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Charm is more than beauty.
-Yiddish Proverb
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Charm is the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves.
-Henri Frederic Amiel
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I have always felt it was a handicap for oppressed peoples to depend so largely upon a leader, because unfortunately in our culture, the charismatic leader usually becomes a leader because he has found a spot in the public limelight...
-Ella Baker
Cited in The Black Woman's Gumbo Ya-Ya by Terri L. Jewell, 1993.
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Beware of charisma . . . Representative Men; was Ralph Waldo Emerson's 1850 phrase for the great men in a democracy . . . Is there some common quality among these Representative Men who have been most successful as our leaders? I call it the need to be authentic
-Daniel J. Boorstin
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A man of such obvious and exemplary charm must be a liar.
-Anita Brookner
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Charm is a glow within a woman which casts a most becoming light on others.
-John Mason Brown
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Charisma becomes the undoing of leaders. It makes them inflexible, convinced of their own infallibility, unable to change.
-Peter Drucker
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The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.
-Aldous Huxley
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No one has it who isn't capable of genuinely liking others, at least at the actual moment of meeting and speaking. Charm is always genuine; it may be superficial but it isn't false.
-P. D. James
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There are charms made only for distance admiration.
-Samuel Johnson
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There are some men who possess a quality which goes way beyond romantic or even sexual appeal, a quality which literally enslaves. It has very little to do with looks and nothing at all to do with youth, because there are some quite mature and unathletic specimens who have it. It's an expression in the eyes, an aura of being in control, and responsible, or something easy and powerful in the stance, or who knows.
-Lucille Kallen
Introducing C.B. Greenfield, 1979
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Throw away those books and cassettes on inspirational leadership. Send those consultants packing. Know your job, set a good example for the people under you and put results over politics. That's all the charisma you'll really need to succeed.
-Dyan Machan
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Charm is a product of the unexpected.
-Jose Marti
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Rarity gives a charm; so early fruits and winter roses are the most prized; and coyness sets off an extravagant mistress, while the door always open tempts no suitor.
-Marcus Valerius Martial
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My strong point is not rhetoric , it isn't showmanship, it isn't big promises - those things that create the glamour and the excitement that people call charisma and warmth.
-Richard Milhous Nixon
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The charms of the passing woman are generally in direct proportion to the swiftness of her passing.
-Marcel Proust
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How can you have charisma? Be more concerned about making others feel good about themselves than you are making them feel good about you.
-Dan Reiland
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A plain woman is one who, however beautiful, neglects to charm.
-Edgar Saltus
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Faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest.
-Sir Walter Scott
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I am bewitched with the rogue's company. If the rascal have not given me medicines to make me love him, I'll be hanged.
-William Shakespeare
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Charming people live up to the very edge of their charm, and behave as outrageously as the world lets them.
-Logan Pearsall Smith
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Things forbidden have a secret charm.
-Tacitus
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Marvelous is the power which can be exercised, almost unconsciously, over a company, or an individual, or even upon a crowd by one person gifted with good temper, good digestion, good intellects, and good looks.
-Anthony Trollope
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Charm is the ability to make someone think that both of you are quite wonderful.
-Source Unknown
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There is no personal charm so great as the charm of a cheerful temperament.
-Henry Van Dyke
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Books about Charisma
