Personality Quotes:

Since ideology is part of the human personality, it deserves a place in the kingdom of eternal truths.

- A. B. Yehoshua

topic: Personality, Kingdoms, Ideology, Human Personality

When a pure devotee or spiritual master speak, what he says should be accepted as having been directly spoken by the Supreme Personality of Godhead in the Parampara System.

- A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

topic: Spiritual, Personality, Speak, Spiritual Masters, Devotee

It is imperative that one approaches a spiritual master, for by such association one proportionately develops his consciousness towards the Supreme Personality of Godhead.

- A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

topic: Spiritual, Personality, Association, Spiritual Masters, Imperatives

The highest summit of spiritual perfection is knowledge of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.

- A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

topic: Spiritual, Perfection, Personality, Spiritual Perfection

One must execute devotional service under the guidance of a devotee or directly under the guidance of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. It is not possible, however, to train oneself without guidance from the spiritual master.

- A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

topic: Spiritual, Personality, Guidance, Spiritual Masters

Basic personality traits develop early in life and over time become inviolable, hardwired. Most people learn little from experience, rarely thinking of adjusting their behavior, see problems as emanating from those around them, and keep on doing what they do in spite of everything, for better or worse.

- A.S.A. Harrison

source: A. S. A. Harrison (2013). “The Silent Wife: A Novel”, p.18, Penguin

topic: Thinking, People, Personality, Personality Traits

The inspired moment may sometimes be described as a kind of hallucinatory state of mind: one half of the personality emotes and dictates while the other half listens and notates. The half that listens has better look the other way, had better simulate a half attention only, for the half that dictates is easily disgruntled and avenges itself for too close inspection by fading entirely away.

- Aaron Copland

source: Aaron Copland (1980). “Music and Imagination”, p.43, Harvard University Press

topic: Personality, Mind, Looks, Disgruntled, Emote

Leadership can't be forced or contrived. It has to be your personality.

- Aaron Rodgers

source: Source: www.usatoday.com

topic: Personality

God, our Creator, has stored within our minds and personalities, great potential strength and ability. Prayer helps us tap and develop these powers.

- Abdul Kalam

topic: Encouragement, Prayer, Personality, Two Personalities

First of all, directing is an idea that you have of a total flow of images that are going on, which are incidentally actors, words, and objects in space. It's an idea you have of yourself, like the idea you have of your own personality which finds its best representation in the world in terms of specific flows of imaginary images. That's what directing is.

- Abraham Polonsky

source: "Directing the Film". Book by Ed Sherman, 1976.

topic: Ideas, Space, Personality

You get a sense of how the show works and then let your personality take over.

- Adam Baldwin

topic: Personality, Shows

On every level, despite differences in personalities and jobs, every single human being needs recognition and support.

- Adele Scheele

topic: Jobs, Differences, Personality

It's wrong for a guy to have no personality, no heart. Because I don't care about style or money.

- Adriana Lima

topic: Heart, Personality, Guy

My father insisted that I learnt the Koran and encouraged me to understand the basic traditions and beliefs of Islam but without imposing any particular views. He was an overwhelming personality but open-minded and liberal.

- Aga Khan III

topic: Father, Views, Personality

There is nothing so dangerous for anyone who has something to hide as conversation!... A human being, Hastings, cannot resist theopportunity to reveal himself and express his personality which conversation gives him. Every time he will give himself away.

- Agatha Christie

topic: Giving, Personality, Conversation

Beauty is not skin-deep; it can be a means of self-affirmation, a true indicator of personality and confidence.

- Aimee Mullins

source: "L’Oreal Announces New Ambassador: Aimee Mullins". www.hollywoodnews.com. February 20, 2011.

topic: Mean, Self, Personality, Skin Deep, Indicators

I think George W. Bush has a warm, engaging personality. But, you know, the presidency is more than just a popularity contest.

- Al Gore

topic: Thinking, Personality, Popularity, Popularity Contest, Engaging

A team should be an extension of a coach's personality. My teams are arrogant and obnoxious.

- Al McGuire

topic: Basketball, Team, Personality

I want my team to have my personality: surly, obnoxious, and arrogant.

- Al McGuire

topic: Team, Personality, Arrogant, Surly

The largest part of what we call 'personality' is determined by how we've opted to defend ourselves against anxiety and sadness".

- Alain de Botton

topic: Sadness, Worry, Personality

People who readily accept the need for a gym will resist that their personalities might need some work too.

- Alain de Botton

topic: People, Personality, Needs

Our jobs make relentless calls on a narrow band of our faculties, reducing our chances of achieving rounded personalities and leaving us to suspect (often in the gathering darkness of a Sunday evening) that much of who we are, or could be, has gone unexplored.

- Alain de Botton

topic: Jobs, Sunday, Personality, Sunday Evening

It seems only reasonable that the people have a right to know virtually everything about the personality they are buying each time they put their money through the box office

- Alan Ladd

topic: People, Office, Personality

Effective leadership is about earning respect, and it's also about personality and charisma

- Alan Sugar

topic: Personality, Earning, Charisma, Earn Respect

It was revealed to me many years ago with conclusive certainty that I was a fool and that I had always been a fool. Since then I have been as happy as any man has a right to be.

