Individuality Quotes That Are Special - Just Like You!

Libertas Bella ^ | 7/21/2021 | Alex Horsman

[libertasbella]

“‘I’d rather be myself,’ he said. ‘Myself and nasty. Not somebody else, however jolly.’” – Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance

“Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can offer with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation, but of the adopted talent of another, you have only an extemporaneous, half possession.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance

“Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance

“Even despotism does not produce its worst effects, so long as individuality exists under it; and whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever name it may be called, and whether it professes to be enforcing the will of God or the injunctions of men.” – John Stuart Mill, On Liberty

"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself." – Rudyard Kipling, Interview with an Immortal

“Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.” – Carl Sagan, Cosmos

“This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.” – William Shakespeare, Hamlet

[be-baw]

All 3 Emerson quotes were way off the mark, but most of the others were outstanding.

Shakespeare’s was my favorite.

[metmom]

I actually think Emerson’s last quote there is OK.

Nobody has much respect for the conformist.

[be-baw]

“Nobody has much respect for the conformist.”

It depends on what you/he mean by conformist. Don’t we all conform to some extent?

[metmom]

Conforming to some degree is not the same as being a conformist, someone who does it just to avoid confrontation.

[Celtic Conservative]

You are special and unique, just like everybody else.

CC

[KrisKrinkle]

“Individuals entering into society, must give up a share of liberty to preserve the rest.”

[21twelve]

“I was not designed to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.”

Henry David Thoreau

[Uncle Miltie]

“You’re special!

Just like everyone else.”

[poconopundit]

I am familiar with Emerson quote number one (from Self-Reliance). In fact I have the quote in a plaque on the wall next to my desk. The expanded quote is as follows: Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events. Great men have always done so, and confided themselves childlike to the genius of their age, betraying their perception that the absolutely trustworthy was seated at their heart, working through their hands, predominating in all their being. And we are now men, and must accept in the highest mind the same transcendent destiny; and not minors and invalids in a protected corner, not cowards fleeing before a revolution, but guides, redeemers, and benefactors, obeying the Almighty effort, and advancing on Chaos and the Dark.

[bravo whiskey]

“The world is made for people who aren’t cursed with self-awareness.”
Annie Savoy, Bull Durham.

“We are all star stuff.”
Delenn, Babylon 5

[ExSafecracker]

“You can pick you friends, and You can pick your Nose. . . But you can’t roll your Friends in a little ball and Flick them out of the car window. - Unknown

[libertasbella]

A man often noted for his ability to hit the nail on the head.