I don’t like being told what to do and kissing you-know-what to get up the corporate ladder.

In our personal ambitions we are individualists. But in our seeking for economic and political progress as a nation, we all go up or else all go down as one people.

All formal dogmatic religions are fallacious and must never be accepted by self-respecting persons as final.

I don’t fight in chase of an individual. I hear this sometimes where fighters work their whole careers to reach a matchup with a certain individual. I do not think in that way.

Children need to get a high-quality education, avoid violence and the criminal-justice system, and gain jobs. But they deserve more. We want them to learn not only reading and math but fairness, caring, self-respect, family commitment, and civic duty.

Coaching is nothing more than eliminating mistakes before you get fired.

I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.

By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.

I don’t want followers.

Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.

No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.

The minute you start compromising for the sake of massaging somebody’s ego, that’s it, game over.

We’re always looking over our shoulders, ‚what they will think, what the press will think, what will this one – am I making the right career move?‘ When you’re young you have to do all that to survive, I suppose.

Do we not realize that self respect comes with self reliance?

Any man or institution that tries to rob me of my dignity will lose.

Romantic art deals with the exception and with the individual. Good people, belonging as they do to the normal, and so, commonplace type, are artistically uninteresting.

If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.

I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding.

I don’t kiss nobody’s butt.

You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.

One thing I want to make clear, as far as my own rebirth is concerned, the final authority is myself and no one else, and obviously not China’s Communists.

Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.

Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

I think everyone should approach relationships from the perspective of playing it straight and giving someone the benefit of the doubt. Until he establishes that this is a game. And if it’s a game, you need to win. The best thing to do is just walk away from the table.

Whoever despises himself nonetheless respects himself as one who despises.

There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.

If we are not free, no one will respect us.

‚Harry Potter‘ gave me back self respect. Harry gave me a job to do that I loved more than anything else.

Remember: your bosses prefer to keep you in dependent positions. It is in their interest that you do not become self-reliant, and so they will tend to hoard information. You must secretly work against this and seize this information for yourself.

I will never say something I don’t agree with or believe in… even if the reward is massive!

I think Americans generally are not used to working very hard, in terms of working for the collective. I think in our country we have taken individualism to its farthest reaches, possibly.

I’m just an individual who doesn’t feel that I need to have somebody qualify my work in any particular way. I’m working for me.

When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet in his private heart no man much respects himself.

I’ve always kinda been a little outcast myself, a little oddball, doin‘ my thing, my own way. And it’s been hard for me to, to be accepted, certainly in the early years of my life.

Work alone is noble.

There are two kinds of people in this world. ‚I‘ people and ‚we‘ people. I’ve always tried to be a ‚we‘ person.

Self-respect: the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious.

A flippant, frivolous man may ridicule others, may controvert them, scorn them; but he who has any respect for himself seems to have renounced the right of thinking meanly of others.

It is hard to be an individual in Japan.

When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everybody will respect you.

Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them.

I hate all politics. I don’t like either political party. One should not belong to them – one should be an individual, standing in the middle. Anyone that belongs to a party stops thinking.

I’m not concerned with your liking or disliking me… All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.

Like Frank Sinatra, I’m doing it my way.

I hated to be treated as a child. I thought it was the worst situation.

Most young people were getting jobs in big companies, becoming company men. I wanted to be individual.

If you make yourself indispensable to your employer, he is not going to part with you in a hurry no matter what it costs him.

Mine is better than ours.

Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.

The problem is that at a lot of big companies, process becomes a substitute for thinking. You’re encouraged to behave like a little gear in a complex machine. Frankly, it allows you to keep people who aren’t that smart, who aren’t that creative.

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.

Real education enhances the dignity of a human being and increases his or her self-respect. If only the real sense of education could be realized by each individual and carried forward in every field of human activity, the world will be so much a better place to live in.

For too long in this society, we have celebrated unrestrained individualism over common community.

At Columbia Law School, my professor of constitutional law and federal courts, Gerald Gunther, was determined to place me in a federal court clerkship, despite what was then viewed as a grave impediment: On graduation, I was the mother of a 4-year-old child.

The Public is merely a multiplied ‚me.‘

If there is only one thing in my life that I am proud of, it’s that I’ve never been a kept woman.

I won’t let people write anything they want to about me.

There are certainly a lot of things that still need to change when it comes to women in the workforce.

I just usually go with my own taste. If I like something, and it happens to be against the law, well, then I might have a problem.

I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it.

Sucking up to the biggies won’t get us anywhere.