- Alastair Sim

source: "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

topic: Men, Years, Personality

I adore women, and the one thing I want to do more than anything is to see a transformation of personality when someone puts on one of my dresses.

- Alber Elbaz

topic: Personality, Dresses, Want

The love of God is a hard love. It demands total self-surrender, disdain of our human personality. And yet it alone can reconcile us to suffering and the deaths of children, it alone can justify them, since we cannot understand them, and we can only make God's will ours.

- Albert Camus

topic: Children, Self, Personality, Hard Love, Human Personality

The really valuable thing in the pageant of human life seems to me not the political state, but the creative, sentient individual, the personality; it alone creates the noble and the sublime, while the herd as such remains dull in thought and dull in feeling.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Personality, Creative, Political, Valuable Things

Religious creeds encourage some of the craziest kinds of thoughts, emotions, and behaviors and favor severe manifestations of neurosis, borderline personality states, and sometimes even psychosis.

- Albert Ellis

topic: Religious, Psychosis, Personality, Hate Religion

Fat is a barrier, a bellicose statement to others that, to some, justifies hostility in kind. The world says to the fat person, "Your fatness is an affront to me, so we have the right to treat you as offensively as you appear." Fat is not merely viewed as another type of tissue, but as a diagnostic sign, a personal statement, and a measure of personality. Too little fat and we see you as being antisocial, fearful and sexless. Too much fat and we see you as slothful, stupid, and sexually hung up.

- Albert Ellis

topic: Stupid, Food, Personality, Fatness, Personal Statement

Only those who respect the personality of others can be of real use to them.

- Albert Schweitzer

topic: Respect, Real, Personality

Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality.

- Albert Schweitzer

topic: Men, Perfection, Personality, Morality And Ethics, Reverence For Life

I don't think it's possible to write a good novel around a negative personality.

- Alberto Moravia

source: "Interviews: On Cartooning". "POV", www.pbs.org.

topic: Writing, Thinking, Personality

I can't tell you why a particular athlete would leave a certain coach, but I can tell you there could be many reasons. They could have personality conflicts. They could have misunderstandings. Lots of stuff can happen.

- Alberto Salazar

source: Interview with Amby Burfoot, www.runnersworld.com. April 5, 2012.

topic: Athlete, Personality, Stuff

All that is needed is money and a candidate who can be coached to look sincere. Political principles and plans for specific action have come to lose most of their importance. The personality of the candidate, the way he is projected by the advertising experts, are the things that really matter.

- Aldous Huxley

topic: Personality, Political, Principles

An ideal is merely the projection, on an enormously enlarged scale, of some aspect of personality.

- Aldous Huxley

topic: Self, Personality, Scales

An actor is totally vulnerable. His total personality is exposed to critical judgment - his intellect, his bearing, his diction, his whole appearance. In short, his ego.

- Alec Guinness

source: "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

topic: Personality, Ego, Acting, Best Acting

People find my things sometimes aggressive.  But I don't see it as aggressive.  I see it as romantic, dealing with a dark side of personality.

- Alexander McQueen

topic: Dark, People, Personality

The globe has been circumnavigated, but no man ever yet has; you may survey a kingdom and note the result in maps, but all the savants in the world could not produce a reliable map of the poorest human personality.

- Alexander Smith

topic: Men, Personality, Kingdoms, Savants, Human Personality

There's absolutely nothing wrong with Oscar Levant that a miracle can't fix.

- Alexander Woollcott

topic: Personality, Miracle, Oscars

I consider him [i.e Stalin] one of the greatest persons in the history of mankind. In the history of Russia he was, in my opinion, even greater than Lenin. Until Stalin's death I was anti-Stalinist, but I always regarded him as a brilliant personality.

- Alexander Zinoviev

topic: Russia, Personality, Opinion

I've got to think he's the only guy who smiled when he walked up to the podium. I love that about it and he brings that personality on the field.

- Alexi Lalas

topic: Thinking, Personality, Guy

Hard conditions of life are indispensable to bringing out the best in human personality.

- Alexis Carrel

topic: Character, Personality, Indispensable, Bringing Out The Best, Human Personality

As to virtue . . . it is an act of the will, a habit which increases the quantity, intensity and quality of life. It builds up, strengthens and vivifies personality.

- Alexis Carrel

topic: Personality, Quality, Virtue

It seems obvious to me that the notion of God has never been anything but a kind of ideal projection, a reflection upward of the human personality, and that theology never has been and never can be anything but a more and more purified mythology.

- Alfred Loisy

topic: Reflection, Personality, Kind, Human Personality

Peace is self-control at its widest-at the width where the "self" has been lost, and interest has been transferred to coordinations wider than personality.

- Alfred North Whitehead

topic: Peace, Self, Personality, Width

For that is the power of the camera: seize the familiar and give it new meanings, a special significance by the mark of a personality.

- Alfred Stieglitz

topic: Giving, Personality, Special

I wanted to be the moron of the family, because morons seemed to have more fun, more freedom and more personality.

- Alice Sebold

topic: Fun, Personality, Moron

I think you only learn what kind of personality you have by committing to things.

