The best 65 phrases of personality, attitude and character

Each person has a unique personality that defines them, that he is forming over the years and the different experiences that mark his life. It is what makes us unique and we should not give it up.

In this article we have compiled the best 65 personality and attitude phrases, that express the importance of being oneself and accepting who we are.

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65 phrases of personality, attitude and character

This compilation includes phrases about the personality of different authors, whether they are thinkers, writers or famous personalities.

1. The most important kind of freedom is to be who you really are.

One of the best personality phrases is precisely from Jim Morrison, the charismatic singer of The Doors.

2. Do not deny any memory of your past. What you experienced made you who you are.

Quote by the writer Cecilia Curbelo about accepting that what we have lived has marked us and is part of our personality.

3. I'd rather be a little weirdo than a big boring one.

Phrase by Rebecca McKinsey, a person with a lot of attitude and personality.

4. The sign of a perfect personality is not rebellion, but peace.

Whatever you are, you must be at inner peace with your personality. Quote by the writer Oscar Wilde.

5. The personality susceptible to the dream of unlimited freedom is also a personality prone, if the dream turns sour, to misanthropy and rage.

Trying to achieve everything we set out to do without defeat can lead to frustration, according to this phrase by the writer Jonathan Franzen.

6. You probably have an obsessive personality, but the pursuit of perfection has served me well.

Fashion designer Tom Ford thanks his meticulous personality for going this far.

7. Imagine for yourself a character, a role model, whose example you are determined to follow, both in private and in public.

A personality phrase to ponder, from the Greek philosopher Epicurean.

8. If you want to build your personality don't do it in an extraordinary way, just proceed as a human being.

Mohammad Rishad Sakhi reminds us with this phrase that just be ourselves.

9. Don't be afraid to be yourself.

In the same way, Leo Howard expresses it with this simple and short phrase of personality.

10. Thoughts are the bricks with which you have to build the edifice of your personality. Thought determines destiny. The world around you is the reflection of your own thoughts.

Our way of seeing the world is reflected in our personality, according to this phrase of the spiritual master Swami Sivananda.

11. If you want to discover the true character of a person, it is enough to observe what they are passionate about.

What motivates us says a lot about us as peopleAccording to this phrase by the writer Shannon L. Alder.

12. All of our experiences blend into our personality. Everything that has happened to us is an ingredient.

Malcolm X reminds us once again that we are the fruit of our past experiences, that they shape us as people.

13. If you are flexible, you will stay straight.

Phrase belonging to the ancient texts Tao te ching, references of Taoism.

14. If love hinders the development of my free personality, it is preferable to be alone and free.

Reflection by Walter Riso on the sacrifice of personality for love.

15. Don't try to be useful. Try to be you: that is enough, and that is your reason for being.

The true personality is in being yourself, according to this phrase by Paulo Coelho.

16. You cannot change what someone is without destroying what they were.

A phrase from the film The Butterfly Effect that invites reflection.

17. Be you, and try to be happy, but above all, be you.

Charles Chaplin was also clear that the most important thing is be yourself and don't give up your personality.

18. There are times when I am so different from myself, that I could be taken by someone else, of a totally opposite personality.

Another of the personality phrases of the philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

19. What you feed into yourself is what grows.

A reflection on personal growth and personality by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

20. Harsh living conditions are essential to bring out the best in the human personality.

Sometimes the hard moments are those that allow us to get the best out of the human being, according to this reflection by Alexis Carrel.

21. Tell me what you pay attention to and I'll tell you who you are.

Quote by José Ortega y Gasset about what makes us who we are.

22. Money and success don't change people; they only amplify what is already there.

Will Smith is an actor who has been characterized by being a very close person with a lot of personality, despite his fame.

23. Knowledge of our past is essential for the establishment of our personality and our identity.

Quote by Haile Selassie, which again highlights that our personality is shaped by our past life.

24. I want freedom for the full expression of my personality.

Phrase by Mahatma Gandhi that reflects that being able to be ourselves is the greatest freedom of man.

25. Personality is the most important thing for the success of an actress.

Mae West was an actress with a lot of attitude and her famous phrases are a reflection of her.

26. Attitude is a small thing that makes a big difference.

Another of the great phrases of personality and attitude, is pronounced by Winston Churchill.

27. He used pieces of other people's personalities to build my own.

The famous Nirvana singer, Kurt Cobain, expressed in this phrase that he did not feel himself at all. He committed suicide at the age of 27 at the height of his career.

28. The behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a prototype of all his other modes of reaction in life.

Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis, was famous for his theories of sexuality.

29. Being yourself, just yourself, is such an incredible and completely unique experience that it is difficult to convince yourself that something so unique happens to everyone.

Simone de Beauvoir leaves us this interesting reflection on the experience of being oneself.

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30. We are not what we want to be. We are what society demands. We are what our parents chose. We don't want to disappoint anyone, we feel a great need to be loved. That is why we repress the best of ourselves.

Another phrase by Paulo Coelho to reflect on whether we really are who we want to be.

31. We are what our fears, our inner demons make of us. In order to follow the path that destiny has in store for us, we have to defeat these demons, be they familiar or unknown.

