Best 1663 quotes in «individual quotes» category

When your life gets to the stage of being mindful and concerned with impacting and blessing lives, then you are pursuing wholeness as an individual.

Who will protect your rights better? A king, president or you? Who will protect the truth? A reporter, a labor union or you? Who will protect and teach your children to seek truth? A textbook committee, an education bureaucrat, or you? Did a commission of wise men stop the Holocaust? Did a committee of Congress end Jim Crow? No. In each case, the work was done by individuals who would not abide convenient lies. They saw injustice and they called it out. They saw their nation wage war against a single group and they said “not in my name.” They didn’t wait for the conventions of society to catch up to God’s laws. They pushed. They pressed. And they were victorious.

You are wonderful. You are beautiful.

Without being an independent individual, without having an independent mind, you become nothing more than a trivial slave or an obscure shadow!

You are you. You are not a label. As an individual you have a unique place in my heart and mind.

Your main target should be to find and develop your own unique individuality and not let your focus be sidetracked and drift to external things

You have to be a light to yourself in a world that is utterly becoming dark.

You need a team for war, not for negotiation.

You were born an original work of art. Stay original.

You want a picture of the future? Imagine a boot trampling a human face.. forever. The moral to be drawn from this nightmarish situation is simple: Don't let it happen. It depends on you.

A biography is never a biography of one person, of course, but the individual life of your protagonist will never conform. It will always bang up against history.

A belligerent state permits itself every such misdeed, every such act of violence, as would disgrace the individual.

According to data provided by the Senate Subcommittee on Immigration, and the national interest, between 9/11 and the end of 2014, at least 380 foreign-born individuals were convicted in terror cases inside the United States. Our country is a mess! We don`t even know what to look for anymore, folks.

According to the Social Security Administration, in 1945, 41.9 workers supported each individual retiree, while today only 3.3 workers support each retiree. This system cannot continue.

According to Kierkegaard, rather than searching for the Truth with a capital T, it is more important to find the kind of truths that are meaningful to the individual's life. It is important to find `the truth for me`.

A clean and sensitive conscience, a steady and scrupulous integrity in small things as well as large, is the most valuable of all possessions, to a nation as to an individual.

A circuit performed by a capital and meant to be a periodical process, not an individual act, is called its turnover. The duration of this turnover is determined by the sum of its time of production and its time of circulation.

A community is an alibi for the failure of individual love.

A corporation has all the powers and privileges of an individual: all it lacks is a conscience.

A creative person respects the creative spark in other individual men, and in all men (and women).

A decrepit society shuns humor as a decrepit individual shuns drafts.

A dialogue among civilizations can be seen as a dialogue between the individual and the universal.

A difficult situation, not for one individual, but for everybody

Adolescents are the bearers of cultural renewal, those cycles of generation and regeneration that link our limited individual destinies with the destiny of the species.

A 'diet' is simply an individual's eating regimen: it doesn't have to mean the restrictive plan we've come to associate this word with.

[Adolf Hitler] was very close-mouthed, he was the most private individual I have ever seen, very secretive.

A free society, to be truly worthy of that name, owes healthy, competent individuals the right to end their lives on their own terms.

Adventure is the vitaminizing element in histories both individual and social.

A free society is one in which individuals are free to discover for themselves the available range of alternatives.

A God capable of continuously monitoring and controlling the individual status of every particle in the universe cannot be simple. His existence is going to need a mammoth explanation in its own right.

After winning, most teams become individuals; most teams become complacent.

A good portrait is incredibly hard to create, there is too much temptation to pander to the individual rather than portray them as they really were

A good deal of confusion could be avoided, if we refrained from setting before the group, what can be the aim only of the individual; and before society as a whole, what can be the aim only of the group.

A government cannot be wrong in punishing fraud or force, but it is almost certain to be wrong if, abandoning its legitimate function, it tells private individuals that it knows their business better than they know it themselves.

A good teacher sees the commonality of all human beings and helps each individual find his uniqueness.

A good team, like a good show, comes into being when the separate individuals working together create, in essence, another separate higher entity - the team - the show - which is better than any of those individuals can ever be on their own.

A grain in the balance will determine which individual shall live and which shall die - which variety or species shall increase in number, and which shall decrease, or finally become extinct.

A humane and generous concern for every individual, his health and his fulfillment, will do more to soothe the savage heart than the fear of state-inflicted death, which chiefly serves to remind us how close we remain to the jungle.

A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.

A language presupposes that all the individual users possess the organs.

A leader is one of the things that distinguishes a mob from a people. He maintains the level of individuals. Too few individuals and a people reverts to a mob.

Alexei Navalny, the opposition politician who has led anti-corruption protests, had a blog about a credit line to a company owned by Vladimir Putin's son-in-law, $1.75 billion from Russian state funds; this is one transaction. Putin controls more money directly and indirectly than any individual in human history.

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

Alike for the nation and the individual, the one indispensable requisite is character.

Allah Himself has ordered that any person, any nation, any empire whose evil outweighs its good, there is a force in our universe that moves that individual, that nation, that empire out of existence.

All great cathedrals began their building by the placement of a single stone. The building unit of a great society is the individual.

All individuals are different. Some of us just wouldn't be satisfied with just carrying out a routine job and being happy.

All individuals have the same value, not to be determined by market price. They're made in the image and likeness of God.

All observers not laboring under hallucinations of the senses are agreed, or can be made to agree, about facts of sensible experience, through evidence toward which the intellect is merely passive, and over which the individual will and character have no control.

All novels are about certain minorities: the individual is a minority. The universal in the novel-and isn't that what we're all clamoring for these days?-is reached only through the depiction of the specific man in a specific circumstance.