- Alice Sebold

topic: Thinking, Personality, Kind

Some periods of our growth are so confusing that we don't even recognize that growth is happening...Those long periods when something inside ourselves seems to be waiting, holding its breath, unsure about what the next step should be, eventually become the periods we wait for, for it is in those periods that we realize that we are being prepared for the next phase of our life and that, in all probability, a new level of the personality is about to be revealed.

- Alice Walker

topic: Long, Waiting, Personality, Unsure

I get pigeonholed into type-A personality characters, but I'm really not type A. I'm kind of a spaz.

- Alison Brie

source: "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Character, Personality, Kind, Spaz

The most important thing you wear is your personality.

- America Ferrera

topic: Positive, Personality, Important, Character And Reputation

You can't create a new reality with the same personality.

- Amit Goswami

topic: Reality, Goal, Personality

My favorite books have a personality and complexion as distinctly drawn as if the author's portrait were framed into the paragraphs and smiled upon me as I read his illustrated pages.

- Amos Bronson Alcott

topic: Book, Personality, Portraits, Complexion

When I died my hair red the first time, I felt as if it was what nature intended. I have been accused of being a bit of a spitfire, so in that way, I absolutely live up to the stereotype. The red hair suits my personality. I was a terrible blonde!

- Amy Adams

topic: Hair, Personality, Blonde, Red Hair

L.A. doesn't have any big personality to me; it's not inspiring.

- Amy Lee

topic: Personality, Bigs

The fiery moments of passionate experience are the moments of wholeness and totality of the personality.

- Anais Nin

topic: Passion, Personality, Moments, Totality, Fiery

We need strong personalities and only one world champion to attract sponsors

- Anatoly Karpov

topic: Strong, Personality, Champion, Strong Personality, Strong Person

It is my personality alone that has brought back the waltz and made it a global craze.

- Andre Rieu

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Personality, Made, Craze, Waltz

The annihilation of a woman's personality, individuality, will, character, is prerequisite to male sexuality.

- Andrea Dworkin

topic: Character, Personality, Feminist, Radical Feminist

My personality doesn't interest me.

- Andrei Gromyko

topic: Personality, Interest

No 'mise en scène' has the right to be repeated, just as no two personalities are ever the same. As soon as a 'mise en scène' turns into a sign, a cliché, a concept however original it may be, then the whole thing - characters, situation, psychology - become schematic and false.

- Andrei Tarkovsky

topic: Character, Two, Personality

I think leadership is most effective when it's your own personality. But I feel like it's a natural progression as a quarterback, as well.

- Andrew Luck

source: "Q&A: Colts QB Andrew Luck talks leadership, staying healthy... and acting". Interview with Eric Edholm, sports.yahoo.com. August 26, 2014.

topic: Thinking, Personality, Progression

I think if there's any difference between me and a traditional CEO, it's that I've been unwilling to change myself or shape my personality around what's expected.

- Andrew Mason

source: "The real deal with Groupon". "60 minutes: Groupon" with Lesley Stahl, www.cbsnews.com. January 15, 2012.

topic: Thinking, Differences, Personality

It sounds maybe a little old fashioned, but the parts I want to play and I do play, you don't want to inject too much of your own personality. What you sacrifice then is a slight mystery.

- Andrew Scott

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Sacrifice, Play, Personality

My life - my personality, my habits, even my speech - is a combination of the books I choose to read, the people I choose to listen to, and the thoughts I choose to tolerate in my mind

- Andy Andrews

topic: Book, People, Personality

If you look at the people who make up the Bravo landscape from Jeff Lewis to Rachel Zoe and Padma Lakshmi and Tabatha Coffey and the 'Millionaire Matchmaker,' these are very strong personalities that people love to watch and that you... don't see anywhere else.

- Andy Cohen

topic: Strong, People, Personality, Lakshmi, Strong Personality

Wong Kar Wai is a very intense character, very personable, and I believe in general he does not like and he would not want his actors to show their true looks and their true personality on screen.

- Andy Lau

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Believe, Character, Personality

When I was in theater I was forever trying to inhabit a space which puts yourself under the microscope as an actor and your personality and your take on life, but actually through another portal of a character.

- Andy Serkis

topic: Character, Space, Personality

I am a deeply superficial person.

- Andy Warhol

topic: Drinking, Personality, Luck

He has the lucidity which is the by-product of a fundamentally sterile mind.

- Aneurin Bevan

topic: Personality, Mind

It is both humiliating and humbling to discover that a single generation after the events that constructed me as a public personality, I am remembered as a hairdo.

- Angela Davis

topic: Personality, Events, Generations, Hairdos

Ladies, it is not your education, status or personality that has brought you here but the elegance of God which was still and still working upon you.

- Angela Merkel

topic: Women, Personality, Elegance

My biggest insecurity is that my personality is too much, and as I get older, it's just getting bigger,

- Angie Harmon

topic: Personality, Insecurity, Too Much

Hollywood sold its stars on good looks and personality buildups. We weren't really actresses in a true sense, we were just big names - the products of a good publicity department.

- Ann Sothern

topic: Stars, Names, Personality

My different personalities leave me in peace now.

