Quotes About Individuality

When I would go a-visiting, I find that I go off the fashionable street,--not being inclined to change my dress,--to where man meets man, and not polished shoe meets shoe.

A man cannot wheedle nor overawe his Genius. It requires to be conciliated by nobler conduct than the world demands or can appreciate.

The greater number of men are merely corporals.

I will not allow mere names to make distinctions for me, but still see men in herds for all them.

The man who thrusts his manners upon me does as if he were to insist on introducing me to his cabinet of curiosities, when I wished to see himself.

Every man is entitled to come to Cattle-Show, even a transcendentalist; and for my part I am more interested in the men than in the cattle.

Shall a man go and hang himself because he belongs to the race of pygmies, and not be the biggest pygmie that he can? Let everyone mind his own business, and endeavor to be what he was made

No two men are just alike. Every new life is a new thing under the sun; there has never been anything like it before, and never will be again.

Every man, however little, makes a figure in his own eyes.

Each man has his own way of being himself and of saying it so ultimately that he can't be denied.

Somewhere, someone isn't impressed by your looks. Not all men jump through the hoops of your fire. You're unbelievably boring to more people than you'll ever know.

A man has a right to picture God according to his need, whatever it be.

Every man carries a menagerie in himself; and, by stirring him up all around, you will find every sort of animal represented there.

Man is that name of power which rises above them all, and gives to every one the right to be that which God meant he should be.

A boy is a piece of existence quite separate from all things else, and deserves separate chapters in the natural history of men.

Man's conditioning has been so powerful that It has all but distroyed his ability to be self aware.

A man can be honest in any sort of skin.

There is no man can take, there is no pool can slake, ultimately I am alone; ultimately I am done.

You don't have to be perfect. Most men never think like that.

I don't need a man. I'm really happy with myself and being with my friends.

He that finds out he's changed his lot for worse, Let him betimes the untoward choice reverse: For still, when all is said, the rule stands fast, That each man's shoe be made on his own last.

Every man should measure himself by his own standard. [Lat., Metiri se quemque suo modulo ac pede verum est.]

As many men as there are existing, so many are their different pursuits.

I'm quite an independent person, and I had to be. As a boy and growing into a young man I had to look out for myself. And now I'm very family-oriented. It's a big priority in my life.