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Quotes About Personality

Insecurity not only paralyzes our relationship with the living God but has a devastating effect on interpersonal relationships. It is the starting point of all social estrangement. It breaks down openness, which is the bridge to the existential world of the other. It undermines real communication and causes a kind of rupture in the evolution of authentic personality.
~ Brennan Manning
The general advice is always be yourself, be yourself, which only makes sense if you haven't got an attitude problem.
~ Helen Oyeyemi
Nature is a personality so vast and universal that we have never seen one of her features.
~ Henry David Thoreau
The peculiarity of ill temper is that it is the vice of the virtuous.
~ Henry Drummond
What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
~ Henry James
Live as you like best, and your character will take care of itself. Most things are good for you; the exceptions are very rare.
~ Henry James
Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.
~ Henry James
The finer natures were those that shone at the larger times.
~ Henry James
What is character but the determination of incident?
~ Henry James
She had her own way of doing all that she did, and this is the simplest description of a character which, although by no means without liberal motions, rarely succeeded in giving an impression of suavity.
~ Henry James
Mrs. Penniman always, even in conversation, italicised her personal pronouns.
~ Henry James
She had never met a woman who had less of that fault which is the principal obstacle to friendship - the air of reproducing the more tiresome parts of one's own personality.
~ Henry James
It's her general air of being some one in particular that strikes me. Who is this rare creature, and what is she? Where did you find her, and how did you make her acquaintance?
~ Henry James
Nu te mai stradui atat sa-ti formezi un caracter - e ca si cand ai incerca sa deschizi petalele unui boboc crud de trandafir. Traieste cum iti place, iar caracterul tau va avea singur grija de el.
~ Henry James
I recall this passage as the hour of its first fully coming over me that she was a beautiful liberal creature. I had seen her personality in glimpses and gleams, like a song sung in snatches, but now it was before me in a large rosy glow, as if it had been a full volume of sound. I heard the whole of the air, and it was sweet fresh music, which I was often to hum over. (Sir Edmund Orme)
~ Henry James
She has a sort of old-fashioned character that's passing away — a vivid identity.
~ Henry James
I don't care who you may be--I don't want to know; it signifies very little to-day.
~ Henry James
And in time-his voice rose-there will come a generation that had got beyond facts, beyond impressions, a generation absolutely colourless, a generation seraphically free From taint of personality, which will see the French Revolution not as it happened, nor as they would like it to have happened, but as it would have happened, had it taken place in the days of the Machine.
~ Henry James
She was, moreover, mistress of a very pretty little fortune, and was accounted clever without detriment to her amiability and amiable without detriment to her wit.
~ Henry James
He is American through and through, and Americans, despite their talkiness, are fundamentally silent creatures. They talk in order to conceal their innate reticence. It is only in moments of deep intimacy that they break loose.
~ Henry Miller
What we do belongs to what we are, and what we are is what becomes of us.
~ Henry Van Dyke
What we do belongs to who we are; and what we are is what becomes of us.
~ Henry Van Dyke
And when she was good she was very very good. But when she was bad she was horrid.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
When she was good, She was very good indeed, But when she was bad she was horrid.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow