This man is free from servile bonds Of hope to rise or fear to fall; Lord of himself, though not of lands, And having nothing, yet hath all.
Individual - Individuality Quotes
Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The trouble-makers. The round heads in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules, and they have no respect for the status-quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify, or vilify them. But the only thing you can’t do […]
Some people march to a different drummer – and some people polka.
When we leave people on their own, we are delivering them into the hands of a ruthless taskmaster from whose bondage there is no escape. The individual who has to justify his existence by his own efforts is in eternal bondage to himself.
There is a limit to the legitimate interference of collective opinion with individual independence: and to find that limit, and maintain it against encroachment, is as indispensable to a good condition of human affairs, as protection against political despotism.
Fond as we are of our loved ones, there comes at times during their absence an unexplained peace.
Where much is expected from an individual, he may rise to the level of events and make the dream come true.
If it were felt that the free development of individuality is one of the leading essentials of well-being; that it is not a coordinate element with all that is designated by the terms civilization, instruction, education, culture, but is itself a necessary part and condition of all those things; there would be no danger that […]
I like a view but I sit with my back turned to it.
It is a blessed thing that in every age someone has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.
