Personality - Quotes

Being a personality is not the same thing as having a personality. - Unknown

Even in the most insignificant details of our daily life, none of us can be said to constitute a material whole, which is identical for everyone, and need only be turned up like a page in an account-book or the record of a will; our social personality is a creation of the thoughts of other people. - Marcel Proust

How many friends have you lost, how many have you gained, because they glimpsed some element of your personality that shone through for only an instant, and in circumstances you could never reproduce? An illusion of water shimmering at the far end of a highway. - Kevin Brockmeier

Humans are different in private than in the presence of others. While the private persona merges into the social persona in varying degrees, the union is never complete. Something is always held back. - Brian Herbert & Keven J. Anderson

Man is concentric: you have to take fold after fold off of him before you get to the centre of his personality. You must get below his animal nature, habits, customs, affections, daily life, and sometimes go away down into the heart of the man, before you know what is really in him. But when you get into the last core of these concentric rings of personality you find a sense of the infinite – a consciousness of immortality linked to something higher and better. - E. H. Chapin

Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures. - F. Scott Fitzgerald

Personality is to a man what perfume is to a flower. - Charles M. Schwab

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed. - Carl Jung

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

We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die. - Albert Camus