Quotes About Individuality

#1. What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others.

Confucius

#2. What's truly important
and what I find myself forgetting and having to relearn
is that right here, right now, I am free. Free to be myself and to express myself.

Kat Von D.

#3. A world turned into a stereotype, a society converted into a regiment, a life translated into a routine, make it difficult for either art or artists to survive. Crush individuality in society and you crush art as well. Nourish the conditions of a free life and you nourish the arts, too.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#4. A child develops individuality long before he develops taste.

Erma Bombeck

#5. I don't believe in fashion. I believe in costume. Life is too short to be same person every day.

Stephanie Perkins

#6. I know now that most people are so closely concerned with themselves that they are not aware of their own individuality, I can see myself, and it has helped me to say what I want to say in paint.

Georgia O'Keeffe

#7. I don't fit into any stereotypes. And I like myself that way.

C. JoyBell C.

#8. To give up your individuality is to annihilate yourself.

Robert G. Ingersoll

#9. It is in the company of others that one can be really lonely, for then one's personality is forced openly to try to express what it's separate individuality is.

Nanamoli Thera

#10. I became a new person; sucked into the neutrality of the abyss, comforted by social norms, and set free from the burden of individuality.

Joss Sheldon

#11. We are flawed creatures, all of us. Some of us think that means we should fix our flaws. But get rid of my flaws and there would be no one left.

Sarah Vowell

#12. THE TECHNIQUE of a little individuality will be a little technique, however scrupulously elaborated it may be.

Robert Henri

#13. To be alone is to be different, to be different is to be alone.

Suzanne Gordon

#14. Our expenses are all for conformity.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Keely Barton

#16. I look for individuality in the artisans I work with for CoutureLab; a loving relationship with the product and care in the construction, along with the story behind it, make couture desirable to consumers looking for something that cannot be mass-produced.

Carmen Busquets

#17. The Communists , following Hegel , speak of humanity and its future as of some monolithic individuality. I was attacking this illusion.

Simone De Beauvoir

#18. The authentic human has the might of compassion and the creative power to do any manner of good.

Bryant McGill

#19. You will not reap the fruit of individuality in your children if you clone their education.

Marilyn Howshall

#20. After defending the value of prepared prayers, the author cautions against over-reliance on them. Just as David could not fight in the armor of King Saul, we are called to fight in the way God has equipped us uniquely.

N. T. Wright

#21. The moral and spiritual individuality comes here to live a painful adventure, full of frustrations, a dramatic experience of living in foreign lands, dominated by a constant, painful feeling of absence from its true home; a feeling of nostalgia, thirst and lack of fulfilment.

Paul Amadeus Dienach

#22. I hope that what you take away from my album is not just the music - which I did want to be fun, and I did want it to be about individuality, but please also take away from it that there's no dream that's too big.

Lady Gaga

#23. The most insistent and formidable concern of agriculture, wherever it is taken seriously, is the distinct individuality of every farm, every field on every farm, every farm family, and every creature on every farm.

Wendell Berry

#24. Ideal love is fostered only between two sincere, mature and independent people. Real love is not two people clinging to each other; it can only be fostered between two strong people secure in their individuality.

Daisaku Ikeda

#25. The pieces of a puzzle aren't together or apart.

Marty Rubin

#26. Everyone marries the Duke of Westminster. There are a lot of duchesses, but only one Coco Chanel.

Coco Chanel

#27. I just want to live my own life instead of everyone else's version of it.

Sol Luckman

#28. The self is our life's goal, for it is the completest expression of that fateful combination we call individuality.

Carl Jung

#29. There's an inherent contradiction between appreciating the beauty of clothes and creativity and individuality, and the waste around the ideas of trends and seasons.

Lily Cole

#30. The human being is single, unique, and unrepeatable, someone thought of and chosen from eternity, someone called and identified by name

Pope John Paul II

#31. No one is different from the other. I'm very grateful that I have a diverse group of fans as well. We welcome individuality over here in my world, and I think that my fans can see and feel that.

Ciara

#32. What is unique about humans is their individuality.

Leroy Hood

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

Keely Barton

#34. 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.

Tony Hawk

#35. The day of individual happiness has passed.

