We need to recognize that our individual abilities are only one small factor in our personal success. Instead of thinking of ourselves as successful individuals, we should think, “I work hard, and I’m lucky.” Some of us are privileged – largely thanks to God’s grace.
Individual - Individuality Quotes
We fancy men are individuals; so are pumpkins; but every pumpkin in the field goes through every point of pumpkin history.
One cup poured into another makes different waters; tears shed by one eye would blind if wept into another’s eye. The breast we strike in joy is not the breast we strike in pain; any man’s smile would be consternation on another’s mouth.
Individuality is the aim of political liberty.
“Are you complete in yourself?” (The root) answers, “No, my life is in the trunk and the branches and the leaves. Keep the branches stripped of leaves and I shall die.” So it is with the great tree of being. Nothing is completely and merely individual.
Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.
Individuals can resist injustice, but only a community can do justice.
It is the lone worker who makes the first advance in a subject. The details may be worked out by a team, but the prime idea is due to the enterprise, thought and perception of an individual.
By your own soul, learn to live And if men thwart you take no heed. If men hate you have no care. Sing your song, dream your dream, Hope your hope and pray your prayer.
You pretend to be more eccentric than you actually are because you worry you are an interchangeable cog.
