Quotes About Uniqueness

When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.

Happy countries are all alike; each unhappy country is unhappy in its own way, as has been written.

I have things in my head that are not like what anyone taught me — shapes and ideas so near to me, so natural to my way of being and thinking.

Otra cosa que no se nota cuando se es joven es que las flores tienen personalidad. Son distintas unas de otras, como las personas.

We can't all be like him, or his brother, or Helms, or the rest of those people.' 'No,' she said sadly. 'But I wish to God we could be something else.

We do not imitate, but are a model to others.

A good imitation is the most perfect originality.

There never was such beauty in another man. Nature made him, and then broke the mould.

There is more difference within the sexes than between them.

Men's men: be they gentle or simple, they're much of a muchness.

Do not choose to be wrong for the sake of being different.

There never were two opinions alike in all the world, no more than two hours or two grains: the most universal quality is diversity.

It were not best that we should all think alike; it is difference of opinion that makes horseraces.

Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.

What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.

A finished person is a boring person.

You see someone on the street, and essentially what you notice about them is the flaw.

What one man does, another fails to do; what's fit for me may not be fit for you.

There's no right way of writing. There's only your way.

There are as many ways to live and grow as there are people. Our own ways are the only ways that should matter to us.

Every human being is intended to have a character of his own; to be what no others are, and to do what no other can do.

In the world to come they will not ask me, "Why were you not Moses?" They will ask me, "Why were you not Zusya?"

It is possible to be different and still be all right.

Education should be the process of helping everyone to discover his uniqueness.