Quotes About Uniqueness

The characteristic of genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have resolved to be great, abide by yourself, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world. The heroic cannot be the common, nor the common the heroic.

For nonconformity the world will whip you with its displeasure.

We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.

Not for nothing one face, one character, one fact makes much impression on him, and another none.

The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity. The inventor did it, because it was natural to him, and so in him it has a charm. In the imitator, something else is natural, and he bereaves himself of his own beauty, to come short of another man's.

Insist upon yourself. Be original.

Insist on yourself; never imitate.

For nonconformity the world whips you with its displeasure.

We are magnets...We have keys to all doors. We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities...

Cada hombre auténtico es una causa, un país, y una era.

Dónde está el maestro que enseñó a Shakespeare? ¿Dónde el que enseñó a Franklin, a Washington, a Bacon, a Newton? Todo gran hombre es único.

Y se expresaron con sus propias palabras, no con las palabras de los demás hombres

when we look in their faces we are disconcerted. Infancy conforms to nobody;

I must really be crazy, now—because craziness is where everybody agrees about something,—except you!

Style, on the other hand, is the art of bringing your defining individual features to the fore, regardless of what others might expect or find acceptable:

Accepting and celebrating the thread of your own personality is the first grasp of the Grand Weaver's design in your life. You are not a number. He knows you by name.

The day that each person willingly accepts himself or herself for who he or she is and acknowledges the uniqueness of God's framing process marks the beginning of a journey to seeing the handiwork of God in each life.

She didn't want to know how a thing was done, but why.... Luckily, queer ones like her don't happen often.

I'm not anyone, I'm just myself; whatever I am, I am something, and now I'm something you can't help.

So few want to be rebels anymore.

How talented was death. How many expressions and manipulations of hand, face, body, no two alike.

He was part of us and when he died all the actions stopped dead, and there was no one to do them just the way he did. He was individual. He was an important man. i've never gotten over his death. Often I think what wonderful carvings never came to birth because he died. How many jokes are missing from the world, and how many homing pigeons untouched by his hands. He shaped the world. He did things to the world. The world was bankrupted of ten million actions the night he passed on. 

It doesn't have to be the greatest. It does have to be you.

The world swarms with people, each one drowning, but each swimming a different stroke to the far shore.