Human Personality Quotes

• Hard conditions of life are indispensable to bringing out the best in human personality.

  Alexis Carrel

  Character, Personality, Indispensable

  18 Copy quote

• The greatness of the human personality begins at the hour of birth.

  Maria Montessori

  Change, Greatness, Personality

  7 Copy quote

• The 'self-image' is the key to human personality and human behavior. Change the self image and you change the personality and the behavior.

  Maxwell Maltz

  Self Esteem, Keys, Behavior Change

  MAXWELL MALTZ, M.D.,F.I.C.S. (1960). “PSYCHO-CYBERNETICS”

  30 Copy quote

  Show source

• You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Faith, Hope

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.30, Courier Corporation

  102 Copy quote

  Show source

• Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

  Albert Einstein

  Funny, Hilarious, Education

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.32, St. Martin's Press

  226 Copy quote

  Show source

• Depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Being Strong, Character, Depth

  4 Copy quote

• ...liberation from constraints that operate at the level of ordinary humanity---limits imposed by space and time, by the needs of the body, and by the opaqueness of the computer-like mind. All three examples [Jacob Lorber, Edgar Cayce, and Therese Neumann] illustrates the paradoxical truth that such 'higher powers' cannot be acquired by any kind of attack or conquest conducted by the human personality; only when the striving for 'power' has entirely ceased and been replaced by a certain transcendental longing, often called the love of God, may they, or may they not be 'added unto you.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Space, Personality, Humanity

  0 Copy quote

• Personally, I am convinced the human personality does survive the change which we call death. Although we have no scientific evidence of this at present, there is no reason to suppose it will always be lacking.

  Jane Roberts

  Afterlife, Personality, Doe

  0 Copy quote

• I never heard of anybody who admired the character of sheep. Even the gentlest human personalities in contact with them are annoyed by their lack of brains, courage and initiative, by their extraordinary ability to get themselves into uncomfortable or dangerous situations and then wait in inert helplessness for someone to rescue them.

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher

  Character, Dangerous Situations, Sheep

  5 Copy quote

• We built this [socialistic] society not for the curbing of personal liberty, but in order that human personalities should really feel free.

  Joseph Stalin

  Order, Personality, Liberty

  3 Copy quote

• The traditional Christian attitude toward human personality was that human nature was essentially good and that it was formed and modified by social pressures and training.

  Carroll Quigley

  Christian, Attitude, Personality

  Carroll Quigley (1966). “Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time”, G S G & Associates Pub

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Though I am a Catholic, a professing one, I have serious doubts about the survival of the human personality after death.

  Taylor Caldwell

  Personality, Catholic, Doubt

  4 Copy quote

• Every time we say we believe in the Holy Spirit, we mean we believe that there is a living God able and willing to enter human personality and change it.

  John Owen

  Believe, Mean, Personality

  96 Copy quote

• As artists, we belong to an ancient and holy tribe. We are the carriers of the truth that spirit moves through us all. When we deal with one another, we are dealing not merely with our own human personalities but also with the unseen but ever-present throng of ideas, visions, stories, poems, songs, sculptures, art-as-facts that crowd the temple of consciousness waiting their turn to be born.

  Julia Cameron

  Song, Art, Moving

  3 Copy quote

• It seems obvious to me that the notion of God has never been anything but a kind of ideal projection, a reflection upward of the human personality, and that theology never has been and never can be anything but a more and more purified mythology.

  Alfred Loisy

  Reflection, Personality, Kind

  5 Copy quote

• Bioenergetics is an adventure in self-discovery. It differs from similar explorations into the nature of the self by attempting to understand the human personality in terms of the human body. Most previous explorations focused their investigations on the mind.

  Alexander Lowen

  Adventure, Discovery, Self

  Alexander Lowen (1994). “Bioenergetics”, Penguin Group USA

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• No theory of the universe can be satisfactory which does not adequately account for the phenomena of life, especially in that richest form which finds expression in human personality.

  Burnett Hillman Streeter

  Life, Expression, Personality

  0 Copy quote

• There is an indomitable quality within the human spirit that cannot be destroyed; a face deep within the human personality that is impregnable to all assaults.

  Chester Himes

  Personality, Quality, Faces

  51 Copy quote

• The human personality has no limitations except those which it accepts.

  Jane Roberts

  Personality, Accepting, Humans

  Jane Roberts (2000). “ESP Power”, p.271, Frederick Fell Publishers

  2 Copy quote

  Show source

• My final words of advice to you are educate, agitate and organize; have faith in yourself. With justice on our side I do not see how we can loose our battle. The battle to me is a matter of joy. The battle is in the fullest sense spiritual. There is nothing material or social in it. For ours is a battle not for wealth or for power. It is battle for freedom. It is the battle of reclamation of human personality.

  B. R. Ambedkar

  Spiritual, Justice, Advice

  68 Copy quote

• We renovate the heart by, of course, changing it, but we can't do that, really, without changing the other essential parts of the human personality.

  Dallas Willard

  Heart, Personality, Essentials

  Source: renovare.org

  0 Copy quote

  Show source

• Long ago I'd said that I am "fascinated by the phantasmagoria of human personality" - this is perhaps even truer now than years ago.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Long Ago, Years, Personality

  "Writing Lessons From the Madly Prolific Joyce Carol Oates". Interview with Alexander Sammon, www.motherjones.com. September 10, 2016.

  0 Copy quote

  Show source

• "Laws and conditions that tend to debase human personality - a God-given force - be they brought about by the State or other individuals, must be relentlessly opposed in the spirit of defiance shown by St. Peter when he said to the rulers of his day: "Shall we obey God or man?"

  Albert Lutuli

  Men, Law, Personality

  "The Road to Freedom is via the Cross". Book by Albert Lutuli, 1952.

  48 Copy quote

  Show source

• The central issue of poetry as of politics is the destiny of the human personality.

  Martin Carter

  Destiny, Issues, Personality

  3 Copy quote

• Education is character development, harmonious completion of human personality. But what the state accomplishes in this field is dull drill, extinction of natural feeling, narrowing of the spiritual field of vision, destruction of all the deeper elements of character in man. The state can train subjects...but it can never develop free men who take their affairs into their own hands; for independent thought is the greatest danger that it has to fear.

  Rudolf Rocker

  Spiritual, Character, Independent

  20 Copy quote