Top 100 Self Personality Quotes
#1. This is Akram Vignan [Akram Science - the stepless spiritual science of direct realization of the Self]. Once you pull out from the racecourse [competitive worldly life], your 'personality' will shine then. Those in the racecourse will never have personality; not a single person.
Dada Bhagwan
#2. To develop understanding and compassion for who we are as introverts, we must be able to explore who we are, what makes us happy, what makes us unhappy, and what our
subsequent needs are.
Aletheia Luna
#3. I wasn't writing, I wasn't drawing, and personality-wise, I was just completely arrogant. I'm not trying to be overly apologetic for my behavior - I wasn't evil. The lifestyle I had was one that lent itself to becoming more and more self-involved.
Patti Smith
#4. Bioenergetics is an adventure in self-discovery. It differs from similar explorations into the nature of the self by attempting to understand the human personality in terms of the human body. Most previous explorations focused their investigations on the mind.
Alexander Lowen
#5. A person who magnanimously exhibits their passion allows us to witness their authentic personality whereas a cold and calculating personality remains inscrutable.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#6. You have thousands of selves inside you. Meditation is a process of peeling back the layers of the self. We start with peeling back the personality from this lifetime.
Frederick Lenz
#7. There is but one God. True is His Name, creative His personality and immortal His form. He is without fear sans enmity, unborn and self-illumined. By the Guru's grace He is obtained.
Guru Nanak
#8. Every person is the master of his or her own destiny. What we think about alters our character. Our character organizes our personality, and our personality scripts how successfully we interact with other people and respond to a changing environment.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#9. What we call the personality is often a jumble of genuine traits and adopted coping styles that do not reflect our true self at all but the loss of it.
Gabor Mate
#10. Religion is about integration, about successfully bringing the selfish ego into line with the centre of the personality where God exists, as a divine spark, in every human being. Religion is about helping man to live in harmony with his true self and to become the person God's designed him to be.
Susan Howatch
#11. If you go through the biography of any famous personality you idolize you are sure to see the how the words 'I can' and 'I believe' played a very vital role in their fame.
Stephen Richards
#12. If you want to discover the true character of a person, you have only to observe what they are passionate about.
Shannon L. Alder
#14. But I don't have any confidence ."
"Why not ?"
"Because I have no sense of self . I have no personality , no brilliant color . I have nothing to offer . That's always been my problem . I feel like an empty vessel . I have a shape , I guess , as a container but there's nothing inside .
Haruki Murakami
#15. As for my ideal type, I like girls who don't have powerful presence, and not self-centered. I'd like her to have a light skin, and a calm personality.
Yesung
#16. Always remember that your personality is your big asset. Do not try to emulate another person. Real personality comes from the heart.
Thomas Watson Jr.
#17. The role of the therapist is to reflect the being/accepting self that was never allowed to be in the borderline.
Michael Adzema
#18. There will be people who look at you and say 'You're weird' smile at them and say thank you because they don't know how beautifully unique you are
Me
#19. Just about ANY personality trait or skill can be learned: simply find it in someone you know and copy it. Then watch what happens.
Steve Goodier
#20. I want freedom for the full expression of my personality.
Mahatma Gandhi
#21. When we die to something, something comes alive within us. If we die to self, charity comes alive; if we die to pride, service comes alive; if we die to lust, reverence for personality comes alive; if we die to anger, love comes alive.
Fulton J. Sheen
#23. Beauty is not skin-deep; it can be a means of self-affirmation, a true indicator of personality and confidence.
Aimee Mullins
#24. The strength of Shevek's personality, unchecked by any self-consciousness or consideration of self-defense, was formidable.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#25. There's such a lot of different Annes in me. I sometimes think that is why I'm such a troublesome person. If I was just the one Anne it would be ever so much more comfortable, but then it wouldn't be half so interesting.
L.M. Montgomery
#26. I was constantly watching myself, my secret self, as dependent on my actions as my own personality
Joseph Conrad
#27. How many of you would want to limit your reality, your entire reality, to the experience you now know? You do this when you imagine that your present self is your entire personality, or insist that your identity be maintained unchanged through an endless eternity. (10:43.)
Jane Roberts
#28. The State in particular is turned into a quasi-animate personality from whom everything is expected. In reality it is only a camouflage for those individuals who know how to manipulate it.
C. G. Jung
#29. A crucial element of the real self is its unconditional acceptance of itself.
Michael Adzema
#30. Life is the constant process of self-creation. We constantly make and remake our personal version of the self. Personal introspection is critical to ascertain who we want to become by ascertaining what traits we wish to eradicate and what qualities we wish to embody.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#31. It is a fact of life that certain people are corrosive to others' self esteem simply as a function of who and what they are.
David Foster Wallace
#32. A Coy Aversion
...a flutter
too shy
to be seen...
Muse
#34. Maybe a person is just made up of a lot of people," I say. "Maybe we're accumulating these new selves all the time.
Jandy Nelson
#35. The belief that personality is mysterious and irreducible has no scientific warrant, and is accepted chiefly because it is flattering to our human self esteem.
