英语格言警句_Integrity/Individuality_(I15)

He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.

- Laozi (Lao Tzu, Lao Tse, Lao Tsu)

Integrity has no need of rules.

- Albert Camus

Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.

- Oprah Winfrey

It is never too late to be who you might have been.

- George Eliot

Stand for something or you will fall for anything. Today's mighty oak is yesterday's nut that held its ground.

- Rosa Parks

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.

- Henry David Thoreau

We are here to awaken from the illusion of our separateness.

- Thich Nhat Hanh

The art of listening needs its highest development in listening to oneself; our most important task is to develop an ear that can really hear what we're saying.

- Sydney J. Harris

Ask me not what I have, but what I am.

- Heinrich Heine

"What will they think of me?" must be put aside for bliss.

- Joseph Campbell

The glue that holds all relationships together -- including the relationship between the leader and the led -- is trust, and trust is based on integrity.

- Brian Tracy

I am large. I contain multitudes.

- Walt Whitman

A human being is not to be handled as a tool but is to be respected and revered. [From: An Ethical Philosophy of Life]

- Felix Adler

If I could give you one key, and one key only to more abundant life, I would give you a sense of your own worth, an unshakeable sense of your own dignity as one grounded in the source of the cosmic dance, as one who plays a unique part in the unfolding of the story of the world...

- Greta Crosby

Agnosticism simply means that a man shall not say he knows or believes that for which he has no grounds for professing to believe.

- Thomas H. Huxley

First, we are challenged to rise above the narrow confines of our individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Solitude is essentially the discovery and acceptance of our uniqueness.

- Lawrence Freeman

In reality, humility means nothing other than plete honesty about yourself.

- William Countryman

Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.

- Mohandas K. Gandhi

The way you treat yourself sets the standard for others.

- Sonya Friedman

Individuality is the aim of political liberty. By leaving to the citizen as much freedom of action and of being, as ports with order and the rights of others, the institutions render him truly a freeman. He is left to pursue his means of happiness in his own manner.

- James F. Cooper

Integrity simply means a willingness not to violate one's identity.

- Erich Fromm

Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position.

- Mohandas K. Gandhi

Tell me to what you pay attention and I will tell you who you are.

- Jose Ortega y Gasset

You are what you think ... geez, that's frightening.

- Lily Tomlin

Respect the child. Wait and see the new product of Nature. Nature loves analogies, but not repetitions. Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

My great mistake, the fault for which I can't forgive myself, is that one day I ceased my obstinate pursuit of my own individuality.

- Oscar Wilde

Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.

- Rabindranath Tagore

Our deepest calling is to grow into our own authentic self-hood, whether or not it conforms to some image of who we ought to be. As we do so, we will not only find the joy that every human being seeks -- we will also find our path of authentic service in the world.

- Parker J. Palmer

There is no such thing as a "self-made" man. We are made up of thousands of others. Everyone who has ever done a kind deed for us, or spoken one word of encouragement to us, has entered into the make-up of our character and of our thoughts, as well as our success.

- George Matthew Adams

I want my inner truth to be the plumb line for the choices I make about my life -- about the work that I do and how I do it, about the relationships I enter into and how I conduct them.

- Parker J. Palmer

We all know we are unique individuals, but we tend to see others as representatives of groups.

- Deborah Tannen

Action expresses priorities.

- Mohandas K. Gandhi

Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.

- Henry David Thoreau

Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.

- Madame de Stael

There is an endless net of threads throughout the universe...At every crossing of the threads there is an individual.And every individual is a crystal bead.And every crystal bead reflects Not only the light from every other crystal in the netBut also every other reflectionThroughout the entire universe.

an adaptation of The Net of Jewels, or Indra's Net, one of the oldest written creations of humanity

- Anne Adams

No matter what age you are, or what your circumstances might be, you are special, and you still have something unique to offer. Your life, because of who you are, has meaning.

- Barbara de Angelis

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

- Samuel Johnson

We may want to love other people without holding back, to feel authentic, to breathe in the beauty around us, to dance and sing. Yet each day we listen to inner voices that keep our life small.

- Tara Brach

We all have our own life to pursue, our own kind of dream to be weaving. And we all have some power to make wishes e true, as long as we keep believing.

- Louisa May Alcott

A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he bees.

- Mohandas K. Gandhi

To say "we" and mean "I" is one of the most recondite insults.

- Theodor Adorno

Today you are you, that is truer than true.There is no one alive who is youer than you.

- Dr. Seuss

Being tall is an advantage, especially in business. People will always remember you. And if you're in a crowd, you'll always have some clean air to breathe.

- Julia Child

God enters by a private door into every individual.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson