Top 100 An Individual Quotes
#1. The choice is to live a spiritual life; to live a bigger life; to live a life of service to Earth and the whole; it's choosing every day and every hour to live by your true nature at all levels of being rather than live as an individual person only on the material dimension of being.
Ilchi Lee
#2. Self-discovery is the process of learning about who you are as an individual, independent from your friends, family, employer, or nation.
Scott Berkun
#3. The yogi should meditate on a firm seat, one that is clean - untainted by dirt or unspiritual vibrations of others. The thought or life force emanating from an individual saturates the objects he uses and his dwelling.
Paramahansa Yogananda
#4. He (Lincoln) saw how intellectually and spiritually impoverished a person would be if he was limited to his own personal resources. The Bible, he recognized, vastly enlarged the area of experience on which an individual might depend.
Elton Trueblood
#5. An individual deficient in the sense of humor represents more of a challenge to our idea of the human than a person of subnormal intelligence
Christopher Hitchens
#7. To try to expunge an individual's history is a terrible violation.
Helen Dunmore
#8. If you break an individual record, it's because of the greatness that comes before you.
Abby Wambach
#9. The injustice done to an individual is sometimes of service to the public.
Junius
#10. The more cruel the wrong that men commit against an individual or a people, the deeper their hatred and contempt for their victim. Conceit and false pride on the part of a nation prevent the rise of remorse for its crime.
Albert Einstein
#11. If I let myself really understand another person, I might be changed by that understanding. And we all fear change. So as I say, it is not an easy thing to permit oneself to understand an individual,
Carl R. Rogers
#12. I am personally convinced that one person can be a change catalyst, a 'transformer' in any situation, any organization. Such an individual is yeast that can leaven an entire loaf. It requires vision, initiative, patience, respect, persistence, courage, and faith to be a transforming leader.
Stephen Covey
#13. How do you make RoboCop? How do you slowly bring a guy to be a robot? How do you actually take humanity out of someone and how do you program a brain, so to speak, and how does that affect an individual?
Jose Padilha
#14. A nation or an individual, will do wisely to direct consumption chiefly to those articles, that are longest time in wearing out, and the most frequently in use.
Jean-Baptiste Say
#15. Since many traits can affect an individual's adaptation to it's environment (it's "fitness") natural selection can over eons sculpt an animal or plant into something that looks designed
Jerry A. Coyne
#16. [T]he first transactions of a nation, like those of an individual upon his first entrance into life make the deepest impression, and are to form the leading traits in its character.
George Washington
#17. The popularity of an individual in life often only manifests itself in death.
Jeffrey Archer
#18. If patterns of ones and zeroes were "like" patterns of human lives and deaths, if everything about an individual could be represented in a computer record by a long strings of ones and zeroes, then what kind of creature could be represented by a long string of lives and deaths?
Thomas Pynchon
#19. Slain in the spirit is a term used in charismatic Christianity to describe a religious behavior in which an individual falls to the floor. This usually happens during an event they perceive as a personal encounter with the Holy Spirit, often associated with the practice of laying on of hands.
Emeka O. Godwin
#20. I get from the soil and spirit of Texas the feeling that I, as an individual, can accomplish whatever I want to, and that there are no limits, that you can just keep going, just keep soaring. I like that spirit.
Barbara Jordan
#21. Henceforth an individual solace dear;
Part of my Soul I seek thee, and thee claim
My other half: with that thy gentle hand
Seisd mine, I yielded, and from that time see
How beauty is excelld by manly grace.
John Milton
#22. At an individual level just as much as a corporate level, this notion of if you're not really passionate about the work you're doing in a world of mounting pressure, you're going to experience more and more stress. You're going to burn out. You're going to become marginalized.
John Hagel III
#23. An individual's yearning to reach outside his life is a seed of greatness waiting for a stream of inspiration. Carving that stream to people's hearts is a simpler task if the endeavor you are leading them into is attached to a bigger story.
