#Uniqueness Quotes

“I am not in the roll of common men.”

“Which can say more than this rich praise, that you alone are you?”

“What made me love thee? let that persuade thee, there's something extraordinary in thee”

“Every man is a new method.”

“A man is like a bit of Labrador spar, which has no lustre as you turn it in your hand until you come to a particular angle; then it shows deep and beautiful colors. There is no adaptation or universal applicability in men, but each has his special Talent, and the mastery of Successful men consists in adroitly keeping themselves where and when that turn shall be oftenest to be practiced.”

“I believe it is the conviction of the purest men, that the net amount of man and man does not much vary. Each is incomparably superior to his companion in some faculty. His want of skill in other directions, has added to his fitness for his own work.”

“You have a place to live in this world which no other man can occupy; hence no competitors.”

“Nature never rhymes her children, nor makes two men alike. When we see a great man, we fancy a resemblance to some historical person, and predict the sequel of his character and fortune, a result which he is sure to disappoint. None will ever solve the problem of his character according to our prejudice, but only in his high unprecedented way.”

“Every mind is different; and the more it is unfolded, the more pronounced is that difference.”

“We are all worms. However, I like to think I'm a glow worm”

“Age cannot wither her, nor custom staleHer infinite variety.”

“We are all worms. But I believe that I am a glow-worm.”

“No two on earth in all things can agree. All have some daring singularity.”

“So shows a snowy dove trooping with crows As yonder lady o'er her fellows shows.”

“When you're just like everybody else, you've nothing to offer other than your conformity.”

“You are as you are,an indescribable message on the air.”

“Nightingales are put in cages because their songs give pleasure. Whoever heard of keeping a crow?”

“If all people are unique, and if they are constantly changing each and every day, then all one can say about any social research finding is that it applied to that group of people on that given day, and given the propensity of humans to be different and to change, then it is unlikely that one would get the same results if one were to repeat the study.”

“He was a man, take him for all in all, I shall not look upon his like again.”

“Spoons and skimmers you can be undistinguishably together; but vases and statues require each a pedestal for itself.”

“To the attentive eye, each moment of the year has its own beauty, and in the same fields, it beholds, every hour, a picture which was never seen before, and which shall never be seen again.”

“Every great man is unique.”

“You have a one of a kind gift to offer this world, and you are unique in the entire history of creation.”

“My life should be unique; it should be an alms, a battle, a conquest, a medicine.”

“The first thing the intellect does with an object is to class it along with something else. But any object that is infinitely important to us and awakens our devotion feels to us also as if it must be sui generis and unique. Probably a crab would be filled with a sense of personal outrage if it could hear us class it without ado or apology as a crustacean, and thus dispose of it. 'I am no such thing,' it would say; 'I am MYSELF, MYSELF alone.”

“Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can offer with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation, but of the adopted talent of another, you have only an extemporaneous, half possession.”

“What is your substance, whereof are you made, That millions of strange shadows on you tend? Since everyone hath every one, one shade, And you, but one, can every shadow lend. Describe Adonis, and the counterfeit Is poorly imitated after you. On Helen’s cheek all art of beauty set, And you in Grecian tires are painted new. Speak of the spring and foison of the year; The one doth shadow of your beauty show, The other as your bounty doth appear, And you in every blessèd shape we know. In all external grace you have some part, But you like none, none you, for constant heart.”

“We must not just patch and tinker with life. We must keep renewing it. Embrace novelty and uniqueness.”

“I really think I am where I am in spite of my training, not because of it. I don't know how unique my work is, because I never compare it.”

“Love is created and preserved by intellectual analysis, for we love only that which is unique, and it belongs to contemplation, not to action, for we would not change that which we love.”

“Man's chief difference from the brutes lies in the exuberant excess of his subjective propensities. Prune his extravagance, sober him, and you undo him.”

“Originality will be rewarded in any line.”

“Good hay, sweet hay, hath no fellow.”

“An unlearned carpenter of my acquaintance once said in my hearing: "There is very little difference between one man and another; but what little there is, is very important." This distinction seems to me to go to the root of the matter.”

“Take the high road; it's far less crowded.”

“If you choose to lead your life just like everyone else, then what exactly is it that you have to offer?”

“He brings something special. I don't know what it is, but if you ask him, you couldn't understand his answer.”

“I do believe I am special. My special gift is my vision, my commitment, and my willingness to do whatever it takes.”

“I truly believe we all have a sleeping giant within us. Each of us has a talent, a gift, our own bit of genius just waiting to be tapped. It might be a talent for art or music... a special way of relating to the ones you love. It might be a genius for selling or innovating.... I choose to believe that our Creator doesn't play favorites, that we've all been created unique, but with equal opportunities for experiencing life to the fullest.”

“Yet Byron never made tea as you do, who fill the pot so that when you put the lid on the tea spills over. There is a brown pool on the table--it is running among your books and papers. Now you mop it up, clumsily, with your pocket-hankerchief. You then stuff your hankerchief back into your pocket--that is not Byron; that is so essentially you that if I think of you in twenty years' time, when we are both famous, gouty and intolerable, it will be by that scene: and if you are dead, I shall weep.”

“It's no secret that we were sticking just about every nickel we had on the chance that people would really be interested in something totally new and unique in the field of entertainment.”

“Every great man is a unique. The Scipionism of Scipio is precisely that part he could not borrow.”

“Maybe you're not meant to fit in. maybe you're supposed to stand out.”

“I just want it to look like nothing else in the world. And it should be surrounded by a train.”

“The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.”

“If men would avoid that general language and general manner in which they strive to hide all that is peculiar, and would say only what was uppermost in their own minds, after their own individual manner, every man would be interesting.”

“Disneyland is not just another amusement park. It's unique, and I want it kept that way. Besides, you don't work for a dollar - you work to create and have fun.”

“Do what you do so well - and so uniquely - that people can't resist telling others about you”

“Unique and different is the new generation of beautiful… You dont have to be like everybody else. In fact I don’t think you should.”

“The more you are like yourself, the less you are like anyone else which makes you unique. The problem with most people is that they spend their lives trying to emulate others and so we have lots of copies but few originals.”