Top 100 Quotes About Charisma
#1. 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
#2. I don't know what it is about Ackbar that tends to quash arguments. He has a kind of moist charisma, I guess, that no one wants to challenge. I know I don't want to dispute him, anyway.
Kevin Hearne
#3. Focusing on both these steps will create a virtuous cycle that will increase your charisma quotient as you get more and more practiced at expressing emotion authentically.
Nick Morgan
#4. It's as if inside the White House the belief in Obama's inspirational charisma is still such that every time the ugliness of brute politics intrudes, it's a startling revelation.
Tina Brown
#5. The reason why people are huge stars is nothing to do with acting. It's the magic. Charisma is a word that's used too often; it's something special, and it's what makes stars. It's luck, and basically, it's genes.
Shirley Eaton
#6. I'm not sure what the hell charisma is, but I get the feeling it's Willie Mays.
Ted Kluszewski
#7. Never be impressed with charisma. Look for character.
Rick Warren
#8. In the performer's body, you don't care how you look. It doesn't matter if you're old, fat, beautiful, or ugly. It doesn't change anything. The only thing is your charisma and how you express your idea.
Marina Abramovic
#11. A bully with charisma and top marks is still a bully.
Patrick Ness
#12. John F. Kennedy brought style and charisma to the White House and a first family that captivated the country: a handsome, witty president, an elegant first lady, and two adorable young children.
Kitty Kelley
#13. Mike Stanton is our preeminent aficionado and raconteur of Rhode Island's flamboyantly criminal political follies, and The Prince of Providence is the chronicle of a great American rogue, Mayor Buddy Cianci - a paragon of charisma and corruption.
Philip Gourevitch
#14. She's got no charisma of any kind [but] I can imagine her being mildly useful to a low-rank porn director.
Christopher Hitchens
#15. People who love life have charisma because they fill the room with positive energy.
John C. Maxwell
#16. Dark circles are my charisma though.
Seungri
#17. The charismatic portrait of the modern leadership looks nothing like Fidel Castro. It is a faceless portrait that epitomizes the toughness of Ronald Reagan, Nelson Mandela's charisma, and the most compassionate heart of Mother Theresa.
Anthony Obi Ogbo
#18. History is rich with adventurous men, long on charisma, with a highly developed instinct for their own interests, who have pursued personal power - bypassing parliaments and constitutions, distributing favours to their minions, and conflating their own desires with the interests of the community.
Umberto Eco
#19. They say I'm a natural, I have natural charisma. People say that. I don't know.
Dwight Henry
#21. My strong point is not rhetoric , it isn't showmanship, it isn't big promises - those things that create the glamour and the excitement that people call charisma and warmth.
Richard M. Nixon
#23. I didn't have that thing that Michael Bolton did; my star power - my charisma - was not a match to my writing ability.
Dan Hill
#24. God has blessed me with a certain amount of presence and a certain amount of charisma.
Ving Rhames
#25. Over time, is it easier or harder to sustain your influence within your organization? With charisma alone, influence becomes increasingly more difficult to sustain. With character, as time passes, influence builds and requires less work to sustain.
John C. Maxwell
#26. For some reason, men in politics seem to have a bunch of charisma, and women drop around their feet. I haven't noticed that so much for me and men.
Lara Giddings
#27. Authentic power is the real deal. You can't inherit it, buy it, or win it. You also can't lose it. You don't need to build your body, reputation, wealth, or charisma to get it.
Gary Zukav
#28. His was a quiet but persistent charisma.
H.W. Brands
#29. We shouldn't require our politicians to be movie stars. Then again, we're all influenced by charisma. It's hard not to be. We all collectively fall for it.
Julianne Moore
#30. People think artists like 50 Cent don't have charisma, but it's just a different kind of charisma, a bully charisma, which is kinda frowned upon.
Earl Sweatshirt
#31. Deacon was good, too-almost as good as me. His charisma draws people in, even if it's only a facade.
Suzanne Young
#32. Charisma
the divine force that manifests itself in men and women. The supernatural power we don't need to show to anyone because everyone can see it, even usually insensitive people. But it only happens when we're naked, when we die to the world and are reborn to ourselves
Paulo Coelho
#33. Charisma can be as much a liability as an asset, as the strength of your leadership personality can deter people from bringing you the brutal facts.
James C. Collins
#34. There isn't a single player I would pay to watch. You can say Thierry Henry, he's a fabulous striker, with pace and power, but a great entertainer needs to have charisma, too. Does he have charisma? No.
George Best
#35. One of hardest for any historian or a biographer to do is to capture convincingly on paper something as ethereal as charisma. It's a relative term, and different generations define it differently.
