Individual Quotes · Page 87

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 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

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

— Katherine Anne Porter

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

— Sandra Day O'Connor

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

— Dave Brubeck

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

— David Oyelowo

Once the principle is admitted that it is the duty of the government to protect the individual against his own foolishness, no…

— Ludwig von Mises

Roll rocks down a ten-thousand-foot mountain, and they cannot be stopped - this is because of the mountain, not the rocks. Get…

— Du Mu

Laissez-faire capitalism is the only social system based on the recognition of individual rights and, therefore, the only system that bans force…

— Ayn Rand

In a capitalist society, all human relationships are voluntary. Men are free to cooperate or not, to deal with one another or…

— Ayn Rand

It is usually a mistake to impose an individual's taste on a room that has its own…style. Conversely, to put very fine…

— Nancy Lancaster

The anguish of the neurotic individual is the same as that of the saint. The neurotic, the saint are engaged in the…

— Georges Bataille

A nation is all the individuals of same blood, forming by their cohesion a natural related collective being with it s own…

— A. C. Cuza

There is no way that the Fourth Gospel was written by John Zebedee or by any of the disciples of Jesus. The…

— John Shelby Spong

I always knew from the beginning that this was the only way to write Then We Came To The End - that…

— Joshua Ferris

We're not going to survive in this world, temporally or spiritually, without increased faith in the Lord-and I don't mean a positive…

— A. Theodore Tuttle

If every man and woman were to take the meaning of their life and pursue it passionately, they would alter the social…

— Richard Bode

What happens in a play is determined to a certain extent by what I thought might be interesting to have happen before…

— Edward Albee

Marijuana is the finest anti-nausea medication known to science, and our leaders have lied about this consistently. [Arresting people for] medical marijuana…

— Peter McWilliams

I'm always trying to ask myself both "Who am I as an individual?" and "What are the cultural forces that have made…

— Alison Hawthorne Deming

The first thing we can do as individuals and as communities, like a school or a university or a church, is cut…

— Katharine Hayhoe

I kind of grew up with a mix of two things. One was kind of this individual work ethic that my father…

— Kyrsten Sinema

As someone who played a team sport, I feel a bit uncomfortable being ranked as an individual so high

— Franz Beckenbauer

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

— Jeremiah Denton

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

— Ralph Waldo Trine

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

— Margaret Visser

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

— Charles Handy

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

A schoolteacher or professor cannot educate individuals, he educates only species.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

I believe that accessories should bring color and texture to an every day wardrobe based on each individual's sense of style.

— Kate Spade

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

— William Faulkner

Society does not exist for itself, but for the individual; and man goes into it, not to lose, but to find himself.

— Phillips Brooks

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

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