Quotes about Individuality
Let the world feel the weight of who you are and let them deal with it.
- John Eldredge
In your life you are William Wallace—who else could be? There is no other man who can replace you in your life, in the arena you've been called to. If you leave your place in the line, it will remain empty. No one else can be who you are meant to be. You are the hero in your story. Not a bit player, not an extra, but the main man.
- John Eldredge
Child," said the Voice, "I am telling you your story, not hers. I tell no one any story but his own.
- John Eldredge
You have only one life to live.It would be best to live your own.
- John Eldredge
The whole, vast world was incomplete without me. Creation reached its finishing touch in me.
- John Eldredge
And he wants you to be utterly yourself, with him.
- John Eldredge
Femininity can never bestow masculinity.
- John Eldredge
The adventures and work that we choose must fit the soul of the boy. One young man's adventure would be terrifying to another.
- John Eldredge
If a man is ever to find out who he is and what he's here for, he has got to take that journey for himself. He has got to get his heart back.
- John Eldredge
God has created me to do some definite service. He has committed some work to me which He has not committed to another. I have my mission. I am a link in a chain, a bond of connection between persons. He has not created me for naught. I shall do good; I shall do His work.
- John Henry Newman
In passing however I must say of one thing that has pressed upon me lately and encreased my Humility and capability of submission and that is this truth - Men of Genius are great as certain ethereal Chemicals operating on the Mass of neutral intellect - but they have not any individuality, any determined Character - I would call the top and head of those who have a proper self Men of Power.
- John Keats
When I was about twelve I used to think I must be a genius, but nobody's noticed. If there is such a thing as a genius, I am one, and if there isn't I don't care.
- John Lennon