Personality Quotations

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.

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

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.

You look at a herd of cattle and well, they all look the same... but they know. They all have an individual personality, and those personalities change from day to day. They can have their grumpy days and their happy days and their serene days. But it's unpredictable. You can't be off in outer space when you're dealing with animals.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

We are personalities in the making, limited, and grappling with things too high for us. Obviously we, at very best, will make many mistakes, but these mistakes need not be sins.

I'm just showing my personality in my clothing.

If we are completely honest with ourselves, everyone has a dark side to their personalities.

I have an hourglass shape, and I think it's important to understand your body type and your personality type. Then make whatever is on trend and in fashion work for you.

I'm a handsome man with a charming personality.

I have had wrinkles on my forehead and my smile line since I was a kid. I see them in my own kids. I know what they're going to look like. So it's kind of like that's my personality. I feel the older you get, too, the more confident you become just in your own skin.

The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.

I am such a complex person. I have so many different layers of my personality to choose from. I am super-sensitive, and I am super-strong.

I'm always interested in trying to investigate different personalities. I want to keep myself guessing and keep the fear element alive, so that I don't get too comfortable.

A magnetic personality doesn't necessarily indicate a good heart.

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.

We are all born with a unique genetic blueprint, which lays out the basic characteristics of our personality as well as our physical health and appearance... And yet, we all know that life experiences do change us.

I definitely want to go out and explore different personalities and different people.

At the heart of personality is the need to feel a sense of being lovable without having to qualify for that acceptance.

I am convinced that living in an enclave shapes the personality, and living alone shapes the personality too.

Personality is more important than beauty, but imagination is more important than both of them.

I think it's really important to design things with a kind of personality.

It becomes more necessary to see the truth as it is if you realize that the only vehicle for change are these people who have lost their personality.

Style is a reflection of your attitude and your personality.

My responsibility is always and everywhere the same: to see in my brother more even than the personality and manhood that are his. My task is always and everywhere the same: to see Christ himself.

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

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.

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

A fragrance that matches the personality of the man or woman who wears it is an integral part of the memory that you have of him or her. It goes without saying that it's a formidable weapon of seduction.

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.

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

People's mood is really determined primarily by their genetic make-up and personality, and in the second place by their immediate context, and only in the third and fourth place by worries and concerns and other things like that.

Sometimes I feel an obligation to be accessible as a personality, but for me the driving force since the beginning has always been good work, taking risks, trying new things. If the door opens, go through it. Always go forwards.

I was diagnosed with everything from schizophrenia to multiple personality disorder.

Enormous enlargements of an object or a fragment give it a personality it never had before, and in this way, it can become a vehicle of entirely new lyric and plastic power.

I'm not really a management-type person. It doesn't suit my personality to be bossing people around.

I'll tell you something: my dad was a nuclear engineer and he was really bright, and I've always said that because of negotiating at such a young age with my dad, it was really such a gift because I could then negotiate with very difficult personalities - and not end up being the scapegoat. I learned to really pick and choose my battles.

The great thing about acting is that you get to be a lot of different things in one lifetime. You get to explore different personalities and characters.

Some people are born with a vital and responsive energy. It not only enables them to keep abreast of the times; it qualifies them to furnish in their own personality a good bit of the motive power to the mad pace.

A person however learned and qualified in his life's work in whom gratitude is absent, is devoid of that beauty of character which makes personality fragrant.

I am what is mine. Personality is the original personal property.

Instead of a weak and vacillating Government, a single, purposeful, energetic personality is ruling today.

My significant other right now is myself, which is what happens when you suffer from multiple personality disorder and self-obsession.

I have an extremely addictive personality. I'm an extremist.

A lot of crime fiction writing is also lazy. Personality is supposed to be shown by the protagonists taste in music, or were told that the hero looks like the young Cary Grant. Film is the medium these writers are looking for.

I think it is important to maintain your personality, your roots, very important.

There's nothing like meeting someone's family to get a true sense of them and a reflection of their ethics and personality. It just makes them a more rounded person.

I think people like it when you have a bit of personality.

I'm very physical. It's an important part of being a woman - feeling good about yourself and really being in tune with your personality.

There are different kinds of humor, some is sarcastic, some introspective. Introspective fit my personality better.

I'm not really a political satirist. I don't kid myself. I'm more interested in doing the mannerisms and the personality.

If guys don't respect themselves, they don't respect other people. That's times and personalities. And all of them are not that way. But it don't take but one or two to screw up the whole crowd.

