Personality refers to the unique set of psychological traits, characteristics, behaviors, thoughts, and emotions that define an individual and distinguish them from others. It encompasses a person’s patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving that remain relatively consistent over time and across various situations. Personality traits can include factors such as extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, emotional stability, and openness to experience, among others.
Personality is thought to be influenced by a combination of genetic factors, environmental experiences, upbringing, culture, and personal choices. It shapes how individuals interact with the world around them, how they approach relationships, how they handle challenges, and how they express themselves. Psychologists often use various theories and assessment tools to study and understand personality, aiming to classify and describe its various dimensions.
Personality Quotes
1. “I use bits and pieces of others’ personalities to form my own.”
— Kurt Cobain
2. “The note of the perfect personality is not rebellion, but peace.”
— Oscar Wilde
3. “We continue to shape our personality all our life.”
— Albert Camus
4. “’Maybe that’s what a person’s personality is: the difference between the inside and outside.’ ‘But it’s worse for me.’”
— Jonathan Safran Foer, ‘Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close’
5. “All too often our personality is nothing more than psychological clothing that we wear to hide our true self from the world.”
— Teal Swan
6. “Personality begins where comparison ends.”
— Karl Lagerfeld
7. “I would hope that I have a style or personality that is evident wherever I go.”
— Trevor Dunn
8. “All of our experiences fuse into our personality. Everything that ever happened to us is an ingredient.”
— Malcolm X
9. “Personality in man is what is ‘not his own’ . . . what come from outside, what he has learned, or reflects, all traces of exterior impressions left in the memory.”
— G. I. Gurdjieff
10. “The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role.”
— Jim Morrison
11. “The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.”
— Carl Jung
12. “Personality has power to uplift, power to depress, power to curse, and power to bless.”
— Paul P. Harris
13. “It’s beauty that captures your attention; personality that captures your heart..”
— Oscar Wilde
14. “I want freedom for the full expression of my personality.”
— Mahatma Gandhi
15. “Personality is the glitter that sends your little gleam across the footlights and the orchestra pit into that big black space where the audience is.”
— Mae West
16. “The great thing about acting is that you get to be a lot of different things in one lifetime. You get to explore different personalities and characters.”
— Eva Amurri
17. “You get a sense of how the show works and then let your personality take over.”
— Adam Baldwin
18. “Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.”
— Bruce Lee
19. “The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.”
— Peter De Vries
20. “Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
21. “Personality is reduced and deformed with depleted thoughts and stagnant mind.”
— King Hussein I.
22. “Don’t confuse my personality with my attitude. My personality is who I am, and my attitude depends on who you are.”
— Frank Ocean
23. “It seems that the necessary thing to do is not to fear mistakes, to plunge in, to do the best that one can, hoping to learn enough from blunders to correct them eventually.”
— Abraham Maslow
24. “The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.”
— Aldous Huxley
25. “Introverts live in two worlds: We visit the world of people, but solitude and the inner world will always be our home.”
— Jenn Granneman
26. “I was happiest to be alone; for it was then I was most aware of what I possessed.”
— Roman Payne
27. “I am worn out with civility. I have been talking incessantly all night with nothing to say.”
— Jane Austen, ‘Mansfield Park’
28. “People empty me. I have to get away to refill.”
— C. Bukowski
29. “Don’t think of introversion as something that needs to be cured.”
— Susan Cain
30. “I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.”
— Henry David Thoreau
31. “You might be an introvert if you were ready to go home before you left the house.”
— Criss Jami
32. “You could be lonely in a group of people. I like being alone. I like eating by myself.”
— Drew Barrymore
33. “Introverts are collectors of thoughts, and solitude is where the collection is curated and rearranged to make sense of the present and future.”
— Laurie Helgoe
34. “You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen.”
— Franz Kafka, ‘The Zurau Aphorisms’
35. “It’s never a good idea to organize society in a way that depletes the energy of half the population. We discovered this with women decades ago, and now it’s time to realize it with introverts.”
— Susan Cain
36. “I would admit I’m an introvert. I don’t know why introverts have to apologize.”
— Bill Gross
37. “Be a loner. That gives you time to wonder, to search for the truth. Have holy curiosity. Make your life worth living.”
— Albert Einstein
38. “I think a lot, but I don’t say much.”
— Anne Frank
39. “The highest form of love is to be the protector of another person’s solitude.”
— Rainer Maria Rilke
40. “We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers”
— Henry David Thoreau
41. “Introverts are word economists in a society suffering from verbal diarrhea.”
— Michaela Chung
42. “One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
43. “I need space from a world that is filled with millions of mouths that talk too much but never have anything to say.”
— Kaitlin Foster
44. “Let’s clear one thing up: Introverts do not hate small talk because we dislike people. We hate small talk because we hate the barrier it creates between people.”
— Laurie Helgoe
45. “Introverts keep their best stuff inside—that is, until it is ready.”
— Laurie Helgoe
46. “When I’m performing I’m an extrovert, yet inside I’m a completely different man.”
— Freddie Mercury
47. “But as a savvy introvert, I can differentiate between someone wanting to connect over a truly great story and an extrovert just trying to vampire energy out of a random interaction.”
— Knox McCoy
48. “An extrovert is more likely to share immediate reactions and process information through conversation.”
