Quotes about Individuality
Let me admonish you, first of all, to go alone; to refuse the good models, even those which are sacred in the imagination of men, and dare to love God without mediator or veil.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The young man reveres men of genius, because, to speak truly, they are more himself than he is.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every man is a new method.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Style is less the man than the way a man takes himself.
- Robert Frost
What sort of space is that which separates a man from his fellows and makes him solitary?
- Henry David Thoreau
The greater number of men are merely corporals.
- Henry David Thoreau
The man who thrusts his manners upon me does as if he were to insist on introducing me to his cabinet of curiosities, when I wished to see himself.
- Henry David Thoreau
Shall a man go and hang himself because he belongs to the race of pygmies, and not be the biggest pygmie that he can? Let everyone mind his own business, and endeavor to be what he was made
- Henry David Thoreau
But perhaps a man is not required to bury himself.
- Henry David Thoreau
A man has a right to picture God according to his need, whatever it be.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Man is that name of power which rises above them all, and gives to every one the right to be that which God meant he should be.
- Henry Ward Beecher
A boy is a piece of existence quite separate from all things else, and deserves separate chapters in the natural history of men.
- Henry Ward Beecher