The Best and Most Inspirational Personality Quotes

“For the adult, all the world is a stage and the personality is the mask one wears to play the assigned role.”

Sam Keen

“The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of subconscious from which it rises.”

Sigmund Freud

“Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.”

Carl Jung

“Personality is the relatively enduring pattern of recurrent interpersonal situations which characterize a human life… A personality can never be isolated from the complex of interpersonal relationships in which the person lives…”

Harry Stack Sullivan

“A person is a fluid process, not a fixed and static entity; a flowing river of change, not a block of solid material; a continually changing constellation of potentialities, not a fixed quantity of traits.”

– Carl Rogers

“To understand what a person is, it is necessary always to refer to what he may be in the future, for every state of the person is pointed in the direction of future possibilities.”

Gordon W. Allport

“Creativity is closely correlated with personality factors of dominance, introversion, and ego strength. So I wouldn’t try to measure creativity by using a test of creativity per se, but rather by measuring personality factors that correlate highly with it. It has been shown that intelligence is also a precondition for creativity in any socially useful sense.”

Raymond B. Cattell

“People’s beliefs about their abilities have a profound effect on those abilities.”

Albert Bandura

“If positive psychology teaches us anything, it is that all of us are a mixture of strengths and weaknesses. No one has it all, and no one lacks it all.”

– Christopher Peterson

“Your emotional life is not written in cement during childhood. You write each chapter as you go along.”

Harry Stack Sullivan

“The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no universal recipe for living.”

Carl Jung

“The conviction grows in me that we shall discover laws of personality and behavior which are as significant for human progress or human understanding as the law of gravity or the laws of thermodynamics.”

Carl R. Rogers

“Of course the impression we make on others, and their response to us are important factors in the development of our personalities …. [But] what about the solitary hermit … or Robinson Crusoe before the advent of his man Friday? Do these isolates lack personality because they have no effect on others? [My] view is that such exceptional creatures have personal qualities that are no less fascinating than those of men living in human society … [and that] we must have something inside our skins that constitutes our ‘true’ nature”

Gordon W. Allport

“The human mind is generative, creative, proactive, and reflective — not just reactive.” 

Albert Bandura

“Psychologists say that the nature of one’s personality is determined by the nature of the hurts they experienced in early childhood. People carry those hurts with them for the rest of their lives.”

Michael Mamas

Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.

Alphonse Karr

I’ve trained myself to illuminate the things in my personality that are likable and to hide and protect the things that are less likable.

Will Smith

There is no formula for how to deal with different personality types. The process is one of exploration and observation. You can see how people respond to different things. You can approach them in a manner, see how they respond, and adjust accordingly. It’s almost like you are putting out feelers to get a sense of how best to relate to them.

Michael Mamas