Individuality Quotes

I cannot deny that Vera, in her own way--in the way of all human beings who are kind and not cruel--really is lovely.

~ Jane Lotter

In Ankh-Morpork you can be whoever you want to be and sometimes people laugh and sometimes they clap, and mostly and beautifully, they don't really care.

~ Terry Pratchett

The time when you should most of all withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd.

~ Epicurus

We get swallowed up by the illusion that unless we can find a place to belong, we are going to be all alone in the world.

~ Naoki Higashida

When focusing only on one's credentials one boasts his own incompetence in his capacity for discernment of the individual.

~ Criss Jami

A hero is not only a brave individual, but a brave individual that dares to be different.

~ Keely Barton

This is my mind , i own it!

~ Anthony Jacob

So, Don't Mix Up Your Way To Write Your Life Story With Others, Then Definitely It Won't Sell. You Only Know What You're Encountering In Every Single Step. Everyone's Shoes Won't Fit In Your Feet....

~ Muhammad Imran Hasan

But every time I go to church with you, I feel like everyone's trying to trap me in a room and convert me.' Which, in truth, they are. 'I want you, and your family, to love me for who I am,' he shouts, 'To let me be who I am.

~ Nicole Hardy

I not only stand on my two feet, but I walk on my two feet for my two feet.

~ Keely Barton

Unhealthy families discourage individual expression. Everyone must conform to the thoughts and actions of the toxic parents. They promote fusion, a blurring of personal boundaries, a welding together of family members. On an unconscious level, it is hard for family members to know where one ends and another begins. In their efforts to be close, they often suffocate one another’s individuality.

~ Susan Forward

We are fighting now to save that endangered species-the individual.

~ Marty Rubin

We like to think of individuals as unique. Yet if this is true of everyone, then we all share the same quality, namely our uniqueness. What we have in common is the fact that we are all uncommon. Everybody is special, which means that nobody is. The truth, however, is that human beings are uncommon only up to a point. There are no qualities that are peculiar to one person alone. Regrettably, there could not be a world in which only one individual was irascible, vindictive or lethally aggressive. This is because human beings are not fundamentally all that different from each other, a truth postmodernists are reluctant to concede. We share an enormous amount in common simply by virtue of being human, and this is revealed by the vocabularies we have for discussing human character. We even share the social processes by which we come to individuate ourselves.

~ Terry Eagleton

Ultimately everything depends on the quality of the individual, but our fatally short-sighted age thinks only in terms of large numbers and mass organizations...

~ C.g. Jung

Be my God, so I can just be me.

~ Laura Story

Penguins don't waste their time trying to fly. They’re unique. They know they were built for the water.

~ Sidney Knight

There can't be that many individual souls. Not souls like mine. There isn't room. There can't be.

~ Stephen Fry

The larger the group, the more toxic, the more of your beauty as an individual you have to surrender for the sake of group thought. And when you suspend your individual beauty you also give up a lot of your humanity. You will do things in the name of a group that you would never do on your own. Injuring, hurting, killing, drinking are all part of it, because you've lost your identity, because you now owe your allegiance to this thing that's bigger than you are and that controls you.

~ George Carlin

To persons standing alone on a hill during a clear midnight such as this, the roll of the world is almost a palpable movement. To enjoy the epic form of that gratification it is necessary to stand on a hill at a small hour of the night, and, having first expanded with a sense of difference from the mass of civilized mankind, who are diregardful of all such proceedings at this time, long and quietly watch your stately progress through the stars.

~ Thomas Hardy

It is a brave thing to have courage to be an individual; it is also, perhaps, a lonely thing. But it is better than not being an individual, which is to be nobody at all.

~ Eleanor Roosevelt

Success must include two things: the development of an individual to his utmost potentiality and a contribution of some kind to one's world.

~ Eleanor Roosevelt

for meobedience to another is the decay of self.for though every being is similareach being is differentand to herd our differencesunder one lawdegrades each self.

~ Charles Bukowski

If knowing yourself and being yourself were as easy to do as to talk about, there wouldn't be nearly so many people walking around in borrowed postures, spouting secondhand ideas, trying desperately to fit in rather than to stand out.

~ Warren G. Bennis

Imitation cannot go above its model.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity. The inventor did it, because it was natural to him, and so in him it has a charm. In the imitator, something else is natural, and he bereaves himself of his own beauty, to come short of another man's.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

I am neither for conformity nor non-conformity. I am for individuality. If one's individuality is in effect non-conformity, then so be it. But basically, one's individuality consists of conformity--to one's self.

~ Paul Krassner

Let me admonish you, first of all, to go alone; to refuse the good models, even those most sacred in the imagination of men, and dare to love God without mediator or veil.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

...no one can afford not to be a man. No position can compensate for coming face to face with a robot when you are alone.

~ Eleanor Roosevelt

You can keep waiting for somebody else to define you, or give you your place in the world, or you can decide that you're not just somebody's broken puppet anymore. Choose.

~ David Fury

We must resist in-group thinking and practice seeing every soul as a brother or sister in a larger grouping of humans on earth.

~ Bryant Mcgill

How good is good enough,since you are only good for your selfishness.

~ Peter Adejimi

The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. To be your own man is hard business. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

~ Rudyard Kipling

It may have been quixotic, but it was magnificent.

~ J.m. Barrie

Every system of power in the world has a vested interest in weakening the individuality of its subjects and tries to weaken or it possible completely extinguish it.

~ Christa Wolf

Every plant is an individual.Wrong again. We are not individuals at all, we are all connected. We are individuals the way each blossom on an apple tree is an individual.

~ Dale Pendell

To influence a person is to give him one's own soul. He does not think his natural thoughts, or burn with his natural passions. His virtues are not real to him. His sins, if there are such things as sins, are borrowed. He becomes an echo of someone else's music, an actor of a part that has not been written for him.

~ Oscar Wilde

Well, to tell you the truth, I've thought of it often and often before, but he's such devilish good company is Huntingdon, after all - you can't imagine what a jovial good fellow he is when he's not fairly drunk, only just primed or half-seas-over - we all have a bit of a liking for him at the bottom of our hearts, though we can't respect him.''But should you wish yourself to be like him?''No, I'd rather be like myself, bad as I am.

~ Anne Brontë

I can be a better me than anyone can.

~ Diana Ross

See with your own eyes, hear with your own ears, think your own thoughts, say what you must say, do what you must do, love all that you can and stand on your own two feet.

~ Paul Palnik

Nothing is the same.

~ Silvia Hartmann