Richard Norton Smith
#36. He broke his heart into a million pieces before it could gather itself back and fall in love with her yet again.
Such was her charisma.
Abhishek Krishnan
#37. Charisma's good every night. Something special is always about to happen. You've got to believe it.
Jim Thome
#38. Among all life forms, there are creatures with charisma and creatures without. It's one of those ineffable qualities we can't quite define, but we all seem to respond similarly to.
Susan Orlean
#39. I really think my fun personality is my ace in the hole. I will never claim to be the most beautiful or most talented queen, because I can think of many queens who fit that description. However, it's my "charisma" that takes me to a higher level in my drag!
Manila Luzon
#40. Charisma is the gift from above where a leader knows from inside himself what to do.
Max Weber
#41. When you put together deep knowledge about a subject that intensely matters to you, charisma happens. You gain courage to share your passion, and when you do that, folks follow.
Jerry Porras
#42. Although he had certain talents as a musician and a composer, he lacked the charisma or showmanship or whatever it was that made a performer stand out
Nicholas Sparks
#43. It's true that charisma can make a person stand out for a moment, but character sets a person apart for a lifetime.
John C. Maxwell
#44. Being a leader gives you charisma. If you look and study the leaders who have succeeded, that's where charisma comes from, from the leading.
Seth Godin
#45. He knows that in leadership cleverness is not as important as content, that charisma and dash are not as vital as character and doctrine.
Neal A. Maxwell
#46. It's pretty amazing, someone having that kind of charisma - and it still happens in micro and macro forms - to convince a whole gaggle of people to kill themselves. Or put on robes and jump up and down. That takes a very charismatic leader.
Annie E. Clark
#47. Heroic leaders often made mistakes ... mistakes that were amplified by the number of followers who were held in thrall by charisma. (Introduction to Dune Messiah)
Brian Herbert
#48. Sturdiness, wariness, fatigue, but also an energy or glow
something like the center of a low flame, Is this what they call charisma? I do not know, exactly, except to say that Warm was more THERE than the average man.
Patrick DeWitt
#49. Because I'm not blind to how Harry works, you know," she said. "A bully with charisma and top marks is still a bully." She sighed, annoyed. "He'll probably end up Prime Minister one day. God help us all.
Patrick Ness
#50. You always knew when Seve walked in a room even if you had your back to him. He oozed charisma and brought a whole new meaning to aura.
Lee Westwood
#51. If you're completely off your rocker and have delusions of grandeur in which your personal existence is of special significance to the rest of the world, all hope is not lost. Mix in enough charisma and you have what it takes to start a religion ... or become a serial killer.
Edward M. Wolfe
#52. Guard glowered at me in silence, of course. It was an act. No one could resist my bluff and manly charisma. In his heart of hearts, he wanted to be friends with me. I just knew it.
Jim Butcher
#53. "Perceive" is the word that became in the '72 campaign what "charisma" was for the 1960, '64 and even the '68 campaigns. "Perceive" is the new key word. When you say perceive you imply the difference between what the candidate is and the way the public or the voters see him.
Hunter S. Thompson
#54. Being negative is like spraying yourself with anti-charisma
Karen Salmansohn
#55. Charisma is the fragrance of soul.
Toba Beta
#56. The journalists have obviously failed to capture my innate magnetism, humour and charisma, and they all need to be fired from their newspapers right away.
Alexei Sayle
#57. The so-called spirituality that was handed to me by those who put me to the task of pastoral work was not adequate. I do not find the emaciated, exhausted spirituality of institutional careerism adequate. I do not find the veneered, cosmetic spirituality of personal charisma adequate.
Eugene H. Peterson
#58. Jeanne Moreau, Lauren Bacall, they had this unconventional beauty, this amazing charisma.
Josephine De La Baume
#59. The moment you think you have charisma, you are finished.
Riccardo Muti
#60. No amount of talents, skills or charisma can sustain us the way integrity, character & attitude does.
Sidney Mohede
#61. Shirley Temple had charisma as a child. But it cleared up as an adult.
Totie Fields
#62. If you find someone attractive, you try to make them find you attractive. That is called seduction. And seduction is a bit ugly. You could say it's a bit ugly to use your charisma.
Jonathan King
#63. Dalai Lama has not coming to show us his kindness, so that we can enjoy his charisma, he's coming with a specific message for the specific circumstances of the world today.
Pico Iyer
#64. Charisma, that's my strong point. My personality was always good, but with music I had to grow into it. I grew into who I am now.