Bertrand Russell
#37. Sometimes it is very difficult to keep in mind the fact that the parents, too, have reasons for what they do
have reasons, locked in the depths of their personalities, for their inability to love, to understand, to give of themselves to their children.
Virginia Mae Axline
#38. Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Do not bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
William Faulkner
#39. A person's self-concept is the core of his personality.
Joyce Brothers
#40. Mature love is not a surrender of the self but a surrender to the self. The ego surrenders its hegemony of the personality to the heart, but in this surrender it is not annihilated. Rather it is strengthened because its roots in the body are nourished by the joy that the body feels.
Alexander Lowen
#41. One is often unconsciously surrounded by one's own personal reality
Pawan Mishra
#42. I am often tired of myself, and I have a notion that by travel I can add to my personality, and so change myself a little. I do not bring back from a journey quite the same self that I took.
Selina Hastings, Countess Of Huntingdon
#44. Each of us is something of a schizophrenic personality, tragically divided against ourselves.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#45. Stan Ulam was lazy, ... He talked too much ... He was self-centered ... He had an overpowering personality.
Gian-Carlo Rota
#46. I wondered how far I should turn out faithful to that ideal conception of one's own personality every man sets up for himself secretly.
Joseph Conrad
#47. Single people without children have a childish sensitivity and are unwilling or unable to compromise or fit in
Ninni Holmqvist
#48. The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.
T. S. Eliot
#49. A brand vision should attempt to go beyond functional benefits to consider organizational values; a higher purpose; brand personality; and emotional, social, and self-expressive benefits.
David A. Aaker
#50. Who cares for your beauty if your heart and mind is ugly
Alex Haditaghi
#51. I believe in my mask
The man I made up is me
I believe in my dance
And my destiny
Sam Shepard
#52. After death the soul possesses self-consciousness, otherwise, it would be the subject of spiritual death, which has already been disproved. With this self-consciousness necessarily remains personality and the consciousness of personal identity.
Immanuel Kant
#53. Peace is self-control at its widest-at the width where the "self" has been lost, and interest has been transferred to coordinations wider than personality.
Alfred North Whitehead
#54. When a manic-depressive personality begins to slide deeply into a depressive period, he had written, one symptom he or she may exhibit is acts of self-punishment: slapping, punching, pinching, burning one's self w/ cigarette butts,
Stephen King
#55. A willingness to let go of an old self and allow creative thoughts to remake a person into a better version of oneself requires an act of courage.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#56. Marie Calloway has a very specific literary personality that the reader is intrigued by: she's masochistic, loves to experiment, is quickly bored and intermittently self-hating, very hip, rebellious. Figuring her out is a gripping adventure.
Edmund White
#57. Americans share an affinity to establish a distinctive identity and know one's self in a physiological, psychological, and spiritual sense, and we strive to attain self-actualization, self-realization, and/or bliss.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#58. When He [God] talks of their losing their selves, He means only abandoning the clamour of self-will; once they have done that, He really gives them back all their personality, and boasts (I am afraid, sincerely) that when they are wholly His they will be more themselves than ever.
C.S. Lewis
#59. Most people stiffen with self-consciousness when they pose for a photograph. Lighting and fine camera equipment are useless if the photographer cannot make them drop the mask, at least for a moment, so he can capture on his film their real, undistorted personality and character.
Philippe Halsman
#60. I sort of tend to equate tattoos with prisoners, punks or people with a high level of self-confidence. I don't necessarily have a covered-in-tattoos personality.
Lena Dunham
#61. I see ... the way you're always searching. How much you hate anything fake or phony. How you're older than your years, but still ... playful, like a little girl. How you're always looking into people, or wondering what they see when they look back at you. Your eyes. It's all in the eyes.
Claudia Gray
#62. More than ever, we express ourselves with what we buy and how we use what we buy. Extensions of our personality, totems of our selves, reminders of who we are or would like to be. Great marketers don't make stuff. They make meaning.
Seth
#63. If we look straight and deep into a chimpanzee's eyes, an intelligent self-assured personality looks back at us. If they are animals, what must we be?
Frans De Waal
#64. The different people are not like other people, but being different is nothing to be ashamed of. Because other people are not such wonderful people. They're one hundred times one thousand. You're one times one! They walk all over the earth. You just stay here.
Tennessee Williams
#65. How many yous have you been?
How many,
Lined up inside,
Each killing the last?
Kate Tempest
#66. The process of self-healing is the privilege of every being. Self-healing is not a miracle, nor is self-healing a dramatization of the personality as though you could do something superior. Self-healing is a genuine process of the relationship between the physical and the infinite power of the soul.
Harbhajan Singh Yogi
#67. He was his own victim, his own slave. He had made personality a profession, created a career out of selling himself. And he could not stray far, or for long, from his self-made self.
