We would worry less about what others think of us if we realized how seldom they do. – Ethel Barrett
More and more, when faced with the world of men, the only reaction is one of individualism. Man alone is an end unto himself. Everything one tries to do for the common good ends in failure. – Albert Camus
Pin your faith to no ones sleeves, havent you two eyes of your own. – Thomas Carlyle
No one should part with their individuality and become that of another. – William Ellery Channing
Not armies, not nations, have advanced the race; but here and there, in the course of ages, an individual has stood up and cast his shadow over the world. – Edwin Hubbell Chapin
Each man must have his I; it is more necessary to him than bread; and if he does not find scope for it within the existing institutions he will be likely to make trouble. – Charles Horton Cooley
Individuality is the aim of political liberty. By leaving to the citizen as much freedom of action and of being, as comports with order and the rights of others, the institutions render him truly a freeman. He is left to pursue his means of happiness in his own manner. – James Fenimore Cooper
Individuality is either the mark of genius or the reverse. Mediocrity finds safety in standardization. – Frederick E. Crane
To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting. – e. e. (Edward Estlin) cummings
Follow your own star! – Dante Alighieri
The trouble with the sacred Individual is that he has no significance, except as he can acquire it from others, from the social whole. – Bernard Devoto
Everything without tells the individual that he is nothing; everything within persuades him that he is everything. – X. Doudan
The individual, man as a man, man as a brain, if you like, interests me more than what he makes, because Ive noticed that most artists only repeat themselves. – Marcel Duchamp
There is a war against the individual. – James Dye
Each makes this cosmos and its construction the pivot of his emotional life, in order to find in this way peace and security which he can not find in the narrow whirlpool of personal experience. – Albert Einstein
Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly. – St. Francis De Sales
Every man must get to Heaven his own way. – Frederick the Great
