College is a time for growth, reflection, and paving a path to who you want to be. One of the greatest things I was introduced to during my freshman year in college was The Myers-Briggs Personality Test. The test put 4 letters into my mind that provided me with a concrete description of who I am and how I operate. I hold those 4 letters close to my heart and I live by them. The quotes connected to my personality type resonate deep within my body. If you haven't, definitely take the test and check out your 4 letters here.
If you want to be touched to your core, find your four letters then read the 4 quotes selected for each personality type.
INTJ
“And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.”– Friedrich Nietzsche
“We will either find a way or make one.” - Hannibal Barca
“If you are going through hell, keep going.” – Winston Churchill
“I am not what happened to me. I am what I choose to become.” – Carl Jung
INTP
“Passion has little to do with euphoria and everything to do with patience. It is not about feeling good. It is about endurance. Like patience, passion comes from the same Latin root: pati. It does not mean to flow with exuberance. It means to suffer.” - Mark Z. Danielewski
"Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?” - Mary Oliver
“Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.” – Henry David Thoreau
“Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.” – Steve Jobs
ENTJ
“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.” - Steve Jobs
''People pray to someone else like God, and hope to live eternally in paradise after death. Believe instead in yourself and be your own God to create your own paradise on Earth whilst you live.’' - anonymous
“Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don’t do that by sitting around.” - Katherine Hepburn
“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” - Franklin Roosevelt
ENTP
“Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they’ve been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It’s an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It’s a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.” – Muhammad Ali
“Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered; it is something moulded.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupery
“If your ship doesn’t come in, swim out to meet it.” – Jonathan Winters
“The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They’re there to stop the other people.” – Randy Pausch
INFJ
“Some failure in life is inevitable. It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all — in which case, you fail by default.” - J.K. Rowling
“Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn’t have the power to say yes.” - Eleanor Roosevelt
“At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.” – Lao Tzu
“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about the things that matter.” – Martin Luther King
INFP
“Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.” – Marilyn Monroe
“I survived because the fire inside me burned brighter than the fire around me.” – Joshua Graham
“You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.” –Buddhist Teaching
“Surround yourself with the dreamers and the doers, the believers and the thinkers, but most of all, surround yourself with those who see the greatness within you, even when you don’t see it yourself.” – Edmund Lee
ENFJ
"Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let the pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness. Take pride that even though the rest of the world may disagree, you still believe it to be a beautiful place." - The Zeitgeist Movement
"We're not on our journey to save the world but to save ourselves. But in doing that you save the world. The influence of a vital person vitalizes." - Joseph Campbell
“The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings.” - Julius Caesar
“What I am really saying is that you don’t need to do anything, because if you see yourself in the correct way, you are all as much extraordinary phenomena of nature as trees, clouds, the patterns in running water, the flickering of fire, the arrangement of the stars, and the form of a galaxy. You are all just like that, and there is nothing wrong with you at all.” - Alan Watts
ENFP
“It doesn’t interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for – and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart’s longing. It doesn’t interest me how old you are. I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool – for love – for your dreams – for the adventure of being alive.” – Oriah Mountain Dreamer
“I get up every morning determined to both change the world and have one hell of a good time. Sometimes this makes planning my day difficult.” – E. B. White
“You’ll need coffee shops and sunsets and road trips. Airplanes and passports and new songs and old songs, but people more than anything else. You will need other people and you will need to be that other person to someone else, a living breathing screaming invitation to believe better things.” – Jamie Tworkowski
“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” – Howard Thurman
ISTJ
“have you noticed how the moon is introverted? She hides during the day when all the eyes could be on her, but she blossoms during the night in the presence of those she trusts most.” - anonymous
“My alone feels so good. I’ll only have you if you're sweeter than my solitude” - Warsaw Shire
“sometimes being alone is the only way I know how to nourish myself I am restored by my own presence” — reyhan vega
“My observation is that whenever one person is found adequate to the discharge of a duty... it is worse executed by two persons, and scarcely done at all if three or more are employed therein.” - George Washington
ISFJ
"Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the action that we do.” - Mother Theresa
“No-one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
“I’ve been making a list of the things they don’t teach you at school. They don’t teach you how to love somebody. They don’t teach you how to be famous. They don’t teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don’t teach you how to walk away from someone you don’t love any longer. They don’t teach you how to know what’s going on in someone else’s mind. They don’t teach you what to say to someone who’s dying. They don’t teach you anything worth knowing.” –Neil Gaiman
“Maybe there’s something you’re afraid to say or someone you’re afraid to love, or somewhere you’re afraid to go. It’s gonna hurt. It’s gonna hurt because it matters.” – John Green
ESTJ
"Awareness without action is worthless. Sometimes you make the right decision, sometimes you make the decision right.” - Dr. Phil
“Good order is the foundation of all things.” - Edmund Burke
“Basically, I'm for anything that gets you through the night - be it prayer, tranquillizers or a bottle of Jack Daniels.” - Frank Sinatra
“Be yourself, don’t take anyone’s shit, and never let them take you alive.” - Gerard Way
ESFJ
"A conversation is a gift. Spend a moment to really listen to people ... to let them know they're being heard. ... Sometimes it's nice to just have a listen. Sometimes it's nice just to be heard.” - Idris Elba
"There's something very addictive about people pleasing. It's a thought pattern and a habit that feels really, really good.” - Anne Hathaway
"There's too much darkness in the world. ... Everywhere you go, there's a feeling of inadequacy or a feeling that you're not good enough. I want to bring a certain light to the world.” - Alicia Keys
“I think love is the through line and it's universal and it doesn't matter what period of time, time or place, or people, that's something we all connect to. That's the thin thread that I think keeps it altogether.” - Rachel McAdams
ISTP
“I wanted to live the life, a different life. I didn’t want to go to the same place every day and see the same people and do the same job. I wanted interesting challenges.” - Harrison Ford
“There is no normal life that is free of pain. It’s the very wrestling with our problems that can be the impetus for our growth.” - Mr. Rogers
“Who we are and who we have to be to survive are two very different things.” - Bellamy Blake, The 100
"Expect the unexpected. And whenever possible, be the unexpected.” - Jack Dorsey
ISFP
“I change during the course of a day. I wake and I’m one person, and when I go to sleep I know for certain I’m somebody else.” - Bob Dylan
'When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: “If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you’ll most certainly be right.” It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: “If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?” And whenever the answer has been “No” for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.’ -Steve Jobs
“All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.” - Pablo Picasso
“The greatest crimes in the world are not committed by people breaking the rules but by people following the rules. It’s people who follow orders that drop bombs and massacre villages” – Banksy
ESTP
"You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.” - Winston Churchill
“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” - Helen Keller
“The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers. But above all, the world needs dreamers who do.” - Sarah Ban Breathnach
"Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire." - Reggie Leach
ESFP
“I’m selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can’t handle me at my worst, then you surely don’t deserve me at my best.” - Marilyn Monroe
"Be of good cheer and be diligent. ... Make the most of every opportunity.” - Michelangelo
"Our diversity is beautiful - it would be so terribly boring if we were all the same! ... Let's love each other. ... Let's dare to be beautiful in our own truth - and still belong.” - Tutu
"I want everyone to win. ... I don't like telling people what they can or cannot do because I think everybody can do whatever they want, if they really believe it.” - Tyler the Creator