Individuality Quotes - Page 37

• Beauty isn't about looking perfect. It's about celebrating your individuality.

  Bobbi Brown

  Beauty, Perfect, Celebrate

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• Let your light shine. Shine within you so that it can shine on someone else. Let your light shine.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Confidence, Self Esteem, Believe In Yourself

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• True education makes for inequality; the inequality of individuality, the inequality of success, the glorious inequality of talent, of genius.

  Felix Schelling

  Education, Genius, Talent

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• The more developed a nation is, the more complete is the independence of the individual, and the safer the individual from encroachments by another.

  Dmitry Pisarev

  Freedom, Independence, Democracy

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• Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Freedom, Military, 4th Of July

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• As far as I have seen, at school...they aimed at blotting out one's individuality.

  Franz Kafka

  Learning, School, Unschooling

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• I have never heard about any perfect marriage. They say perfect marriages are made in heaven. Nobody comes back from there so maybe it is true, but what kind of marriage will those perfect marriages be? There will be no tension, there will be no individuality in the man or in the woman. They will never collide, they will never fight. They will be too sweet to each other. And too much sweetness brings diabetes! Marriage is an institution that teaches a man regularity, frugality, temperance, forbearance and many other splendid virtues he would not need had he stayed single.

  Rajneesh

  Marriage, Sweet, Fighting

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• 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

  Self, Expression, People

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• It is the political task of the social scientist — as of any liberal educator — continually to translate personal troubles into public issues, and public issues into the terms of their human meaning for a variety of individuals. It is his task to display in his work — and, as an educator, in his life as well — this kind of sociological imagination. And it is his purpose to cultivate such habits of mind among the men and women who are publicly exposed to him. To secure these ends is to secure reason and individuality, and to make these the predominant values of a democratic society.

  C. Wright Mills

  Men, Issues, Imagination

  C. Wright Mills (2000). “The Sociological Imagination”, p.187, Oxford University Press

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• Identity is your role in life, the part you play. Individuality is who you are, and who you are is revealed to you if you can get to complete presence.

  Tom Spanbauer

  Play, Identity, Roles

  Tom Spanbauer (2007). “In the City of Shy Hunters”, p.74, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• National progress is the sum of individual industry, energy, and uprightness, as national decay is of individual idleness, selfishness, and vice.

  Samuel Smiles

  Selfish, Progress, Decay

  Samuel Smiles (1861). “Self-help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct”, p.16

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• People who blame the Bible for the modern destruction of nature have failed to see its delight in the variety and individuality of creatures and its insistence upon their holiness. But that delight-in, say, the final chapters of Job or the 104th Psalm-is far more useful to the cause of conservation than the undifferentiating abstractions of science... Reverence gives standing to creatures, and to our perception of them, just as the law gives standing to a citizen.

  Wendell Berry

  Jobs, Animal, Law

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• Da Vinci was as great a mechanic and inventor as were Newton and his friends. Yet a glance at his notebooks shows us that what fascinated him about nature was its variety, its infinite adaptability, the fitness and the individuality of all its parts. By contrast what made astronomy a pleasure to Newton was its unity, its singleness, its model of a nature in which the diversified parts were mere disguises for the same blank atoms.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Notebook, Nature, Science

  Jacob Bronowski (2011). “The Common Sense of Science”, p.16, Faber & Faber

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• I observed once to Goethe that when a friend is with us we do not think the same of him as when he is away. He replied, "Yes! because the absent friend is yourself, and he exists only in your head; whereas the friend who is present has an individuality of his own, and moves according to laws of his own, which cannot always be in accordance with those which you form for yourself.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Moving, Thinking, Law

  Arthur Schopenhauer (1896). “The Art of Controversy: And Other Posthumous Papers”

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• I believe that the very effort to convert anybody is violence, it is interfering in his individuality, in his uniqueness, into his freedom.

  Rajneesh

  Believe, Effort, Violence

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• The writer is committed when he plunges to the very depths of himself with the intent to disclose, not his individuality, but his person in the complex society that conditions and supports him.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Support, Depth, Plunge

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• When the individuality of the artist begins to express itself, what the artist gains in the way of liberty he loses in the way of order.

  Pablo Picasso

  Artist, Order, Liberty

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• Personality is to a man what perfume is to a flower.

  Charles M. Schwab

  Flower, Men, Personality

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• The spirit, if it could be seen with mortal eyes, would appear in bodily shape like a full-grown person with individual endowments that make it a counter-part of the body in which it [resides,] "that which is temporal in the likeness of that which is spiritual." (D&C 77:2.) It was that which came from God and entered at birth into the infant body prepared by its mortal parents. The spirit was of the "Lord from heaven." The physical body was "of the earth, earthy," (2 Cor. 15:47) or in other words, composed of the elements of which the things in the physical world are composed.

  Harold B. Lee

  Spiritual, Eye, Parent

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• I wanted to retain my individuality. I was afraid of being hampered by studio policies. I knew if someone else got control, I would be restrained.

  Walt Disney

  Being Yourself, Would Be, Wanted

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• Each person is born with a unique individuality, and each person has a destiny of his or her own. Imitation is crime, it is criminal. If you try to become a Buddha, you may look like Buddha, you may walk like him, you may talk like him, but you will miss. You will miss all that life was ready to deliver to you. Buddha happens only once.

  Rajneesh

  Motivational, Unique, Destiny

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• All Fords are exactly alike, but no two men are just alike. Every new life is a new thing under the sun; there has never been anything just like it before, never will be again. A young man ought to get that idea about himself; he should look for the single spark of individuality that makes him different from other folks, and develop that for all he is worth. Society and schools may try to iron it out of him; their tendency is to put it all in the same mold, but I say don't let that spark be lost; it is your only real claim to importance.

  Henry Ford

  Motivational, Real, School

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• To offset a depersonalized society, consumers crave recognition of their individuality.

  Faith Popcorn

  Recognition, Consumers, Crave

  Faith Popcorn (2001). “EVEolution: Understanding Women - 8 Essential Truths That Work In Your Business & Life”, p.12, BookBaby

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• Self-confidence is inseparable from submission to the creedal order, and through that order, to the supreme authority expressed in that order. ... Deep individualism cannot exist except in relation to the highest authority. No inner discipline can operate without a charismatic institution, nor can such an institution survive without that supreme authority from a relation to whom self-confidence derives. Without an authority deeply installed, there is no foundation for individuality. Self-confidence thus expresses submission to supreme authority.

  Philip Rieff

  Self Confidence, Order, Discipline

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• I'm pretty much fixated on certain themes. Family, but it's family of choice as much as family of blood. Individuality, yes, but not at the cost of others' happiness. Be true to your friends. Remembering to find some wonder and hope in the world. Basically it boils down to: treat people like you'd like them to treat you, leave the world a little better than it was when you got here, respect others and stand up for those who can't stand up for themselves.

  Charles de Lint

  Others Happiness, Blood, People

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