Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one. You cannot make any useful contribution in life unless you do this.
Individual - Individuality Quotes
If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I? And if not now, when?
It is only the cultivation of individuality which produces, or can produce, well-developed human beings.
I believe in individualism… up to the point where the individualist starts to operate at the expense of society.
Resolve to be thyself and know that he who finds himself loves his misery.
We need to recognize that our individual abilities are only one small factor in our personal success. Instead of thinking of ourselves as successful individuals, we should think, “I work hard, and I’m lucky.” Some of us are privileged – largely thanks to God’s grace.
We fancy men are individuals; so are pumpkins; but every pumpkin in the field goes through every point of pumpkin history.
One cup poured into another makes different waters; tears shed by one eye would blind if wept into another’s eye. The breast we strike in joy is not the breast we strike in pain; any man’s smile would be consternation on another’s mouth.
Individuality is the aim of political liberty.
“Are you complete in yourself?” (The root) answers, “No, my life is in the trunk and the branches and the leaves. Keep the branches stripped of leaves and I shall die.” So it is with the great tree of being. Nothing is completely and merely individual.
