Qualities of any individual are embodied in his personality and character. Any account of personal qualities has to begin with a definition of personality. Although personality is a fairly common concept, it is useful to begin with its definitions. According to Philip S. Holzman, in Encyclopaedia Britannica, “Personality [is] a characteristic way of thinking, feeling, and behaving. Personality embraces moods, attitudes, and opinions and is most clearly expressed in interactions with other people. It includes behavioral characteristics, both
inherent and acquired, that distinguish one person from another and that can be observed in people’s relations to the environmentand to the group.”
We reproduce two more definitions of personality:
“Personality refers to individuals’ characteristic patterns of thought, emotion, and behaviour, together with the psychological mechanisms -- hidden or not -- behind those patterns. This definition means that among their colleagues in other subfields of psychology, those psychologists who study personality have a unique mandate: to explain whole persons.”
(Funder, D. C.)
“Although no single definition is acceptable to all personality theorists, we can say that personality is apattern of relatively permanent traits and unique characteristics that give both consistency and individuality to a person’s behaviour.” (Feist and Feist)