Human Personality Quotes

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

  Alexis Carrel

  Character, Personality, Indispensable

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• 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”

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• 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

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

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Being Strong, Character, Depth

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• 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

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

  Maria Montessori

  Change, Greatness, Personality

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• My music is all about an idealistic human personality. I have 19th-century ideals.

  Gordon Getty

  Personality, Century, Music Is

  "I want to make the world better" by Vadim Prokhorov, www.theguardian.com. July 14, 2005.

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• Since ideology is part of the human personality, it deserves a place in the kingdom of eternal truths.

  A. B. Yehoshua

  Personality, Kingdoms, Ideology

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• I just think I'm better equipped to make a study of human personality than trying to get into the mind of animals.

  Sara Gruen

  Animal, Thinking, Personality

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• 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

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• Each human personality is like a piece of music, having an individual tone and a rhythm of its own.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Personality, Pieces, Tone

  Hazrat Inayat Khan “The Sayings of Hazrat Inayat Khan”, Library of Alexandria

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• Any attempt to shape the world and modify human personality in order to create a self-chosen pattern of life involves many unknown consequences. Human destiny is bound to remain a gamble, because at some unpredictable time and in some unforeseeable manner nature will strike back. The multiplicity of determinants which affect biological systems limits the power of the experimental method to predict their trends and behavior.

  Rene Dubos

  Destiny, Self, Order

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• The primary contribution of government to this world is to elicit, entrench, enable, and finally to codify the most destructive aspects of the human personality.

  Jeffrey Tucker

  Government, Personality, World

  Jeffrey Tucker's Facebook post, www.facebook.com. May 24, 2013.

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• Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.

  William Faulkner

  Fear, Personality, World

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• ...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

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• 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

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• 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

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• The greatness of the human personality begins at the hour of birth. From this almost mystic affirmation there comes what may seem a strange conclusion: that education must start from birth.

  Maria Montessori

  Education, Greatness, Personality

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• The aim of education should not be to teach how to use human energies to improve the environment, for we are finally beginning to realize that the cornerstone of education is the development of the human personality, and that in this regard education is of immediate importance for the salvation of mankind.

  Maria Montessori

  Education, Personality, Energy

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• I'm convinced that we can write and live our own scripts more than most people will acknowledge. I also know the price that must be paid. It's a real struggle to do it. It requires visualization and affirmation. It involves living a life of integrity, starting with making and keeping promises, until the whole human personality the senses, the thinking, the feeling, and the intuition are ultimately integrated and harmonized.

  Stephen Covey

  Integrity, Real, Struggle

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• Understanding a theory has, indeed, much in common with understanding a human personality. We may know or understand a man's system of dispositions pretty well; that is to say, we may be able to predict how he would act in a number of different situations. But since there are infinitely many possible situations, of infinite variety, a full understanding of a man's dispositions does not seem to be possible.

  Karl Popper

  Science, Men, Numbers

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• The love of God is a hard love. It demands total self-surrender, disdain of our human personality. And yet it alone can reconcile us to suffering and the deaths of children, it alone can justify them, since we cannot understand them, and we can only make God's will ours.

  Albert Camus

  Children, Self, Personality

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Plague”, p.228, Vintage

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• But when all is said and done, the fact remains that some teachers have a naturally inspiring presence and can make their exercises interesting, whilst others simply cannot. And psychology and general pedagogy here confess their failure, and hand things over to the deeper spring of human personality to conduct the task.

  William James

  Teacher, Philosophy, Spring

  William James (2013). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.53, Courier Corporation

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• paraphrasing.."Science is the language of the intellect of society. Art is language of the entire human personality.

  Naguib Mahfouz

  Art, Personality, Language

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• Decades ago, our ancestors realized that it is not just political ideology, religious belief, race, or nationalism that is to blame for a warring world. Rather, they determined that it was the fault of human personality - of humankind's inclination towards evil, in whatever form that is. They divided into factions that sought to eradicate those qualities they believed responsible for the world's disarray.

  Veronica Roth

  Religious, Race, Evil

  Veronica Roth (2013). “Divergent (Divergent Trilogy, Book 1)”, p.29, HarperCollins UK

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