Individual - Individuality Quotes

Some people march to a different drummer – and some people polka.

You may only be one person to the world but you may also be the world to one person.

Paddle your own canoe.

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

Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character has abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time.

Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

Individuality is founded in feeling; and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making.

To each foot its own shoe.

Mediocre people impact no one, at least not for good. But one person of truth can impact the whole world.

Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil – the silent, unconcious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the constant radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be.