"Stand together, yet not too near together: for the pillars of the temple stand apart, and the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other's shadow."
Kahlil Gibran
79 FAMOUS QUOTES · INDIVIDUALITY
Read 79 famous individuality quotes from great authors, with links to more quote topics.
"Stand together, yet not too near together: for the pillars of the temple stand apart, and the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other's shadow."
Kahlil Gibran
"In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different."
Coco Chanel
"I'm not the next Usain Bolt or Michael Phelps. I'm the first Simone Biles."
Simone Biles
"How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone."
Coco Chanel
"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I – I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference."
Robert Frost
"Each of us must make his own true way, and when we do, that way will express the universal way."
Judy Blume
"Every student can learn, just not on the same day, or the same way."
George Evans
"Each person's grief is as unique as their fingerprint."
David Kessler
"Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members."Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."Oscar Wilde
"Cats are absolute individuals, with their own ideas about everything, including the people they own."
John Dingman
"Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one."Eleanor Roosevelt
"Children aren't coloring books. You don't get to fill them with your favorite colors."
Khaled Hosseini
“I was not a young fashion victim. I really had an idea of what I liked in fashion and how I dressed.”Zac Posen
“Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.)”Walt Whitman
“The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual: namely to You.”Walt Whitman
“I'm not hip-hop. I'm Tyler.”Tyler, the Creator
“I try to tell all the, not even the kids, even people older than me, to just be themselves. Don't wear what I wear 'cause I wear it; wear what you like.”Tyler, the Creator
“I don't like being put in a box. I just make music, you know?”Tyler, the Creator
“I wasn't shy, but I was really hyper. Nobody got my sense of humour. I was a black skater kid.”Tyler, the Creator
“People grapple with labelling me as hip-hop, R&B, or pop, and it's interesting to me. I'm just making music.”SZA
“I was a funky kid.”SZA
“Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist.”Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”Oscar Wilde
“Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.”Oscar Wilde