1,479 Quotes About Personality

Shakespeare may have said it in Hamlet that "clothes maketh a man." And this may not be entirely wrong, as a man’s choice of clothes certainly plays an important part in making the man’s overall personality.

Mostly, I enjoy my failings. Until I don't.

And I tremble from head to toe. And I look up at him and the wild look in his eye.

When the barriers were down at last, loneliness would vanish as personality faded.

Being bad is not really bad.

His personality is a firework in the middle of the night, while mine is barely a dim candle.

You are invited to believe that you are the point of you.

Let’s be honest, Carefree Scamps have rarely been accused of being the epitome of virtue, and that’s because we intermittently break the rules. Yet despite this we are often charming enough for others around us to make allowances. “He’s just prone to being misled.

The ideal personality is embodied, in Mead's words, in "every thread of the social fabric–in the care of the young child, the games the children play, the songs the people sing, the political organization, the religious observance, the art and the philosophy." Other traits are ignored, discouraged, or if all else fails, ridiculed. What is the ideal in our culture?