Quote: We would worry less about what others think of us if we realized how seldom they do. Author: Ethel Barrett Missionary
Quote: Never follow the crowd. Author: Bernard M. Baruch 1870-1965, American Financier
Quote: The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are. Author: Joseph Campell
Quote: More and more, when faced with the world of men, the only reaction is one of individualism. Man alone is an end unto himself. Everything one tries to do for the common good ends in failure. Author: Albert Camus 1913-1960, French Existential Writer
Quote: Pin your faith to no ones sleeves, haven't you two eyes of your own. Author: Thomas Carlyle 1795-1881, Scottish Philosopher, Author
Quote: No one should part with their individuality and become that of another. Author: William Ellery Channing 1780-1842, American Unitarian Minister, Author
Quote: Losing faith in your own singularity is the start of wisdom, I suppose; also the first announcement of death. Author: Peter Conrad 1948-, Australian Critic, Author
Quote: Each man must have his ''I''; it is more necessary to him than bread; and if he does not find scope for it within the existing institutions he will be likely to make trouble. Author: Charles Horton Cooley 1864-1929, American Sociologist
Quote: Individuality is the aim of political liberty. By leaving to the citizen as much freedom of action and of being, as comports with order and the rights of others, the institutions render him truly a freeman. He is left to pursue his means of happiness in his own manner. Author: James F. Cooper 1789-1851, American Novelist
Quote: Individuality is either the mark of genius or the reverse. Mediocrity finds safety in standardization. Author: Frederick E. Crane
Quote: Follow your own star! Author: Dante (Alighieri) 1265-1321, Italian Philosopher, Poet
Quote: The trouble with the sacred Individual is that he has no significance, except as he can acquire it from others, from the social whole. Author: Bernard Devoto 1897-1955, American Writer, Critic, Historian
Quote: Everything without tells the individual that he is nothing; everything within persuades him that he is everything. Author: X. Doudan
Quote: The individual, man as a man, man as a brain, if you like, interests me more than what he makes, because I've noticed that most artists only repeat themselves. Author: Marcel Duchamp 1887-1968, French Artist
Quote: Each makes this cosmos and its construction the pivot of his emotional life, in order to find in this way peace and security which he can not find in the narrow whirlpool of personal experience. Author: Albert Einstein 1879-1955, German-born American Physicist
Quote: A man must consider what a rich realm he abdicates when he becomes a conformist. Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist
Quote: Our expenses are all for conformity. Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist
Quote: Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly. Author: St. Francis De Sales 1567-1622, Roman Catholic Bishop, Writer
Quote: Every man must get to Heaven his own way. Author: (Frederick II) Frederick The Great 1712-1786, Born in Berlin, King of Prussia (1740-1786),
Quote: The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise. Author: Robert Frost 1875-1963, American Poet
Quote: Be yourself, who else is better qualified? Author: Frank J. Giblin
Quote: Each man must grant himself the emotions that he needs and the morality that suits him. Author: Remy De Gourmont 1858-1915, French Novelist, Philosopher, Poet, Playwright
Quote: In each individual the spirit is made flesh, in each one the whole of creation suffers, in each one a Savior is crucified. Author: Hermann Hesse 1877-1962, German-born Swiss Novelist, Poet
Quote: If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I? And if not now, when? Author: Rabbi Hillel 30B.C - 9 A.D., Jewish Rabbi, Teacher
Quote: It is the individual only who is timeless. Societies, cultures, and civilizations --past and present --are often incomprehensible to outsiders, but the individual's hungers, anxieties, dreams, and preoccupations have remained unchanged through the millennia. Author: Eric Hoffer 1902-1983, American Author, Philosopher
Quote: The great challenge which faces us is to assure that, in our society of big-ness, we do not strangle the voice of creativity, that the rules of the game do not come to overshadow its purpose, that the grand orchestration of society leaves ample room for the man who marches to the music of another drummer. Author: Hubert H. Humphrey 1911-1978, American Democratic Politician, Vice President
Quote: Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves. Author: Aldous Huxley 1894-1963, British Author
Quote: Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself. Author: Carl Jung 1875-1961, Swiss Psychiatrist
Quote: The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases. Author: Carl Jung 1875-1961, Swiss Psychiatrist
