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Individual |
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| "Never violate the sacredness of your
individual self-respect." |
| -- Theodore Parker (1810-60), American cleric,
social reformer |
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| "Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by
the individual who can labor in freedom."
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| -- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), German-born
American theoretical physicist |
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| "Do not free a camel of the burden of his
hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel." |
| -- G. K. Chesterton |
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| "If a man does not keep pace with his
companions perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let
him step to the music he hears however measured and far away." |
| -- Henry David Thoreau (1817-62), American
writer, naturalist |
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| "Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is
man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful." |
| -- John R. Wooden |
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| "An empowered organization is one in which individuals have the
knowledge, skill, desire, and opportunity to personally succeed
in a way that leads to collective organizational success."
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--
Stephen R. Covey |
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| "Do not be awe struck by other people and
try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can." |
| -- Norman Vincent Peale |
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| "The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual.
The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community."
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| -- William James (1842 - 1910),
American philosopher |
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| "It is only to the individual that a soul is given." |
| -- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955) |
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| "My business is not to remake myself, but
to make the absolute best of what God made." |
| -- Robert Browning (1812-89), British poet |
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| "To be nobody-but-yourself -- in a world which is doing its
best, night and day, to make you everybody else -- means to
fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and
never stop fighting." |
| -- e. e. cummings, American poet |
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| “You cannot fly like an eagle with wings of a wren.” |
| -- William Henry Hudson |
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| "The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being
overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely
often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay
for the privilege of owning yourself." |
| -- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900) |
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| "Most people are other people. Their
thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their
passions a quotation." |
| -- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), Irish writer,
playwright |
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| "If your treat an individual ... as if he
were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought
to be and could be." |
| -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832),
German writer, scientist |
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| "Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual." |
| -- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900) |
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| "The best helping hand that you will ever
receive is the one at the end of your own arm." |
| -- Fred Dehner |
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| "Nothing strengthens the judgment and
quickens the conscience like individual responsibility." |
| -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton |
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| “It is the individual who is not interested
in his fellow men who has the greatest difficulties in life and
provides the greatest injury to others. It is from among such
individuals that all human failures spring.” |
| -- Alfred
Adler |
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| "Let every man be respected as an
individual and no man idolized." |
| -- Albert Einstein (1875-1955), German-born
American theoretical physicist |
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| "Let every fox take care of his own
tail." |
| -- Italian Proverb |
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| "An individual cannot know what he is till
he has made himself real by action." |
| -- Anonymous |
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| "Man as an individual is a genius. But men
in the mass form the Headless Monster, a great, brutish idiot that
goes where prodded." |
| -- Sir Charles Spencer "Charlie"
Chaplin (1889-1977), British-born actor, director |
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| "My business is not to remake myself, but
to make the absolute best of what God made." |
| -- Robert Browning (1812-89), British poet |
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| “It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.” |
| --
Emiliano Zapata |
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| "In oneself lies the whole world and if
you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in
your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door
to open, except yourself." |
| -- J. Krishnamurti |
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| "What a curious phenomenon it is that you
can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make
the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their
own individual bondage." |
| -- Bruce Barton (1886-1967), American writer,
congressman |
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| "The individual must not merely wait and
criticize, he must defend the cause the best he can. The fate of the
world will be such as the world deserves." |
| -- Albert Einstein (1875-1955), German-born
American theoretical physicist |
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| "During my eighty-seven years I have
witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none
of them has done away with the need for character in the individual
or the ability to think." |
| -- Bernard Mannes Baruch (1870-1965), American
stock broker, public official |
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| "A man of good will with a little effort
and belief in his own powers can enjoy a deep, tranquil, rich life
-- provided he go his own way. He need not and should not think of
making a good living, but rather of creating a good life for
himself. To live one's own life is still the best way of life,
always was, and always will be." |
| -- Henry Miller (1891-1980), American writer |
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| "Unless each day can be looked back upon
by an individual as one in which he has had some fun, some joy, some
real satisfaction, that day is a loss." |
| -- Dwight David Eisenhower (1890-1969), 34th US
President |
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| "The highest destiny of the individual is to
serve rather than to rule." |
| -- Albert Einstein (1875-1955), German-born
American theoretical physicist |
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| "All Fords are exactly alike, but no two men are just alike.
Every new life is a new thing under the sun; there has never
been anything just like it before, never will be again. A young
man ought to get that idea about himself; he should look for the
single spark of individuality that makes him different from
other folks, and develop that for all he is worth. Society and
schools may try to iron it out of him; their tendency is to put
it all in the same mold, but I say don't let that spark be lost;
it is your only real claim to importance."
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| -- Henry Ford (1863 - 1947), American inventor
and industrialist |
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"Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;" |
| - Robert Frost, American poet |
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| "The bonds that unite another person to
ourselves exist only in our mind. Memory as it grows fainter relaxes
them, and notwithstanding the illusion by which we would fain be
cheated and with which, out of love, friendship, politeness,
deference, duty, we cheat other people, we exist alone. Man is the
creature that cannot emerge from himself, that knows his fellows
only in himself; when he asserts the contrary, he is lying." |
| -- Marcel Proust (1871-1922), French writer, |
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"And would it have been worth it, after
all,
After the cups, the marmalade, the tea,
Among the porcelain, among some talk of you and me,
Would it have been worth while,
To have bitten off the matter with a smile,
To have squeezed the universe into a ball
To roll it towards some overwhelming question,
To say: 'I am Lazarus, come from the dead,
Come back to tell you all, I shall tell you all' --
If one, settling a pillow by her head
Should say: 'That is not what I meant at all;
That is not it, at all.' " |
| - T. S. Eliot, American-born English writer |
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