Quotes about Individuality
They are trying to make me into a fixed star. I am an irregular planet.
- Martin Luther
A soft and sheltered Christianity, afraid to be lean and lone, unwilling to face the storms and brave the heights, will end up fat and foul in the cages of conformity.
- Vance Havner
God has not only created each of us as distinct individuals, He also uses us in significant ways.
- Charles Swindoll
God created man and then woman but the atheist created himself.
- Anonymous
To be true to one's own freedom is, in essence, to honor and respect the freedom of all others.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Deal with yourself as a individual, worthy of respect and make everyone else deal with you the same way.
- Nikki Giovanni
. . . we should be men first, and subjects afterward.
- Henry David Thoreau
I have myself to respect, but to myself I am not amiable; but my friend is my amiableness personified.
- Henry David Thoreau
Each person is a V.S.P. (a Very Special Person) because we are each created in the image of God.
- Desmond Tutu
For a man to act himself, he must be perfectly free; otherwise he is in danger of losing all sense of responsibility or of self- respect.
- Henry David Thoreau
Movements toward freedom and the self-respect that comes from something other than what people think is their most important feature.
- Toni Morrison
I respect a man who knows how to spell a word more than one way.
- Mark Twain