- Anna Freud

topic: Personality, Different, Leaving Me, Multiple Personalities, Two Personalities

It's that I have a good personality and am a good tennis player.

- Anna Kournikova

topic: Player, Tennis, Personality, Good Personality

Becoming a mother doesn't always change every aspect of your personality.

- Anna Torv

source: "Anna Torv: The season finale left me speechless". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, pagesix.com. April 15, 2011 |.

topic: Mother, Personality, Becoming, Becoming A Mother

Gisele Bundchen, along w Kate Moss, is a phenomenon. I wish models knew they have to have a personality

- Anna Wintour

topic: Personality, Wish, Moss

Models today, she explained, don't understand that to be successful you have to have a personality, intelligence, and issues that you support, and Gisele embodies these qualities.

- Anna Wintour

topic: Successful, Issues, Personality

You are not your bank account, our your ambitiousness. You're not the cold clay lump with a big belly you leave behind when you die. You're not your collection of walking personality disorders. You are spirit, you are love.

- Anne Lamott

topic: Personality, Clay, Spirit, Personality Disorders

Looking back on the God my friend believed in, he seems a little erratic, not entirely unlike her father - God as borderline personality.

- Anne Lamott

topic: God, Father, Personality

The whole world is a personality cult.

- Anneli Rufus

topic: Personality, World, Cult

Yeah, I have the detail-obsessed, controlling personality of a novelist, but I somehow ended up writing plays.

- Annie Baker

topic: Writing, Play, Personality

I am a bit of a solitude person - a solitary personality. I like being on my own. I don't have any major friendships or relationships with people.

- Anthony Hopkins

topic: People, Personality, Solitude

Muddle is the extra unknown personality in any committee.

- Anthony Sampson

source: Anthony Sampson (1962). “Anatomy of Britain”, London : Hodder and Stoughton

topic: Personality, Committees, Extras

It is true that many creative people fail to make mature personal relationships, and some are extremely isolated. It is also true that, in some instances, trauma, in the shape of early separation or bereavement, has steered the potentially creative person toward developing aspects of his personality which can find fulfillment in comparative isolation. But this does not mean that solitary, creative pursuits are themselves pathological.

- Anthony Storr

source: Anthony Storr (2005). “Solitude: A Return to the Self”, p.75, Simon and Schuster

topic: Mean, People, Personality

I discovered very soon, especially for movies, because I started in theater, that every director has his own universe. You have to be free enough to try to understand what he wants from you. Especially when that director has a tremendous personality. And I'm talking about people like Pedro Almodovar and Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino and Woody Allen. And you have to adapt. If you don't adapt to them, you are off the thing.

- Antonio Banderas

topic: Talking, People, Personality, Almodovar

As an actor, when you encounter a psychopathic personality, you naturally want to make him 'bigger than life,' as the Americans say.

- Antonio Banderas

topic: Personality, Encounters, Actors, Psychopathic, Bigger Than Life

After puberty the personality develops impetuously and all extraneous intervention becomes odious.... Now it so happens that parents feel the responsibility towards their children precisely during this second period, when it is too late.

- Antonio Gramsci

topic: Children, Responsibility, Personality, Children Growing Up, Bad Parenting

Is it better to work out consciously and critically one's own conception of the world and thus, in connection with the labours of one's own brain, choose one's sphere of activity, take an active part in the creation of the history of the world, be one's own guide, refusing to accept passively and supinely from outside the moulding of one' own personality?

- Antonio Gramsci

topic: Work Out, Personality, Brain

There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another to the world.

- Antonio Machado

topic: Change, Personality, Doe

I've always liked game shows - the competitive aspect and the character-driven personalities you see.

- Apolo Ohno

topic: Character, Games, Personality, Game Shows

If you have character, endeavor, personality, courage and the capacity for concentrated labor, you will do what is your destiny – and, perhaps, even do it well.

- Ariel Durant

topic: Character, Destiny, Personality

What motivates me is an ideal of thinking about how football should be. And to try to get near this way of playing. And to try to improve all aspects of my personality that can help me get near this ideal way of playing football.

- Arsene Wenger

topic: Football, Thinking, Personality, Playing Football

If I don't ask "Why me?" after my victories, I cannot ask "Why me?" after my setbacks and disasters.

- Arthur Ashe

topic: Personality, Victory, Why Me

It may be that even if half consciously, we choose our personalities to maintain a certain saving balance in the family's little universe.

- Arthur Miller

topic: Personality, Balance, Half

A picture story is a sequence of images combined with text in such a way that pictures and words reinforce each other. They produce a planned, organized combination giving detailed account of an event, personality or aspect of life.

- Arthur Rothstein

topic: Giving, Personality, Events, Pictures And Words

What a man is: that is to say, personality, in the widest sense of the word; under which are included health, strength, beauty, temperament, moral character, intelligence, and education.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

topic: Character, Men, Personality, Intelligence And Education

In Victorian times the purpose of life was to develop a personality once and for all and then stand on it.

