Individual Quotes

6324 Individual quotes by 3344 unique authors

We hear much nowadays as to the speculative ideas of men concerning the condition beyond the grave; but the admission that there is an individual… — James E. Talmage
Understanding, and action proceeding from understanding and guided by it, is one weapon against the world's bombardment, the one medicine, the one instrument by which… — James Agee
The inlet of a man's mind is what he learns; the outlet is what he accomplishes. If his mind is not fed by a continued… — Unknown Author
We declare that one who uses the God-given body of another without divine sanction abuses the very soul of that individual, abuses the central purpose… — Jeffrey R. Holland
The flight from study and awareness is much too common in a world that throws too many confusing pictures to the individual. For the sake… — Joost Meerloo
Before an individual can be saved, he must first learn that he cannot save himself. — M R DeHaan
Whatever mitigates the woes, or increases the happiness of others, is a just criterion of goodness; and whatever injures society at large, or any individual… — Oliver Goldsmith
The fifth freedom, the Freedom of Individual Enterprise, is the keystone of the arch on which the other Four Freedoms rest. This is what freedom… — Nicholas Murray Butler
Brigham Young observed, "Man's machinery makes things alike" (JD 9:370), while God gives to seemingly like individuals pleasing differences. Secularism is no friend of righteous… — Neal A. Maxwell
Men's and nations' finest hour consist of those moments when extraordinary challenge is met by extraordinary response. Hence in those darkest hours, we must light… — Neal A. Maxwell
Those who devise better methods of utilizing manpower, tools, machinery, materials and facilities are making real contributions toward our national security. Today, these ideas are… — Robert R. Shannon
Notice that "I" is at the center of the word "ethical." There is no "they." Achieving the ethics of excellence is our individual assignment. — Price Pritchett
You have to get beyond blaming others . . . give up your excuses . . . stand responsible for what you do . .… — Price Pritchett
If the universal is the essential, then it is the basis of all life and art. Recognizing and uniting with universal therefore gives us the… — Piet Mondrian
A perfect life is like that of a ship of war which has its own place in the fleet and can share in its strength… — Philip Gilbert Hamerton
There is no prosperity, trade, art, city, or great material wealth of any kind, but if you trace it home, you will find it rooted… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The concept of individual with a conscience is one whose highest allegiance is to his fellow man. — Ralph Nader
However gifted an individual is at the outset, if his or her talents cannot be developed because of his or her social condition, because of… — Simone de Beauvoir
Had I to carve an inscription on my tombstone I would ask for none other than "The Individual." — Soren Kierkegaard
An individual in despair despairs over something. . . . In despairing over something, he really despair[s] over himself, and now he wants to get… — Soren Kierkegaard
Compared with the person who is conscious of his despair, the despairing individual who is ignorant of his despair is simply a negativity further away… — Soren Kierkegaard
If an individual is born with the obligation to obey, who is born with the right to command? — Tom G. Palmer
Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude. — William James
Most of us can learn to live in perfect comfort on higher levels of power. Everyone knows that on any given day there are energies… — William James
The only real revolution is in the enlightenment of the mind and the improvement of character, the only real emancipation is individual, and the only… — Will Durant

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