Individual Differences Quotes

Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference.

Jane Goodall

Inspirational, Educational, Differences

Jane Goodall (1994). “With Love: Ten Heartwarming Stories of Chimpanzees in the Wild”, Scholastic Incorporated

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Every one of us is different in some way, but for those of us who are more different, we have to put more effort into convincing the less different that we can do the same thing they can, just differently.

Marlee Matlin

People, Effort, Being Different

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We cannot safely assume that other people's minds work on the same principles as our own. All too often, others with whom we come in contact do not reason as we reason, or do not value the things we value, or are not interested in what interests us.

Isabel Briggs Myers

People, Being Different, Mind

Isabel Briggs Myers, Peter B. Myers (1995). “Gifts differing: understanding personality type”, Davies-Black Publishing

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Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.

Margaret Mead

Inspirational, Funny, Inspiring

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In diversity there is beauty and there is strength.

Maya Angelou

Inspirational, Strength, Beauty

Maya Angelou (2014). “Rainbow in the Cloud: The Wit and Wisdom of Maya Angelou”, p.9, Hachette UK

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To become a person does not necessarily mean to be well adjusted, well adapted, approved of by others. It means to become who you are. We are meant to become more eccentric, more peculiar, more odd. We are not meant just to fit in. We are here to be different. We are here to be the individual.

James Hollis

Being Yourself, Mean, Differences

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No two people have the same reality

Gary Zukav

Inspirational, Reality, Two

FaceBook post by Gary Zukav from Jan 26, 2016

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I know there is strength in the differences between us. I know there is comfort where we overlap.

Ani DiFranco

Strength, Diversity, Comforting

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In this world, unity is achievable only by learning to unite in spite of differences, rather than insisting on unity without differences. For their total eradication is an impossibility. The secret of attaining peace in life is tolerance of disturbance of the peace. (p. 99)

Maulana Wahiduddin Khan

Inspirational, Life, Change

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Values are like fingerprints. Nobody's are the same, but you leave 'em all over everything you do

Elvis Presley

Change, Wisdom, Memories

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Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.

Malcolm Forbes

Art, Thinking, Diversity

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To be irreplaceable, you have to be different.

Coco Chanel

Different, Irreplaceable

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Peace requires the simple but powerful recognition that what we have in common as human beings is more important and crucial than what divides us.

Sargent Shriver

Peace, Powerful, Simple

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We are made for goodness. We are made for love. We are made for friendliness. We are made for togetherness. We are made for all of the beautiful things that you and I know. We are made to tell the world that there are no outsiders. All are welcome: black, white, red, yellow, rich, poor, educated, not educated, male, female, gay, straight, all, all, all. We all belong to this family, this human family, God's family.

Desmond Tutu

Beautiful, Inspirational Love, Gay

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Because of the great differences in our ways of thinking, it is inevitable that we have different religions and faiths. Each has its own beauty. And it is much better that we live together on the basis of mutual respect and mutual admiration.

Dalai Lama

Thinking, Differences, Together

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What distinguishes us one from another is our dreams, and what we do to make them come about.

Joseph Epstein

Inspirational, Dream, Man Of My Dreams

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To this day, no one has come up with a set of rules for originality. There aren't any.

Les Paul

Inspirational, Being Different, Originality

FaceBook post by Les Paul from Nov 30, 2015

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If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.

Henry David Thoreau

Success, Music, Forgiveness

Walden ch. 18 (1854). Frequently quoted as "marches to the tune of a different drummer."

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Snowflakes fascinate me... Millions of them falling gently to the ground... And they say that no two of them are alike! Each one completely different from all the others... The last of the rugged individualists!

Charles M. Schulz

Fall, Two, Being Different

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Growing marriages aren't determined by how much you have in common but by how graciously you deal with your differences.

Rick Warren

Differences, Growing, Determined

Twitter post from Dec 23, 2010

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I've always been a freak and different, oddball even in my childhood and my own family, so I can relate to people who are struggling and trying to find their true identity. I do not sit in the seat of judgment. .. I love people for who they are. We're all God's children.

Dolly Parton

Children, Struggle, True Identity

FaceBook post by Dolly Parton from Aug 28, 2012

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Democracy is a small hard core of common agreement, surrounded by a rich variety of individual differences.

James Bryant Conant

Agreement, Democracy, Common

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I have always strenuously supported the right of every man to his own opinion, however different that opinion might be to mine. He who denies to another this right, makes a slave of himself to his present opinion, because he precludes himself the right of changing it.

Thomas Paine

Change, Freedom, Equality

Thomas Paine (2015). “The Thomas Paine Collection: Common Sense, Rights of Man, Age of Reason, An Essay on Dream, Biblical Blasphemy, Examination Of The Prophecies”, p.222, Ravenio Books

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Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible - the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.

Virginia Satir

Motivational, Family, Appreciation

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Fashion is like food! Some people like sushi, others think hamburgers are divine! People like different things!

Michael Kors

Fashion, Thinking, People

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