- Ashley Montagu

topic: Personality, Purpose, Purpose Of Life, Victorian Times, Victorian

I believe that we start to see our true personalities when we go through the most difficult moments. This is when we get stronger

- Ayrton Senna

topic: Believe, Personality, Stronger, Difficult Moments

those who judge must take all aspects of an individual's personality into account.

- Azar Nafisi

topic: Judging, Personality, Individual, Tehran, Those Who Judge

I'm the kind of person, if I see something, like a funny video, I want to share it. With Twitter and Tumblr you can do that on a mass scale, and people get to know your personality.

- Aziz Ansari

topic: People, Personality, Video, Funny Videos

The juvenile delinquent does not feel his disturbed personality. The intelligent man does not feel his intelligence or the introvert his introversion.

- B. F. Skinner

topic: Intelligent, Men, Personality, Introversion, Intelligent Man

My final words of advice to you are educate, agitate and organize; have faith in yourself. With justice on our side I do not see how we can loose our battle. The battle to me is a matter of joy. The battle is in the fullest sense spiritual. There is nothing material or social in it. For ours is a battle not for wealth or for power. It is battle for freedom. It is the battle of reclamation of human personality.

- B. R. Ambedkar

topic: Spiritual, Justice, Personality, Words Of Advice, Final Words

The basic idea underlying religion is to create an atmosphere for the spiritual development of the individual. This being the situation, it is clear that you cannot develop your personality at all in Hinduism.

- B. R. Ambedkar

topic: Spiritual, Ideas, Personality, Spiritual Development

Welcome to the psychiatric hotline: if you are obsessive compulsive press one repeatedly. If you are schizophrenic listen closely and a little voice will tell you which number to press. If you have borderline personality disorder hang up; you have already pushed everybody's buttons.

- Barbara Oakley

topic: Voice, Numbers, Personality, Borderline, Obsessive Compulsive

Personality affects appearance, so I always think positively.

- Barbara Palvin

topic: Thinking, Personality, Appearance

There's so much fear involved in trying to do something you don't know how to do that drugs and alcohol can become a big part of your life if you have an addictive personality or are very unsure, which most songwriters are.

- Barry Mann

source: "Q&A: Mann & Weil on surving as songwriters". Interview with Steve Sailer, www.upi.com. July 25, 2002.

topic: Personality, Alcohol, Drug, Drugs And Alcohol, Unsure

They have accepted me as an individual, as a personality, as an entity. I belong! I am important! I am somebody!

- Beatrice Sparks

topic: Personality, Important, Individual

Set a page in Fournier against another in Caslon and another in Plantin and it is as if you heard three different people delivering the same discourse - each with impeccable pronunciation and clarity, yet each through the medium of a different personality.

- Beatrice Warde

topic: People, Design, Personality, Pronunciation

I hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.

- Beatrix Potter

source: Beatrix Potter (1982). “Beatrix Potter's Americans: selected letters”

topic: Personality, Generations, Influence, Descendants

Circumstances made me the theatrical personality I am, which many people believe is also a part of my personal life.

- Bela Lugosi

source: "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

topic: Believe, People, Personality

Within a capitalist consumer society, the cult of personality has the power to subsume ideas, to make the person, the personality into the product and not the work itself.

- Bell Hooks

topic: Ideas, Personality, Cult, Cult Of Personality

some actors seek parts similar to their personalities. But, I prefer undergoing a metamorphosis that depends on the role .

- Ben Gazzara

topic: Personality, Roles, Actors

It is not the how of painting but the why. To imitate a style would be a little like teaching a tone of voice or a personality.

- Ben Shahn

source: BEN SHAHN (1957). “THE SHAPE OF CONTENT”

topic: Teaching, Voice, Personality

People like to define you through what they've seen you do ... There are aspects of my personality, I guess, that come through on-screen, but I don't sit around thinking, I've been a bumbling suitor all my life.

- Ben Stiller

source: "Born Funny" by Margot Dougherty, Reader's Digest, September 2007.

topic: Thinking, People, Personality, Suitors

When I look at the human brain I'm still in awe of it. Every single time you lift off the bone and open the durra and there it is - the human brain, the thing that gives a person a personality, that distinguishes each one of us, that there could be more than 6 billion of us here on this planet with brains that look the same, but each one being distinctly different because of what is going on in that thing. I'll never get over my awe of that.

- Benjamin Carson

topic: Giving, Personality, Brain

I will go to my grave in a state of abject endless fascination that we all have the capacity to become emotionally involved with a personality that doesn't exist.

- Berkeley Breathed

topic: Personality, Fascination, States

To err is dysfunctional, to forgive co-dependent.

- Berton Averre

topic: Personality, Forgiving

Thanks to capitalism, the importance placed on beauty has never been so manipulated. We are the guinea pigs force-fed ads that tell us how pathetic we are: that we will never be loved, happy or valuable unless we have the body, the face, the hair, even the personality that will apparently be ours, if only we buy their products.

- Beth Ditto

topic: Hair, Pigs, Personality, Guinea, Guinea Pigs

Let your light shine today, and let your personality blossom, too. You don't have to be a people-pleaser, just a people-lover.

- Beth Moore

topic: Light, People, Personality, Pleasers

A lady likes to be complimented on her looks, her eyes, her figure. But the personality comments are much appreciated.

