Quotes About Personality

I'm not a competitive person, and I think women like me because they don't think I'm competitive, just nice.

One thing I can say about George...he may not be able to keep a job, but he's not boring.

My husband had a very strong identity and was successful in his life. Thank God for that. There's no way I can control him. I wouldn't stay married to him if I felt I could. I can readily take my business personality into the home. But he forces me to be a partner rather than the boss.

So even though I consider myself a fairly upbeat person, energetic and things like that, I never do very well on happiness tests.

Birth order is a crucial factor. Whereas oldest children tend to identify with their parents and authority and to sustain the status quo, younger children tend to rebel (cf. Averett, Argys, & Rees, 2006). Moreover, the repercussions of sibling rivalry extend beyond individual development to society as a whole

Our surroundings compose a portrait of who we are, what we value and what we think of ourselves

Everything we do tells something about us.

Cohen was so shallow it was almost a talent.

Annie Biggs was her

when she thought it over, Jane decided that she was really much more like Emma Woodhouse.

She was dressed, as usual, in an odd assortment of clothes, most of which had belonged to other people.

Her chief work in life was interfering in other people's business and imposing her strong personality upon those who were weaker than herself.

All human temperaments were considered to belong to one or another of the four humors—sanguine, phlegmatic, choleric, and melancholic.

Bismarck has broken the nation's backbone," he wrote in 1886. "The injury done by the Bismarck era is infinitely greater than its benefits.… The subjugation of the German personality, of the German mind, was a misfortune that cannot be undone.

Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna - or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.

I must have got my detailed, obsessive streak from my father, who was an English teacher, because my mother wasn't like me at all.

If prayer be the affirmation of the link between God and man, to neglect prayer is to disallow the link; and the link severed, the two personalities are opposed and become actively hostile, so that the idea of God is destroyed or at least is passively ignored.

Man must emphasize himself, and consequently must distinguish himself from God. He must recognize these two terms, himself and God, as terms distinct, not only in thought, but by an act of will, for man must will himself, and by willing himself constitute his personality. However, he must do this without separating himself from God, without excluding God. He must will himself, but he must at the same time will God.

Worship is the subjection of the personality of the worshipper to the object worshipped; it is therefore the affirmation of the relations the two personalities bear to one another.

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.

Prayer is the assertion of the two personalities, the personality of God and that of the suppliant. It is the affirmation of the existence of a link uniting the two individualities.

It never crosses my mind whether certain readers will like or dislike certain characters. They are who they are.

Az egyiptomiak számára ugyanis az isten nemcsak távoli volt és sokféle formájú, hanem egyben a személyiség része is.

Sydney in general is eclectic. You can be on that brilliant blue ocean walk in the morning and then within 20 minutes you can be in a completely vast suburban sprawl or an Italian or Asian suburb, and it's that mix of people, it's that melting pot of people that give it its vital personality.