Quotes About Individuality

Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.

Don't follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you.

You could wait for the world to invite you to the banquet and the ball. Or you could just show up in your red dress and your headdress ready to boogie.

Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.

Jazz, like leadership, combines the unpredictability of the future with the gifts of individuals.

Leadership is much less about what you do, and much more about who you are.

The man who craves disciples and wants followers is always more or less of a charlatan. The man of genuine worth and insight wants to be himself; and he wants others to be themselves, also.

Leadership is a journey. Each one of us has to take our own path, and get there our own way.

Leadership simply begins with the courage to be yourself. So everyone else can be, too.

I need to treat everybody fairly, but fair doesn't always mean equal.

I'm a shepherd, not a sheep, and I've always prided myself on being a leader and not a follower.

Perhaps the true mark of a leader is that she or he is willing to stand alone.

Leadership is the readiness to stand out in a crowd.

I had no idea that being your authentic self could make me as rich as I've become. If I had, I'd have done it a lot earlier.

Anybody will do for you, but not for me.

When the purge of teacher individualism is unrestrained, eccentricity, initiative and individuality become the casualties.

Only do what only you can do.

When you go before God, you can only confess one person's sins.

As we seek to eliminate individualism in teaching, we should not eradicate individuality with it.

The first move of leadership is learning to think for yourself.

Originality is so hip and cool, but to be original you must dare to be corny.

Leaders don't walk in front, nor do they walk behind. They walk on completely different paths on the journey of intuition. The road that has never been taken. And so they lead.

Do not desire to fit in. Desire to lead."- Mary Kay Ash

You can't make a difference unless you are different.