Personality Quotes - Help Raise Your Persona To New Levels

Personality Quotes

What follows are various personality quotes to help lighten the mode but also to offer insight and encouragement.

There are many quotes on persona and quotes about our persona available elsewhere. Here I hope these personality quotations help you in your quest to boost your personality and/or provide a few moments of wisdom and insight into life.

I hope you enjoy them and benefit from them.

Personality Quotations

A man must ride alternately on the horses of his private and public nature. Emerson

What you are must always displease you, if you would attain to that which you are not. St Augustine

As if they were our own handiwork we place a high value on our characters. Epicurus

Character is much easier kept than recovered. Thomas Paine

It's absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious. Oscar Wilde

Whenever two people meet there are six present. There is the man as he sees himself, each as the other person sees him, and each man as he really is. William James

Life is to short to be small. Benjamin Disraeli

It's not the length of life, but the depth of life. Ralph Waldo Emerson

There are only two forces that unite men - fear and interest. Napoleon Bonaparte

The negligible is important. Jonathan Miller

The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas. Linus Pauling

Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else. Margaret Mead

Every cask smells of the wine it contains. Spanish proverb

From my notebooks:

The following are taken from my notebooks. They will I hope complement the quotations given above as well as reveal a little more about my life and my thinking about life.

Some are idle thoughts and comments on life and the life we lead. Others could one day be developed further into articles or reports. I feel that they are related to the 'personality quotes' theme.

Personality quotes - from my notebooks

Not to be lost in the crowd. Not to follow blindly like sheep. Not to be overlooked.

Multiple nature of personality. Not feeling myself, that wasn't really me. Did I do that? Jostling, competing characters. Some more constructive than others. Others destructive. Some diplomatic, some unhelpful.

Something lurked in the depths of his personality unseen, not easy to articulate, and a little bit scary.

Know your boundaries, your limits, but remember both boundaries and limits can be increased. They can also be tightened and made smaller. Be aware of both possibilities.

Admit a mistake and move on. Repair the situation to the best of your ability. We all err. Be 'man' enough to realise, admit, rectify and move on. Learn from the experience. Try not to repeat them.

Do things your way. Fine for you if you know what you are doing. But don't be unnecessarily stubborn or obstructive. You have to live with others just as you have to live with yourself.

You have got to know when to say no. It won't bite you. No is no more difficult to say than yes. Both have repercussions. But know that no is an option. You will be respected for it. But know your reasons for saying no, for not wanting to do a particular thing.

We're all fragile. There is a thin line between strength and weakness, action and inaction, progress and stagnation. Just know which side of the fence you want to start and play from.

The kindness of strangers is seen around us. Do we participate or are we an innocent but receiving bystander?

Feel refreshed, rejuvenated, and ready for action. Prepared for all that which life will throw at us.

Are you tough enough? Yes you can be. it is your choice. You have the strength. Just believe it.

How can you be sure? Feel, use your inner feelings and you will find what you are looking for.

I hope you have enjoyed this 'personality quotes' page, and enjoy the rest of the website. Martin