The horses are all characters, all personalities. Some you get along with, some you don't, some might take a bit longer.

Obama's personality traits, coupled with his extreme-leftist agenda, make him particularly dangerous to the American ideal and to the preservation of our founding principles, as well as to the liberty and prosperity they guarantee.

Brains, integrity, and force may be all very well, but what you need today is Charm. Go ahead and work on your economic programs if you want to, I'll develop my radio personality.

A man of personality can formulate ideals, but only a man of character can achieve them.

Reality TV is really just based for sensationalism. So, it's extreme versions and extreme caricatures of personalities.

The idea of eternity lives in all of us. We thirst to live in a belief which raises our small personality to a higher coherence - a coherence which is human and yet superhuman, absolute and yet steadily growing and developing, ideal and yet real.

I am a private person and that has always been my personality.

Yes, it seems we've got this mutant gene in our human personality that makes us susceptible to this same kind of mistake over and over again. It's really uncanny how we build these beautiful multicultural edifices and then allow this switch to be flipped and everybody goes, 'Oh, the other, get them out of here.

Through travel, you discover a new aspect to your personality. You discover things which you wouldnt seated in the confines of your home.

I have a lot of sides to my personality and what you see on 'The Hills' is a strong, independent woman, which I am. But I also have a sensitive side that I don't show too much.

I've got a very behind-the-scenes personality. I don't know how I became a performer. I like to stay discreet, out of the public eye, very low-key.

Someone I met years ago explained to me the difference between a personality and an actor, a personality being Eddie Murphy or Roseanne Barr, and an actor being Morgan Freeman and Alfre Woodard or Marlon Brando.

Up on that stage, my personality changes. I put everything behind me when I perform. My problems dont belong to my fans. I dont put a burden on my audience. I give them 100 percent of my energy.

Whenever you do an animated project or a voice-over project it's inevitable that part of your personality comes into play.

You can be fat and love yourself. You can be fat and have a great damn personality. You can be fat and sew your own clothes. But you can't be fat and healthy.

One aspect of my mum's personality that has influenced me is her love of Hollywood and the golden era of black-and-white films.

I'd like to think that I'm brave. That's a really wonderful personality trait to have. I would love to think I'm the type of person to go rescue someone.

I am convinced, the way one plays chess always reflects the player's personality. If something defines his character, then it will also define his way of playing.

Muhammad Ali is a combination of personality and athlete who is probably better known around the world than any other. He became a great hero.

I have not been on any river that has more of a distinctive personality than does the Missouri River. It's a river that immediately presents to the traveler, 'I am a grandfather spirit. I have a source; I have a life.

That whole environment was just incompatible with my beliefs and my personality. It was a dark time for me.

My personality resembles my designs to a large extent. I'm in sync with myself and I'm transparent, just like my designs.

Some of the words and symbols and images from childhood will continually be part and parcel of my personality.

To maintain one's individuality, integrity, and true personality in the theatre is a big task.

My best personality trait that I think I'm very approachable. And my worst is that I can be moody.

I am a public person and I have my private life. It's important for me that my private life stay private, that what I share with the people is my public personality.

An awareness of our past is essential to the establishment of our personality and our identity as Africans.

I'm from Alabama and I have morals and I have class. That's my personality.

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

I have a lot of different traits to my personality, depending on who I'm around, and what the dynamic in the situation is.

Style, no matter how outrageous it is, is still an expression of someone's personality. And my personality is somewhere stuck in the classics.

When you see me on TV, that's about as close to my real personality as you can get.

My hair was so much a part of my personality and all my photo shoots. I hid behind my hair. And then, I just decided I was okay with myself. To have short hair and really show my face is even more revealing than anything. It's a statement - not to everyone else, more to myself. I'm just ready to get out from behind my hair and be myself.

The fact is that all of us have only one personality, and we wring it out like a dishtowel. You are what you are.

Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.

I'm Jim Phillips, I have multiple personalities. I'm also a skindiver, a puppeteer, and I was the tenth president of the United States.

All I need is my brains, my eyes and my personality, for better or for worse.

I dont have the confidence to be a personality.

Every actor looks all his life for a part that will combine his talents with his personality... 'The Odd Couple' was mine. That was the plutonium I needed. It all started happening after that.

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.

I like writing for individuals with really rich musical personalities.

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.

I think I 'turn off' women. I've a kind of a weird personality. Women may think that I'm a mess.

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.