- Betty White

topic: Eye, Personality, Looks

A living entity becomes aware of his Spiritual Identity and becomes aware of the Supreme Personality of Godhead only when he comes accross a Sprititual Master.

- Bhakti Charu Swami

source: "The Law Of The Supreme Creator Part 2". www.bhakticharuswami.com. January 1, 2008.

topic: Spiritual, Personality, Identity

A bonafide spiritual master is non-different from Supreme Personality of Godhead. If one cannot say that the spiritual master is the personal manifestation of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, one will not be able to utter the holy name of the Lord.

- Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati

topic: Spiritual, Names, Personality, Spiritual Masters

When you practice yoga, first your personality changes, the faith increases, then confidence improves

- Bikram Choudhury

topic: Yoga, Practice, Personality, Bikram

On the robot kit, I can choose very boring parts or I can choose exciting and interesting parts. That is a reflection of my personality and the kinds of things I am interested in.

- Bill Budge

topic: Reflection, Interesting, Personality

A quiet personality sure isn't what you need to attract attention.

- Bill Budge

topic: Personality, Needs, Attention

I said to a guy, "Tell me, what is it about cocaine that makes it so wonderful," and he said, "Because it intensifies your personality." I said, "Yes, but what if you're an asshole?"

- Bill Cosby

topic: Funny, Personality, Guy

Nobody's irreplaceable, including me. I think for too long we've had a cult of personality in this company and in this industry, and frankly, I'd like to see that diminish.

- Bill Ford

topic: Thinking, Long, Personality, Irreplaceable, Cult Of Personality

I have created the Raven in my own image over the years and insist that mine is the version of this personality that is correct - well, at least it is correct as far as I am concerned.

- Bill Reid

topic: Years, Ravens, Personality

I would love to be a player today. I had the right personality for it.

- Billie Jean King

topic: Sports, Player, Personality

There are quite a few honest songwriters out there writing about relationships and their own personality traits. But for some reason, once they step out of the bedroom, their honesty doesn't seem to come with them.

- Billy Bragg

topic: Honesty, Writing, Personality, Personality Traits

Joy cannot be pursued. It comes from within. It is a state of being. It does not depend on circumstances, but triumphs over circumstances. It produces a gentleness of spirit and a magnetic personality.

- Billy Graham

topic: Personality, Joy, Doe, Magnetic

Part of the punk attitude was that you should project your music through your whole body... show your personality as much as possible.

- Billy Idol

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Attitude, Personality, Body

One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.

- Blaise Pascal

topic: Inspirational, Being Yourself, Personality, Rules Of Life, Knowing Oneself

To me, what makes an artist is a unique personality that they're not afraid to let show.

- Blake Shelton

topic: Artist, Unique, Personality, Unique Personality

I'm sure I'm very difficult to live with because of my make-up and personality.

- Bob Geldof

topic: Personality, Difficult, Wit

A Bug's Life' is a really funny movie and the characters have such different personalities. The movie is happy and then gets really sad and I'm like, W'hoa, I'm feeling this way and this movie is about bugs!

- Booboo Stewart

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Character, Personality, Feelings

Whatever does not pretend at all has style enough.

- Booth Tarkington

source: Newton Booth Tarkington (2015). “The Magnificent Ambersons”, p.4, Booklassic

topic: Personality, Style, Doe

Scarves, mittens, and hats are a great way to express your personality in the cold weather

- Brad Goreski

topic: Weather, Personality, Mittens, Cold Weather

I've always been very confident in my immaturity.

- Brandon Sanderson

source: Brandon Sanderson (2011). “Mistborn Trilogy”, p.217, Macmillan

topic: Personality, Immaturity

You know, I'm a television personality. It's not like I'm a famous hooker or something!

- Brett Somers

source: "Somers in the City". Interview with Michael Portantiere, www.theatermania.com. July 3, 2003.

topic: Personality, Television

Kat and I were in our 20s when we won in '88. Our personalities were already established. We were ready to move on to a life of professional skating.

- Brian Boitano

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Sports, Moving, Personality, Ready To Move On

I think generally playing live is a crap idea. So much of stage work is the presentation of personality, and I've never been interested in that.

- Brian Eno

topic: Thinking, Ideas, Personality

The extreme side of my personality, which I chose to sort of display, was snowballing and getting a life of its own. It was like looking in a mirror and not recognising myself.

- Brian Molko

topic: Mirrors, Personality, Sides

Attitude and personality are as important as experience and ability.

- Brian Tracy

topic: Attitude, Personality, Important

The depth of your belief and the strength of your conviction determines the power of your personality.

- Brian Tracy

topic: Believe, Personality, Depth, Power Of Belief, Belief In Self

The amount you laugh in your relationships with others is the true measure of the health of your personality.

- Brian Tracy

topic: Laughing, Personality, Our Relationship, Relationships With Others

It seems the deeper, truer personality of the artist only emerges in the making of decisions... in refusing and accepting, changing and revising.

