Quotes about Individuality

I never modeled myself after anyone. The person who had most influence on me was my mother, but it was really for her strength and courage more than her style, even though she had a lot of style. In a weird way, looking at pictures of me when I was 17 or 18, I was dressing the same way. I haven't changed very much.

I have feelings too. I am still human. All I want is to be loved, for myself and for my talent.

who God's called you to be. You are an amazing woman. Don't lose sight of who you are because a man can't appreciate you.

The characteristic of genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have resolved to be great, abide by yourself, and do not try to reconcile yourself with the world. The heroic cannot be common, nor the common heroic.

It is easy in the world to live after the worlds opinions; it is easy in solitude to live after your own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

All the thoughts of a turtle are turtles, and of a rabbit, rabbits.

Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it their duty to accept the views which Cicero, which Locke, which Bacon have given, forgetful that Cicero, Locke and Bacon were only young men in libraries when they wrote these books.

We must be our own before we can be another's.

God enters by a private door into each individual.

Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesman and philosophers and divines.

To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men-that is genius.