Personality Quotes

Be the change that you want to see

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!

A person's a person, no matter how small.

I've learned that no matter what happens, or how bad itseems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow. I've learned thatyou can tell a lot about a person by the way he/she handles these three things:a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights. I've learned thatregardless of your relationship with your parents, you'll miss them when they'regone from your life. I've learned that making a living is not the same thing asmaking a life. I've learned that life sometimes gives you a second chance. I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on bothhands; you need to be able to throw some things back. I've learned that wheneverI decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision. I'velearned that even when I have pains, I don't have to be one. I've learned thatevery day you should reach out and touch someone. People love a warm hug, orjust a friendly pat on the back. I've learned that I still have a lot to learn. I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what youdid, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.

What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.

A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.

Your thorns are the best part of you.

You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it."

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.

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

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them

All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.

Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.

What I'm looking for is not out there, it is in me.

I hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.

Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

I am a collection of dismantled almosts.

Now I am quietly waiting for the catastrophe of my personality to seem beautiful again, and interesting, and modern.

I am a hard person to love but when I love, I love really hard.

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.

Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

There is no evidence that we've been placed on this planet to be especially happy or especially normal. And in fact our unhappiness and our strangeness, our anxieties and compulsions, those least fashionable aspects of our personalities, are quite often what lead us to do rather interesting things.

I hold a beast, an angel, and a madman in me, and my enquiry is as to their working, and my problem is their subjugation and victory, down throw and upheaval, and my effort is their self-expression.

As you become more clear about who you really are, you'll be better able to decide what is best for you - the first time around.

A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone.

The whole point of being alive is to evolve into the complete person you were intended to be.

He liked to observe emotions; they were like red lanterns strung along the dark unknown of another's personality, marking vulnerable points.

The early Church was married to poverty, prisons and persecutions. Today, the church is married to prosperity, personality, and popularity.

If you haven't got it, you can't show it. If you have got it, you can't hide it.

All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities.

Leadership is not magnetic personality — that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not 'making friends and influencing people' — that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person's vision to high sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.

There's something fascinating about seeing something you don't like at first but directly know you will loveﾂ擁n time. People are that way, all through life. You come against a personality, and it questions yours. You shy away but know there are gratifying secrets there, and the half-open door is often more exciting than the wide.

An actor is totally vulnerable. His total personality is exposed to critical judgment - his intellect, his bearing, his diction, his whole appearance. In short, his ego.

I will go to my grave in a state of abject endless fascination that we all have the capacity to become emotionally involved with a personality that doesn't exist.

We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.

An authentically powered person lives in love. Love is the energy of the soul. Love is what heals the personality. There is nothing that cannot be healed by love. There is nothing but love.

My significant other right now is myself, which is what happens when you suffer from multiple personality disorder and self-obsession.

Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.

Men often become what they believe themselves to be. If I believe I cannot do something,it makes me incapable of doing it. When I believe I can,I acquire the ability to do it even if I didn't have it in the beginning.'"Mahatma Gandhi

Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.

Whatever does not pretend at all has style enough.

A man is known by the books he reads.

After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.

Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.

There is a life behind the personality that uses personalities as masks. There are times when life puts off the mask and deep answers unto deep.

It is the personality of the mistress that the home expresses. Men are forever guests in our homes, no matter how much happiness they may find there.

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

In the technotronic society the trend would seem to be towards the aggregation of the individual support of millions of uncoordinated citizens, easily within the reach of magnetic and attractive personalities exploiting the latest communications techniques to manipulate emotions and control reason.

A woman must wait for her ovaries to die before she can get her rightful personality back. Post-menstrual is the same as pre-menstrual; I am once again what I was before the age of twelve: a female human being who knows that a month has thirty day, not twenty-five, and who can spend every one of them free of the shackles of that defect of body and mind known as femininity.

When you stop drinking, you have to deal with this marvelous personality that started you drinking in the first place.

SPIT ALL OVER SOMEONE WITH A MOUTHFUL OF MILK IF YOU WANT TO FIND OUT SOMETHING ABOUT THEIR PERSONALITY FAST.

The moment in between what you once were, and who you are now becoming, is where the dance of life really takes place.

Everyone is a little bitter. We're born bitter. The personality itself is really just a very complex defense mechanism. A reaction to the first time someone said, "No you can't.

Power is not of a man. Wealth does not center in the person of the wealthy. Celebrity is not inherent in any personality. To be celebrated, to be wealthy, to have power requires access to major institutions.

If it wasn't for the coffee, I'd have no identifiable personality whatsover.

The study of women's intelligence and personality has had broadly the same history as the one we record for Negroes ... in drawing a parallel between the position of, and feeling toward, women and Negroes, we are uncovering a fundamental basis of our culture.

—but I find her personality annoying. It's like being molested by a sleeping bag that speaks in Comic Sans with little love-hearts over the i's.

We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.

If you have anything really valuable to contribute to the world it will come through the expression of your own personality, that single spark of divinity that sets you off and makes you different from every other living creature.

Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities.

It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.

Joy cannot be pursued. It comes from within. It is a state of being. It does not depend on circumstances, but triumphs over circumstances. It produces a gentleness of spirit and a magnetic personality.

There's so much fear involved in trying to do something you don't know how to do that drugs and alcohol can become a big part of your life if you have an addictive personality or are very unsure, which most songwriters are.

Quality is not an act, it is a habit.

The standard personality type for a writer is a shy megalomaniac.

Friendship for me is made from a tapestry of personalities, each of whom shares a part of all I care about.

I had now made about 45 pictures, but what had I become? I knew all too well: a phallic symbol. All over the world I was, as a name and personality, equated with sex.

Life and people are complex. A writer as an artist doesn't have the personality of a politician. We don't see the world that simply.

It's not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean.

A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.

The mind is everything. What you think you become.

In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence.

A quiet personality sure isn't what you need to attract attention.

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.

An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation.

Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.

I was a personality before I became a person - I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy and driven.

A true personality . . . is like a robust organism that, with unconscious sureness, seeks out and digests the nourishment appropriate to it and vigorously rejects that which is unsuitable.

We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions.

The letter we all love to receive is one that carries so much of the writer's personality that she seems to be sitting beside us, looking at us directly and talking just as she really would, could she have come on a magic carpet, instead of sending her proxy in ink-made characters on mere paper.

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

Personality is to a man what perfume is to a flower.

I never liked the men I loved and never loved the men I liked.

Personality begins where comparison ends.

Humility is no substitute for a good personality.

Circumstances made me the theatrical personality I am, which many people believe is also a part of my personal life.

Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person.

Suffering is the substance of life and the root of personality, for it is only suffering that makes us persons.

The artist takes in the world, but instead of being oppressed by it, he reworks it in his own personality and recreates it in the work of art.

I'm not really a political satirist. I don't kid myself. I'm more interested in doing the mannerisms and the personality.

A city with all the personality of a paper cup. (On Los Angeles)

There is little place in the political scheme of things for an independent, creative personality, for a fighter. Anyone who takes that role must pay a price.

You get a sense of how the show works and then let your personality take over.