Schoolboy Q
#65. I have the charisma of the chipmunk. I never have thought I was smart. I thought the people I dealt with were dumb.
Hyman George Rickover
#66. But charisma only wins people's attention. Once you have their attention, you have to have something to tell them.
Daniel Quinn
#67. I hate the solo artist aspect of rock-'n'-roll. I don't have enough personality or charisma to be a solo star.
Dave Grohl
#68. I think some of the big characters, you know, they do these adventures, but they've got something about them, they've got this charisma, and they've got to have a sense of humor. Because whether it be very dry, or very silly, they've got to be likable.
Rhys Darby
#69. We know that those who challenge the status quo and do so with both conviction and charisma are at risk of being killed.
Robin R. Meyers
#70. Walter Mondale has all the charisma of a speed bump.
Will Durst
#71. that wild charisma and wanderlust.
John Green
#72. When you're in film and you're in close, charisma in the eyes and confidence can take over. But when someone's sitting twenty rows back, you need the whole body. You need to be encompassed by an actor.
Alison Pill
#73. Too many people are confusing charisma with autocrat, fat cat. So I think we have to be a little more sophisticated when we hold up or tear down these stereotypes. Whether we call it charisma or not, a leader cannot be self-effacing to the point of being wimpy.
Noel Tichy
#74. Charisma is not so much getting people to like you as getting people to like themselves when you're around.
Robert Breault
#75. The person that made me want to make movies, and the reason I do films, is Bruce Lee. He was an incredible actor, and he had a lot of charisma. Handsome, action, you know, everything was there. I loved Bruce Lee.
LL Cool J
#76. Sometimes I can better describe a person by another person's reaction. In a story in my first book, I couldn't think of a way to sufficiently describe the charisma of a certain boy, so the narrator says, "I knew girls who saved his gum."
Amy Hempel
#77. If you want a great replacement, like, who can follow Barack and still have that swag, that charisma, that charm and be historic - I think it would be Tina Fey for president.
Hasan Minhaj
#78. I don't think I have charisma. I don't think that someone will yell 'Wow, he's charismatic' when I'm eating in a restaurant.
Jay Park
#79. Effective leadership is about earning respect, and it's also about personality and charisma
Alan Sugar
#80. Consider the idea that charisma can be as much a liability as an asset. Your strength of personality can sow the seeds of problems, when people filter the brutal facts from you.
James C. Collins
#81. I was friends with Susan Sontag the last four years of her life. She had this amazing charisma and so much energy, but she had a sad little funeral in Montparnasse in Paris. It was rainy. It was all wrong. And I was thinking, 'God, she loved life so much.'
Marina Abramovic
#82. I absolutely love working with David Boreanaz, and Charisma Carpenter I completely adore - she teaches me to dance.
J. August Richards
#83. To be on the same team with Orr was great because when I turned pro, nobody had more charisma.
Marcel Dionne
#84. I don't invest anymore in entrepreneurs who don't have charisma.
Barbara Corcoran
#85. Inspiring leadership communication is not about great oratory or great charisma; rather it is about getting others to believe in themselves and believe in your cause, and then achieve more than they thought was possible.
Kevin Murray
#86. Charisma on stage is not necessarily evidence of the Holy Spirit.
Andy Stanley
#87. With somebody like Harrison Ford, they're so commanding and confident, and you know, he does have a certain power or charisma, and those are things that are sort of ineffable.
Paul Dano
#88. A championship contender in the early twentieth century needed charisma and a knack for cultivating sponsorship, and Rubinstein was the epitome of the shy and unsocial chess player. Now matter how great his chess skills, he lacked the people skills to be a self-promoter and fund-raiser.
Garry Kasparov
#89. One summer I remember, I got exposed to Chuck Berry and Buddy Holly and Buddy Holly was a very very big, made a very big impression on me. Because of a lot of things, you know, the way he looked and his charisma.
Eric Clapton
#90. You see, some lawyers have the talent, have the charisma, but no discipline. They come into court unprepared, without having done their research.
Nancy Grace
#91. I do like British guys. If I had to pick one it would be Ewan McGregor. I met him once and he was gorgeous, even if he is a little short. He has the most amazing charisma.
Eva Longoria
#92. Leadership is not about having the charisma or speaking inspirational words, but about leading with example.
Zainab Salbi
#94. 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
#95. 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
#96. Leadership is a word people use to reconcile any kind of charisma that was impossible to otherwise explain.
Chuck Klosterman
#97. 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
#98. 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
#99. There's nothing the rich fear more than a poor person with ideas and charisma.
Alex Burrett
#100. 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
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