Quotes About Individual

All rational action is in the first place individual action. Only the individual thinks. Only the individual reasons. Only the individual acts.

Once the principle is admitted that it is the duty of the government to protect the individual against his own foolishness, no serious objections can be advanced against further encroachments.

The alcoholic and the drug addict harm only themselves by their behavior; the person who violates the rules of morality governing mans life in society harms not only himself, but everyone.

Without the energy of anger, we may become apathetic, a doormat and a people-pleaser. Anger is an emotion that is often confused with behaviors like hitting, screaming and cursing. The latter are behaviors based on judgment. They are not emotions. Angry emotions protect and preserve the individual.

A TABLE: FEW TO MANY—IT ENABLES GROWTH The birth of transformation starts in the heart of an individual, and the growth of the movement happens around a table. Mass movements don't begin with the masses. They begin with a few people. When people can sit around the table together as equal contributors, everyone wins.

Sociologists tell us that even the most introverted individual will influence ten thousand other people during his or her lifetime! This amazing statistic was shared with me by my associate Tim Elmore.

Just as personal values influence and guide an individual's behavior, organizational values influence and guide the team's behavior.

a broad-shouldered, rather fleshy individual, without any hat, whose grizzled head under that suspended light seemed to Sam the largest human head he had ever seen. It was the head of a hydrocephalic dwarf; but in other respects its owner was not dwarfish. In other respects its owner had the normally plump, rather unpleasantly plump figure of any well-to-do-man, whose back has never been bent nor his muscles hardened by the diurnal heroism of manual labour.

Decent work is at the heart of the search for dignity for the individual, stability for the family and peace in the community.

After all is said that can be said upon the liquor traffic, its influence is degrading upon the individual, the family, politics and business, and upon everything that you touch in this old world.

A cult leader alone in his beliefs is just a crazy dude with a beard.

In the end, color combinations come down to our personal preferences, which we must discover through observation and experiment.

Much of the character of everyman may be read in his house.

I started by designing a sweater very close to the body, because I couldn't find any for myself.

Somebody who's designing something for himself has at least got a market of one that he's very close to.

Desire is individual. Happiness is common.

Motivation comes from within each individual. It's a personal thing. It's pride, guts, desire, whatever you want to call it; some people have it in their bellies, and some don't.

Being young is wonderful. But one of the secrets of being a human individual - a mature human individual shall we put it rather grandly - is that you can see this desire in perspective.

Personality, too, is destiny.

The individual is losing significance; his destiny is no longer what interests us.

It is only to the individual that a soul is given. And the high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule, or to impose himself in any other way.

Everyone has a covenant and a purpose which is special, and if you do not fulfill it, - there is no one else who will.

When it comes to individual destiny, there is no power greater in the universe then the conviction of the human soul to make a choice.

[O]nly if every individual strives for truth can humanity attain a happier future; the atavisms in each of us that stand in the way of a friendlier destiny can only thus be rendered ineffective.