Individuality Quotes

Be yourself, because others are already taken.

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.

Remember to always be yourself. Unless you suck.

Be yourself, don't take anything from anyone, and never let them take you alive.

You are you that is truer than true

If a man is not faithful to his own individuality, he cannot be loyal to anything.

A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.

Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end.

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.

Be yourself. Above all, let who you are, what you are, what you believe shine through every sentence you write, every piece you finish.

As life goes on it becomes tiring to keep up the character you invented for yourself, and so you relapse into individuality and become more like yourself everyday.

Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

Comrades! We must abolish the cult of the individual decisively, once and for all

Never follow the crowd.

Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect.

It is vain to talk of the interest of the community, without understanding what is the interest of the individual.

Without trust, there can be no genuine peace. Neither in politics, nor in the quiet individuality of the heart and spirit.

Taking into account the public's regrettable lack of taste, it is incumbent upon you not to fit in.

If I'm going to sing like someone else, then I don't need to sing at all.

All greatness of character is dependent on individuality. The man who has no other existence than that which he partakes in common with all around him, will never have any other than an existence of mediocrity.

Presenting leadership as a list of carefully defined qualities (like strategic, analytical, and performance-oriented) no longer holds. Instead, true leadership stems from individuality that is honestly and sometimes imperfectly expressed.Leaders should strive for authenticity over perfection.

The only real revolution is in the enlightenment of the mind and the improvement of character, the only real emancipation is individual, and the only real revolutionaries are philosophers and saints.

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.

I love the fact that there is now a skate park in almost every city, but it will always have a rebellious/underground edge to it because it is based on individuality.

The curiosity of the neighbors about you, is a tribute to your individuality, and you should encourage it

The writer in western civilization has become not a voice of his tribe, but of his individuality. This is a very narrow-minded situation.

Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.

Individuality is the aim of political liberty. By leaving 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.

Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.

Imitation is the highest form of flattery, but clones kind of get it wrong because we are promoting individuality and being proud of being yourself.

Individuality is freedom lived.

The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals; but the morals of the Heroic Age are founded on individuality, and on nothing else.

They are a very extensive minority who have suffered discrimination and who have the same right to participation in the promise and fruits of society as every other individual.

Insist upon yourself. Be original.

Individuality is either the mark of genius or the reverse. Mediocrity finds safety in standardization.

In a society that tries to standardize thinking, individuality is not highly prized.

There is a way in which the collective knowledge of mankind expresses itself, for the finite individual, through mere daily living . . . a way in which life itself is sheer knowing.

Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and go do it. Because what the world needs is more people who have come alive

Individuality is only possible if it unfolds from wholeness.

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.

For the stage displays the first vigorous expression, as the natural thing and without conspicuous restraint, of private individuality.

We would worry less about what others think of us if we realized how seldom they do.

Everything without tells the individual that he is nothing; everything within persuades him that he is everything.

How we remember, what we remember, and why we remember form the most personal map of our individuality.

Follow your own star!

The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.

Whoever knows he is deep tries to be clear, but whoever wants to seem deep to the crowd tries to be obscure. For the crowd supposes that anything it cannot see to the bottom must be deep: it is so timid and goes so unwillingly into the water.

The whole business of marshaling ones energies becomes more and more important as one grows older.

No one should part with their individuality and become that of another.

It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.

Where much is expected from an individual, he may rise to the level of events and make the dream come true.

No one can transcend their own individuality.

The individual increasingly comes to know who he is through the stand he takes when he expresses his ideas, values, beliefs, and convictions, and through the declaration and ownership of his feelings.

In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.

A child develops individuality long before he develops taste. I have seen my kid straggle into the kitchen in the morning with outfits that need only one accessory — an empty bottle of gin.