— Laurie Helgoe
49. “The last introvert in a world of extroverts. Silence: my response to both emptiness and saturation. But silence frightens people.”
— Ariel Gore
50. “If the extrovert watches and listens a bit more, the introvert’s true mood will become more evident.”
— Laurie Helgoe
51. “I attract a crowd, not because I’m an extrovert or I’m over the top or I’m oozing with charisma. It’s because I care.”
— Gary Vaynerchuk
52. “There is no greater plague to an introvert than the extroverted.”
— Pierce Brown
53. “Maybe come to think about it, that is the sign of an extrovert, in any event I have always from the earliest of ages found it difficult to wander into a restaurant on my own.”
— Roger Moore
54. “Being an extrovert isn’t essential to evangelism – obedience and love are.”
— Rebecca Pippert
55. “They say that extroverts are unhappier than introverts and have to compensate for this by constantly proving to themselves how happy and contented and at ease with life they are.”
— Paulo Coelho
56. “Our culture made a virtue of living only as extroverts. We discouraged the inner journey, the quest for a center. So we lost our center and have to find it again.”
— Anais Nin
57. “Extroverts never understand introverts, and it was like that in school days.”
— Neil Peart
58. “I am at a point where I really don’t know anymore if I am an introvert or an extrovert. Avoid going out and then I regret later.”
— Nitya Prakash
59. “Extroversion is an enormously appealing personality style, but we’ve turned it into an oppressive standard to which most of us feel we must conform.”
— Susan Cain
60. “I’m probably the most introverted extrovert you’ll ever meet.”
— Nikki Cox
61. “Never underestimate the social awareness and sense of reality in a quiet person; they are some of the most observant, absorbent persons of all.”
— Criss Jami, ‘Healology’
62. “It’s partly that I’m an extrovert and that I like being with people.”
— N. T. Wright
63. “In an extroverted society, the difference between an introvert and an extrovert is that an introvert is often unconsciously deemed guilty until proven innocent.”
— Criss Jami
64. “Extroverts are more responsive to high-intensity and ‘happy’ stimuli, which may be why an extrovert gets frustrated at the less ‘readable’ face of the introvert.”
— Laurie Helgoe
65. “A man of personality can formulate ideals, but only a man of character can achieve them.”
— Herbert Read
66. “Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.”
— Abraham Lincoln
67. “If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost.”
— Henry Ward Beecher
68. “Man’s main task in life is to give birth to himself.”
— Erich Fromm
69. “Personality is to a man what perfume is to a flower.”
— Charles M. Schwab
70. “I believe in a world of opposites and that’s why I avoid people with rigid and inflexible personalities.”
— Meryl Streep
71. “Cute is when your personality shines through your looks.”
— Natalie Portman
72. “I have a strong personality, and I say what I think.”
— Penelope Cruz
73. “Nothing can more quickly reveal aspect of personality and character than the choice – or absence – of color.”
— Van Day Truex
74. “Personality is more important than beauty, but imagination is more important than both of them.”
— Laurette Taylor
75. “Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.”
— Albert Einstein
76. “You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.”
— James Anthony Froude
77. “Only a real champion and a person of character and strength can keep going and refuse to give up.”
— Sadie Robertson
78. “Even the most powerful woman needs a place to unwind.”
— Barbara Taylor Bradford
79. “Every time I fail I assume I will be a stronger person for it.”
— Joan Benoit
80. “Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.”
— Bruce Lee
81. “It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.”
— Frederick Douglass
82. “Hard conditions of life are indispensable to bringing out the best in human personality.”
— Alexis Carrel
83. “Only strong personalities can endure history, the weak are extinguished by it.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche
84. “Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else’s hands, but not you.”
— Jim Rohn
85. “Every man has three characters: that which he shows, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.”
— Alphonse Karr
86. “Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.”
— Khalil Gibran
87. “I try to be cool with everybody, but sometimes, everybody just has different personalities, motives, and different characters.”
— Tyga
88. “I mean the cool thing about the movies is that you get to try on these different personalities and different styles.”
— Edward Burns
89. “It’s great how two-faced people come in groups! They’re stabbing each other in the back and are too ignorant to know it.”
— Unknown
90. “Backstabbing is nothing new. In biblical times, King David experienced the pain of betrayal.”
— Les Parrott
91. “I don’t have two different personalities. I am what I am.”
— Judy Sheindlin
92. “I definitely want to go out and explore different personalities and different people.”
— Katherine Heigl
93. “We have different personalities and different skills and the kind of things that we do, we can do together that neither of us can do separately.”
— Guy Burgess
94. “If you’re gonna be two-faced at least make one of them pretty.”
— Marilyn Monroe
95. “You’re always going to get different personalities within a team.”
— Glenn McGrath
96. “You see so many different personalities and mind-sets in the world of sports, just like you do with actors.”
— Marc Blucas
97. “My different personalities leave me in peace now.”
— Anna Freud
98. “I’ve always loved reading diaries and memoirs and just getting a sense of different personalities and what made them tick as individuals.”
— Margaret MacMillan
99. “I don’t need to have a bunch of fake friends. It’s much better to have 4 quarters than 100 pennies.”
— Unknown
100. “I have so many different personalities in me and I still feel lonely.”
— Tori Amos