Top 100 Quotes About Charisma
#1. The whole system was based upon getting kids to a certain standard and packing their minds with information so they could go on to a good university ... The great failure in education, much of the time, is a lack of excitement and stimulus.
Bill Bryson
#2. The reason we're successful, darling? My overall charisma, of course
Freddie Mercury
#3. For the first time, Jacqueline heard Charisma sound less like an enthusiastic girl and more like a woman whose hard won maturity had cost her dearly
Christina Dodd
#4. Your image is your brand and you have only one opportunity to make that first impression. Choose to make a positive first impression.
Cindy Ann Peterson
#5. A funny thing about charisma: the same people who can make you feel an inch tall can also make you feel huge, fortified, sometimes almost simultaneously.
Garth Risk Hallberg
#7. Charisma often flows from total self-confidence.
Peter Heather
#8. ... the real secret to charisma is making each person you meet feel that they have your complete attention when they speak to you.
Nick Vujicic
#9. For example, a man who might not have enormous charisma, who could be president 40 years ago, and who was a deserving president, I don't know that George Washington would be a president today, I don't know that Abe Lincoln would, I don't know that Roosevelt would.
Sydney Pollack
#10. Reagan was an exceedingly likeable guy, just a heck of a nice fellow, despite his politics. He was funny and loved a good joke, the dirtier, I'm afraid the more ethnic, the better. I don't think he brought very much to the presidency, except charisma and success.
Walter Cronkite
#12. Read The Charisma Factor - How to Develop Your Natural Leadership Ability by Robert J. Richardson and S. Katharine Thayer. It is a superb book for any aspiring leader, or a current one, who seeks to advance to the next level. 195.
Robin S. Sharma
#13. Charisma without character is postponed calamity.
Peter Ajisafe
#14. In high school I had B's and C's, not too many A's, but I must have done well on that medical school test, and I must have had some charisma in the interview, so I ended up in medicine. Being a general practitioner was all I aspired to.
Barry Marshall
#15. Sinatra had a lot of mood swings, but he was wonderful to my wife Barbara and to me. He made no bones about who he liked and who he loved, and he had this great charisma. When he walked into a room, it stopped. I've only seen that happen with Ronald Reagan.
Don Rickles
#16. Charisma is a fancy name given to the knack of giving people your full attention.
Robert Breault
#17. Leaders must not be chosen based on charisma, popularity, or ease of communication, all of which are misleading and have little to do with the efficacy of a political leader.
Veronica Roth
#18. He could be as memorable an orator as his father, particularly when he was speaking on that topic that had captured his imagination;
Robert A. Caro
#19. Good posture is the correct alignment of body parts supported by the right amount of muscle tension.
Cindy Ann Peterson
#20. His captivating speech came not from his grammar or vocabulary but from the joy he took in wielding them well.
Robert Lane Greene
#21. Shelley was an idol of mine
and many
an extraordinary woman with powerful charisma, enormous talent and a keen, perceptive mind.
Connie Stevens
#22. I really wish I could sing so I could front a band, because that would be a dream come true, totally. I want to sing. Can't do it though.
Charisma Carpenter
#24. I think essentially the meaning of life is probably the journey and not really any one thing or an outcome or a result. I think it's kinda the process and I think that if you can find happiness in the process then maybe that's it.
Charisma Carpenter
#25. (LBJ) had what a journalist calls "a genius for analogy" - made the point unforgettably, in dialect, in the rhythmic cadences of a great storyteller. Master of the senate
Robert A. Caro
#26. You can take the girl out of Vegas, but you can't take the Vegas out of the girl.
Charisma Carpenter
#29. Confidence is necessary to charisma. No one's going to like the kid quietly sitting in the corner, because there's no reason to. They haven't done anything memorable or exciting. People love a trendsetter or a rebel. These
Virginia Patel
#30. Charisma is a sparkle in people that money can't buy. It's an invisible energy with visible effects.
Marianne Williamson
#31. They are like men: if bold, the better of scolding; if timid, the better of praise and flattery.
Lew Wallace
#32. Places have charisma, in short, as much as people do.
Pico Iyer
#33. Charisma will sustain a relationship only in the way that strong coffee first thing in the morning will sustain a career.
Elliot Perlman
#34. J.R.R. Tolkien, said a student, "could turn a lecture room into a mead hall in which he was the bard and we were the feasting, listening guests.
