Erik Erikson Quotes

It's not what you like but what you are like that's important.

A man far oftener appears to have a decided character from persistently following his temperament than from persistently following his principles.

Everyone has their own individuality and character.

Our character is basically a composite of our habits.

Temperament is fixed, set. The skull, followed by the temperament: the two hardest parts of the body. Follow your temperament. It is not a philosophy, It is a rule, like the Rule of St Benedict.

A man's happiness or unhappiness depends as much on his temperament as on his destiny.

Dogs got personality. Personality goes a long way.

Character is made up of a variety of different things. One of those elements is gender.

I have always believed that your face is a mirror to your nature.

I have one of the great temperaments.

It is their character indeed that makes people who they are. But it is by reason of their actions that they are happy or the reverse.

A man without characteristics is a most insipid character.

Sow a character, you reap your destiny.

Personality, in our sense, is a Shakespearean invention.

To know what a person has done, and to know who a person is, are very different things.

We do what we do, because of who we are. If we did otherwise, we would not be ourselves.

A man reveals his character even in the simplest things he does.

Character isn't what we think it is or, rather, what we want it to be. It isn't a stable, easily identifiable set of closely related traits, and it only seems that way because of a glitch in the way our brains are organized. Character is more like a bundle of habits and tendencies and interests, loosely bound together and dependent, at certain times, on circumstance and context.

The peculiar striations that define someone's personality are too numerous to know, no matter how close the observer. A person we think we know can suddenly become someone else when previously hidden strands of his character are called to the fore by circumstance.

Whoever has character also has his typical experience, which returns over and over again.

A person's self-concept is the core of his personality.

Moods are complicated and very much a part of who we are. People would be very boring without them.

I find that whoever you are as a person is how you're gonna fight, and every basic instinct kind of comes out at that moment.

If you want to learn the true nature of a child you have to watch how she plays. If you want to learn the true nature of an adult you have to watch how she does her job.

But to do this kind of work, you have to be very strong, otherwise you lose your personality, your identity.