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• Personality: The combination of characteristics or qualities that form an individual’s distinctive character. Oxford Dictionary
• Personality: The set of emotional qualities, ways of behaving, etc., that makes a person different from other people. Merriam Webster
• Personality is a pattern of relatively permanent traits and unique characteristics that give both consistency and individuality to a person’s behavior. Feist
• Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures. Scott Fitzgerald
• Psychology,  Character,  Introversion,  Self-knowledge

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Our self-image is at the core of our personality

• An individual’s self-concept is the core of his personality. It affects every aspect of human behavior: the ability to learn, the capacity to grow and change. A strong, positive self- image is the best possible preparation for success in life. Joyce Brothers
• Your self-esteem, the core of your personality, has been defined by psychologist Nathaniel Branden as “the reputation you have with yourself.” Brian Tracy
• 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
• Realizing that our actions, feelings and behaviour are the result of our own images and beliefs gives us the level that psychology has always needed for changing personality. Maxwell Maltz
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Our life experiences fuse into our personality

• Why am I as I am? To understand that of any person, his whole life, from birth must be reviewed. All of our experiences fuse into our personality. Everything that ever happened to us is an ingredient. Malcolm X
• We are all born with a unique genetic blueprint, which lays out the basic characteristics of our personality as well as our physical health and appearance… And yet, we all know that life experiences do change us. Joan D. Vinge
• Every human personality is the product of an innate drive to create something unique from one’s raw individual experience. Tadahiko Nagao

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Much of our personality is born out of pain and fear …

• Personality is born out of pain. It is the fire shut up in the flint. J. B. Yeats
• The largest part of what we call ‘personality’ is determined by how we’ve opted to defend ourselves against anxiety and sadness. Alain de Botton
• The human emotional system can be broken down into roughly two elements: fear and love. Love is of the soul. Fear is of the personality. Gary Zukav
• Pain,  Fear

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… and the need to feel lovable and accepted

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

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We continue to shape our personality throughout life

• I recognize thart even you, yourself, will change. Your ideals will change, your tastes will change, your desires will change. Your whole understandings of who you are had better change, because if it doesn’t change, you’ve become a very static personality over a great many years, and nothing would displease me more. And so I recognize that the process of evolution will produce changes in you. Neale Donald Walsch
• Personality shifts over time, and the change is often flavored by life’s big events such as marriage, parenting, and increased responsibility. Joann Ellison Rodgers
• We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die. Albert Camus
• The average personality reshapes frequently, every few years even our bodies undergo a complete overhaul – desirable or not, it is a natural thing that we should change. Truman Capote
• In long-term studies of personality, some of the most core parts of personality remain stable throughout life. Three aspects that do tend to change as we age are anxiety levels, friendliness and eagerness for novel experiences. Kendra Cherry

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Take delight in developing your personality

• Man’s main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality. Erich Fromm

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Create a vision of the personality you want to be

• Imagine how you would feel if you were already the sort of personality you want to be. If you have been shy and timid, see yourself moving among people with ease and poise—and feeling good because of it. If you have been fearful and anxious in certain situations—see yourself acting calmly and deliberately, acting with confidence and courage—and feeling expansive and confident because you are. Maxwell Maltz
• Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public. Epictetus
• Vision,  Envision who you want to be

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To fertilise your personality, develop empathy

• There is absolutely no single aspect of one’s personality that is more important to develop than empathy, which is not a skill at which men typically are asked to excel. I believe empathy is not only the core of art, literature and music, but should also be at the core of society, from ethics to economics. Chris Ware
• Empathy,  Compassion

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To fertilise your personality, make time for silence

• Silence fertilizes the deep place where personality grows. A life with a peaceful center can weather all storms. Norman Vincent Peale
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To fertilise your personality, make time for reading and learning

• Reading is a dialog with oneself; it is self-reflection, which cultivates profound humanity. Reading is therefore essential to our development. It expands and enriches the personality like a seed that germinates after a long time and sends forth many blossom- laden branches.  Daisaku Ikeda
• The most important function of education at any level is to develop the personality of the individual and the significance of his life to himself and to others. Grayson Kirk
• The fundamental method for the development of personality is self-education. Kazimierz Dabrowski
• Learning,  Reading

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To fertilise your personality, practice integrity and dependability

• Dependability is the mark of an enlightened, self-disciplined man; it is the quality which gives intrinsic value to personality and constitutes an integral part of sound character. Bryant S. Hinckley
• Living a life of integrity starts 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,  Trust

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To fertilise your personality, create positive expectation

• An attitude of positive expectation is the mark of the superior personality. Brian Tracy
• Expectation,  Optimism

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To fertilise your personality, nurture your dreams