Mac Anderson
#24. I think that tennis has been in a place for many years without any change. Davis Cup and Fed Cup has always been a very exciting platform for players because it is such an individual sport, and we get to play a team competition. We love being part of a team.
Mahesh Bhupathi
#25. I hate all politics. I don't like either political party. One should not belong to them - one should be an individual, standing in the middle. Anyone that belongs to a party stops thinking.
Ray Bradbury
#26. For to change the norms, the very foci of attention, of a cultural system is a difficult task - far more complex than that of changing an individual's attitudes and interests.
James S. Coleman
#27. I'll write about myself, or people I know, or archetypal characters, but the goal is to get at some truth, not to necessarily convey my own experience as an individual to the world.
Conor Oberst
#28. Your soul is like a drop of water yearning to return to the ocean. There it will cease to exist as an individual and instead become a greater existence. It becomes an entire ocean.
Douglas James Cottrell
#29. There is, of course, great value in belonging to a group. Safety in numbers, for one. But there is also a mathematical explanation for why the brain is so willing to give up its own opinions: a group of people is more likely to be correct about something than an individual.
Gregory Berns
#30. Eckankar redefines the experience of religion. It offers an individual the spiritual tools needed to walk one's own journey home to God.
Harold Klemp
#31. [J]ust because you have an individual right does not mean that the state or local government can't constrain the exercise of that right ...
Barack Obama
#32. It's not debt per say that overwhelms an individual corporation or country. Rather it is a continuous increase in debt in relation to income that causes trouble.
Warren Buffett
#33. It has always been my contention that an individual who can be relied upon to be himself and to be honest unto himself can be relied upon in every other way.
J. Paul Getty
#34. The member of a primitive clan might express his identity in the formula "I am we"; he cannot yet conceive of himself as an "individual," existing apart from his group.
Erich Fromm
#35. The Samsara is the movement of life. And you, an individual self, a form, a moment on a wave, are bound.
Frederick Lenz
#36. Economics that hurt the moral well-being of an individual or a nation are immoral and, therefore, sinful.
Mahatma Gandhi
#37. Most of my books have been about the complex ways an individual depends on community.
Barbara Kingsolver
#38. In Britain, it's bred into you, the idea that you can't really change anything, so why bother. When I went to school in America, it was the total opposite view - you, as an individual, can change anything and everything. It's how you're raised.
Heather Brooke
#40. Comfort, support, and care are essential in maintaining and improving an individual's mental efficiency, in part because they have important physiological calming effects (Schore, 1994; 2003b), and favorable effects on the immune system.
Onno Van Der Hart
#41. In [David] Douglas's success in life ... his great activity, undaunted courage, singular abstemiousness, and energetic zeal, at once pointed him out as an individual eminently calculated to do himself credit as a scientific traveler.
Joseph Dalton Hooker
#42. Truth is not born nor is it to be found inside the head of an individual person, it is born between people collectively searching for truth, in the process of their dialogic interaction.
Mikhail Bakhtin
#43. According to this doctrine, however, the Buddha was never merely an individual human being but, like St. John's Word or Logos, an eternal principle temporarily made flesh.
Anonymous
#44. Tinsley hated the thought of people greeting her with "Where's Julian?" It was like once you were a couple, you ceased to exist as an individual. It made her a little sick to her stomach.
Cecily Von Ziegesar
#45. I've learned not to let people judge me in how I want to live my life. Every single woman is an individual, and there's no one path. You just have to take the path that you think is right for you.
Mindy Grossman
#46. The first most important , critical and strategic coalition in an individual's life is the coalition with ones own self.
Sameh Elsayed
#47. On a personal level, Freaking Out is a process whereby an individual casts off outmoded and restricting standards of thinking, dress, and social etiquette in order to express creatively his relationship to his immediate environment and the social structure as a whole.
Frank Zappa
#48. It's almost a responsibility for all the people of the United Kingdom, regardless of race, color or creed, and an understanding that you have an individual connection with each and every one.
Prince Andrew
#49. The more experiences you can have as an individual makes you a fuller person and a fuller actor.
