Personality Isn't Permanent Quotes

“Eleanor Roosevelt’s words: “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”
― Benjamin P. Hardy, Personality Isn't Permanent: Break Free from Self-Limiting Beliefs and Rewrite Your Story

“You earn your confidence through intentional action toward meaningful goals. You can only borrow so much confidence from the distant past.”
― Benjamin P. Hardy, Personality Isn't Permanent: Break Free from Self-Limiting Beliefs and Rewrite Your Story

“If you were to lose a person you love, you wouldn't just lose that person but also the person you were when with them. All loss includes a loss of yourself. And conversely, meeting new people or entering new relationships leads to the creation of a new self.”
― Benjamin P. Hardy, Personality Isn't Permanent: Break Free from Self-Limiting Beliefs and Rewrite Your Story

“It is often by taking opportunities or responsibilities above (or seemingly "unnatural" to) your skill level and experience that forces the greatest growth. If you're waiting to find something you feel immediate or intuitive passion for, then you're going to miss most of your greatest opportunities for growth and success.”
― Benjamin P. Hardy, Personality Isn't Permanent: Break Free from Self-Limiting Beliefs and Rewrite Your Story

“She needs to decide what she wants and begin moving forward. With progress--even minuscule progress--her clarity and confidence will increase, opening the door for greater flexibility and change.”
― Benjamin P. Hardy, Personality Isn't Permanent: Break Free from Self-Limiting Beliefs and Rewrite Your Story

“A clear indicator that someone has unresolved trauma is that his life and personality are repetitive for an extended period. But as he faces, opens up about, becomes more aware of, and ultimately reframes his trauma, he allows himself to take a positive and mature view of his past. His present and future will then stop reflecting his past.”
― Benjamin P. Hardy, Personality Isn't Permanent: Break Free from Self-Limiting Beliefs and Rewrite Your Story

“Personality is not stable but changes regardless of whether you're purposeful about that change or not.”
― Benjamin P. Hardy, Personality Isn't Permanent: Break Free from Self-Limiting Beliefs and Rewrite Your Story

“Choosing one's own way is what makes one human--and the more you own the power of your own decision-making, the more your life and outcomes will be within your control.”
― Benjamin P. Hardy, Personality Isn't Permanent: Break Free from Self-Limiting Beliefs and Rewrite Your Story

“The most fundamental aspect of your humanity is your ability to make choices and stand by those choices, what Viktor Frankl called the last of human freedoms, “To choose one’s own way.” Choosing your own way has at least two key meanings: making decisions about what you want to happen and choosing how you respond to what does happen.”
― Benjamin P. Hardy, Personality Isn't Permanent: Break Free from Self-Limiting Beliefs and Rewrite Your Story

“Personality—like passion, inspiration, motivation, and confidence—is a by-product of your decisions in life. It’s a limiting and ineffective idea to view your personality as the driving force for the decisions you make in your life,”
― Benjamin P. Hardy, Personality Isn't Permanent: Break Free from Self-Limiting Beliefs and Rewrite Your Story

“Longitudinal research highlights that a person’s personality can often be explained by the social roles they espoused and relinquished throughout their life stages. Thus, social role is an oft-studied and tangible predictor of personality.”
― Benjamin Hardy, Personality Isn't Permanent: Break Free from Self-Limiting Beliefs and Rewrite Your Story

“You are not a single and narrow “type” of person. In different situations and around different people, you are different.”
― Benjamin Hardy, Personality Isn't Permanent: Break Free from Self-Limiting Beliefs and Rewrite Your Story

“The person I was in high school wasn’t someone I’d recommend dating or marrying either. But I wasn’t at all the same person I had been back then. I didn’t even feel like I was in the same universe.”
― Benjamin Hardy, Personality Isn't Permanent: Break Free from Self-Limiting Beliefs and Rewrite Your Story

“Prefer being rejected at your new standard than being accepted at your old one.”
― Benjamin Hardy, Personality Isn't Permanent: Break Free from Self-Limiting Beliefs and Rewrite Your Story