Quotes About Personality

You see, as far as the man's personality goes, there's no one who can touch Fred Astaire. He's unique.

Aaron Copland was a man that had a very specific point of view about what music should be which was that, he felt that new music should have the composer should show a personality in his music.

The essence of a man is found in his faults.

Man is a unique individual. He can never be put in a system where he becomes just another notch. Another nail.

If all else fails, the character of a man can be recognized by nothing so surely as by a jest which he takes badly.

Moping is an unattractive attribute in a man.

Every town, like every man, has its own countenance; they have a common likeness and yet are different; one keeps in his mind all their peculiar touches.

He is the only man I ever met with a seersucker face.

It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.

I do not judge men by anything they can do. Their greatest deed is the impression they make on me.

My father was the funniest man I ever met. He made Redd Foxx look like an undertaker.

You might think that it would he the natural desire of every man to develop as an independent personality, but this does not seem to be true.

Who would you be but who you are?

We live out our lives as we are meant to live them-with some choice, with some chance, but mostly as a result of the persons we are.

If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man, don't bother analyzing his ways of being silent, of talking, of weeping, or seeing how much he is moved by noble ideas; you'll get better results if you just watch him laugh. If he laughs well, he's a good man. —FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY

Nothing marks a man's character better than his attraction to intelligence.

invisible weaknesses and shortcomings. I do this because these are the characteristics that define us no less than our strengths. What we feel sets us apart from other people is often the thing that shapes us as individuals.

He had actually liked me – liked the clear, light, energetic person he saw in me. (I think over time I've become more like that person

A genius is the one most like himself.

King George V and Queen Mary had been inadequate parents. Both were shy, inhibited, inarticulate people, not given to displays of emotion or affection.

Thus, from the very outset, and in typically effusive fashion, did Marion Crawford set out the thesis that characterizes her celebrated, indeed notorious, book, The Little Princesses. By contrasting the sterling qualities of the future Queen with her younger sister's more capricious personality, Crawfie gave authority to what – by the time of the book's publication in 1950 – many people already believed.

Today the order of life allows no room for the ego to draw spiritual or intellectual conclusions. The thought which leads to knowledge is neutralized and used as a mere qualification on specific labor markets and to heighten to commodity value of the personality.

In many people it is already an impertinence to say 'I'.

The most futile thing in this world is any attempt, perhaps, at exact definition of character. All individuals are a bundle of contradictions - none more so than the most capable.