Marcus Buckingham Quotes

Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone and leave it alone.

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

My real guru are my experiences in life - the realisation that you are alone in this world came very early to me.

For those who know the value of and exquisite taste of solitary freedom (for one is only free when alone), the act of leaving is the bravest and most beautiful of all.

I have never been convinced throughout my life that one needs to be imitating others. I even tell my daughters not to look at me as a model.

In those days, I still thoroughly enjoyed the romance I called "by myself"; I didn't know yet how it gets lonely, picks up a sharp edge later on that ruins a day now and then-- ruins more than that, if you're not careful.

Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. And then love will come to you, then it comes to you.

One's better off alone, and yet there are so many things that are impossible to fathom on one's own. In fact it's a terrible business and the task is a hard one.

And so I learned what solitude really was. It was raw material - awesome, malleable,older than men or worlds or water. And it was merciless - for it let a man become precisely what he alone made of himself.

The greater the spirit, the more one is alone.

In what concerns you much, do not think that you have companions: know that you are alone in the world.

What I was reading was already part of my psyche, but finally someone else was saying it's okay to walk alone.

No matter how close to yours another's steps have grown, in the end there is one dance you'll do alone.

It's a life's journey of finding ourselves, finding our power, and living for yourself, not for everyone else.

To live alone is the fate of all great souls.

For each one of us stands alone in the midst of a universe.

I never wanted to be like anyone growing up. It's always been about the enjoyment, and I've just never wanted to imitate anyone.

At WSX I think I was very much trying to figure it out on my own and we were creating our own style and our own thing. I can only speak for myself, I was not trying to be anything. I was not trying to be like anyone else.

The power to bring me out of solitude - or to push me back into it - had never belonged to another person. It was mine and only mine.

Wait, I'm deciding to be my own individual self. And it looks nothing like what anyone else is doing.

Any man who is really a man must learn to be alone in the midst of others, to think alone for others, and, if necessary, against others.

We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and -- in spite of True Romance magazines -- we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way. I do not say lonely -- at least, not all the time -- but essentially, and finally, alone. This is what makes your self-respect so important, and I don't see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness.

I believe that it is sometimes less difficult to wake up and feel that I am alone when I really am, than to wake up with someone else and be lonely.

When I'm all alone, nobody else can say goodbye.