Quotes about Individuality

When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everyone will respect you.

You are the only person on earth who can use your ability.

Live creatively, friends. . . . Make a careful exploration of who you are and the work you have been given, and then sink yourself into that. Don't be impressed with yourself. Don't compare yourself with others" (Galatians 6:1, 4).

Running your own race is doing the best you can every chance you get with what you have for a purpose that outlives you.

There are no extra pieces in the universe. Everyone is here because he or she has a place to fill, and every piece must fit itself into the big jigsaw puzzle.

No one else, however much you love and adore the person, sees the true significance of your private epiphanies. The secret belongs to you, with you, in you.

He watched her now, peeling away from her great-aunts. Even with the fake smile, she was the most beautiful woman in the room, with her long dark hair, flawless skin, and wide green eyes. She was long-legged, with curves in all the right places. But that wasn't why she'd dug so deeply under his skin. No, it was her feisty spirit that drew him most. The way her eyes sparked with emotion. The way she stood up for herself and those she cared about. Layla was flat-out amazing.

I have simply wished to assert the reasoned and independent feeling of my own individuality within a total knowledge of tradition.

To know oneself one should assert oneself.

Jazz, like leadership, combines the unpredictability of the future with the gifts of individuals.

The man who craves disciples and wants followers is always more or less of a charlatan. The man of genuine worth and insight wants to be himself; and he wants others to be themselves, also.

Leadership is the readiness to stand out in a crowd.