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Individuality Quotes

"Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of."
John Stuart Mill
"Your children are not your children They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself"
Khalil Gibran
"People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use."
Søren Kierkegaard
"Once you label me you negate me."
Søren Kierkegaard
"Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes)"
Walt Whitman
"I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you"
Walt Whitman
"I must create a system, or be enslav'd by another man's; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create"
William Blake
"When you live your life in different ways, it makes people around you uncomfortable"
Larry Ellison
"I am not apt to follow blindly the lead of other men"
Charles Darwin
"I’ve always loved the idea of not being what people expect me to be"
Joaquin Phoenix
"The most contrarian thing of all is not to oppose the crowd but to think for yourself"
Peter Thiel
"Once you label me, you negate me"
Soren Kierkegaar
"Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else."
Margaret Mead
"The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don’t let them put you in that position"
Leo Buscaglia
"I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can do"
Edward Everett Hale
"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody"
Bill Cosby
"You are remembered for the rules you break"
Douglas MacArthur
"Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric."
Bertrand Russell
"Don't follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you"
Margaret Thatcher
"Better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life."
Elizabeth Kenny