Personality Quotes

Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality.

Erich Fromm, Man for Himself

Personality is born out of pain. It is the fire shut up in the flint.

J. B. Yeats, Letters to His Son,

Kiss a lover, Dance a measure, Find your name And buried treasure. Face your life, It's pain, It's pleasure, Leave no path untaken.

Neil Gaiman

She was looking into my eyes with that way she had of looking that made you wonder whether she really saw out of her own eyes. They would look on and on after every one else's eyes in the world would have stopped looking. She looked as though there were nothing on earth she would not look at like that, and really she was afraid of so many things.

Ernest Hemingway

Jemanden zu beeinflussen bedeutet, ihm eine fremde Seele zu geben.

Oscar Wilde

Temperament lies behind mood; behind will, lies the fate of character. Then behind both, the influence of family the tyranny of culture; and finally the power of climate and environment; and we are free, only to the extent we rise above these.

John Burroughs

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. You become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

Aristotle

. . . clumsiness is often mated with a love of solitude.

Virginia Woolf

What's in a name? that which we call a roseBy any other name would smell as sweet.

William Shakespeare

After puberty the personality develops impetuously and all extraneous intervention becomes odious. . . . Now it so happens that parents feel the responsibility towards their children precisely during this second period, when it is too late.

Antonio Gramsci

The note of the perfect personality is not rebellion, but peace.

Oscar Wilde

Stop thinking all the time that you're in the way, that you're bothering the person next to you. If people don't like it, they can complain. And if they don't have courage to complain, that's their problem.

Paulo Coelho

Women complain about premenstrual syndrome, but I think of it as the only time of the month I can be myself.

Roseanne Barr

Who has skill in the art of music is of good temperament and fitted for all things.

Martin Luther

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

Soren Kierkegaard