Jim Thompson
#69. I'm self-aware enough to know that I have a somewhat fractured personality. Not exactly multiple personality disorder, but clearly there were different drivers at the wheel depending on my mood, and depending on my needs. Over
Jonathan Maberry
#70. To give life to yourself is to become a person you are potentially and realize your potential
Sunday Adelaja
#71. The reason I suggest that one speaks of a false-self system is that the 'personality', false self, mask, 'front', or persona that such individuals wear may consist in an amalgam of various part-selves, none of which is so fully developed as to have a comprehensive 'personality' of its own.
R.D. Laing
#72. Your own self, your personality and existence are reflected within the mind of each of the people whom you meet, ... into a likeness, a caricature of yourself, which still lives on and appears to be, in some way, the truth about you. Even a flattering picture is ... a lie.
Isak Dinesen
#73. Owing to a poorly defined sense of self, people with BPD rely on others for their feelings of worth and emotional caretaking. So fearful are they of feeling alone that they may act in desperate ways that quite frequently bring about the very abandonment and rejection they're trying to avoid.
Kimberlee Roth
#74. A person has to be comfortable in his or her own skin.
Fennel Hudson
#75. One of the marvels of personality is its resistance to prediction. One man's paralyzing trauma is another man's invitation to take control of his life; one woman's grounds for insanity is another woman's ground to a dramatic shaping of self.
Rosellen Brown
#76. The shaping of character mimics the smallest detail of habit; humans are creatures that learn from observation. Each little thing you do, and each thing you allow yourself to become desensitized to matters. They create you - whether you know it consciously or not.
Grace Sara
#77. Becoming an influential personality at work is much more important than becoming a hardworking person!
Abhishek Ratna
#78. I can't think of anybody ... who knows the sum and substance of what I know and feel and cry about in my secret self all the time when I don't feel strong, the sorrows of time and personality, and can therefore on all levels make it all the way with me
Jack Kerouac
#79. If you go to Jesus to get a new personality, Lewis says, you still haven't really gone to Jesus. Your real self will not come out as long as you are looking for it; it will only emerge when you're looking for Him.
Timothy J. Keller
#80. But man as a person, the same man, gains mastery over egocentric self-confinement by disclosing a universe in himself ... Personality is a universe, it is filled with universal content.
Nikolai Berdyaev
#81. Enlightenment doesnt occur from sitting around visualizing images of light, but from integrating the darker aspects of the Self into the conscious personality.
Carl Jung
#82. No man, however civilized, can listen for very long to African drumming, or Indian chanting, or Welsh hymn singing, and retain intact his critical and self-conscious personality.
Aldous Huxley
#83. The soul is trapped by the personality/ego.The personality/ego has to have a shift of a higher self-worth, then and only then, can the personality/ego can act on what the soul is saying. Serena Jade
Serena Jade
#84. Immerse yourself into self-development, realization of potential and establishing yourself as real person and personality
Sunday Adelaja
#85. Lineage, personality, and environment may shape you, but they do not define your full potential.
Mollie Marti
#86. The more distortions we have the less attention we can pay to realizing our potential and self- actualization of our personality
Sunday Adelaja
#88. It is necessary for everyone to develop their internal personality
Sunday Adelaja
#89. There's a different film being made in every mind. And of course, the star of the film is the mind, the personality, the self.
Frederick Lenz
#90. Your brain is the organ of your personality, character, and
intelligence and is heavily involved in making you who you are.
Daniel G. Amen
#91. We're so concerned with the idea of what we ought to be that we fail to take into account the things that make us who we really are.
Nenia Campbell
#92. But what if you simply don't have a solid self to return to - if the way you are is seen as basically broken? And what if you can't conceive of "normal" or "healthy" because pain and loneliness are all you remember?
Kiera Van Gelder
#93. If you never leave where you come from, I don't think you'll ever figure out who you are, because how much is forced on you? How much of your personality is imposed instead of created? That's why I left. I think people need to leave in order to find their potential.
Katie Kacvinsky
#94. Julia Roberts most definitely would play me in the film of my life. Not just because of the hair but because she has all sides to her personality come through in films that I could just imagine her playing my crazy self so well.
Jess Glynne
#95. You can't deduce the personality of the potter from the pots. It's a thingy you've made and offered to somebody else for their use, and, believe me, a novel is like that. It's a made thing and ought not to contain a direct self-expression of the writer.
Jill Paton Walsh
#96. I am a complicated person with a simple life and I am the reason for everything that ever happened to me.
Charlotte Eriksson
#97. There are times when I am so unlike myself that I might be taken for someone else of an entirely opposite character.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#98. I just needed to realize that style was like personality - it didn't always have to be consistent; it just had to be something you lived with.
David Levithan
#99. You still have only one self and one identity. However, self, identity and personality are not things, they are not objects, and they certainly are not rigid. Instead, they are biological processes built within the brain from numerous interactive components, step by step, over a period of time.
Antonio Damasio
#100. 'All the gods are one god and all the goddesses are one goddess, and there is one initiator.' The one initiator is one's own high self, with which the personality becomes more and more integrated as the path of spiritual evolution is followed.
Doreen Valiente