Adolf Hitler

#36. People who are tremendously concerned about their identification, their individuality, their self-expression, or their sense of humor, always seem to be missing the very things they pursue.

Walter Lippmann

#37. Develop that individuality by working as hard as you can at what you love.

Dave Grohl

#38. The workman in the true sense of the word - the artist in guns - is either extinct, or hidden in an obscure corner. There is no individuality about modern guns. One is exactly like another.

Richard Jefferies

#39. I've been through a lot, but I stayed true to who I am.

Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

#40. Fuck I hate fucks
Who think they're so fucking great
They know everything about fucking,
When they're just fucking fucks fucking!
And no one changes the fucking world
When they keep fucking to another fuck's fuck.

Initially NO

#41. 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

#42. Follow the crowd and you will never be followed by a crowd.

Hannah Whitall Smith

#43. At the heart of world time is the momentum of history. At the heart of personal time is the mystery and wonder of individuality. At the heart of deep, new time is the creative spirit. But at the heart of our time is love.

David Spangler

#44. Eternal life and the invisible world are only to be sought in God. Only within Him do all spirits dwell. He is an abyss of individuality, the only infinite plenitude.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#45. 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.

James Fenimore Cooper

#46. Gestalt Prayer
I do my thing and you do yours.
I am not in this world to live up to your expectations,
And you are not in this world to live up to mine.
You are you, and I am I,
And if by chance we find each other, then it is beautiful.
If not, it can't be helped.

Frederick Salomon Perls

#47. Rich or poor, every child comes into the world with some imperative need of its own, which shapes its individuality.

Lucy Larcom

#48. Then perhaps we should carve a world one day where the strength lies in who you are, rather than in what they expect you to be.

Rin Chupeco

#49. Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.

Margaret Mead

#50. I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.

Abraham Lincoln

#51. The reason most people don't express their individuality and actually deny it, is not fear of what prime ministers think of us or the head of the federal reserve, It's what their families and their friends down at the bar are going to think of them.

David Icke

#52. True individuality is the repose arising from the relation of a self to all it has to do with. Bad individuality has in it a separation between outward action and a flat repose inwardly.

Eli Siegel

#53. The importance of solitude is to help you to differentiate your own thoughts from those you have studied, read, heard, or unintentionally absorbed.

Tonya Sheridan

#54. Battles, in these ages, are transacted by mechanism; with the slightest possible development of human individuality or spontaneity; men now even die, and kill one another, in an artificial manner.

Thomas Carlyle

#55. Drummers haven't managed to develop their individuality quite as well as guitarists have. We can be so focused on the nuts and bolts that we overlook the importance of individuality - the broader picture, if you will.

Bill Bruford

#56. I only know how to be one thing. And that's me. Take it or leave it. I don't really give a shit.

Peter Cimino

#57. Big Bang may not be the best looking and may not be the best dancers out there,but each member holds a distinct individuality as a weapon that allows them to perform freely

Yang Hyun-suk

#58. I hope that my painting has the impact of giving someone, as it did me, the feeling of his own totality, of his own separateness, of his own individuality.

Barnett Newman

#59. They had much discussion upon the question whether marriage was a prejudice or a crime, and whether men were born equal or not, and precisely what individuality consists in. Things

Ivan Turgenev

#60. Music is an expression of individuality; it's how you see the world. All art is, for that matter. You take how you experience the world, interpret it, and send it out there - express it - whether it's sculpture, dance or singing.

David Sanborn

#61. It's hard to tell how far women's individuality has come in the past twenty years.

Annie Lennox

#62. Our emotional symptoms are precious sources of life and individuality.

Thomas More

#63. When you're the only sane person, you look like the only insane person.

Criss Jami

#64. I am here to destroy your personality, to give birth to your individuality.

Rajneesh

#65. Yes, be different, but not for the vanities of being different.

Criss Jami

#66. Respect is not fear and awe; it ... [is]the ability to see a person as he is, to be aware of his unique individuality. Respect, thus, implies the absence of exploitation. I want the loved person to grow and unfold for his own sake, and in his own ways, and not for the purpose of serving me.

