Personality Quotes

2694 Personality quotes by 1843 unique authors

Thus strength is afforded by good and thorough customs, thus is learnt the subjection of the individual, and strenuousness of character becomes a birth gift… — Friedrich Nietzsche
By the age of three, the child has already laid down the foundations of his personality as a human being, and only then does he… — Maria Montessori
For a great nature, it is a happiness to escape a religious training; religion of character is so apt to be invaded. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every man must form himself as a particular being, seeking, however, to attain that general idea of which all mankind are constituents. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
When a man is made up wholly of the dove, without the least grain of the serpent in his composition, he becomes ridiculous in many… — Joseph Addison
Every epoch has its character determined by the way its population reacts to the material events which they encounter. — Alfred North Whitehead
Only individuals with an aberrant temperament can in the long run retain their self-esteem in the face of the disesteem of their fellows. — Thorstein Veblen
The wise man, the true friend, the finished character, we seek everywhere, and only find in fragments. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
A woman of generous character will sacrifice her life a thousand times over for her lover, but will break with him for ever over a… — Stendhal
Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character. — Walter Lippmann
Repose and cheerfulness is the badge of the gentleman; repose in energy. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Manhood and sagacity ripen of themselves; it suffices not to repress or distort them. — George Santayana
It is the property of things seen for the first time, or for the first time after long, like the flowers in spring, to reawaken… — Robert Louis Stevenson
He who recites dramatic works makes discoveries about his own character. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Similarly the men who produce works of genius are not those who live in the most delicate atmosphere, whose conversation is most brilliant, or their… — Marcel Proust
There is a kind of character in thy life, That to the observer doth thy history, fully unfold. — William Shakespeare
A man is like a bit of Labrador spar, which has no luster as you turn it in your hand, until you come to a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Many in Hollywood viewed the public persona of the young Debbie Reynolds as demure and vulnerable to be a complete facade. Pianist Oscar Levant once… — Elizabeth Taylor
Anyone is to be pitied who has just sense enough to perceive his deficiencies. — William Hazlitt
The normal is what you find but rarely. The normal is an ideal. It is a picture that one fabricates of the average characteristics of… — W. Somerset Maugham
Self-respect will keep a man from being abject when he is in the power of enemies, and will enable him to feel that he may… — Bertrand Russell
Others are to us like the characters in fiction, eternal and incorrigible; the surprises they give us turn out in the end to have been… — Mary McCarthy
So much are our minds influenced by the accidents of our bodies, that every man is more the man of the day than a regular… — Lord Chesterfield
Reserve is an artificial quality that is developed in most of us but as the result of innumerable rebuffs. — W. Somerset Maugham
The value of culture is its effect on character. It avails nothing unless it ennobles and strengthens that. Its use is for life. Its aim… — W. Somerset Maugham

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