Dominik Garcia-Lorido
#50. Never say anything in writing that you wouldn't comfortably say in conversation. Be yourself when you write. If you're not a person who says 'indeed' or 'moreover,' or who calls someone an individual ('he's a fine individual'), please don't write it.
William Zinsser
#51. Above all, beware of platitudes, i.e., word combinations that have already appeared a thousand times ... As a general rule, try to find new combinations of words (not for the sake of their novelty, but because every person sees things in an individual way and must find his own words for them).
Vladimir Nabokov
#52. In societies where incomes and educational levels are low, it is often far easier to get supporters to the polls based on a promise of an individual benefit rather than a broad programmatic agenda.
Francis Fukuyama
#53. A nation, as an individual, has duties to fulfill appointed by God and His moral law.
Benjamin Disraeli
#54. The greatest thing about being in a band, and the strength of having companionship and collaboration, is also the thing that makes a band break up because then you begin to feel confined. Like, who am I as an individual, as a writer, as a performer?
Karen Fairchild
#55. I hope I'm an individual. I suppose an eccentric is a super individual.
Margaret Rutherford
#56. Stop a knife? You're serious."
"As a heart attack."
"You are something else."
I couldn't tell if he was giving me a compliment or a veiled insult. "I try to be an individual. It's all the rage.
J.A. Saare
#57. I know that compared to industries, corporations, and governments, an individual is insignificant. In measureable terms my actions hardly matter. But feeling tiny does not have to end at why bother.
Wendy Tremayne
#58. An individual life is one thread in the tapestry and what is one thread compared to the whole?
Isaac Asimov
#59. I have an aversion to being mislabeled. Here's a label I'd accept: I'm an 'individual.' I'm someone who can't follow, and doesn't want to lead.
Joni Mitchell
#60. Now when a people has dictators, that is a symptom that they are running mad. They should be watched. I think they should be watched very closely. And later they should be prevented. Now think it is not a nation but an individual, now see, this is like he had a disease.
Stevie Smith
#61. The way the mind decodes music is an individual mystery. But the physical circumstances can change the way you listen.
Simon McBurney
#62. I had stopped doing anything for myself. I no longer felt like an individual because for thirteen years, I was one-half of a we.
Brandi Glanville
#63. If I want to define myself, I first have to say, "I am a woman"; all other assertions will arise from this basic truth. A man never begins by positing himself as an individual of a certain sex: that he is a man is obvious.
Simone De Beauvoir
#64. Books work as an art form (and an economic one) because they are primarily the work of an individual.
Seth Godin
#65. Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual, the former invariably endangers the morals of the entire country.
Karl Kraus
#66. An individual dies ... when, instead of taking risks and hurling himself toward being, he cowers within, and takes refuge there.
Emile M. Cioran
#67. The development of faith in the Lord is an individual matter. Repentance is also an individual matter. Only as an individual can one be baptized and receive the Holy Ghost. Each of us is born individually; likewise, each of us is "born again" individually. Salvation is an individual matter.
Russell M. Nelson
#68. I believe that if an individual is not on the path to transcending his society and seeing in what way it furthers or impedes the development of human potential, he cannot enter into intimate contact with his humanity.
Erich Fromm
#69. I think I'm learning to be bolder in my career choices and be more confident in my personal life. I haven't always felt very secure as an individual, but now I feel I certain confidence and sense of self that gets me through the day a lot better than before.
Winona Ryder
#70. There is a quality of selfishness that is associated with an individual when they are in the depths of addiction.
David Dastmalchian
#71. Educate a boy, and you educate an individual. Educate a girl, and you educate a community.
Adelaide Hoodless
#72. To be an individual is the hardest thing in the world, because nobody likes you to be an individual. Everybody wants to kill your individuality and to make a sheep out of you. Nobody wants you to be on your own.
Rajneesh
#73. If, instead of playing the horses, an individual chooses to play the market, that is his own affair. Only he must understand that speculating in stocks is gambling, not investing.
