Quotes about Individuality
It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
- Herman Melville
Success is not measured by what you do compared to what others do, it is measured by what you do with the ability God gave you.
- Nicky Gumbel
Success is only meaningful - and enjoyable - if it feels like your own.
- Michelle Obama
If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mousetrap than his neighbor, though he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Never try to be better than someone else. Learn from others, and try to be the best you can be. Success is the by-product of that preparation.
- John Wooden
When you've got 10,000 people trying to do the same thing, why would you want to be number 10,001?
- Mark Cuban
You know some of the people in The Strokes, yeah, their parents had success - but we didn't live like yuppies.
- Julian Casablancas
The absolutely highest stage of intercourse with God is the indwelling of the Holy Ghost in the New Testament Church, when man's individuality is not superseded nor suppressed, but transformed, and thus conformed to Him in spiritual fellowship.
- Alfred Edersheim
You know who you are. And I suggest you never deny it.
- Alice Hoffman
But I was not a mouse. In the fields where I walked, I was much more interested in the actions of the hawks.
- Alice Hoffman
But at long last she had some privacy and could go more than ten minutes without someone getting in her business, informing her that everything she did was wrong. As if she didn't already know that.
- Alice Hoffman
You're like the weird fucked-up sister of yourself, Shelby. Whereas I'm just an extension of my loser self that anyone could have foreseen. I have followed the path set out before me. You veered.
- Alice Hoffman