Personality Quotes
2694 Personality quotes by 1843 unique authors
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Serious development of the personality begins at the closet door.
— William James
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Personality, too, is destiny.
— Erik Erikson
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It has long been my belief that in times of great stress, such as a 4-day vacation, the thin veneer of family wears off almost…
— Shirley Jackson
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Personality is a mask you believe in.
— Robert J. White
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Man is concentric: you have to take fold after fold off of him before you get to the centre of his personality. You must get…
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
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I have an extremely addictive personality. I'm an extremist.
— Leif Garrett
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I am what is mine. Personality is the original personal property.
— Norman O. Brown
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I am convinced that living in an enclave shapes the personality, and living alone shapes the personality too.
— Mary Douglas
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For the sound we produce, everybody is equally important. Each of us has a very different personality and that is what keeps Bush alive.
— Gavin Rossdale
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Every superior personality, and every superior performance, has, for the average of mankind, something mysterious.
— Georg Simmel
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The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort.
— Carl Jung
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Within the Nazi Party, the beginnings of a personality cult around Hitler go back to the year before the [Munich] putsch... Outside these small groups…
— Ian Kershaw
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It is true that many creative people fail to make mature personal relationships, and some are extremely isolated. It is also true that, in some…
— Anthony Storr
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I'm so surprised it's worked out that way. I was just thinking the whole time that I've never had the personality to fit into that.…
— Robert Pattinson
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The annihilation of a woman's personality, individuality, will, character, is prerequisite to male sexuality.
— Andrea Dworkin
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I was so moved by the intelligence,sense of fun and personalities of the animals I worked with on Babe that by the end of the…
— James Cromwell
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It is personalities not principles that move the age.
— Oscar Wilde
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Sooner or later a democracy which is to survive has to be able to rely upon that enlargement of vision and purpose of those individuals…
— Ordway Tead
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One interesting indication of Capablanca's greatness is that to non-chess players his name was better known than the names of all other chess masters together!…
— Fred Reinfeld
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The personality and style of a photographer usually limits the type of subject with which he deals best. For example Cartier-Bresson is very interested in…
— Alexey Brodovitch
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Swimming is more than a once-every-four-years sport. My goal is to bring attention to swimming - to give it some personality.
— Michael Phelps
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Without enough wilderness America will change. Democracy, with its myriad personalities and increasing sophistication, must be fibred and vitalized by regular contact with outdoor growths…
— Walt Whitman
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The aim of education should not be to teach how to use human energies to improve the environment, for we are finally beginning to realize…
— Maria Montessori
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The greatness of the human personality begins at the hour of birth. From this almost mystic affirmation there comes what may seem a strange conclusion:…
— Maria Montessori
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Rebirth is an affirmation that must be counted among the primordial affirmations of mankind. The concept of rebirth necessarily implies the continuity of personality. Here…
— Carl Jung
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