Quotes on Personality

A woman of generous character will sacrifice her life a thousand times over for her lover, but will break with him for ever over a question of pride.

Repose and cheerfulness is the badge of the gentleman; repose in energy.

Every epoch has its character determined by the way its population reacts to the material events which they encounter.

For a great nature, it is a happiness to escape a religious training; religion of character is so apt to be invaded.

Character is tested by true sentiments more than by conduct. A man is seldom better than his word.

What a man is depends on his character; but what he does, and what we think of what he does, depends on his circumstances.

I would die happy if I knew that on my tombstone could be written these words, "This man was an absolute fool. None of the disastrous things that he reluctantly predicted ever came to pass!"

If God lets me live, I shall attain more than Mummy ever has done, I shall not remain insignificant, I shall work in the world and for mankind!

A study of family portraits is enough to convert a man to the theory of reincarnation.

I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

Silence is a solvent that destroys personality, and gives us leave to be great and universal.

There is little place in the political scheme of things for an independent, creative personality, for a fighter. Anyone who takes that role must pay a price.

Probably, the nature of homophobia will never be widely interrogated, while we will continue to be excluded from school curricula, subjected to vicious media distortions, or entirely ignored, denied basic civil rights while our demands are ridiculed and derided. But in the midst of all this only one thing has changed for certain. We have changed. We will never go back into the closet.

Even in such technical lines as engineering, about 15% of one's financial success is due one's technical knowledge and about 85% is due to skill in human engineering, to personality and the ability to lead people.

It is very hard to live with silence. The real silence is death and this is terrible. To approach this silence, it is necessary to journey to the desert. You do not go to the desert to find identity, but to loses it, to lose your personality, to be anonymous. You make yourself void. You become silence. You become more silent than the silence around you. And then something extraordinary happens: you hear silence speak.

I think... it is somehow very useful, and maybe even essential, for a fine artist to have to somehow make his peace on the canvas with all the things he cannot do. That is what attracts us to serious paintings, I think: that shortfall, which we might call 'personality,' or maybe even 'pain.'

One of the troubles of our times is that we are all, I think, precocious as personalities and backward as characters.

Our characters are the result of our conduct.

The power of transcendent vision is greater than the power of the scripting deep inside the human personality and it subordinates it [the scripting], submerges it, until the whole personality is reorganized in the accomplishment of that vision.

How wonderful it would be if we could help our children and grandchildren to learn thanksgiving at an early age. Thanksgiving opens the doors. It changes a child's personality. A child is resentful, negative, or thankful. Thankful children want to give, they radiate happiness, they draw people.

Coming to terms with the fear of death is conducive to healing, positive personality transformation, and consciousness evolution.