quotations about personality
The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are.
JIM MORRISON
The Lizard King: The Essential Jim Morrison
I want freedom for the full expression of my personality.
MAHATMA GANDHI
The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas
Personality is that which is thrust upon us.
BALKRISHNA PANDAY
Personality
Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD
The Great Gatsby
A girl can get somewhere in spite of stringy hair
Or even just a bit bowed at the knee
If she can show a faultless personality
BING CROSBY
"Personality"
For the adult, all the world is a stage and the personality is the mask one wears to play the assigned role.
SAM KEEN
The Passionate Life
We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.
ALBERT CAMUS
Notebooks, 1935-1942
Personality is the knowledge that we are apart from the rest of the universe.
ERNEST DIMNET
What We Live By
Personality is, in fact, only a free being emphasizing and recognizing itself as such. Every man makes his own personality, he is to that extent his own creator.
SABINE BARING-GOULD
The Origin and Development of Religious Belief: Christianity
Why am I as I am? To understand that of any person, his whole life, from birth must be reviewed. All of our experiences fuse into our personality. Everything that ever happened to us is an ingredient.
MALCOLM X
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
We all want to grow up and move on and appear to be different to people. And we want people to see us in a different way. But, I don't know, I think the personality is very, very strongly cemented, and we just bear whatever shortcomings we have and learn to live with it.
MORISSEY
radio interview with Jed the fish, 1997
The largest part of what we call 'personality' is determined by how we've opted to defend ourselves against anxiety and sadness.
ALAIN DE BOTTON
attributed, "22 Calming Quotes for People with Anxiety", Psychology Today, September 17, 2014
Psychologists say that the nature of one's personality is determined by the nature of the hurts they experienced in early childhood. People carry those hurts with them for the rest of their lives.
MICHAEL MAMAS
"7 Personality Principles to Boost Office Productivity", Entrepreneur, April 18, 2016
I believe in my mask -- The man I made up is me
And I believe in my dance -- And my destiny.
SAM SHEPARD
The Tooth of Crime
Personality is the supreme value, and should be regarded as an end and not merely as a means to an end.
KIRBY PAGE
The Personality of Jesus
To go from life to life means having no personality of your own. But to have a personality of your own is an idea which is peculiar to a certain form of civilization.
ALBERT CAMUS
Notebooks
There is no formula for how to deal with different personality types. The process is one of exploration and observation. You can see how people respond to different things. You can approach them in a manner, see how they respond, and adjust accordingly. It's almost like you are putting out feelers to get a sense of how best to relate to them.
MICHAEL MAMAS
"7 Personality Principles to Boost Office Productivity", Entrepreneur, April 18, 2016
I use bits and pieces of others personalities to form my own.
KURT COBAIN
Journals
I don't think we will ever get along. I have too many personalities, and you haven't even got one ...
ANONYMOUS
The note of the perfect personality is not rebellion, but peace.
OSCAR WILDE
The Soul of Man Under Socialism