Individual Quotes - Page 5

Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.

In our society, the ideal self is bold, gregarious, and comfortable in the spotlight. We like to think that we value individuality, but mostly we admire the type of individual who’s comfortable "putting himself out there."

The individual is losing significance; his destiny is no longer what interests us.

There is something in this world that every individual can do. God has created all of us with something unique to contribute.

It is increasingly clear that the fate of the universe will come to depend more and more on individuals as the bungling of bureaucracy permeates every corner of our existence.

It is not alone the fact that women have generally had to spend most of their strength in caring for others that has handicapped them in individual effort; but also that they have almost universally had to care wholly for themselves

In this generation, along with the dominating traits, the recessive ones also reappear, their individuality fully revealed, and they do so in the decisively expressed average proportion of 3:1, so that among each four plants of this generation three receive the dominating and one the recessive characteristic.

Each of us inevitable; Each of us limitless-each of us with his or her right upon the earth.

Perhaps an individual must consider his own death to be the final phenomenon of nature.

You have not yet learned that in this life you have to be like everyone else: the perfect mediocrity--no better, no worse. Individuality is a monster and it must be strangled in its cradle to make our friends feel comfortable.

Each individual should work for himself. People will not sacrifice themselves for the company. They come to work at the company to enjoy themselves.

Are we to say that any individual who's on steroids that has an angry moment is due to steroids? What about the individual who gets angry and kills someone who's not on steroids? What do we blame it on now?

As life goes on it becomes tiring to keep up the character you invented for yourself, and so you relapse into individuality and become more like yourself everyday.

Greatness is best measured by how well an individual responds to the happenings in life that appear to be totally unfair, unreasonable, and undeserved.

As an individual who undertakes to live by borrowing, soon finds his original means devoured by interest, and next no one left to borrow from - so must it be with a government.

Discipline must come through liberty. . . . We do not consider an individual disciplined only when he has been rendered as artificially silent as a mute and as immovable as a paralytic. He is an individual annihilated, not disciplined.

Before an individual can be saved, he must first learn that he cannot save himself.

Death's an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew.

Good is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals; it cannot be mass-produced.

Life is a great tapestry. The individual is only an insignificant thread in an immense and miraculous pattern.

The cult of individuality and personality, which promotes painters and poets only to promote itself, is really a business. The greater the 'genius' of the personage, the greater the profit.

There are no individuals in the world only fragments of families

Synergy: The combined effect of individuals in collaboration that exceeds the sum of their individual effects.

For each individual, sport is a possible source for inner improvement

There is not, nor should there be, an irreconcilable contrast between the individual and the collective, between the interests of an individual person and the interests of the collective.