Comparison get you down?
No one is happy when they are busy comparing themselves to others (or vice versa).
And there’s no need to torture yourself like that.
You have your own personality. And it’s worth getting to know it.
That’s why we’ve put together a list of great personality quotes to inspire you to get to know yourself and other important personalities in your life.
The best personality quotes to keep on hand are the ones that speak directly to you.
45 of the best personality quotes
1. “I am what is mine. Personality is the original personal property.” –Norman O. Brown
2. “Personality is more important than beauty, but imagination is more important than both.” – Laurette Taylor
3. “Personality is an uninterrupted series of successful gestures.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
4. “The most important form of freedom is to be who you really are.” -Jim Morrison
5. “If you want to build your personality, don’t do it extraordinarily, just act like a human being.” -Mohammad Rishad Sakhi
6. “I believe that a strongly marked personality can influence offspring for generations.” –Beatrix Potter
7. “Always be yourself, express yourself, have confidence in yourself, don’t look for a successful personality and duplicate it.” –Bruce Lee
8. “I’ve always been misrepresented. You know, I could dress up in a clown costume and laugh with the happy people, but they would still say I’m a dark personality. -Tim Burton
9. “Positive expectations are the hallmark of the superior personality.” – Brian Tracy
10. “For the adult, the whole world is a stage and the personality is the mask one wears to play the assigned role.” – Sam Keen
11. “One of life’s biggest regrets is being what others want you to be, instead of being yourself.” –Shannon L. Alder
12. “I use bits and pieces of other people’s personalities to shape my own.” – Kurt Cobain
13. “Maybe that’s what a person’s personality is: the difference between inside and outside.” – Jonathan Safran Foer
14. “The tone of the perfect personality is not rebellion, but peace.” –Oscar Wilde
15. “Don’t try to adopt a new personality; it does not work.” – Richard M. Nixon
16. “Personality is in fact only a free being that emphasizes and recognizes itself as such. Every person creates his own personality, he is to that extent his own creator.” – Sabine Baring-Gould
17. “Most of what we call ‘personality’ is determined by the way we have chosen to defend ourselves against fear and sadness.” – Alain de Botton
18. “The things we love tell us who we are.” – Thomas Aquinas
19. “Tell me what you’re looking for and I’ll tell you who you are.” – José Ortega and Gasset
20. “I could never stand the idea of anyone expecting anything from me. It always made me want to do the exact opposite.” – Jean-Paul Sartre
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21. “It is beauty that attracts your attention; personality that wins your heart.” —-Oscar Wilde
22. “Your personality is the only permanent thing in your, ultimately, temporary life… that’s all the more reason to cherish it.” —Isabella Koldras
23. “All too often, our personality is nothing more than psychological clothing we wear to hide our true selves from the world.” – Teal Swan
24. “Let your personality be your advantage and not your punishment.” —Amit Kalantri
25. “Having a passive personality is a gentle way to live a dead life.” —Omar EL Kadmire
26. “Personality lies in the intention of life’s evolution, and human personality is but one way in which this intention is realized.” —Joseph L. Baron
27. “If you want to know my personality, look through my bedroom window and see how I act.” —Benjamin Ndayishimiye
28. “Personality is lower than partisanship.” —Goldwin Smith
29. “Humility is no substitute for good personality.” —Fran Lebowitz
30. “Where there is personality, there is disagreement.” —-Terry Pratchett
31. “Our personality must be impenetrable even to ourselves.” —Fernando Pessoa
32. “When people label you by saying you have an attitude, just tell them you have a personality that is unwavering and unaffected by what people say about you.” —Aarti Khurana
33. “Personality is a mask you believe in.” —Dr. White
34. “Personality is not mature until a man has mastered the truth.” —Soren Kierkegaard
35. “Personality is the knowledge that we are separate from the rest of the universe.” —Ernest Dimnet
36. “Our social personality is a creation of the thoughts of other people.” Marcel Proust
37. “The attractiveness and magnetism of man’s personality are the result of his inner radiance.” —Yajur Veda
38. “Man’s actions and motives determine his personality.” —Lailah Gifty Akita
39. “It’s not what you say, it’s how you say it – because personality always wins the day.” —Joseph L. Baron
40. “Personality is not a predictor of character.” —Betty Russel
41. “Personality is considered a collection of relatively discrete, independent, and limited social capacities, each of which is relevant only to performance within a specific domain of life.” —David C. Funder
42. “Personality is the result of our conditioning.” Balkrishna Panday
43. “We get criticized for not showing personality, and then we get punished when we do.” —Lindsay Davenport
44. “Your personality is what holds you back.” —Jason Donnelly
45. “Personality shapes your intellect. “ —Xin-An Lu
Final thoughts
Now that you’ve gone through the list of personality quotes, which ones stood out to you?
Reflect on a favorite in a journal entry or write it on a nearby whiteboard. You can even make a mug or other gift with one of these quotes using a service like Café Press.
Whatever you do, don’t let those quotes fade from your memory without finding a way to benefit from them. Let one of them inspire your actions today.
Who knows where it could lead?
