Quotes About Personality

Sow a character, you reap your destiny.

The surface of your thoughts is your character.

Having lots of money doesn't make you different. It just makes you more of who you were before you made the cash.

la verdad es esta: la mayoría de la gente del planeta no piensan mucho en ellos mismos, por desgracia. Protegen su identidad con su forma de ser externa. Valoran sus logros a partir de lo que han ganado en lugar de tener en cuenta la personalidad que han cultivado.

Be Yourself. Everyone else is taken.

Personality is the one thing we cannot control in our manipulations of Shadow. In fact, it is the means by which we can tell one another from the shadows of ourselves. This is why Flora could not decide about me for so long, back on the Shadow Earth: my new personality was sufficiently different.

Tis with governments as with individuals, first impressions and early habits give a lasting bias to the temper and character.

Another female observer found Madison entertaining in private but "mute, cold, and repulsive" in company.

Conversely, the failures that a man makes in his life are due almost always to some defect in his personality

Throughout his life, Rockefeller was wounded deeply by accusations that he was a cold, malignant personality.

Harriman was a very different type from Pierpont.

Like Twain, Walt Whitman was mesmerized by Grant and grouped him with George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and Ralph Waldo Emerson in the quartet of greatest Americans. "In all Homer and Shakespeare there is no fortune or personality really more picturesque or rapidly changing, more full of heroism, pathos, contrast," he wrote.

Beyond the size of his stake, Rockefeller also possessed an unlikely charisma

Mr. J.P. he's such a sweetie underneath the sternness

The young Washington could be alternately fawning and assertive, appealingly modest and distressingly pushy.

From later descriptions, however, we know that [Alexander Hamilton] stood about five foot seven and had a fair complexion, auburn hair, rosy cheeks, and a wide, well-carved mouth. His nose, with its flaring nostrils and irregular line, was especially strong and striking, his jaw chiseled and combative. Slim and elegant, with thin shoulders and shapely legs, he walked with a buoyant lightness, and his observant, flashing eyes darted about with amusement.

Rockefeller handled people adroitly and wasn't the cold curmudgeon of later myth.

William was a natural salesman who easily charmed people.

He had the unfortunate combination of being garrulous without being articulate.

First: Character is king.

But, the third conclusion, and the most confounding conclusion: You can't design a character too specifically.

She tinged her attitude with a gentle mocking humor which saved people from hating her.

Great Dane the size of a pony, and a girl with a rat terrier the size of the Great Dane's head. Overall I preferred the rat terrier. Small dog, big personality. The little guy thought he was boss of the world.

You're a bad-tempered type of guy, Finlay,' I said, 'Bad temper never made a anybody a criminal.