Quotes About Personality

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

Charm: the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves.

Dreams are the touchstones of our character.

We falsely attribute to men a determined character - putting together all their yesterdays - and averaging them - we presume we know them. Pity the man who has character to support - it is worse than a large family - he is the silent poor indeed.

Strength of character may be learned at work, but beauty of character is learned at home.

Money doesn't make us anyway it just unmasks us.

Pride and ego among various personalities is a sure way to cause friction and split up a group.

The pursuit of transparency and connectivity in all aspects of existence, by destroying privacy, inhibits the development of personalities with the strength to take lonely decisions.

In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence.

It is with rivers as it is with people: the greatest are not always the most agreeable nor the best to live with.

There is no personal charm so great as the charm of a cheerful temperament.

Clothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance

Some people are so dry that you might soak them in a joke for a month and it would not get through their skins.

Would the day come when scientists accepted that the ancients, who gave personalities to all natural phenomena, had divined the actual truth?

When a bullet broke the store-house of the self, inside the skull, how could those myriads of photographs survive, or the personality that they made up? Why should they survive, what use were they to life?

He was not to blame for being born with an irrepressible charachter and a mind some how constrained.

Men are like rivers: the water is the same in each, and alike in all; but every river is narrow here, is more rapid there, here slower, there broader, now clear, now cold, now dull, now warm. It is the same with men. Every man carries in himself the germs of every human quality

Even Karenin, who might well have turned out to be a flat caricature with his stick-out ears and cracking knuckles, is endowed with a complex personality as the other characters see him differently on different occasions: when Anna sees him at the Petersburg station, when he is at his government desk, when his son recoils from his embrace, when he is at the interview with his divorce lawyer, when

Men are like rivers: the water is the same in each, and alike in all; but every river is narrow here, is more rapid there, here slower, there broader, now clear, now cold, now dull, now warm. It is the same with men. Every man carries in himself the germs of every human quality, and sometimes one manifests itself, sometimes another, and the man often becomes unlike himself, while still remaining the same man.

The early church was married to poverty, prisons and persecutions. Today, the church is married to prosperity, personality, and popularity.

But, as is sometimes the case with good people, he was perhaps liked more for this little foible than for his good qualities.

The marchioness would have done better to consider her immense strengths: her commanding personality, her majestic attitudes, and above all, her keen political sense would have allowed for a more even result between herself and her sister-in-law.

A woman's character is her lack of character.

In the first place, [his eyes] never laughed when he laughed. Have you ever noticed this peculiarity some people have? It is either the sign of an evil nature or of a profound and lasting sorrow.