Individuality Quotes
The greatest enemy of individual freedom is the individual himself. - Saul Alinsky
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. - Albert Camus
A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature. - Seneca
Losing faith in your own singularity is the start of wisdom, I suppose; also the first announcement of death. - Peter Conrad
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. - Oscar Wilde
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 - Andy Warhol
Follow the crowd and you will never be followed by a crowd. - unknown
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. - Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves. - Aldous Huxley
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. - Barbara Sher
America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us. - Woodrow T Wilson
No one can transcend their own individuality. - Arthur Schopenhauer
Your labor only may be sold, your soul must not. - John Ruskin
The nail that sticks up will be hammered down. - Japanese Proverb
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. - Pablo Picasso
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. - Milan Kundera
Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself. - Carl Jung
You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist. - Friedrich Nietzsche
The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases. - Carl Jung
The definition of the individual was: a multitude of one million divided by one million. - Arthur Koestler
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. - Eric Hoffer
A man must consider what a rich realm he abdicates when he becomes a conformist. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every man must get to Heaven his own way. - (Frederick II) Frederick The Great
Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly. - St Francis De Sales
Our expenses are all for conformity. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise. - Robert Frost
Each man must grant himself the emotions that he needs and the morality that suits him. - Remy De Gourmont
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? - Rabbi Hillel
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. - Albert Einstein
Never follow the crowd. - Bernard M Baruch
In each individual the spirit is made flesh, in each one the whole of creation suffers, in each one a Savior is crucified. - Hermann Hesse
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. - Marcel Duchamp
The trouble with the sacred Individual is that he has no significance, except as he can acquire it from others, from the social whole. - Bernard Devoto
Follow your own star! - Dante (Alighieri)
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. - Charles Horton Cooley
No one should part with their individuality and become that of another. - William Ellery Channing
Pin your faith to no ones sleeves, haven't you two eyes of your own. - Thomas Carlyle
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. - Hubert H Humphrey
The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are. - Joseph Campell
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. - James F Cooper
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. - Lewis H Lapham
Be content to be what you are, and prefer nothing to it, and do not fear or wish for your last day. - Marcus Valerius Martial
In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality. - Karl Marx
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. - John Stuart Mill
That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of the time. - John Stuart Mill
What ever crushes individuality is despotism, no matter what name it is called. - John Stuart Mill
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. - Friedrich Nietzsche
Comrades! We must abolish the cult of the individual decisively, once and for all. - Nikita Khrushchev
It is a blessed thing that in every age someone has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions. - Robert Green Ingersoll
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. - Oscar Wilde
Learn to limit yourself; to content yourself with some definite work; dare to be what you are and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not; and to believe in your own individuality. - Henri Frederic Amiel
It is those who concentrates on but one thing at a time who advance in this world. The great man or woman is the one who never steps outside his or her specialty or foolishly dissipates his or her individuality. - Og Mandino
How we remember, what we remember, and why we remember form the most personal map of our individuality. - Christina Baldwin
Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk; it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine. - Isak Dinesen
Learn to limit yourself; to content yourself with some definite work; dare to be what you are and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not; and to believe in your own individuality. - Henri Matisse
Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself. - Carl Gustav Jung
No member of a crew is praised for the rugged individuality of his rowing. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature. - Seneca
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. - Barbara Sher
The work of the individual still remains the spark that moves mankind forward. - Igor Sikorsky
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 - Andy Warhol
America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us. - Woodrow T. Wilson
We would worry less about what others think of us if we realized how seldom they do. - Ethel Barrett
Never follow the crowd. - Bernard M. Baruch
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. - Charles Horton Cooley
Individuality is the aim of political liberty. 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. - James F. Cooper
Individuality is either the mark of genius or the reverse. Mediocrity finds safety in standardization. - Frederick E. Crane
Follow your own star! - Dante (Alighieri)
Everything without tells the individual that he is nothing; everything within persuades him that he is everything. - X. Doudan
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. - Marcel Duchamp
A man must consider what a rich realm he abdicates when he becomes a conformist. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every man must get to Heaven his own way. - (Frederick II) Frederick The Great
Be yourself, who else is better qualified? - Frank J. Giblin
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? - Rabbi Hillel
What ever crushes individuality is despotism, no matter what name it is called. - John Stuart Mill
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. - Pablo Picasso