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Quotes About Uniqueness

Man is the only animal that can be bored.
~ Erich Fromm
People will buy anything that's one to a customer.
~ Sinclair Lewis
If I try to be like him, who will be like me?
~ Yiddish Proverb
Every one is as God made him and oftentimes a good deal worse.
~ Cervantes
Every one is as God made him, and often a great deal worse.
~ Miguel de Cervantes
To see her is to love her, And love but her forever; For Nature made her what she is, And never made another.
~ Robert Burns
The great man is the man who does a thing for the first time.
~ Alexander Smith
What another would have done as well as you, do not do it. What another would have said as well as you, do not say it. What another would have written as well, do not write it. Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself- and thus make yourself indispensable.
~ Andre Gide
It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities.
~ Eric Hoffer
Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.
~ Novalis
What do we teach our children? . . . We should say to each of them: Do you know what you are? You are a marvel. You are unique . . . You may become a Shakespeare, a Michelangelo, a Beethoven. You have the capacity for anything.
~ Pablo Casals
If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than it was because he was he, and I was 1.
~ Michel de Montaigne
No man ever yet became great by imitation.
~ Samuel Johnson
I believe every person has the ability to achieve something important, and with that in mind I regard everyone as special.
~ Mary Kay Ash
The fact that we are human beings is infinitely more important than all the peculiarities that distinguish human beings from one another.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
Like snowflakes, the human pattern is never cast twice. We are uncommonly and marvelously intricate in thought and action.
~ Alice Childress
Whosoever would be a man must be a non-conformist.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Most people in action are not worth very much; and yet every human being is an unprecedented miracle.
~ James Baldwin
Every man in the world is better than someolne else and not as good as someone else.
~ William Saroyan
An unlearned carpenter of my acquaintance once said in my hearing: 'There is very little difference between one man and another, but what there is is very important.'
~ William James
Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way, and never again.
~ Hermann Hesse
I want to be unique and original and truthful.
~ Rande Gerber
With everything I do, I just try to be myself.
~ Kevin Durant
Don't try too hard to be something you're not.
~ Daniel Radcliffe