The Individual Quotes

I think any player will tell you that individual accomplishments help your ego, but if you don't win, it makes for a very, very long season. It counts more that the team has played well.

The enlargement of liberty for individual human beings must be the supreme goal and abiding practice of any western society.

Art appreciation, like love, cannot be done by proxy: It is a very personal affair and is necessary to each individual.

Every individual should be expressing themselves, whether a politician or a minister or a policeman.

Self-responsibility is the core quality of the fully mature, fully functioning, self-actualizing individual.

People must know that their ideas will be listened to and, if they have merit, acted upon. If they do, it is possible to mobilize individual creativity on a very broad scale.

There will never be a really free and enlightened state until the state comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived.

Minority is about being an individual. It's like you have to sift through the darkness to find your place and be that individual you want to be your entire life.

For every individual who gets killed, someone should build a school or teach a child. We really need to balance things with positivity.

We are convinced that the Rosary, if devotely used is bound to benefit not only the individual but society at large.

Democracy is a small hard core of common agreement, surrounded by a rich variety of individual differences.

The creation of a more peaceful and happier society has to begin from the level of the individual, and from there it can expand to one's family, to one's neighborhood, to one's community and so on.

In the history of the collective as in the history of the individual, everything depends on the development of consciousness.

The pursuit of enlightenment is for the purpose of the world, not merely for the purpose of the individual. Practices for enlightenment must lead to action in the world.

The greatest gift for an individual or a nation... was abhaya, fearlessness, not merely bodily courage but absence of fear from the mind.

For an individual as well as for a society, there is a gulf between merely living and living worthily.

Wealth comes from successful individual efforts to please one's fellow man ... that's what competition is all about: "outpleasing" your competitors to win over the consumers.

I have tried and I cannot find, either in scripture or in history, a strong-willed individual whom God used greatly until He allowed them to be hurt deeply.

The mind creates all the problems for an individual or for the collective. One has to go beyond the mind into thoughtless awareness, where there is peace.

In fact, effective solidarity with the poor, both individual persons and entire nations, is indispensable for the construction of peace.

Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander.

I never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers.

A lion is not a lion is not a lion. As individuals, as mates, as members of a society, they're all very different.

I am not reggae, I am me. I am bigger than the limits that are put on me. It all has to do with the individual journey.

I'm a huge fan of world cinema, because each country uses cinema in a very individual way.

...anyone who attempts to do both, to adjust to his group and at the same time pursue his individual goal, becomes neurotic.

An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation.

The personal vocabulary, the individual melody whose metre is one's biography, joins in that sound, with any luck, and the body moves like a walking, a waking island.

Individuals bearing witness cannot do the work of social movements, but they can break a corrosive and demoralizing silence.

As a rule, the man who can do all things equally well is a very mediocre individual.

We have sunk so low it has become the obligation of every decent, thinking individual to re-state the obvious!

No matter how bad the individual, everybody has reasons for why they do what they do.

To assign to everybody his proper place in society is the task of the consumers. Their buying and abstention from buying is instrumental in determining each individual's social position.

Only talent interests me in paintings and books. Not general ideas, but the individual contribution.

It is an old adage that honesty is the best policy-this applies to public as well as private life-to States as well as individuals.

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.

One individual cannot possible make a difference, alone. It is individual efforts, collectively, that makes a noticeable difference - all the difference in the world!

How could the USA champion individual freedom in the world generally while denying it to an important minority in its own country.

You are one of a kind, one in a billion, an incredible unique individual. The problem is, so is everybody else.

Yoga believes in transforming the individual before transforming the world.

It is, I claim, nonsense to say that it does not matter which individual man acted as the nucleus for the change. It is precisely this that makes history unpredictable into the future.

For what is the best choice for each individual is the highest it is possible for him to achieve.

In or out of marriage, abortion is not an individual choice. At a minimum, three lives are involved.

The ultimate power of a successful general staff lies, not in the brilliance of its individual members, but in the cross-fertilisation of its collective abilities.

The indestructible is one: it is each individual human being and, at the same time, it is common to all, hence the incomparably indivisible union that exists between human beings.

There is no justice in bureaucracy for the individual, for bureaucracy caters only to itself. One cannot practice the same bureaucracy as one is fighting against.

I believe we would be happier to have a personal revolution in our individual lives and go back to simpler living and more direct thinking.

Our primordial purpose is to respond to the impulsion from within to solve the mystery of our individual existence, to find and be the authentic Self that is, has been and ever shall be.

What distinguishes Shambhala is its intention of trying to create a society based upon certain principles. So, Shambhala's focus is not just on the individual, but on society as a whole.

With freedom goes responsibility, a responsibility that can only be met by the individual himself.