Phrases from the television series Heroes that remind us that our personality is also made up of what we fear.

32. The variety of individual personalities is the greatest fortune in the world.

No two people are the same in the world. This phrase by Julian Huxley reminds us of it.

33. Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out looking for a successful personality to duplicate it.

Bruce Lee not only stood out for his martial arts and his performance, he also left us reflections like this phrase about being yourself.

34. How can we be so different and feel so alike?

Phrase taken from the movie I am Sam.

35. What you have, what you are, your appearance, your personality, your way of thinking, are unique. Nobody in the world is like you. So take advantage of it.

Another phrase that reminds us that we all have our unique personality, from Jack Lord.

36. All personality traits have their good side and their bad side. But for a long time, we have seen introversion only from its negative side, and extroversion mostly through its positive side.

Reflection by Susan Cain on how we value and understand the different personality traits.

37. Evil, is it something that you are? Or is it something you do?

Do our actions represent who we really are? Reflection of the writer Bret Easton Ellis.

38. The personality matures only when a man has made the truth his own.

A phrase about the personality of the philosopher Soren Kierkegaard.

39. In our postmodern, television-dominated, image-sensitive and morally empty culture, personality is everything and character is increasingly irrelevant.

According to David F. Wells personality is not as deep as character, and still more valued.

40. Personality is to a man what perfume is to a flower.

Quote by magnate Charles M. Schwab.

41. Not everyone has the opportunity to become a personality; most remain prototypes, never experiencing the rigor of becoming an individual.

The writer Hermann Hesse talks about the lack of personality in this reflection on true individuality.

42. No one can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it myself.

The actress and writer Tallulah Bankhead is very clear that we are all unique and unrepeatable, and despite this it is sometimes difficult for us to be ourselves.

43. Personality has the power to uplift, the power to oppress, the power to curse, and the power to bless.

A reflection by Paul Harris on the importance of personality.

44. Style is a reflection of your attitude and your personality.

Shawn Ashmore highlights in this phrase that we are reflected in our style and appearance.

45. Personality is an uninterrupted collection of successful gestures.

One of the personality and attitude phrases of the famous writer F. Scott Fitzgerald.

46. The motive and the works of a man define his personality.

For writer Lailah Gifty Akita, personality depends on the gestures we have.

47. Personality is the difference between the inside and the outside of a person.

A phrase by the writer Jonathan Safran Foer to reflect on what our personality represents.

48. Don't try to get a new personality, it doesn't work.

Politician Richard M. Nixon expresses in this sentence that each one will always have their own personality.

49. Beauty captures the attention, personality captures the heart.

The true beauty is inside and in our personality, according to this anonymous phrase.

50. I need the little details, they are the reflection of each one of us. It's what I miss constantly. That is why no one can be replaced, because we are all made of precious little details.

Phrase from the movie Before Sunset, about how unique each one of us is.

51. Sensuality is about personality, being authentic and confident, and being a good person.

The model Erin Heatherton reflects in this sentence on the attractiveness of being oneself.

52. Someone's personality can be understood from the people they mix with.

For Kazi Shams our personality also depends on our friendships and what surrounds us.

53. Personality is a very mysterious thing. A man cannot always be esteemed by what he does. You can abide by the law, and yet be useless. You can break the law, but be good. You can be bad, without having to do anything bad. You can commit a sin against society, and yet realize through it, its true perfection.

Another phrase from the writer Oscar Wilde reflecting on what personality means.

54. We continue to build our personality throughout our lives. If we knew ourselves, we should die.

A very representative personality phrase of the existentialism of Albert Camus.

55. Through travel, you discover new aspects of your own personality. You discover things that you would not have found in the confines of your home.

Travel allows us to discover ourselves, as reflected in this phrase by Imtiaz Ali.

56. One of the biggest mistakes in life is being what others want you to be, instead of being yourself.

Another phrase from writer Shannon L. Alder on not giving up on our own personality.

57. I believe that personality is not a unitary notion. We do not have a personality, but a constellation of facets: that is why we can respond to a provocation in a very violent way when we are in a bad mood and being more peaceful when we are good.

Moshin Hamid expresses in this quote how variable the same personality can be.

58. We are afraid of what makes us different.

Quote by the writer Anne Rice about the difficulties people have to accept what makes us unique.

59. This willingness to plan on oneself is perhaps the source of all virtue. It rips you out of your personality, far from holding you back.

Reflection of the French writer Gustave Flaubert.

60. Everything in society can be acquired except character.

Stendhal phrase about personality and character.

61. Man's personality determines in advance the measure of his possible fortune.

Philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer reflects on personality in this famous appointment.

62. Remember who you are.

One of the most famous movie phrases, from the movie The Lion King.

63. Who I am? I'm trying to find out.

We have to be ourselves, but do we really know who we are? Reflection of the writer Jorge Luis Borges.

64. Of all the properties that belong to men of honor, nothing is as precious as character.

Henry Clay phrase about the virtues of character and personality.

65. You have to stop worrying about what people who don't care about you think. Be who you are and let everyone else be what they are.

We finish the list of best personality phrases with another reflection on being yourself which expresses this quote from Holly Smale.

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