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Enneagram Quotes: Words of Wisdom from Different Types

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Type Talk! Inspiring quotes that capture the essence of each Enneagram personality.


 The Enneagram offers a framework for understanding human personality through nine distinct types. Each type has its own unique motivations, fears, and strengths. Here are some inspirational quotes embodying the wisdom of each Enneagram type:

The Reformer (Type 1):

  • "Justice is truth in action." - Marie Curie (Possible Type 1)
  • "The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be." - Ralph Waldo Emerson (Possible Type 1)
  • "Strive for perfection in everything you do. Take the best that exists and improve it. Let it be the standard against which you measure everything you do." - Henry Royce (Possible Type 1)

The Helper (Type 2):

  • "The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well." - Ralph Waldo Emerson (Possible Type 2)
  • "No one has ever become poor by giving." - Anne Frank (Possible Type 2)
  • "The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others." - Mahatma Gandhi (Possible Type 2)

The Achiever (Type 3):

  • "The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra." - Jimmy Johnson (Possible Type 3)
  • "The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today." - Franklin D. Roosevelt (Possible Type 3)
  • "Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible." - Tony Robbins (Possible Type 3)

The Individualist (Type 4):

  • "To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment." - Ralph Waldo Emerson (Possible Type 4)
  • "There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in." - Leonard Cohen (Possible Type 4)
  • "The creative mind plays with the possible and the impossible." - Elaine Pagels (Possible Type 4)

The Investigator (Type 5):

  • "The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing." - Albert Einstein (Possible Type 5)
  • "The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing." - Socrates (Possible Type 5)
  • "The mind is everything. What you think you become." - Buddha (Possible Type 5)

The Loyalist (Type 6):

  • "Loyalty is the characteristic that has most to do with making a company great." - Theodore Roosevelt (Possible Type 6)
  • "Trust is built in drops and lost in buckets." - Joel Brown (Possible Type 6)
  • "Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world." - John Evelyn (Possible Type 6)

The Enthusiast (Type 7):

  • "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, Dream, Discover." - Mark Twain (Possible Type 7)
  • "There are two ways to get enough. One is to continually acquire more. The other is to desire less." - G.K. Chesterton (Possible Type 7)
  • "Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans." - John Lennon (Possible Type 7)

The Challenger (Type 8):

  • "The best way to predict the future is to create it." - Peter Drucker (Possible Type 8)
  • "Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts." - Winston Churchill (Possible Type 8)
  • "The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off." - Gloria Steinem (Possible Type 8)

The Peacemaker (Type 9):

  • "Peace is not the absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means." - Ronald Reagan (Possible Type 9)
  • "The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle." - Steve Jobs (Possible Type 9)
  • "As long as there are people who are hungry, as long as there are people who are cold
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