- Bridget Riley

topic: Artist, Choices, Personality, Revising

To argue that we humans are capable of complex multifarious thought and feeling, whereas the sheep's perception is probably limited by lowly sheepish perceptions, is no more to the point than if I were to slaughter and eat you on the grounds that I am a sophisticated personality able to enjoy Mozart, formal logic and cannibalism, whereas your imaginative world seems confined to True Romances and tinned spaghetti.

- Brigid Brophy

topic: Animal, Sheep, Personality, True Romance

I'm so single. It's funny. I'm usually a relationship girl. I love being in love and having a partner in crime. But it's good to be your own partner in crime. God, that makes me sound like I have multiple-personality disorder.

- Brittany Snow

topic: Girl, Being In Love, Personality, Multiple Personalities, Partners In Crime

There are still personalities that you bond with or a fighting spirit that you connect with, but as a host you have to stay impartial and root for all of them.

- Brooke Burns

topic: Fighting, Roots, Personality, Fighting Spirit

Be fun! I don't like homes or rooms that don't have a sense of humor or have some sense of whimsy or a personality. Your home should reflect who you are, and what you love. I would never have something in my home because it's the thing to have. I have to love it and it needs some connection to me.

- Bryan Batt

topic: Fun, Home, Personality, Whimsy

There are peaks and valleys in anything and that is especially true for the music business. It is very inconsistent. But if you are wise, you can let those downs really bring you to another level of your personality.

- Bryan White

topic: Wise, Business, Personality, Inconsistent, Peaks And Valleys

I mean, I think I liked every band I ever played in because each band was different, each band had a different concept, and each band leader was different... different personalities and musical tastes.

- Buddy Rich

topic: Mean, Thinking, Personality, Musical Taste

No theory of the universe can be satisfactory which does not adequately account for the phenomena of life, especially in that richest form which finds expression in human personality.

- Burnett Hillman Streeter

topic: Life, Expression, Personality

Alas, it is just a single image - an extended moment perhaps. Unlike a biography, a portrait cannot present the many differing moments that make up a personality.

- Burton Silverman

topic: Personality, Portraits, Portraiture

Personalities don't love. They want something.

- Byron Katie

topic: Personality, Want, Katie

Love asks for nothing. Only personalities want something.

- Byron Katie

topic: Personality, Want

Obedience is the road to freedom, humility the road to pleasure, unity the road to personality.

- C. S. Lewis

topic: Humility, Personality, Unity

Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.

- C. S. Lewis

topic: Friendship, Personality, Catholic, Eros

Power is not of a man. Wealth does not center in the person of the wealthy. Celebrity is not inherent in any personality. To be celebrated, to be wealthy, to have power requires access to major institutions.

- C. Wright Mills

source: C. Wright Mills (2000). “The Power Elite”, p.11, Oxford University Press

topic: Men, Personality, Doe

You can't just look at someone and guess their sexuality. There's no point in assuming that every gay man has just one personality type.

- Cameron Monaghan

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Gay, Men, Personality, Personality Types, Gay Men

Lacan , Derrida and Foucault are the perfect prophets for the weak, anxious academic personality, trapped in verbal formulas and perennially defeated by circumstances. They offer a self-exculpating cosmic explanation for the normal professorial state of resentment, alienation, dithering passivity and inaction.

- Camille Paglia

topic: Self, Perfect, Personality, Lacan, Passivity

Capitalism, gaudy and greedy, has been inherent in western aesthetics from ancient Egypt on. It is the mysticism and glamour of things , which take on a personality of their own. As an economic system, it is in the Darwinian line of Sade, not Rousseau.

- Camille Paglia

topic: Egypt, Personality, Lines, Gaudy

I see far stronger and more charismatic personalities strolling around Philadelphia's neighborhoods than are being featured in most of today's bland daytime soaps.

- Camille Paglia

topic: Philadelphia, Personality, Stronger

There will never be another woman who owns the look, the personality, and the experience that you do. Those ingredients make up the recipe that defines who you are, and it's your gift from the Lord - own it.

- Candace Cameron

topic: Personality, Looks, Recipes, Another Woman

My husband is a natural-born leader. I quickly learned that I had to find a way of honoring his take-charge personality and not get frustrated about his desire to have the final decision on just about everything. I am not a passive person, but I chose to fall into a more submissive role in our relationship because I wanted to do everything in my power to make my marriage and family work.

- Candace Cameron

topic: Husband, Fall, Personality, Marriage And Family, Born Leaders

So often among so-called "primitives" one comes across spiritual personalities who immediately inspire respect, as though they were the fully matured products of an undisturbed fate.

- Carl Jung

topic: Spiritual, Fate, Personality, Matured

To become acquainted with oneself is a terrible shock.

- Carl Jung

topic: Personality, Shock, Terrible

I have frequently seen people become neurotic when they content themselves with inadequate or wrong answers to the questions of life. They seek position, marriage, reputation, outward success of money, and remain unhappy and neurotic even when they have attained what they were seeking. Such people are usually confined within too narrow a spiritual horizon. Their life has not sufficient content, sufficient meaning. If they are enabled to develop into more spacious personalities, the neurosis generally disappears.

