F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes About Personality

Quotes about: Personality

• Don't let yourself feel worthless: often through life you will really be at your worst when you seem to think best of yourself; and don't worry about losing your "personality," as you persist in calling it: at fifteen you had the radiance of early morning, at twenty you will begin to have the melancholy brilliance of the moon, and when you are my age you will give out, as I do, the genial golden warmth of 4 p.m.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Morning, Moon, Thinking

  F. Scott Fitzgerald, James L. W. West (1995). “This Side of Paradise”, p.102, Cambridge University Press

• Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Successful, Personality, Unbroken

  The Great Gatsby ch. 1 (1925)

• And he could not tell why the struggle was worthwhile, why he had determined to use the utmost himself and his heritage from the personalities he had passed... He stretched out his arms to the crystalline, radiant sky. I know myself," he cried, "But that is all.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Struggle, Sky, Personality

  This Side of Paradise ch. 5 (1920)

• Very strong personalities must confine themselves in mutual conversation to very gentle subjects.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Strong, Personality, Conversation

• There was no God in his heart, he knew; his ideas were still in riot; there was ever the pain of memory; the regret for his lost youth-yet the waters of disillusion had left a deposit on his soul, responsibility and a love of life, the faint stirring of old ambitions and unrealized dreams...... And he could not tell why the struggle was worth while, why he had determined to use to the utmost himself and his heritage from the personalities he had passed... He stretched out his arms to the crystalline, radiant sky. I know myself," he cried, "but that is all.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Dream, Pain, Memories

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2016). “This Side of Paradise”, p.222, Xist Publishing

• If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life, as if he were related to one of those intricate machines that registered earthquakes ten thousand miles away.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Successful, Earthquakes, Personality

  The Great Gatsby ch. 1 (1925)

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