Quotes About Personality

Either you're born crazy or you're born boring.

What we call the source of human personality—the True Self—is said to be this kind of eternal existence, yet it does not exist outside the living body. The realization of this fact is the essence of the meditation type of religion. At the same time, it is the way of human self-realization in Rinzai Zen.

This leads us to note down in our psychological chart of the mass-man of to-day two fundamental traits: the free expansion of his vital desires, and therefore, of his personality; and his radical ingratitude towards an that has made possible the ease of his existence. These traits together make up the well-known psychology of the spoilt child.

Being general, the categories never address us as individuals. At best our individuality is lost in the generality. At worst, it is contradicted and denied. Such categories force us to lie on their Procrustean bed, and anything about us that doesn't fit they lop off. They trim the picture of our personalities to fit their mass-produced frames.

Define a clear direction for your brand by setting its vision, values and personality.

The best clay to shape your life is your character not the the talent.

Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction.

Give a man a mask and he will show his true face.

An excellent man he has no enemies and none of his friends like him.

The creative power of redemption comes through the preaching of the gospel, but never because of the personality of the preacher. 

No one is born either naturally or supernaturally with character; it must be developed.

The creative power of redemption comes through the preaching of the gospel, but never because of the personality of the preacher.

All great discoveries and inventions spring from the delight of strong men in victory. They are expressions of personality and not of the utilitarian thinking of the masses, who are merely spectators of the event, but must take its consequences whatever they may be.

Jeder Grieche hat einen Zug von Don Quijotte, jeder Römer einen von Sancho Pansa - was sie sonst noch waren, tritt dahinter zurück.

incapacity to commit oneself to any value system beyond one supplying self-serving needs usually indicates severe narcissistic pathology. The

superego also makes a crucial contribution to the analyst's identity. Superimposed

Narcissistic deterioration

She (Patricia Higsmith) was a mean, cruel, hard, unlovable, unloving human being…I could never penetrate how any human being could be that relentlessly ugly…. But her books? Brilliant.

A man's real nature is never altered by education.

I have know a thousand scamps; but I never met one who considered himself so. Self-knowledge isn't so common.

Algunas veces deseo que los amigos pudieran ser liberados de ciertos defectos por su bien, pero son esos mismos defectos, mezclados con sus mejores cualidades los que componen la personalidad completa de aquellos a los que amamos.

Habits change into character.

Ozzy, why do you drink so much? What's the point?' The right answer to that question was: because I'm an alcoholic; because I have an addictive personality; because whatever I do, I do it addictively. But I didn't know any of that back then.