Great Personality Quotes

• Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Successful, Personality, Unbroken

  The Great Gatsby ch. 1 (1925)

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• There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Positive, Happiness

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 2, sc. 2, l. [259]

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• The symmetry and organization of history teaches us that mankind, during its existence and development, genuinely was and became an individual, a person. In this great personality of mankind, God became man.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  God, Men, Organization

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• I don't think there is anyone in any sport who combined the supreme talent with a great personality. He is also is one of the most wonderful people who ever walked the face of the earth. I don't think there's anybody who compares to Stan Musial on both fronts.

  Jack Buck

  Sports, Thinking, People

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• If you can't see someone's got a game with great personality, you shouldn't be out there looking.

  Jerry West

  Games, Personality, Great Person

  Source: alanpaul.net

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• Nietzsche ... argues that all that passes in the life of a society is ephemeral and banausic except for the presence of great personalities, of men like Goethe ... who seem to forge their own destinies, who seem to move unhampered by those burdens of existence which keep most men from rising above the vicissitudes of their daily toil.

  John Carroll

  Moving, Destiny, Men

  John Carroll (2010). “Break-Out from the Crystal Palace: The Anarcho-Psychological Critique: Stirner, Nietzsche, Dostoevsky”, p.76, Taylor & Francis

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• The masses are only to be regarded as one of three things: either as copies of great personalities, bad copies, clumsily produced in a poor material, or as foils to the great, or finally as their tools

  Georg Brandes

  Personality, Three, Tools

  Georg Brandes (2015). “Friedrich Nietzsche (English Edition)”, p.11, WILLIAM HEINEMANN

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• You can't fake being a star. But you can also become a great personality.

  Usher

  Stars, Fake, Personality

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• You see, we're America the Beautiful, not America 'Well, At Least She Has a Great Personality'.

  Stephen Colbert

  Funny, Beautiful, America

  TV Series "The Colbert Report", 2005–2015.

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• Future generations may or may not judge Wittgenstein to be one of the great philosophers. Even if they do not, however, he is sure always to count as one of the great personalities of philosophy. From our perspective it is easy to mistake one for the other; which he is time will tell.

  A.C. Grayling

  Philosophy, Mistake, Perspective

  A. C. Grayling (1988). “Wittgenstein”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• It never occurred to him to be spiritually won over to the enemy. Many moderns, inured to a weak worship of intellect and force, might have wavered in their allegiance under this oppression of a great personality. . . . But this was a kind of modern meanness to which Syme could not sink even in his extreme morbidity. Like any man, he was coward enough to fear great force; but he was not coward enough to admire it.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Personality, Enemy

  "The Man Who Was Thursday". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, Ch. VI : The Exposure, 1908.

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• It's not that I lead this oblivious life where I think I've got such a great personality that people want to spend time with me. If someone has a poster of you or asks for your autograph, clearly you can't take them out on a date. It's not that interesting if someone is just interested in you.

  George Clooney

  Thinking, People, Interesting

  "Bedside manner". Interview with Mariella Frostrup, www.theguardian.com. January 20, 2002.

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• I do not feel any artist can produce great art without putting great personality into it. It is always a piece of you that goes on the screen or the canvass.

  Joe Murray

  Art, Personality, Pieces

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• When I'm 32? Hopefully I'll have made my mark with a few different movies, some scary ones and some comedies. I'm really funny, I have a great personality on the camera.

  Serena Williams

  Personality, Scary, Cameras

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• I think LPGA players for a long time were afraid to say what's on their minds. But we're doing all the right things and there's nothing wrong with having some great personalities and rivalries and some friction. I think that's really good for the sport.

  Cristie Kerr

  Sports, Player, Thinking

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• If you go out with a girl and they say she has a great personality, she's ugly. If they tell you a guy works hard, he can't play a lick. Same thing.

  Charles Barkley

  Basketball, Girl, Hard Work

  "Dear diary: More Chuck, less gimmicks" by Bill Simmons, www.espn.com.

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• You might be anything. You might be having any organization, you might be having any position in life, you might be any great personality, makes no difference to God. What is important is that: are you seeking?

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Wisdom, Yoga

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• Cats of great personality are always found in association with sensitive, cat-conscious people; it is a two-way process of immense mutual benefit.

  Patricia Moyes

  Cat, Mutual Benefit, Two

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