truth of his teaching... So long as he lived among th
Susan C. Young - The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact
Identify confident people whom you admire and respect and notice what they do differently to project such confidence. Learn by observing role models.
Susan C. Young - The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact
Walk the talk and project confidence. If at first you don’t feel confident, fake it until you make it.
Susan C. Young - The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact
Yes, learning curves can be painful, exhausting, trying, scary, and intimidating. How did you learn to ride a bike? One pedal, one balance, one turn, and one step at a time.
Susan C. Young - The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact
Confidence is not a goal or a final ending point where you arrive and then stop once you reach it. Rather, it is the satisfaction and reward you achieve by stretching to, and beyond, the best of your abilities.
Susan C. Young - The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact
Building self-confidence is like building a muscle. Your confidence grows in response to your intensity of usage and the level of performance you require from it. If you don’t use it, you may lose it. Stretch, flex, life, and build!
Susan C. Young - The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact
You will build confidence by continuing to put yourself into new and innovative situations where you can learn new skills, grow your education, test your strengths, and improve your abilities.
Susan C. Young - The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact
Steer clear of negativity and set boundaries so that when people bring it on, you can engage your force-field to deflect their distracting energy.
Susan C. Young - The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact
As you jump new hurdles, you gain greater confidence. Confidence can be achieved like any other practiced skill.
Susan C. Young - The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact
Just because you may not feel confident about doing something now does not mean you will not master it later with ease.
Susan C. Young - The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact
Building confidence is an ongoing process and something that can be accomplished over time.
Susan C. Young - The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact
\“Self-confident people are mindful about spending their time, energy, and interests on things that truly matter.
Susan C. Young - The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact
Just because you don't know how to do something now does not mean you can't learn how to do it later.
Susan C. Young - The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact
If you are lacking confidence in something, just keep trying and don’t give up.
Susan C. Young - The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact
Nurture a balanced perspective and don’t “sweat the small stuff.
Susan C. Young - The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact
Self-confident people don’t make their self-esteem, self-image, happiness, or self-confidence dependent on another person’s approval, validation, or acceptance.
Susan C. Young - The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact
Self-confident people are proud of their accomplishments, but can remain humble without bragging.
Susan C. Young - The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact
Self-confident people face their fears head-on and are willing to take risks.
Susan C. Young - The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact
Self-confident people Know that obstacles are only temporary setbacks.
Susan C. Young - The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact
Self-confident people tend to be optimistic thinkers and focus on the positives.
Susan C. Young - The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact
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 - The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact
People with the gift of charm exude a delightful demeanor—an attractive likability that enwraps you in their warmth.
Susan C. Young - The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact
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 - The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact
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 - The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact
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 - The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact
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 - The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact
Charisma (presence, poise, magnetism) and charm (enchantment, attraction, fascination) are behaviors which can be learned and practiced.
Susan C. Young - The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact
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 - The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact
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 Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact
The key is to keep charisma and charm positive and underpinned with sincere and good intentions.
Susan C. Young - The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact
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 - The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact
Your charisma and charm can make your moments more memorable for amazing first impressions.
Susan C. Young - The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact
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 - The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact
Confidence is silent, cool, self-assurance.
Susan C. Young - The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact
Developing a commanding presence is essential for leadership and a powerful impact.
Susan C. Young - The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact
There can be a fine line between being confident and cocky.
Susan C. Young - The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact
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 - The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact
Their confidence gives those they lead the assurance that their words and their actions are reliable.
Susan C. Young - The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact
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 - The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact
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 - The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact
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 - The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact
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 - The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact
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 - The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact
If your self-talk leans toward the negative, the continual bashing will become debilitating
Susan C. Young - The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact
Notice when negativity spins in your head and disrupt it immediately before it has a chance to take hold and stick.
Susan C. Young - The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact
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 - The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact
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.
Dean Koontz - Deeply Odd
He would never need a knife to spread a pat of butter on his toast. That smile would quickly melt it.
George Friedman - The Next Decade: What the World Will Look Like
A century is about events. A decade is about people.
Bill Bryson - 1927
Tunney has all the makings of a hero – he was clean living, intelligent, polite, reasonably good-looking – but, like Lou Gehrig, he lacked the chemistry that stirred affection.