Catherine Crook De Camp
#74. Over the years, I was never really driven to become a solo artist, but I was curious to find out who I was as an individual creative person. It's taken some time, but now I feel I've truly paid my dues. I guess I'm at a point now where I'm more comfortable in my own skin.
Annie Lennox
#75. You don't have freedom because you are a hyphenated American; you have freedom because you are an individual, and that should be protected.
Ron Paul
#76. But a person, I would say, is an individual living really with the world. And 'with' the world, I don't mean in the world- just in real contact, in real reciprocity with the world in all the points in which the world can meet man.
Martin Buber
#77. As far as horses go, people will ask about one breed versus another. I have to tell you, I really don't have any prejudice one way or another. I treat every horse at face value, how he/she is as an individual.
Buck Brannaman
#78. The idea that an individual can find God is terribly self-centered. It is like a wave thinking it can find the sea.
John Templeton
#79. If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#80. Like everyone else I am what I am: an individual, unique and different, with a lineal history of ancestral promptings and urgings; a history of dreams, desires, and of special experiences, all of which I am the sum total.
Charlie Chaplin
#81. I hope that more children have the same opportunities as me, with the same parents as me, that let me be an individual, who gave me freedom, and taught me to believe in myself before anyone else would believe in me.
Johnny Weir
#82. Here is the paradox of it: the more of an individual you become the more you realize we are interrelated, that success of one requires the success of all.
James Rozoff
#83. The capitalist system was termed "capitalism" not by a friend of the system, but by an individual who considered it to be the worst of all historical systems, the greatest evil that had ever befallen mankind. That man was Karl Marx.
Ludwig Von Mises
#84. Every person's life is theirs by right. An individual's life can and must belong only to to himself, not to any society or community, or he is then but a slave.
Terry Goodkind
#85. You're never more of an individual than when you're a happy team player.
Suzanne Farrell
#86. Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.
Albert Einstein
#87. Whatever it takes to make an individual feel better, I'm all for it.
Janice Dickinson
#88. The clash between the individual gospel and the social gospel leaves me cold. An individual gospel is a soul without a body, and a social gospel without an individual gospel is a body without a soul. One is a ghost and the other is a corpse. Put the two together and you have a living person.66
Jayakumar Christian
#89. Where much is expected from an individual, he may rise to the level of events and make the dream come true.
Elbert Hubbard
#90. in an individual sense, we are to be continual worshipers and praisers. Worship and praise is not something we decide to do for a few minutes a day or once a week, but it is who we are. Our attitude should always be that of a worshiper.
Ronald Sawka
#91. Sensuality is the total mobilization of the senses: an individual observes his partner intently, straining to catch every sound.
Milan Kundera
#92. My philosophy from day one is that I can sleep better at night if I can improve an individual's knowledge about food and wine, and do it on a daily basis.
Emeril Lagasse
#93. The chase is among the best of all national pastimes; it cultivates that vigorous manliness for the lack of which in a nation, as in an individual, the possession of no other qualities can possibly atone.
Theodore Roosevelt
#94. The unrealistic nature of these tales (which narrowminded rationalists object to) is an important device, because it makes obvious that the fairy tales' concern is not useful information about the external world, but the inner process taking place in an individual.
Bruno Bettelheim
#95. Boycott is not a principle. When it becomes one, it itself risks becoming exclusive and racist. No boycott, in our sense of the term, should be directed against an individual, a people, or a nation as such.
John Berger
#96. Of necessity, the autobiographical self is not just about one individual but about all the others that an individual interacts with. Of necessity, it incorporates the culture in which the interactions took place.
Antonio Damasio
#97. 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
#98. Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual you have an obligation to be one.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#99. There is a prophetic release that occurs in a church or an individual who fasts continually for forty days.
Jentezen Franklin
#100. The failure of protection, the importance of recognizing the ways in which we influence (and infect) each other - the fact that being an "individual" can't protect you - these are issues I've been thinking about for a while.
Laura Mullen
