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Quotes About Personality

Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
A modest man is steady, an humble man timid, and a vain one presumptuous.
~ Mary Wollstonecraft
Every man is born an original, but sadly, most men die copies.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Charm, in most men and nearly all women, is a decoration.
~ E. M. Forster
Men with style are great because they have a sense of self.
~ Lexa Doig
A man's bookcase will tell you everything you'll ever need to know about him
~ Walter Mosley
Every man is an infinitely repelling orb, and holds his individual being on that condition.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
I like a colorful sock. I'm a sock man.
~ George H. W. Bush
A really good style comes only when a man has become as good as he can be. Style is character. A good style cannot come from a bad undisciplined character.
~ Norman Mailer
Good breeding in cattle depends on physical health, but in men on a well-formed character.
~ Democritus
I used to hang out with Salvador Dali a lot. He was such a nice man. I really liked his wife Gala, too. People say that she was tricky, but she was never difficult with me.
~ Jerry Hall
I seem to have no dress sense at all. I'm always being listed in New York among one of the ten worst dressed men of the year. Someone once described me as "looking like an unmade bed." He was right!
~ Orson Welles
A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
~ Jonathan Swift
It's not what a man has but what a man is that's important.
~ Frank Abagnale
The character of a man is known from his conversations.
~ Menander
Each man in his way is a treasure.
~ Robert Falcon Scott
for he is such a disagreeable man, that it would be quite a misfortune to be liked by him.
~ Jane Austen
Life is what our character makes it. We fashion it, as a snail does its shell. A man can say: I never made a fortune because it is not in my character to be rich.
~ Jules Renard
God does not redeem the personal man by death. He redeems himself by freeing himself from the personality of man.
~ Franz Hartmann
Each man must have his I; it is more necessary to him than bread.
~ Charles Horton Cooley
Suicide thwarts the plan of the entity which sends out the personality. Fortunately, the entity is far beyond the reach of man's destructive tendencies.
~ Manly Hall
Clearly Mr. Drkh has had a long career of being the weirdest person in any given room, but he's about to go down in flames.
~ Neal Stephenson
Ever think of introducing yourself? Y.T. says. Nah, he says, people always forget names. You can just think of me as that one guy, y'know?
~ Neal Stephenson
One of the few appealing things about him was that he had figured out that his personality was a problem and, in classic "get it done" style, had hired a coach to make him less of an asshole. She could see that working in his face.
~ Neal Stephenson