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When I ran across this board on the enneagram it really got me laughing. I’m a big lover of quotes anyway, and when you combine that with the enneagram then it makes for a big bowl of fun.

So if you want to see the enneagram types “in their own words” then read the 32 Perfect Quotes that Sum Up Each of the 9 Types below.

Enneagram Type 1: The Reformer, Critic, Perfectionist

“if you can’t get rid of the skeletons in your closet, you’d best teach them to dance.” George Bernard Shaw

“an error can never become true however many times you repeat it. the truth can never be wrong, even if no one hears it.” Mahatma Gandhi

“understanding is a kind of ecstacy.” carl sagan

Enneagram Type 2: The Helper, Giver, Caretaker

“if you have love in your life, it can make up for a great many things you lack. if you don’t have it, no matter what else there is, it’s not enough.” Ann Landers

“love is life. and if you miss love, you miss life.” Leo Buscaglia

Enneagram Type 3: The Achiever, Performer, Succeeder

“The good part about being famous is being able to help people. The hard part is every day you have to be in a good mood, because that is what people expect. You learn to get good at it. My attitude going into training camp as a rookie was to impress. I wanted to impress my teammates, my coaches, the owners, everybody. I wanted them to say, “This kid is special. This kid has the right mind, the right skills, the right motivation.” - Michael Jordan

“i look good in these genes.” David Bowie

“that depends on what your definition of is is.” bill clinton

Enneagram Type 4: The Individualist, Romantic Artist

“always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.” Judy Garland

“Whatever the next thing I write, it’s got to be even more naked than the last.”
Harold Pinter, 4

“If we could learn to learn from pain even as it grasps us….”
Adrienne Rich, 4

Enneagram Type 5: The Investigator, Observer, Thinker

“people think that i must be a very strange person. this is not correct. i have the heart of a small boy. it is in a jar on my desk.” Stephen King

“i do not want what i haven’t got.” Sinnead O’Conner

“I wish I was like you . . .easily amused.” Kurt Cobain

“make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.” albert einstein

Enneagram Type 6: The Loyalist, Devil’s Advocate, Defender

“i am two with nature.” Woody Allen

“to put it bluntly, i seem to be whole superstructure with no foundation.” Marilyn Monroe

“the optimism of action is better than the pessimism of thought.” greenpeace slogan

Enneagram Type 7: The Enthusiast, Adventurer, Materialist, Epicure

“i know how to relax, i just watch t.v..” Steven Spielberg

“reality, what a scary concept.” robin williams

“when choosing between two evils, i like to try the one i’ve never tried before.” mae west

Enneagram Type 8: The Challenger, Leader, Protector

“i am always doing thing’s i can’t do, that’s how i get to do them.” Pablo Picasso

“If you help others, you will be helped, perhaps tomorrow, perhaps in one hundred years, but you will be helped. Nature must pay off the debt…”
G.I.Gurdgieff, 8

“You do not realize your own situation. You are in prison. All you wish for, if you are sensible, is to escape. But how to escape?…If a man is at any time to have a chance of escape, then he must first of all realize that he is in prison. So long as he fails to realize this, so long as he thinks he’s free, he has no chance whatsoever.”
G.I.Gurdjieff, 8

Enneagram Type 9: The Peacemaker, Mediator, Perservationist

“to sin by silence when they should protest, makes cowards of men.” Abraham Lincoln

“everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.” carl jung

Feel free to add your own in the comments section below! And thanks to all of the contriubtors on the Enneagram Institue board who helped put these together.

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