Looking for a means to express yourself or gain insight into how you want to feel? These statements on emotions and personality traits are a good place to start.
Reading quotations about various attitudes, emotions, and mindsets might make you feel better and be more optimistic.
Even just reading a few sad or depressing sentences can help you feel empathy and return to a more optimistic state of mind. So have a look at some inspiring quotes to help you connect with the emotions and personality traits you’re looking for.
70+ Featured Feelings Quote
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
Some people use their own hurt as an excuse for hurting others.___Rolland Merullo
A person will be just about as happy as they make up their minds to be.___Abraham Lincoln
Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings – always darker, emptier, and simpler.– Friedrich Nietzsche
The one human quality that must be developed is self discipline for success. The will power to force yourself to do what you know you should do when you should do it, whether you like it or not, whether you feel like it or not. Success is tons of discipline.__Brian Tracy
Creativity is an inherent human quality of the highest order. When we create, we become more than the sum of our parts.___Yanni
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.___Helen Keller
I believe empathy is the most essential quality of civilization. – Roger Ebert
I don’t want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.___Oscar Wilde
The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it.___Nicholas Sparks
To have compassion for those who suffer is a human quality which everyone should possess, especially those who have required comfort themselves in the past and have managed to find it in others.___Giovanni Boccaccio
To my mind, having a care and concern for others is the highest of the human qualities.___Fred Hollows
Integrity is the human quality most necessary to business success. – John C. Maxwell
Social grace, inner discipline and joy. These are the birthright of the human being who has been allowed to develop essential human qualities.___Maria Montessori
Where there is love there is life.___Mahatma Gandhi
Sometimes your mind says No but your heart says Go.__Yvonne Urlanda
It’s a lot easier to be angry at someone than it is to tell them you’re hurt.___Tom Gates
Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.___Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The feeling is often the deeper truth, the opinion the more superficial one. – Augustus William Hare
You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.___Pearl S. Buck
There is no instinct like that of the heart.___Lord Byron
They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.___Charles W. Buechener
Emotions are celebrated and repressed, analyzed and medicated, adored and ignored — but rarely, if ever, are they honored.___Karla McLaren
Respect other people’s feelings. It might mean nothing to you, but it could mean everything to them. – Roy T. Bennett
To feel valued, to know, even if only once in a while, that you can do a job well is an absolutely marvelous feeling.___Barbara Walters
We destroy ourselves when we stop feeling. If you bury your feelings within you, you become a graveyard.___Bernie S. Siegel
I have feelings too. I am still human. All I want is to be loved, for myself and for my talent.___Marilyn Monroe
Feelings are not supposed to be logical. Dangerous is the man who has rationalized his emotions.___David Borenstein
It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.__George Bernard Shaw
One of the greatest feelings in the world is knowing that we as individuals can make a difference.___Jeff Bridges
We often confuse what we wish for with what is.– Neil Gaiman
You can close your eyes to the things you do not want to see, but you cannot close your heart to the things you do not want to feel.___Johnny Depp
Never play with the feelings of others, because you may win the game, but the risk is that you will surely lose the person for life time.___William Shakespeare
Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?___Leo Tolstoy
There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.___George Eliot
The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence; not in silence, but restraint.___Marianne Moore
Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge. – Audre Lorde
Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.___Thich Nhat Hahn
Don’t allow your mind to tell your heart what to do. The mind gives up easily.___Paulo Coelho
It’s often just enough to be with someone. I don’t need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You’re not alone.___Marilyn Monroe
We try so hard to hide everything we’re really feeling from those who probably need to know our true feelings the most. People try to bottle up their emotions, as if it’s somehow wrong to have natural reactions to life.___Colleen Hoover
Smiles and tears are so alike with me, they are neither of them confined to any particular feelings: I often cry when I am happy, and smile when I am sad.___Anne Brontë
The only compensation which war offers for its manifold mischiefs, is in the great personal qualities to which it gives scope and occasion.___Ralph Waldo Emerson
