Personality Quotes

2694 Personality quotes by 1843 unique authors

I know what my comfort zones are. But without a back-up, I will never step out of my comfort zone. I don't go bungee jumping;… — Kajol
The fate of America cannot depend on any one man. The greatness of America is grounded in principles and not on any single personality. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
This leads us to note down in our psychological chart of the mass-man of today two fundamental traits: the free expansion of his vital desires,… — Jose Ortega y Gasset
All four Gospels agree in giving us a picture of a very definite personality. One is obliged to say, "Here was a man. This could… — H.G. Wells
Iife/personality must be taken as a total entity. All of your life is all of your life, and no one incident stands alone. — Nikki Giovanni
As to virtue . . . it is an act of the will, a habit which increases the quantity, intensity and quality of life. It… — Alexis Carrel
Parenthood is an endless series of small events, periodic conflicts, and sudden crises which call for a response. The response is not without consequence: it… — Haim Ginott
It is personality with a penny's worth of talent. Error which chances to rise above the commonplace. — Pablo Picasso
Few men are of one plain, decided color; most are mixed, shaded, and blended; and vary as much, from different situations, as changeable silks do… — Lord Chesterfield
The vigour of civilised societies is preserved by the widespread sense that high aims are worth while. Vigorous societies harbour a certain extravagance of objectives,… — Alfred North Whitehead
Many of the twisted minds and crippled characters in the world were made by careless parents who kept their children away from knives and fires,… — Gilbert Highet
It may be that even if half consciously, we choose our personalities to maintain a certain saving balance in the family's little universe. — Arthur Miller
There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another to the world. — Antonio Machado
Unable to create a meaningful life for itself, the personality takes its own revenge: from the lower depths comes a regressive form of spontaneity: raw… — Lewis Mumford
When we die to something, something comes alive within us. If we die to self, charity comes alive; if we die to pride, service comes… — Fulton J. Sheen
The monk in hiding himself from the world becomes not less than himself, not less of a person, but more of a person, more truly… — Thomas Merton
I think the best American poetry is the poetry that utilizes the resources of poetry rather than exploits the defects or triumphs of the poet's… — Mark Strand
Men never sound more stupid than when they're telling you they're a very complex personality. — Clive James
What one discovers in life, I find, is that one's personality defects don't come and go. — Lynne Truss
Nice clothes fall apart. Nice clocks don't work. Bits fall off the nice cooker. It is hard to accept that pricing is unrelated to quality,… — Lynne Truss
A true personality . . . is like a robust organism that, with unconscious sureness, seeks out and digests the nourishment appropriate to it and… — Gustav Mahler
To be perfectly honest, it isn't fair that people have used my personality, and the sacrifices I make because I want to, as an indication… — Steve Garvey
I have not been on any river that has more of a distinctive personality than does the Missouri River. It's a river that immediately presents… — William Least Heat-Moon
Where does personality end and brain damage begin? — Douglas Coupland
The question whether our conscious personality survives after death has been answered by almost all races of men in the affirmative. — James G. Frazer

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