• Dreams are the touchstones of our personality. Henry David Thoreau
• In this metallic age of barbarians, only a relentless cultivation of our ability to dream, to analyse and to captivate can prevent our personality from degenerating into nothing or else into a personality like all the rest. Fernando Pessoa
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Develop a well-rounded personality by developing interests outside work

• You were intended not only to work, but to rest, laugh, play, and have proper leisure and enjoyment. To develop an all-around personality, you must have interest outside of your regular vocation that will serve to balance your business responsibilities. Grenville Kleiser

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Develop your personality through autosuggestion

• Just as you are unconsciously influenced by outside advertisement, announcement, and appeal, so you can vitally influence your life from within by auto-suggestion. The first thing each morning, and the last thing each night, suggest to yourself specific ideas that you wish to embody in your character and personality. Address such suggestions to yourself, silently or aloud, until they are deeply impressed upon your mind. Grenville Kleiser
• Affirmations (self talk)

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Add beauty to your personality through the practice of gratitude

• A person however learned and qualified in his life’s work in whom gratitude is absent, is devoid of that beauty of character which makes personality fragrant. Hazrat Inayat Khan
• Beauty,  Gratitude

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Beware of hate for it can corrode your personality

• Hate destroys the very structure of the personality of the hater…. when you start hating anybody, it destroys the very center of your creative response to life and the universe; so love everybody. Martin Luther King, JR.
• Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man’s sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true. Martin Luther King, Jr
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Beware of fear for it can damage your personality

• Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world. William Faulkner
• If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all thinking, damages his personality and makes him a landlord to a ghost. Lloyd Douglas
• We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure. It is a powerful obstacle to growth. It assures the progressive narrowing of the personality and prevents exploration and experimentation. There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure – all your life. John W. Gardner
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Learn to tell the difference between character and personality

• Character usually refers to those personal attributes that are relevant to moral conduct, self-mastery, will-power, and integrity. Haslam
• Personality is who we are and what we do when everyone is watching. Character is who we are and what we do when nobody is watching.
• It’s easy to tell if you are living from character or personality: If things aren’t going your way, personality pouts while character remains unruffled and learns from the experience. When you are not in psychologically or emotionally safe territory, personality panics. Character, on the other hand, rides the vicissitudes of life with even- mindedness. Personality endeavors to extract happiness from its experiences, whereas character realizes that happiness is an inherent quality of being that infuses experiences with happiness. Michael Bernard Beckwith
• Learn how to ultimately tell the difference between your ego personality that is seeking to survive and avoid being hurt and your character that seeks to confidently deliver your talents, gifts, and skills. Michael Bernard Beckwith 
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Put character ahead of personality

• The “Inside-Out” approach to personal and interpersonal effectiveness means to start first with self; even more fundamentally, to start with the most inside part of self with your paradigms, your character, and your motives. The inside- out approach says that private victories precede public victories, that making and keeping promises to ourselves recedes making and keeping promises to others. It says it is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves. Stephen Covey
• The most important ingredient we put into any relationship is not what we say or what we do, but what we are. And if our words and our actions come from superficial human relations techniques (the Personality Ethic) rather than from our own inner core (the Character Ethic), others will sense that duplicity. We simply won’t be able to create and sustain the foundation necessary for effective interdependence. Stephen Covey
• A man of personality can formulate ideals, but only a man of character can achieve them. Herbert Read
• In our postmodern culture which is TV dominated, image sensitive, and morally vacuous, personality is everything and character is increasingly irrelevant. David F. Wells
• The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality but must live with a character. Peter De Vries
• When you choose your friends, don’t be short-changed by choosing personality over character. William Somerset Maugham

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Your personality gives you your own unique flavour

• Personality is to a man what perfume is to a flower. Charles Schwab
• Uniqueness

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Stop tailoring your personality to fit in

• For fear of not being accepted, we tailor our personality, mince our words, and carve our opinions to fit in. Danielle LaPorte
• Conformity,  Be who you are

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Take delight in expressing your own unique personality

• I want freedom for the full expression of my personality. Mahatma Gandhi
• I was a personality before I became a person – I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy and driven. Barbra Streisand
• I use bits and pieces of others’ personalities to form my own. Kurt Cobain
• I’d rather be a little weird than all boring. Rebecca McKinsey
• If you have anything really valuable to contribute to the world it will come through the expression of your own personality, that single spark of divinity that sets you off and makes you different from every other living creature. Bruce Barton
• It is better to be hated for who you are, than to be loved for someone you are not. André Gide
• Sometimes I pretend to be normal but it gets boring so I go back to being me.

