1. George Washington - “Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.”

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2. Lily Tomlin - “We're all in this alone.”

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3. Paul Tillich - “Our language has wisely sensed the two sides of being alone. It has created the word 'loneliness' to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word 'solitude' to express the glory of being alone.”

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4. Henry David Thoreau - “The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready, and it may be a long time before they get off.”

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5. Sir Philip Sidney - “They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts.”

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6. Jim Rohn - “Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.”

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7. Robert M. Pirsig - “Even in the presence of others he was completely alone.”

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8. Thomas Mann - “Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But it also gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.”

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9. Sidney Lovett - “Every now and again take a good look at something not made with hands—a mountain, a star, the turn of a stream. There will come to you wisdom and patience and solace and, above all, the assurance that you are not alone in the world.”

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10. Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr. - “LINDBERGH FLIES ALONE Alone? Is he alone at whose right side rides Courage, with Skill within the cockpit and faith upon the left? Does solitude surround the brave when Adventure leads the way and Ambition reads the dials? Is there no company with him, for whom the air is cleft by Daring and the darkness made light by Emprise? True, the fragile bodies of his fellows do not weigh down his plane; true, the fretful minds of weaker men are missing from his crowded cabin; but as his airship keeps its course he holds communion with those rare spirits that inspire to intrepidity and by their sustaining potency give strength to arm, resource to mind, content to soul. Alone? With what other companions would man fly to whom the choice were given?”

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11. Eda LeShan - “When we cannot bear to be alone, it means we do not properly value the only companion we will have from birth to death - ourselves.”

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12. François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld - “Man is never less sincere than when he asks, or offers, advice. When he asks it, he seems to defer to the wisdom of his friend, but really he seeks approval of his own opinion, and to make his friend responsible with him for his actions. When he offers advice, he seems to repay the confidence of his inquirer with disinterested zeal, while really seeking to bolster his own advantage or reputation.”

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13. Elbert Hubbard - “One can endure sorrow alone, but it takes two to be glad.”

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14. Thomas Gray - “Full many a gem of purest ray serene The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear; Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air.”

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15. Thomas Gray - “Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air.”

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16. Vincent van Gogh - “One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever come to sit by it. Passersby see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on the way.”

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17. Robert Frost - “I have been one acquainted with the night.”

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18. Epictetus - “When you have closed your doors, and darkened your room, remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone; God is within, and your genius is within—and what need have they of light to see what you are doing?”

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19. William Orville Douglas - “The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedom.”

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20. Rachel Louise Carson - “Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life.”

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21. Sir Thomas Browne - “Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, ... but delight to be alone and single with Omnipresency....”

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22. Ashleigh Brilliant - “Try to be the best of what you are, even if what you are is no good.”

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23. Ambrose Gwinett Bierce - “ALONE, adj. In bad company.”

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24. Alan Ashley-Pitt - “The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been.”

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25. Kofi Annan - “The Lord had the wonderful advantage of being able to work alone. Answering why he had not implemented organizational reforms after five months when 'God created the universe in seven days',1997”

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