Quotes about personality

We employ our personality, what we know, think, and believe, in order to interpret the world, making self-understanding a critical act because it establishes the baseline for our philosophical and intellectual approach towards life.

I just have one of those faces. People come up to me and say, 'What's wrong?' Nothing. 'Well, it takes more energy to frown than it does to smile.' Yeah, you know it takes more energy to point that out than it does to leave me alone?

To stand by yourself -- that was also part of dignity. That way, a person could get through a public flaying with dignity. Galileo. Luther. Even somebody who admitted his guilt and resisted the temptation to deny it. Something politicians couldn't do. Honesty, the courage for honesty. With others and yourself.

In our postmodern culture which is TV dominated, image sensitive, and morally vacuous, personality is everything and character is increasingly irrelevant.

It is never too late to show true character.

Why am I as I am? To understand that of any person, his whole life, fromBirth must be reviewed. All of our experiences fuse into our personality. Everything that ever happened to us is an ingredient.

I knew I’d be troubled, but who knew awhile meant forever?

Our attitudes and personal values create outcomes. The consequence of any venture shapes our evolving ethical precepts, and the product of a sundry of worldly experiences in turn establishes our personality.

An insult bestowed on your interior and exterior personality; for causes beyond control, kills you innumerably, till the last breath.

Basic personality traits develop early in life and over time become inviolable, hardwired. Most people learn little from experience, rarely thinking of adjusting their behavior, see problems as emanating from those around them, and keep on doing what they do in spite of everything, for better or worse.

Maybe we all have a dark place inside of us, a place where dark thoughts and darker dreams live, but it doesn't have to become who we are.

In truth, people can generally make time for what they choose to do; it is not really the time but the will that is wanting.

Much of someone's real character lies in what they don't say about themselves.

Andy was receptive, like a deep vessel into which life was poured. If this terrible particular thing hadn't been poured into her, she would have been happier--it goes without saying--but less of a person. She was filled out by her fate. I actually think that this is quite rare, the capacity to become the whole shape of the accidents that happen to you.

Is evil something you are? Or is it something you do?

Writers use both their blood and their brains to explore the darkest recesses of their pooling self. Writing allows us to harness the whimsy of the collaborative mind and body, pull our tissue apart like taffy, and expose the composition of our life sustaining organs. Telling our personal story forces us to account for any actions that made us laugh, cry, scream and shout, or hide behind a cloak of mootness. Critical examination of the self allows one to disintegrate the envelope of their presen

Evil things you do to others show your personality and thus identify you, and the good ones come back to you too… - Cocoy McCoy -

The truth is that personality inevitably bleeds into all forms of our intellectual life. We all extrapolate from our own lives in order to understand the world.

To understand yourself: Is that a discovery or a creation?

Art, even the art of fullest scope and widest vision, can never really show us the external world. All that it shows us is our own soul, the one world of which we have any real cognisance. And the soul itself, the soul of each one of us, is to each one of us a mystery. It hides in the dark and broods, and consciousness cannot tell us of its workings. Consciousness, indeed, is quite inadequate to explain the contents of personality. It is Art, and Art only, that reveals us to ourselves.

(...) a man encased in ice, his eyes hard and his voice like a frosty exhale.

Although Jesus Christ was Himself the Creative Deity, by whom all things were made, as man He humbled Himself--set aside His divine prerogatives and walked this earth as man -- a perfect demonstration of what God intended man to be--the whole personality yielded to and occupied by God for Himself.

Waiting in the reception area, she had flicked through a news magazine that had been lying on the table for clients to read while waiting for their appointment. On the cover there had been a picture of a well-known politician, a man famous for his rudeness and aggression. She had looked at the eyes--the piercing, accusing eyes, and had seen only an impenetrable, defensive anger. Nothing--no forced smiles nor rehearsed protestation of concern, could cancel out the cold selfishness of those eyes.

Institutions are lengthening shadows of strong individuals.

My culture is my identity and personality. It gives me spiritual, intellectual and Emotional distinction from others, and I am proud of it.

For the first time, Ender had found a living mind he could admire.

I’ve been accused of being cold, snobbish, distant. Those who know me well know that I’m nothing of the sort. If anything, the opposite is true. But is it too much to ask to want to protect your private life, your inner feelings?

And is usually true of a man of one idea, [Charles] became obsessed.

Because history became his (Keenan's) genuine passion, he tended to see the world in terms of deep historical forces that, in his mind, formed a nation's character in ways almost beyond the consciousness of the men who momentarily governed it, as if these historical impulses were more a part of them than they knew.

God does not save us to make us forget our heritage, but to complete it.

But unlike Jack, Bobby had not been groomed to be a candidate, and he was constitutionally incapable of the flattery and false praise with which politicians like Johnson got others to do their daily bidding.

Thoughts are ghosts of emotions.

We have hands that must work, brains that must think, and personalities that must be developed.

It’s ignorant to think you know everything about a person. There’s many different sides to everybodys personality and there’s just different colours to a personality.

We are all lumps, and of so various and inform a contexture, that every piece plays, every moment, its own game, and there is as much difference betwixt us and ourselves as betwixt us and others.

It might not be about perfection. Rather, it may be that that which is imperfect is that which has the most character.

​Retaining Character is the Toughest Challenge for Humans when they Level Up.

And God does have a personality. He can't hide from us. His personality shines through every Hebrew letter, on every page. Sometimes we forget that God is a person--not a fleshly person, but a person nonetheless. (page iii)

What someone’s lies reveal about them (aspirations to being an accomplished writer, fantasies of an exotic history and a cosmopolitan family) are always sadder than the fact of the lies themselves. These inventions illuminate the negative spaces of someone’s self-image, their vanity and insecurities and most childish wishes, as we can infer from warped starlight the presence of a far vaster mass of dark matter.

A prohibitionist is the sort of man one wouldn't care to drink with - even if he drank.

Abstainer: a weak man who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.

He was not of an age but for all time.

As time requireth a man of marvellous mirth and past times and sometimes of as sad gravity as who say: a man for all seasons.

At every single moment of one's life one is going to be no less than what one has been.

Dogs often remind us of the human ail-too human. Cats never.

Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.

Evil be to him who evil thinks. (Honi soit qui mal y pense.)

Good breeding a union of kindness and independence.

If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you But make allowance for their doubting too If you can wait and not be tired by waiting Or being lied about don't deal in lies Or being hated don't give away to hating And yet don't look too good nor talk to wise If you can dream - and not make dreams your master If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster A

Good but not religious-good.

He has not a single redeeming defect.

His life was gentle and the elements So mixed in him that nature might stand up

And say to all the world "This was a man!"

Humility is no substitute for a good personality.

I am a deeply superficial person.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

There is a secret person undamaged in every individual.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

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.

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

Character building begins in our infancy and continues until death.

Character is perfectly educated will.

Character is long-standing habit.

I was born modest not all over but in spots.

Moderation is an ostentatious proof of our strength of character.

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

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

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

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

Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.

My specialty is detached malevolence.

Every one is as God made him and oftentimes a good deal worse.

Character is that which can do without success.

Character is what God and the angels know of us reputation is what men and women think of us.

One can acquire everything in solitude except character.

Every man has three characters - that which he exhibits that which he has and that which he thinks he has.

If I take care of my character my reputation will take care of itself.

A wise and an understanding heart.

Everyone ought to bear patiently the results of his own conduct.