Philip Zaleski
#35. A panel at a beautiful annual literary festival in Brazil, held in the almost Utopian coastal town of Parati, found me matched with Fernando Gabeira. This comparison reduced my own limited charisma value to something like zero: Gabeira has excelled at every cultural activity in Brazil.
Christopher Hitchens
#36. You have to imprint your own style. People like authentic personalities.
Dexter Hawk
#37. Lucien drew female eyes wherever he went. It wasn't just his height, or his Viking beauty, or his broad shoulders. The man exuded lust from his very bones: he emitted sexual charisma on a frequency that no woman could be expected to ignore.
Kitty French
#38. It does not take the striking pose of a high-fashion model or the strict stance of someone in uniform to earn respect and admiration.
Cindy Ann Peterson
#39. Do you never get exhausted being so wholly unbearable? You have as much charisma as the rotting innards of unidentified roadkill.
Tahereh Mafi
#40. Mandela means a lot to the world. He's something special. There's only a few people in the history of mankind with that kind of charisma.
Ruud Gullit
#41. The Beatles did everything with down-to-earth humor, honesty, optimism, style, charisma, irreverence, intelligence, and a particularly spiky disdain for falseness.
Mark Lewisohn
#42. Stress can also lead to poor posture because it causes you to breathe more shallowly, which leads to slumping.
Cindy Ann Peterson
#43. God blessed me with two unbelievable parents, and I am just like both of them. I have the smile and charisma of my mother and the big heart of my mom, because she wants to save the world and help the world, so I am just like her.
Magic Johnson
#44. The few individuals who are capable of spontaneous and joyous effort stand out. These are the select men, the nobles, the only ones who are active and not merely reactive, for whom life is a perpetual striving, an incessant course of training.
Ortega Y Gasset, Jose
#45. Jack Kennedy could have been a movie star himself. He had the charisma, the charm, that come-hither quality that can never be duplicated. Is it any wonder he got elected president?
Marilyn Monroe
#46. Posture Power, when interviewing for a job remember. Poor posture shows uncertainty and a lack of confidence and ability. Good posture conveys confidence and an air of capability.
Cindy Ann Peterson
#47. Besides, when not hard at work with this research, I'm actually conducting a side experiment on how cigarettes and gin increase charisma. As you might guess, the results are looking very promising.
Richelle Mead
#49. He was the rarest of things, a Republican with sex appeal.
David Halberstam
#50. So I begged, half way into season two, for them to let me cut my hair.
Charisma Carpenter
#53. A great conductor possesses that certain charisma and talent that demand the ears and the attention of an audience. I can't tell you how that happens, but I'm sure it has an inner basis that is never learned.
Isaac Stern
#54. You're a star
and so am I. I'm a genius
and so are you.
Your success encourages my brilliance, and my charisma enhances your power.
Your victory doesn't require my defeat, and vice versa.
Rob Brezsny
#55. There's nothing the rich fear more than a poor person with ideas and charisma.
Alex Burrett
#56. If the company depends entirely on you - your creativity, ingenuity, inspiration, salesmanship or charisma - nobody will want to buy it. The risk and the dependency are too great.
Margaret Heffernan
#57. I watched Ali, studied Ali, and I studied Sugar Ray Robinson. I watched them display showmanship. I watched them use pizzazz, personality, and charisma. I took things from them and borrowed things from them because boxing is entertainment.
Sugar Ray Leonard
#58. Disequilibrium is often instigated by the will to power, a sleepless drive in the human personality to control others, to force them to do what one wants, or not to do what one opposes.
Ron Suskind
#59. Oh heck yeah, I totally would love to have a Phantom Dennis in real life.
Charisma Carpenter
#61. Leadership is a word people use to reconcile any kind of charisma that was impossible to otherwise explain.
Chuck Klosterman
#62. Organizations know that they cannot wait until the right person with the right traits shows up. Increasingly there is doubt that even charisma and individual competences are enough
Marilyn Jacobson
#63. He knew not only WHAT to wear, but HOW to wear it.
Erik Larson
#64. Charisma is the intangible that makes people want to follow you,
to be around you, to be influenced by you.
Roger Dawson
#65. For Jack Kennedy, who only made campaigning LOOK easy, it was, in fact, anything but.
David Pietrusza
#66. In what appears to have been an unplanned quip, Wilberforce asked Huxley if he thought he was descended from an ape on his father's or mother's side. Huxley retorted that he would rather have simian relatives than claim kinship with a man who used his charisma and authority to quash free debate.