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Stamp your personality with your unique passions, interests and enthusiasms

• Each person discovers a field of allurements, the totality of which bears the unique stamp of that person’s personality. Destiny unfolds in the pursuit of individual fascinations and interests … By pursuing your allurements, you help bind the universe together. The unity of the world rests on the pursuit of passion. Brian Swimme
• Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success. When you do a thing, do it with all your might. Put your whole soul into it. Stamp it with your own personality. Be active, be energetic, be enthusiastic and faithful, and you will accomplish your object. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Most great men and women are not perfectly rounded in their personalities but are instead people whose one driving enthusiasm is so great it makes their faults seem insignificant. Charles A. Cerami
• Do what you love,  Passion,  Enthusiasm

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Accept all aspects of your personality …

• Positive feelings come from being honest about yourself and accepting your personality, and physical characteristics, warts and all; and, from belonging to a family that accepts you without question. Willard Scott
• There will be disharmony in your life if you refuse to accept certain aspects of your personality. Nothing about you is bad.  Every trait or quality you possess serves a useful purpose.  Make a list of all the things about you that you don’t like.  Then think about how each of these things serves you and others in some way.  Next make a list of all the things you do like about yourself.  It is natural to think that your positive qualities serve both you and others, however for every perceived positive there is also a negative apect of your perceived positive.  The process takes a bit of time and requires an open heart and mind.  It is definitely a worthwhile exercise for in the end you will hopefully see that nothing is actually good or bad.  Every aspect of you serves both you and others.  Owning and accepting and loving what is without wanting to change it will lead you to experience a happier and healthier and more harmonious life.  Toni Carmine Salerno
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… even those parts you’ve rejected till now

• Jung first gave us the term ‘shadow’ to refer to those parts of our personality that have been rejected out of fear, ignorance, shame, or lack of love. His basic notion of the shadow was simple: ‘the shadow is the person you would rather not be.’ He believed that integrating the shadow would have a profound impact, enabling us to rediscover a deeper source of our own spiritual life. ‘To do this,’ Jung said, ‘we are obliged to confront the shadow, to integrate the devil. There is no other choice. Debbie Ford
• Ask someone to give a description of the personality type which he finds most despicable, most unbearable and hateful, and most impossible to get along with, and he will produce a description of his own repressed characteristics. These very qualities are so unacceptable to him precisely because they represent his own repressed side; only that which we cannot accept within ourselves do we find impossible to live with in others. Edward Whitmont
• Embrace your shadow,  Rejection,  Acknowledgement

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A beautiful personality is more important than a beautiful physical appearance

• It’s beauty that captures your attention; personality which captures your heart.
• Cute is when a person’s personality shines through their looks. Like in the way they walk, every time you see them you just want to run up and hug them. Natalie Portman
• Beauty doesn’t last forever but a beautiful personality does.
• Good looks attract the eyes. Personality attracts the heart.
• Your body makes you sexy. Your smile makes you pretty. But your personality makes you beautiful.
• You can’t photoshop your ugly personality.
• When you fall for someone’s personality, everything about them becomes beautiful.
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Inner radiance adds beauty to personality

• Attractiveness and magnetism of man’s personality is the result of his inner radiance. Yajur Veda

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Today, most researchers talk about five core personality traits

• Extraversion: This trait includes characteristics such as excitability, sociability, talkativeness, assertiveness and high amounts of emotional expressiveness.
• Agreeableness: This personality dimension includes attributes such as trust, altruism, kindness, affection, and other prosocial behaviors.
• Conscientiousness: Common features of this dimension include high levels of thoughtfulness, with good impulse control and goal- directed behaviors. Those high in conscientiousness tend to be organized and mindful of details.
• Neuroticism: Individuals high in this trait tend to experience emotional instability, anxiety, moodiness, irritability, and sadness.
• Openness: This trait features characteristics such as imagination and insight, and those high in this trait also tend to have a broad range of interests.
• Source: Psychology.com

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Delight in discovering the personality of others

• If you approach each new person you meet in a spirit of adventure, you will find yourself endlessly fascinated by the new channels of thought and experience and personality that you encounter. Eleanor Roosevelt
• To know a person in his home is not to know him at all: to meet him on a country road with only his baggage is to at last contact the core, the inner cell of his personality. John Tibbetts
• The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed. Carl Jung
• Discovery,  Exploration,  Connection,   Delight

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Respect the personality of others

• Only those who respect the personality of others can be of real use to them. Albert Schweitzer
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Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his / her personality

• Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality. No one can become fully aware of the very essence of another human being unless he loves him. By his love he is enabled to see the essential traits and features in the beloved person; and even more, he sees that which is potential in him, which is not yet actualized but yet ought to be actualized. Furthermore, by his love, the loving person enables the beloved person to actualize these potentialities. By making him aware of what he can be and of what he should become, he makes these potentialities come true. Viktor Frankl
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Avoid the temptation to put people into boxes based on their personality