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. – Samuel Johnson
Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.___Aristotle
Patience is no small, feel-good personal quality. It is at the heart of diplomacy and civility, lawfulness and civil order. Without it, people can’t work together and society can’t function at all. With it, we create the possibility of peace between people and between nations.___M.J. Ryan
In principle and in practice, in a right track and in a wrong one, the rarest of all human qualities is consistency.___Jeremy Bentham
Whatever you do, you should do it with feeling.– Yogi Berra
There could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison.___Jane Austen
Sensitive people usually love deeply and hate deeply. They don’t know any other way to live than by extremes because thier emotional thermostat is broken.___Shannon L. Alder
A feeling is no longer the same when it comes the second time. It dies through the awareness of its return. We become tired and weary of our feelings when they come too often and last too long.___Pascal Mercier
I’ve never minded it,” he went on. “Being lost, that is. I had always thought one could not truly be lost if one knew one’s own heart. But I fear I may be lost without knowing yours.― Cassandra Clare
But feelings can’t be ignored, no matter how unjust or ungrateful they seem. – Anne Frank
We experience ourselves, our thoughts and feelings, as something separate from the rest. A kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us.___Albert Einstein
My feelings are too loud for words and too shy for the world.___Dejan Stojanovic
There’s nothing more inspiring than the complexity and beauty of the human heart.__Paulo Coelho
Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, courtesy, wisdom, charity.___William C. Menninger
Never apologize for showing your feelings. When you do, you are apologizing for the truth. – José N. Harris
In order to move on, you must understand why you felt what you did and why you no longer need to feel it.___Mitch Albom
Inner resilience and the ability to bounce back are personal qualities. … Align yourself with someone who has this kind of resilience so that your own can be strengthened. Find another oak to weather the storm with you. Anyone who is in touch with his or her core self will always respond.___Deepak Chopra
If you spend your life sparing people’s feelings and feeding their vanity, you get so you can’t distinguish what should be respected in them.___F. Scott Fitzgerald
There’s nothing more inspiring than the complexity and beauty of the human heart.___Cynthia Hand
There is an ocean of silence between us… and I am drowning in it.― Ranata Suzuki
If you have a choice between qualifications and personal qualities when it comes to hiring people, go with personal qualities. You can teach them the job.___Roger Ailes
Nothing endures but personal qualities. – Walt Whitman
Everyone is afraid of something. We fear things because we value them. We fear losing people because we love them. We fear dying because we value being alive. Don’t wish you didn’t fear anything. All that would mean is that you didn’t feel anything.___Cassandra Clare
Emotions come and go and can’t be controlled so there’s no reason to worry about them. That in the end, people should be judged by their actions since in the end it was actions that defined everyone___Nicholas Sparks
Feelings are something you have; not something you are. – Shannon L. Alder
There are no greater treasures than the highest human qualities such as compassion, courage and hope. Not even tragic accident or disaster can destroy such treasures of the heart.___Daisaku Ikeda
Good governance never depends upon laws, but upon the personal qualities of those who govern. The machinery of government is always subordinate to the will of those who administer that machinery. The most important element of government, therefore, is the method of choosing leaders.___Frank Herbert
Empathy is seeing with the eyes of another, listening with the ears of another and feeling with the heart of another. – Alfred Adler
You learn about gratitude by giving. You learn about humility by receiving, and in the pecking order of human qualities, I’d probably put humility somewhere before gratitude.____Jean Harris
Good human qualities-honesty, sincerity, a good heart-cannot be bought with money, nor can they be produced my machines, but only by the mind itself. We can call this the inner light, or God’s blessing, or human quality. This is the essence of mankind.___Dalai Lama
Learning to stand in somebody else’s shoes, to see through their eyes, that’s how peace begins. And it’s up to you to make that happen. Empathy is a quality of character that can change the world.___Barack Obama
One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels. – Gustave Flaubert
Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.__Carl Jung
The greatest of all our human concepts is the immortality of the personality and the eternal glory of the human soul.___Sterling W. Sill
The purpose of our life needs to be positive. We weren’t born with the purpose of causing trouble, harming others. For our life to be of value, I think we must develop basic good human qualities – warmth, kindness, compassion. Then our life becomes meaningful and more peaceful – happier.___Dalai Lama