Quotes about Uniqueness

Do you seek Alcides' equal? None is, except himself.

Almost every man wastes part of his life in attempts to display qualities which he does not possess." Your goal should be to waste as little of your life as possible. As former MLB catcher Jim Sundberg says, "Discover your uniqueness; then discipline yourself to develop it.

Those who follow the crowd will never be followed by a crowd.

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 which he hears, however measured or far away.

The will to originality is not the will to be peculiar and unlike anybody else; it means the desire to derive one's consciousness from its primary source.

Every living soul has different talents, different desires, different faculties. Be yourself, for even if you deceive the entire world, you will be ten thousand times worse than nothing.

I didn't want to be like everyone else. I wanted to be better. If I did what everybody else did, then why would you look up to me? Why would I set an example?

There is an abundant need in this world for your exact brand of beautiful.

In your life you are William Wallace—who else could be? There is no other man who can replace you in your life, in the arena you've been called to. If you leave your place in the line, it will remain empty. No one else can be who you are meant to be. You are the hero in your story. Not a bit player, not an extra, but the main man.

The whole, vast world was incomplete without me. Creation reached its finishing touch in me.

People think you want them to do something or say something special...you don't. You just want them to be themselves, so you can be yourself.

When each thing is unique in itself, there can be no comparison made.... There is only this strange recognition of present otherness.