• It´s a good thing when a man is different from your image of him. Is shows he isn´t a type. If he were, it would be the end of him as a man. But if you can´t place him in a category, it means that at least a part of him is what a human being ought to be. He has risen above himself, he has a grain of immortality. Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago
• We inhabit a world in which we tend to put labels on each other and expect that we will then march through life wearing them like permanent sandwich boards. Nick Webb

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Who you really are is your soul; not your personality

• As you become multi-sensory, you begin to see yourself as a soul first and a personality second. You begin to experience yourself as more than a body and more than a mind. and the circumstances around you as meaningful and designed for your spiritual growth. Gary Zukav
• It can be quite transformative to realize that you are not what you thought you were, that you are not your beliefs, that you are not your personality, that you are not your ego. You are something other than that, something that resides on the inside, at the innermost core of your being. Adyashanti
• There is nothing more important to true growth than realizing that you are not the voice of the mind—you are the one who hears it. If you don’t understand this, you will try to figure out which of the many things the voice says is really you. People go through so many changes in the name of “tryng to find myself.”Thy want to discover which of these voices, which of these aspects of their personality, is who they really are. The answer is simple: none of them. Michael Singer
• When you see people only as personalities, rather than souls with life missions to fulfill, you forever limit the growth and possibilities of what God has in store for another person. Shannon L. Alder
• Our soulmates seldom appeal to our personality—our ego. That’s why they are called soulmates rather than egomates. Carolyn Miller
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Your personality is a tool of your soul

• You are a powerful and creative compassionate and loving spirit that has entered the Earth school to learn lessons and to give gifts. Your personality is a tool of your soul. Gary Zukav

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Love is of the soul, fear is of the personality

• The human emotional system can be broken down into roughly two elements: fear and love. Love is of the soul. Fear is of the personality. Gary Zukav
• Love,  Fear

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We need to put the soul and personality into alignment

• It’s amazing for a human being to realize his or her true nature is not trying to change their human nature. This allows the human nature to rest, to no longer feel separate from its source. We start to feel unity within ourselves. We stop feeling that we are divided within ourselves, because we see that ultimately there is no dividing line between awareness, or spirit, and our ego- personality. There’s really no separation between the two. Adyashanti
• Joy is a quality of the soul and is realized in the mind when personality and soul are in alignment. Djwhal Khul
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Personality is essential in acting, art and poetry

• Personality is the glitter that sends your little gleam across the footlights and the orchestra pit into that big black space where the audience is. Mae West
• Personality is everything in art and poetry. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• 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 emotion know what it means to want to escape from these. S. Eliot
• While one should always study the method of a great artist, one should never imitate his manner. The manner of an artist is essentially individual, the method of an artist is absolutely universal. The first personality, which no one should copy. Oscar Wilde
• Show me an actress who isn’t a personality and I’ll show you a woman who isn’t a star. Katherine Hepburn
• Personality is the most important thing to an actress’s success. Mae West
• Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality. Salvador Dali
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Animals have personalities, not just people

• Animal researchers have found animals from nearly every species of animal (from spiders to birds to elephants) have their own personalities with preferences, behaviors and quirks that persist throughout life. Kendra Cherry
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See failure as a challenge, not a personality defect

• If we don’t see a failure as a challenge to modify our approach, but rather as a problem with ourselves, as a personality defect, we will immediately feel overwhelmed. Tony Robbins
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Thoughts on personality and intellect

• The truth is that personality inevitably bleeds into all forms of our intellectual life. We all extrapolate from our own lives in order to understand the world. Siri Hustvedt
• We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality. Albert Einstein

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• Don’t get confused between my personality and my attitude. My personality is who I am, my attitude depends on who you are.
• Humility is no substitute for a good personality. Fran Lebowitz
• I don’t have an attitude; I have a personality you can’t handle.
• I rely on my personality for birth control. Lizz Winstead
• If it wasn’t for the coffee, I’d have no identifiable personality whatsoever. David Letterman
• It’s not that I’m a Type B personality; it’s that I’m driven by a passionate all-consuming desire to take it easy. Robert Brault
• Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market. Erich Fromm
• My face doesn’t match my personality. Maybe it would if instead of a mouth I had an asshole in its place. Jarod Kintz
• My girlfriend bought me a down jacket – she said it fit my personality. Jay London
• Oh, what? Sorry. I was trying to imagine you with a personality.
• Paranoia is a bad personality trait for a comedian; what are you laughing at? Danny Bhoy
• Sometimes I pretend to be normal but it gets boring so I go back to being me.
• Statistician: Someone who is good with numbers but lacks the personality to be an accountant.
• The first thing in the human personality that dissolves in alcohol is dignity.
• The only reason I’m fat is because a tiny body couldn’t store all this personality.
• Tired isn’t even a temporary state for me anymore; it’s more like a part of my personality at this point.
• You can’t photoshop an ugly personality.
• You have a nice personality, but not for a human being. Henny Youngman

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