Quotes about Individuality
What I do with my life is of my own doing. I live it the best way I can. I've been criticized on many, many occasions, because of - acquaintances, and what have you.
— Frank Sinatra
Your personality means the aspect of yourself which makes you effective in life. It is evident that there are two aspects of effectiveness of individuality. First, how do you affect or stimulate others? This is your stimulation value. Second, how do others affect you? How do you respond to others? That is your response aspect of value. Put these together, your effect upon others and others' effect upon you, and that is virtually your personality.
— Norman Vincent Peale
When we were given dominion over the world, we were also given dominion over ourselves. God is not our navigator. It was never His intention to chart a course for each of us and thus place us all under His bondage. Instead, He bestowed each of us with intellect and talent and vision to map our own way, to write our own Book of Life in any manner we choose.
— Og Mandino
No one else can live your life for you. No one else can succeed for you!
— Og Mandino
I am a unique creature of nature. I am rare and there is value in all rarity; therefore, I am valuable
— Og Mandino
So long as you're still worried about what others think of you, you are owned by them. Only when you require no approval from outside yourself can you own yourself.
— Oprah Winfrey
I want people to understand, that you are responsible for your life. Weather you are transexual, weather you are a divorcee, weather you are terminally ill, weather you are posessed by the devil or trying to get the devil out of you. You have control over your life, and it is only when you recognize that, and is willing to be responsible for your life that you can truely soar, and I believe that it's possible in our lifetime to fly if you want to.
— Oprah Winfrey
What is the soul? Indie Arie: The real you. You do not have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body.
— Oprah Winfrey
The great American mythologist, author, and philosopher Joseph Campbell once said, "The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
— Oprah Winfrey
I know for sure that only by owning who and what you are can you step into the fullness of life.
— Oprah Winfrey
Every woman is a rebel.
— Oscar Wilde
I won't tell you that the world matters nothing, or the world's voice, or the voice of society. They matter a good deal. They matter far too much. But there are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely—or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands. You have that moment now. Choose!
— Oscar Wilde