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

  Maria Montessori

  Change, Greatness, Personality

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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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• 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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• ...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of attack or conquest conducted by the human personality; only when the striving for 'power' has entirely ceased and been replaced by a certain transcendental longing, often called the love of God, may they, or may they not be 'added unto you.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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The sign of our time is that the dignity of the human personality has no place: the age is, as are its laws, impersonal, its heart as of stone... . Yet on arrest, in the name of these laws, we die like dogs, neither executioner nor victim making a sound. Because he has to gasp for air all his life, panting for breath is the man of today's only way out.

  Sadegh Hedayat

  Dog, Heart, Men

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• They're so attached to their patterns that they've forgotten rule number one of human behavior: there are no patterns. People just do things. There's no such things as a coherent and fully integrated human personality, let alone consistent motivation.

  Sebastian Faulks

  Motivation, Numbers, People

  Sebastian Faulks (2007). “Engleby: A Novel”, Doubleday Books

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• Looking back at his career, Mr. Rustin, a Quaker, once wrote: ‘The principal factors which influenced my life are 1) nonviolent tactics; 2) constitutional means; 3) democratic procedures; 4) respect for human personality; 5) a belief that all people are one.’

  Bayard Rustin

  Mean, Careers, People

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• The first duty of the educator, whether he is involved with the newborn infant or the older child, is to recognize the human personality of the young being and respect it.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Personality, Firsts

  Maria Montessori (1970). “The child in the family”, Contemporary Books

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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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• 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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• 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

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• 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

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

  William Faulkner

  Fear, Personality, World

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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.

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