Individual Quotes · Page 43

The nation is only as strong as the collective strength of its individuals.

— Jeremiah Denton

I truly believe that we cannot come to a place of reconciliation until there is individual repentance and corporate repentance.

— David Oyelowo

Jazz is about the only form of art existing today in which there is freedom of the individual without the loss of…

— Dave Brubeck

Individuals carry their success or failure with them. It does not depend on outside conditions.

— Ralph Waldo Trine

For change to happen in any community, the initiative must come from the individual.

— Dalai Lama

Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual; you have an obligation to be one.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

I sort of thought the framers of the Constitution were talking about the rights of individuals, not corporate entities.

— Sandra Day O'Connor

I specialize in what the French call la petite histoire. I am interested in the individual thumbprint.

— Katherine Anne Porter

Civilization is a process in the service of Eros, whose purpose is to combine single human individuals, and after that families, then…

— Sigmund Freud

People love westerns worldwide. There's something fantasy-like about an individual fighting the elements. Or even bad guys and the elements. It's a…

— Clint Eastwood

Tocqueville talked about "ceaseless agitation," citizens constantly use their institutions, constantly challenging them, constantly insisting upon their rights. It's also individuals taking…

— Condoleezza Rice

For the more a man limits himself, the nearer he is on the other hand to what is limitless; it is precisely…

— Stefan Zweig

In the first period religious life appears as a form of discipline which the individual or a whole people must accept as…

— Muhammad Iqbal

I prefer, and it turns out to be the truth, that I always have in my movies an ensemble of actors, but…

— Fedor Bondarchuk

If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to…

— Maria Montessori

I always try to individualize everything, every person. I see individuals and that's why I've never fallen for racism, or any type…

— Mike Vallely

I have never had illusions about the value of my individual contribution! I realized early that what a man or a woman…

— Ida Tarbell

Under our institutions each individual is born to sovereignty. Whatever he may adopt as a means of livelihood, his real business is…

— Calvin Coolidge

We can no longer afford to worship the God of hate or bow before the altar of retaliation. The oceans of history…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Every device employed to bolster individual freedom must have as its chief purpose the impairment of the absoluteness of power. The indications…

— Eric Hoffer

Our world has created a false unrealistic image of what women are supposed to look like and act like. But the truth…

— Joyce Meyer

[My work] just develops and develops, and I'm very nicely served by the universe: just as I'm ready to take the conversation…

— Tilda Swinton

To my knowledge there are no good records that have been built by institutions run by committee. In almost all cases the…

— Peter Cundill

Yes, authority, coercion, and dependence rest on the mass, but never freedom or the free unfoldment of the individual, never the birth…

— Emma Goldman

I hate to speak about individuals. Players don't win you trophies, teams win trophies, squads win trophies.

— Jose Mourinho

Faith in your own powers and confidence in your individual methods are essential to success.

— Roderick E. Stevens

No individual or people can achieve anything without industry suffering, and sacrifice.

— Fatima Jinnah

If individuals can be born again, why can't cities, made up of many individuals, be born again?

— C. Wagner

Les masses ont tort et les individus toujours raison. The masses are wrong; individuals are always right.

— Boris Vian

Those that say that individuals are not capable of changing anything are only looking for excuses.

— Vaclav Havel

If the individual is to be happy in the contemporary order, he must be open-minded with respect to new values and new…

— Thomas Cochrane

An individual dies ... when, instead of taking risks and hurling himself toward being, he cowers within, and takes refuge there.

— Emile M. Cioran

The liberty of the individual is a necessary postulate of human progress.

— Ernest Renan

The moment you have protected an individual, you have protected society.

— Kenneth Kaunda

An individual voice can be heard in a choir that otherwise sings in unison. This is something that is not excused.

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

Instead of a national curriculum for education, what is really needed is an individual curriculum for every child

— Charles Handy

We use eating as a medium for social relationships: satisfaction of the most individual of needs becomes a means of creating community.

— Margaret Visser

Behavioral change is more important than individual product choices. They both have a role to play.

— John Elkington

The real basic power of an individual isn't what he or she knows; it's the ability to think and learn and face…

— Nathaniel Branden

It is my ambition to be, as a private individual, abolished and voided from history, leaving it markless.

— William Faulkner