Quotes about Individuality
Be Yourself -The man who is neither bent upon pleasing his fellows nor afraid of offending them will enjoy great peace.
- Thomas a Kempis
I am not the Beatles. I'm me. Paul isn't the Beatles...The Beatles are the Beatles. Separately, they are separate.
- John Lennon
Infancy conforms to nobody; all conform to it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is not a waste to write beautiful prose or poetry for one person's eyes alone!
- Edith Schaeffer
Nearly everybody is looking for something brave to do. I don't know why people shouldn't write poetry. That's brave.
- Robert Frost
Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.
- John Quincy Adams
There will never be a really free and enlightened state until the state comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived.
- Henry David Thoreau
Everyone must act according to the dictates of his own reason.
- Thomas Jefferson
Any system was a straightjacket if you insisted on adhering to it so totally and humorlessly.
- Erica Jong
What is it you want to change? Your hair, your face, your body? Why? For God is in love with all those things and he might weep when they are gone.
- Catherine of Siena
No one is any more or any less important than you are.
- Marianne Williamson
Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.
- Albert Camus