Erich Fromm

#67. It is time of individualities now. Good performing skills are not enough now, you may sing better or worse - tons of good singers are waiting outside - it doesn't matter. You have to be different!

Verka Serduchka

#68. Typography fostered the modern idea of individuality, but it destroyed the medieval sense of community and integration

Neil Postman

#69. 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

#70. Not just charity, even corruption begins at home.

K. Hari Kumar

#71. You are not feeling empty because you don't have much money. You are feeling empty because you have not yet encountered your real self, you have not come to your authentic individuality.

Rajneesh

#72. Cause-and-effect will not explain even the individuality of a single dandelion.

D.H. Lawrence

#73. The annihilation of a woman's personality, individuality, will, character, is prerequisite to male sexuality.

Andrea Dworkin

#74. I was not very keen on joining the family business ... there were 14 family members working together, and it worried me that I would not have enough individuality.

Uday Kotak

#75. 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

#76. Never enter relationships. Otherwise, suffer the pains that come with it. Enjoy your individuality while you can.

Arnold Arre

#77. Wherefore, for all these things, we account the whale immortal in his species, however perishable in his individuality. He

Herman Melville

#78. A person is an individual substance of a rational nature.

Boethius

#79. For myself, I do not now know in any concrete human terms wherein my individuality consists. In my present human form of consciousness I simply cannot tell.

Josiah Royce

#80. In a health relationship, it should always be about them. Two people are involved. And both of them are risking their hearts, their souls, in order to stay together. If both parties don't support and appreciate the individuality of the other, the relationship won't work.

Lisa S. Lewis

#81. I am bothered by poems I don't understand.

Joyce Rachelle

#82. Individuality outruns all classification, yet we insist on classifying every one we meet under some general head.

William James

#83. You can't shame a shameless man, you can only remind him of the awesome shit he's done.

Captain Perverto

#84. The writer does not dare dream of giving the best of his individuality. No, he must never express his anger. The vacillating demands of mediocrity must be satisfied. Amuse the people, be their clown, give them platitudes about which they can laugh, shadows of truth which they can hold as truths.

Aleksandar Hemon

#85. Every individual is representative of the whole ... and should be intimately understood, and this would give a far greater understanding of mass movements and sociology.

Anais Nin

#86. Not only is the statistical madness an assault on individuality, it's also one on temporality too. Statistics - even when accurate - are only an image of the past that can then be Photoshopped before being pasted on to the future.

Will Self

#87. There are special, strange gifted people in the world and they have to be treated with understanding

John Knowles

#88. The fertilising conflict of individualities is the ultimate meaning of the personal life.

H.G.Wells

#89. When it comes to fashion, I like to see individuality.

Rihanna

#90. There's a rebel lying deep in my soul. Anytime anybody tells me the trend is such and such, I go the opposite direction. I hate the idea of trends. I hate imitation; I have a reverence for individuality.

Clint Eastwood

#91. We are flowers in the field seeking our individuality. We may seem similar but we are all unique, without exception. Everyone is special.

Chloe Thurlow

#92. Let nobody bribe you away from being yourself.

Napoleon Hill

#93. Where's your will to be weird?

Jim Morrison

#94. His Nana's prayers were moving toward his mother like little butterflies of thoughts wrapped in the most beautiful colors. Each prayer looked like a mini-rainbow.

H. L. Balcomb

#95. And she was attractive. She had an unusual mixture of innocence and individuality. A man who loved her might waken all kinds of passions in her, and high among them would be loyalty.

Anne Perry

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

Criss Jami

#97. One of our most deep-seated fears is that we might be called an "outsider." This fear has led us down the road to conformity, has put the imprint of "the organization man" on our souls, and has robbed us of originality of thought, individuality of personality, and constructive action.

Billy Graham

#98. Your labor only may be sold, your soul must not.

John Ruskin

#99. Unfortunately in the matter of Speech Defects, when so much depends on the temperament and individuality, a case can always be produced that can prove you are wrong. That is why I won't write a book [Lionel Logue concluded]

Mark Logue

#100. They need to control you through your emotions, making you a slave to the state by destroying your individuality, and your ability to react to situations based on your own experience of the world.

Yeonmi Park