Quotes About Personality

SOMEONE ONCE TRIED TO SUMMARIZE A PRINCIPLE IN Aristotle's epic work Poetics with these words: "Action is character." Now Aristotle was describing the elements of drama when he wrote his Poetics, so he didn't necessarily mean what I mean here. Still, his basic premise is true: we know what a person's character is by what he does.

It is character that communicates most eloquently.

We could spend weeks, months, even years laboring with the personality ethic trying to change our attitudes and behaviors and not even begin to approach the phenomenon of change that occurs spontaneously when we see things differently

Other parts of the personality approach were clearly manipulative, even deceptive, encouraging people to use techniques to get other people to like them, or to fake interest in the hobbies of others to get out of them what they wanted, or to use the "power look," or to intimidate their way through life.

Our character, basically, is a composite of our habits.

Personality and Character Ethics

Positive personality traits, while often essential for success, constitute secondary greatness. To focus on personality before character is to try to grow the leaves without the roots

That leadership is primarily a function of who you are, for this is the foundation for everything you do. How do you build leaders? You first build character.

We decided to relax and get out of his way and let his own personality emerge.

Our character, basically, is a composite of our habits. "Sow a thought, reap an action; sow an action, reap a habit

Many people with secondary greatness—that is, social recognition for their talents—lack primary greatness or goodness in their character. Sooner or later, you'll see this in every long-term relationship they have

Our character, basically, is a composite of our habits. "Sow a thought, reap an action; sow an action, reap a habit; sow a habit, reap a character; sow a character, reap a destiny," the maxim goes.

But shortly after World War I the basic view of success shifted from the Character Ethic to what we might call the Personality Ethic.

Today we come across an individual who behaves like an automaton, who does not know or understand himself, and the only person that he knows is the person that he is supposed to be, whose meaningless chatter has replaced communicative speech, whose

the shift from the Character Ethic to the Personality Ethic has drawn us away from the very roots that nourish true success and happiness.

As we give grace to others, we receive more grace ourselves. As we affirm people and show a fundamental belief in their capacity to grow and improve, as we bless them even when they are cursing or judging us—we build primary greatness into our personality and character.

you become truly independent, you have the foundation for effective interdependence. You have the character base from which you can effectively work on the more personality-oriented "Public Victories" of teamwork, cooperation, and communication in Habits 4, 5, and 6.

Success became more a function of personality, of public image, of attitudes and behaviors, skills and techniques that lubricate the processes of human interaction.

Many people with secondary greatness—that is, social recognition for their talents—lack primary greatness or goodness in their character.

I am not suggesting that elements of the Personality Ethic—personality growth, communication skill training, and education in the field of influence strategies and positive thinking—are not beneficial, in fact sometimes essential for success. I believe they are. But these are secondary, not primary traits.

As we have observed, the shift from the Character Ethic to the Personality Ethic has drawn us away from the very roots that nourish true success and happiness.

Si bien compartir muchos rasgos de personalidad puede hacer que una relación sea más fácil, son las diferencias las que lo hacen mucho más interesante y valioso para tu vida. En general, una pareja complementaria te puede permitir hacer lo que haces mejor y no preocuparte por lo que odias.

Tiny personality changes here and there inspire growth in us constantly. Inspiration leads to enthusiasm.

Personality freezes us in a safe and secure pattern of being that we probably finished making up somewhere in junior high school. Most of our "permanent" personality was shaped from fear: fear of embarrassment, fear of losing face, fear of appearing uncool.