Quotes about Personality

I once heard one of his colleagues describe my father as "the kind of guy who could tell you to go to hell and you'd look forward to the trip.

C. S. Lewis observed, "The more we let God take us over, the more truly ourselves we become — because he made us. He invented all the different people that you and I were intended to be…. It is when I turn to Christ, when I give up myself to His personality, that I first begin to have a real personality of my own.

We need you to be you. We don't need a second anybody. We need the first you.

Your body is made up of around seventy-five trillion cells, every one of those cells containing hundreds of thousands of molecules with six feet of DNA in every cell containing over three billion letters of coding. These cells are a potent blend of matter and memory—bones and hair and blood and teeth and at the same time personality and essence and predispositions and habits.

If people are foolish, they are bound to mix the personality and the Truth, and to build a temple around the personality and form a religion.

Only those who respect the personality of others can be of real use to them.

Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.

The Bible says God is good. It's His personality, His nature. It's impossible for Him to do bad; it's outside His very character. And yet when we start to think about religion, about God, we spend most of our time trying to gather up the courage to trust and believe that God is actually going to be good to us and be willing to help us.

When you consider someone without assumptions, your inner antenna picks up a new signal. Instead of tuning in to someone's personality, you tune in to his or her essence. This essence is spirit, and when you detect it, the natural response is love.

It's true that charisma can make a person stand out for a moment, but character sets a person apart for a lifetime.

If a man is known by the company he keeps, so also his character is reflected in the books he reads.

But the law of magnetism really is true: who you are is who you attract.