Quote: Comrades! We must abolish the cult of the individual decisively, once and for all. Author: Nikita Khrushchev 1894-1971, Soviet Premier
Quote: The definition of the individual was: a multitude of one million divided by one million. Author: Arthur Koestler 1905-1983, Hungarian Born British Writer
Quote: A gesture cannot be regarded as the expression of an individual, as his creation (because no individual is capable of creating a fully original gesture, belonging to nobody else), nor can it even be regarded as that person's instrument; on the contrary, it is gestures that use us as their instruments, as their bearers and incarnations. Author: Milan Kundera 1929-, Czech Author, Critic
Quote: Except in a few well-publicized instances (enough to lend credence to the iconography painted on the walls of the media), the rigorous practice of rugged individualism usually leads to poverty, ostracism and disgrace. The rugged individualist is too often mistaken for the misfit, the maverick, the spoilsport, the sore thumb. Author: Lewis H. Lapham 1935-, American Essayist, Editor
Quote: Be content to be what you are, and prefer nothing to it, and do not fear or wish for your last day. Author: Marcus Valerius Martial 40-104, Latin poet and epigrammatist
Quote: In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality. Author: Karl Marx 1818-1883, German Political Theorist, Social Philosopher
Quote: But society has now fairly got the better of individuality; and the danger which threatens human nature is not the excess, but the deficiency, of personal Impulses and preferences. Author: John Stuart Mill 1806-1873, British Philosopher, Economist
Quote: That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of the time. Author: John Stuart Mill 1806-1873, British Philosopher, Economist
Quote: What ever crushes individuality is despotism, no matter what name it is called. Author: John Stuart Mill 1806-1873, British Philosopher, Economist
Quote: What is wanted -- whether this is admitted or not -- is nothing less than a fundamental remolding, indeed weakening and abolition of the individual: one never tires of enumerating and indicating all that is evil and inimical, prodigal, costly, extravagant in the form individual existence has assumed hitherto, one hopes to manage more cheaply, more safely, more equitably, more uniformly if there exist only large bodies and their members. Author: Friedrich Nietzsche 1844-1900, German Philosopher
Quote: You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist. Author: Friedrich Nietzsche 1844-1900, German Philosopher
Quote: My mother said to me, ''If you become a soldier, you'll be a general; if you become a monk you'll end up as the pope.'' Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso. --Pablo Picasso Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time. Author: Pablo Picasso 1881-1973, Spanish Artist
Quote: The nail that sticks up will be hammered down. Author: Japanese Proverb Sayings of Japanese Origin
Quote: Your labor only may be sold, your soul must not. Author: John Ruskin 1819-1900, British Critic, Social Theorist
Quote: No one can transcend their own individuality. Author: Arthur Schopenhauer 1788-1860, German Philosopher
Quote: There used to be a real me, but I had it surgically removed. Author: Peter Seller British Actor
Quote: A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature. Author: Seneca 4 B.C. – 65 A.D., Spanish-born Roman Statesman, philosopher
Quote: Every single one of us can do things that no one else can do -- can love things that no one else can love. We are like violins. We can be used for doorstops, or we can make music. You know what to do. Author: Barbara Sher American Author of ''I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was''
Quote: The work of the individual still remains the spark that moves mankind forward. Author: Igor Sikorsky
Quote: It is said that if Noah's ark had to be built by a company; they would not have laid the keel yet; and it may be so. What is many men's business is nobody's business. The greatest things are accomplished by individual men. Author: Charles Haddon Spurgeon 1834-1892, British Baptist Preacher
Quote: Follow the crowd and you will never be followed by a crowd. Author: Source Unknown
Quote: Those who talk about individuality the most are the ones who most object to deviation, and in a few years it may be the other way around. Some day everybody will just think what they want to think, and then everybody will probably be thinking alike; that Author: Andy Warhol 1930-, American Artist, Filmmaker
Quote: My great mistake, the fault for which I can't forgive myself, is that one day I ceased my obstinate pursuit of my own individuality. Author: Oscar Wilde 1856-1900, British Author, Wit
Quote: America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us. Author: Woodrow T. Wilson 1856-1924, Twenty-eighth President of the USA