Personality Quotes

Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality. (Erich Fromm)
The functions of the family in a highly differentiated society are not to be interpreted as functions directly on behalf of the society, but on behalf of personality. View quote
Talcott Parsons
Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotion know what it means to want to escape from these. View quote
T. S. Eliot
An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation. View quote
Joseph Conrad
Style is a reflection of your attitude and your personality. View quote
Shawn Ashmore
Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successfull personality and duplicate it. View quote
Bruce Lee
People should be judged on the basis of their performance, not nationality, personality, education, or personal traits and skills. View quote
Marvin Bower
Every art expression is rooted fundamentally in the personality and temperament of the artist. View quote
Hans Hofmann
Your source material is the people you know, not those you don't know, [but] every character is an extension of the author's own personality. View quote
Edward Albee
In Harvest of Stars, there is this notion, not original with me of course, that it will become possible to download at least the basic aspects of a human personality into a machine program... View quote
Poul Anderson
As a teacher, as a propagandist, Mr. Shaw is no good at all, even in his own generation. But as a personality, he is immortal. (Max Beerbohm)
Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. View quote
Martin Luther King Jr.
We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality. View quote
Albert Einstein
Probably careful plotting reflects my personality. I am meticulous by nature. I can't imagine speed-writing anything that happens to pop into my head. View quote
William Landay
You don't really know how beautiful a girl is, until you meet her, all her beauty is in her personality. View quote
Zac Efron
We may say that many, if not all, of the personality traits which we have called masculine or feminine are as lightly linked to sex as are the clothing, the manners, and the form of headdress that a society at a given period assigns to either sex. View quote
Margaret Mead
There's something in the human personality which resents things that are clear, and conversely, something which is attracted to puzzles, enigmas, and allegories. View quote
Stanley Kubrick
I am lucky to have three daughters who are completely different. I look at my daughters and I have different relationships with all three and there are parts of each personality that are very special. View quote
Vanessa L. Williams
When you get the personality, you don't need the nudity. View quote
Mae West
The only quality that endures in art is a personal vision of the world. Methods are transient: personality is enduring. View quote
Edward Hopper
You know how it is with some girls. They seem to take the stuffing right out of you. I mean to say, there is something about their personality that paralyses the vocal cords and reduces the contents of the brain to cauliflower. (P. G. Wodehouse)
If it weren't for the coffee, I'd have no identifiable personality whatsoever. View quote
David Letterman
Personality is more important than beauty, but imagination is more important than both of them. View quote
Laurette Taylor
Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in. View quote
Amy Lowell
Realizing that our actions, feelings and behaviour are the result of our own images and beliefs gives us the level that psychology has always needed for changing personality. View quote
Maxwell Maltz