Personality Quotes - Page 8

• Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.

  T. S. Eliot

  Art, Mean, Expression

  The Sacred Wood "Tradition and the Individual Talent" (1920)

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• The Odyssey is the story of someone who, in the course of diverse experiences, acquires a personality or affirms and recovers his personality.

  Raymond Queneau

  Stories, Odyssey, Diverse

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  It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.

  Frederick Douglass

  Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

  "The 100 best nonfiction books: No 68 - Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick Douglass (1845)" by Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. May 22, 2017.

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• Integrity means that you are the same in public as you are in private.

  Joyce Meyer

  Motivational, Being Yourself, Honesty

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  The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• The fact is that five years ago I was, as near as possible, a different person to what I am tonight. I, as I am now, didn't exist at all. Will the same thing happen in the next five years? I hope so.

  Siegfried Sassoon

  Change, Years, People Changing

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• What is opportunity, and when does it knock? It never knocks. You can wait a whole lifetime, listening, hoping, and you will hear no knocking. None at all. You are opportunity, and you must knock on the door leading to your destiny. You prepare yourself to recognize opportunity, to pursue and seize opportunity as you develop the strength of your personality, and build a self-image with which you are able to live - with your self-respect alive and growing.

  Maxwell Maltz

  Opportunity, Destiny, Doors

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• Personality is to a man what perfume is to a flower.

  Charles M. Schwab

  Flower, Men, Individuality

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• A band ought to have a sound all of its own. It ought to have a personality.

  Glenn Miller

  Music, Sound, Band

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• At the heart of personality is the need to feel a sense of being lovable without having to qualify for that acceptance.

  Paul Tournier

  Heart, Acceptance, Needs

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• No matter where i go, i still end up me. What's missing never changes. The scenery may change, but i'm still the same incomplete person. The same missing elements torture me with a hunger that i can never satisfy. I think that lack itself is as close as i'll come to defining myself.

  Haruki Murakami

  Change, Being Yourself, Thinking

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• I have seen slower people than I am and more deliberate... and even quieter, and more listless, and lazier people than I am. But they were dead.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Sarcastic, Sarcasm

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.442, Courier Corporation

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• We are not the person other people wish we were. We are who we decide to be.

  Paulo Coelho

  Inspirational, Self Esteem, People

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Mar 01, 2012

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• I am a collection of dismantled almosts.

  Anne Sexton

  Who I Am, Imperfection, Individuality

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• You are what you read.

  Esko Valtaoja

  Book, Reading, Writing

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• Our past experiences may have made us the way we are, but we don't have to stay that way.

  Joyce Meyer

  Change, Past, Self

  Twitter post from May 2, 2012

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• I do not need to establish a deep, lasting, time-consuming personal relationship with every student. What I must do is to be totally and nonselectively present to the student-to each student-as he addresses me. The time interval may be brief but the encounter is total.

  Nel Noddings

  Relationship, Education, Time

  Nel Noddings (1984). “Caring, a Feminine Approach to Ethics & Moral Education”, p.180, Univ of California Press

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• I owe everything that I have done to the fact that I am very much at ease being alone.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Loneliness, Being Alone, Loner

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• A person's self-esteem has nothing to do with how she looks.

  Halle Berry

  Confidence, Self Esteem, Self Respect

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• The ability to qualify for, receive, and act on personal revelation is the single most important skill that can be acquired in this life.

  Julie B. Beck

  Skills, Important, Receiving

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• Be as you wish to seem.

  Socrates

  Inspirational, Integrity, Hypocrisy

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• Our character is mainly shaped by our primary social community - the people with whom we eat, play, converse, and study.

  Timothy Keller

  Character, Play, People

  Timothy Keller (2012). “Center Church: Doing Balanced, Gospel-Centered Ministry in Your City”, p.651, Zondervan

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• Each individual has their own unique color, which shines faintly around the contours of their body. Like a halo. Or a backlight. I'm able to see those colors clearly.

  Haruki Murakami

  Unique, Color, Shining

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• Part of being a helathy person is being well integrated and at peace.

  Candace Pert

  Inspirational, Peace, Health

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• Make sure the outside of you is a good reflection of the inside of you

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Positive, Reflection

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Mar 19, 2017

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