- Carl Jung

topic: Spiritual, People, Personality, Wrong Answers

Identification with one's office or title is very attractive indeed, which is precisely why so many men are nothing more than the decorum accorded to them by society. In vain would one look for a personality behind the husk. Underneath one would find a very pitiable little creature. That is why the office is so attractive: it offers easy compensation for personal deficiencies.

- Carl Jung

topic: Men, Office, Personality, Decorum

I believe I know why it is satisfying to me to hear someone. When I can really hear someone, it puts me in touch with him; it enriches my life. It is through hearing people that I have learned all that I know about individuals, about personality, about interpersonal relationships.

- Carl Rogers

topic: Believe, People, Personality, Interpersonal Relationship

Socially I never was an outsider. I have never thought of the conflict element before frankly, but perhaps it was wanting to belong, and at the same time wanting to retain one's own personality.

- Carlisle Floyd

topic: Personality, Elements, Outsiders

I was this very precocious kid with a big personality. When my mother saw that modelling was something I enjoyed, she didnt dissuade me.

- Carmen Ejogo

topic: Mother, Kids, Personality, Precocious

More and more research is suggesting that, far from being simply encoded in the genes, much of personality is a flexible and dynamic thing that changes over the life span and is shaped by experience.

- Carol S. Dweck

topic: Personality, Research, Human Nature, Growth Mindset, Suggesting

A wedding dress is both an intimate and personal for a woman - it must reflect the personality and style of the bride.

- Carolina Herrera

topic: Personality, Style, Dresses, Wedding Dress

She had gradually changed her name. "Jane" was too dull. Last year, she'd added a "y", becoming Jayne, which had more personality.

- Caroline B. Cooney

source: Caroline B. Cooney (2009). “The Face on the Milk Carton”, p.2, Laurel Leaf

topic: Years, Names, Personality

I know my mother so well, so it's hard for me to remember that people have a certain image of her, but they don't really know her personality.

- Caroline Kennedy

topic: Mother, People, Personality

There are personalities so powerful that they leave their stamp on any place they inhabit. Their presence is always there, like a spoor, whether or not they themselves are.

- Caroline Llewellyn

topic: Powerful, Personality, Stamps

The traditional Christian attitude toward human personality was that human nature was essentially good and that it was formed and modified by social pressures and training.

- Carroll Quigley

topic: Christian, Attitude, Personality, Social Pressure

Every book is different with it's own personality just like children.

- Cassandra Clare

topic: Children, Book, Personality

When I realised I had a facility for humour, I latched on to it, and it gave me confidence and I built my personality around it. So I subconsciously made myself become the funny one so that would be my label rather than the ginger one or the red-faced one.

- Catherine Tate

source: "What I'm not is a cheery person". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. April 5, 2008.

topic: Personality, Would Be, Labels, Ginger

The search for a new personality is futile; what is fruitful is the interest the old personality can take in new activities.

- Cesare Pavese

topic: Acceptance, Personality, Interest

You're always a work in progress. Flexibility. Personality. Motivation. There's always room to improve.

- Chalene Johnson

topic: Motivation, Personality, Progress

I don't want to be known as the black model. I want to be recognized as Chanel Iman, a personality.

- Chanel Iman

topic: Personality, Black, Want, Iman

Like most people, Im fascinated by characters who are completely flawed personalities, riven by anguish and doubt, and are psychologically suspect.

- Chang-Rae Lee

topic: Character, People, Personality

It's not the work or the personality of the founder of a religion that's important, but what its followers do with what they learn.

- Charles de Lint

topic: Personality, Important, Followers

A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.

- Charles Dickens

topic: Profound, Personality, Psychology, Tale Of Two Cities, Reflecting Upon

Economics, politics, and personalities are often inseparable.

- Charles Edison

topic: Personality, Economics, Economic, Politics And Economics

We have no higher life that is really apart from other people. It is by imagining them that our personality is built up; to be without the power of imagining them is to be a low-grade idiot.

- Charles Horton Cooley

topic: People, Personality, Idiot

My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right?

- Charles M. Schulz

topic: Life, Happiness, Personality, Snoopy, What Is Happiness

Personality is to a man what perfume is to a flower.

- Charles M. Schwab

topic: Flower, Men, Personality, Inspirational Flower, Mother Flower

Since God knows our future, our personalities, and our capacity to listen, He isn't ever going to say more to us than we can deal with at the moment.

- Charles Stanley

topic: Prayer, Personality, Moments, Inspirational Prayer, Thoughts And Prayers

--but I find her personality annoying. It's like being molested by a sleeping bag that speaks in Comic Sans with little love-hearts over the i's.

- Charles Stross

topic: Heart, Sleep, Personality, Comic Sans

I have a personality that tends to be somewhat compulsive, and I do tend to think in a circular way. I dwell on the same things over and over and I try to figure out different ways of looking at the same issue.

- Charlie Kaufman

topic: Thinking, Issues, Personality

I've got so many musical personalities, I could probably get treatment for it.

- Charlie Simpson

topic: Personality, Musical, Treatment

Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us.

- Charlotte Bronte

topic: Personality, Matter, States

We'd like to think that our music will always be bigger than any one of our individual personalities.

- Chester Bennington

source: "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Thinking, Personality, Individual, Individual Personality