Jonathan Clements
#67. Charisma is the ability to influence without logic.
Quentin Crisp
#68. Great romantics are granted lots of slack.
Pat Conroy
#70. He smiles, his palpable charisma pulling me in like low tide. Or riptide.
Lisa Daily
#71. Charisma is a mysterious and powerful thing. I have it in limited supply, and that which I do have functions under highly specialized conditions.
Jesse Kellerman
#72. Pure talent and charisma and like gods they were terrible together. Awful. A gorgeous nightmare.
Jess Walter
#73. When I was first starting out, and I was less established, I was really concerned about being typecast.
Charisma Carpenter
#74. Charisma is not just saying hello. It's dropping what you're doing to say hello.
Robert Breault
#75. He called himself Jack, a plain handshake of a name, a far cry from the Clive Staples he had been christened, and to be Jack was the hard work of a lifetime.
Philip Zaleski
#76. Charm is an intangible. Chutzpah, charm, charisma, that kind of thing, you can't buy it. You either have it or you don't.
Colm Feore
#78. The three most charismatic leaders in this century inflicted more suffering on the human race than almost any trio in history: Hitler, Stalin, and Mao. What matters is not the leader's charisma. What matters is the leader's mission.
Peter F. Drucker
#79. If I'd had a charisma-ectomy in the beginning, XP would have gone nowhere.
Kent Beck
#80. Charisma is a word that erodes stale on the page. When compared with the tangible, flesh experience it tries to label, it falls short. The only way to understand it, is to meet it.
Brian D'Ambrosio
#81. Beauty is an asset, just like physical prowess, charisma, brains or emotional intelligence. The key with any gift is in the way that you use it. It doesn't define you as a person. Rather, it's an asset to be used judiciously and with an understanding of how it is just a small part of who you are.
Dale Archer
#82. He has the vocal modulation of a railway-station announcer, the expressive power of a fence-post and the charisma of a week-old head of lettuce.
Fintan O'Toole
#83. I've had the joy of working on critically acclaimed shows, but unfortunately, those shows aren't always in the Golden Globe or Emmy categories, which bums me out because they are really good, quality shows.
Charisma Carpenter
#84. She's smiling wider than I've ever seen her smile. "Daniel Wesley, where'd you learn those smooth moves?" I laugh.
"Not moves, Six. Charisma.
Colleen Hoover
#86. As his former student Alastair Fowler once remarked, "Lewis seemed always on the verge of hilarity -- between a chuckle and a roar.
Greg Cootsona
#87. The road Cordelia has travelled, the journey she has taken up to now has been such a joy to play as an actress, because there have been so many chances to do so many different emotions.
Charisma Carpenter
#88. New concepts should be introduced by the power of imagery.
Douglas Coop
#89. John Kerry and Ralph Nader met face-to-face, it was a historic meeting. Astronomers said today their meeting actually created what is called a 'charisma black hole.'
Jay Leno
#90. I wonder if there'll ever be a time where you're not judged by your appearance. It seems that wherever you've got to, your appearance is always discussed. It's never said about men. We talk about a man's charisma, not his looks.
Kate Williams
#91. When I wasnt sure what the word charisma meant, I met Steve Jobs and then I knew.
Larry Tesler
#92. The basis of intimidation as I practiced it was mystery. I wanted the hitter to know nothing about me.
Bob Gibson
#93. If Chevy Chase had not been an actor, he might have been a very popular guy in advertising or whatever field he would have gone into, because of his charisma.
Harold Ramis
#94. Healthy posture is based on natural positions that balance and support your skeletal system's curves and weight-bearing abilities against the force of gravity.
Cindy Ann Peterson
#95. If he (Teddy Roosevelt) lacked Will Taft's immediate charisma, gradually his classmates could not resist the spell of his highly original personality.
Doris Kearns Goodwin
#96. Always trust your gut and your intuition will steer you right, every time.
Charisma Carpenter
#98. I attract a crowd, not because I'm an extrovert or I'm over the top or I'm oozing with charisma. It's because I care.
Gary Vaynerchuk
#99. Berg was proud of his storytelling to the point where he collected stories about telling stories.
Nicholas Dawidoff
#100. Teddy Roosevelt "had relished "every hour" of every day as president. Indeed, (he was) fearing the "dull thud" he would experience upon returning to private life.
Doris Kearns Goodwin
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