Individuality Quotes

It was almost painful to be different.

~ Shannon A. Thompson

When we feel that all eyes are upon on us, it is often difficultto take chances in expressing our individuality.

~ Bobbi Brown

Being human makes us one. Be uniquely ourselves makes us individual. - Nancy S. Mure, Author of Unidentical Twins

~ Nancy S. Mure

Recollection builds up our personality. Our individuality is based on all the little pieces we assembled in the past. (The past was her best friend)

~ Erik Pevernagie

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.

~ Bernard M. Baruch

Let others determine your worth and you're already lost, because no one wants people worth more than themselves.

~ Peter V. Brett

I recognized him then; that is, I finally comprehended what I had known but had never been able to formulate: he had always been complete. He had finished the work of becoming himself, long before any of us could even imagine such a feat was possible.

~ Aleksandar Hemon

Much to the confusion of small-minded people, confidence does not equate arrogance.

~ Amber Hurdle

Who cares what insecure people think who are insanely jealous that you are OK with yourself?

~ Amber Hurdle

When you don't know yourself, who you are and what you want, you just become a product of your environment - a leaf that gets blown each and every way until it just lands, in a big pile of mud, and gets stuck.

~ Evan Sutter

You shouldn't want to be like everyone else. Then you wouldn't be like you.

~ Cristina Henriquez

Style is when they're running you out of town and you make it look like you're leading the parade.

~ William Battie

What did the Romans say? “De gustibus non est disputandum”: It is worthless to discuss personal taste. It is called 'personal' for a reason.

~ Massimo Marino

The worst thing to call somebody is crazy, it's dismissive. 'But I don't understand this person', so they're crazy. That's bullshit cause people are not crazy, they strong people, maybe their environment is a little sick.

~ Dave Chapelle

The third gift is Courage. May you speak and act with confidence and use courage to follow your own path.

~ Charlene Costanzo

The parts of me that used to think I was different or smarter or whatever, almost made me die.

~ David Foster Wallace

You are not who you think you are.

~ Silvia Hartmann

Individuality is different than isolation. Isolation is trying to do everything on your own, living life by yourself. Isolation happens when you choose not to be involved in any communities, making sure you keep a safe distance from people in your life. I’m not recommending isolation. Science, psychology, and religion all suggest long term isolation is dangerous and unhealthy.

~ Stephen Lovegrove

Here’s what I believe. We have control over ourselves at every single moment. We don’t control the world. We don’t control other people (or at least, we shouldn’t.) But we are in control of our experience at all times.

~ Stephen Lovegrove

Hold everything very carefully unless it is your lover’s back. Then, become metal, become teeth, do not gentle yourself for any man. Do not change for the ones who think thatyou should be softer, less mouth, less voice. You do not owe regrowth to anyone but yourself. When they begin to ask for you to shape yourself around them, leave. Shut the door firmly. Do not look back.

~ Azra Tabassum

Nothing is more ridiculous than one person telling another how to live.

~ Marty Rubin

I think the reward for conformity is that everyone likes you except yourself.

~ Rita Mae Brown

Without our individual kinks we would all be flat as boards.

~ Ec31

Living a lie is painful, and doesn’t do anyone any good. I had to be true to myself, because, either way, God would know if I was lying.

~ Isabel Quintero

What did I fear, and why? — I, to whom the night had beena more familiar facethan that of man —I, in whom that element of hereditary superstition from which none of us is altogether free had given to solitude and darkness and silence only a more alluring interest and charm!

~ Ambrose Bierce

Speak in your own voice about the things that matter to you.

~ Marty Rubin

Life is two things. Life is morality – life is adventure. Squire and master. Adventure rules, and morality looks up the trains in the Bradshaw. Morality tells you what is right, and adventure moves you. If morality means anything it means keeping bounds, respecting implications, respecting implicit bounds. If individuality means anything it means breaking bounds – adventure.

~ H.g. Wells

He remembered that she was pretty, and, more, that she had a special grace in the intimacy of life. She had the secret of individuality which excites and escapes.

~ Joseph Conrad

There are special, strange gifted people in the world and they have to be treated with understanding

~ John Knowles

Never again! commanded his will. Again! Tomorrow! begged his heart.

~ Hermann Hesse

We are made up of everything we have ever been, Percy. It is the joy and the pain of our individuality. There are no two of us the same.

~ Mary Balogh

Where personal experience is concerned, we all speak a different language.

~ Marty Rubin

We each have our own language.Our own way of thinking, of talking to ourselves, of making sense of the world and putting it in order. A narration style that is ours and ours alone. That's why some of us connect and some of us don't. Because even though we can only live in our own heads, sometimes - every now and then - we meet a person we can talk to without speaking at all: whose story we can read, without even trying.

~ Holly Smale

She was looking for something I could never give her. Again his dark eyes bored into Julia's mind. You have something of the same about you, young woman. Take my advice: Don't think you will find it in another person. You won't. It's not there. You must find it in yourself.

~ Iain Pears

Whereas, in the west, individuality and drive are considered positive qualities, they are not seen the same way, in Japan. In that country, if you are too much of a rugged individualist, it might actually indicate that you are a weak, unreliable character and that you are selfish, in a childish, willful kind of way.

~ Alexei Maxim Russell

Do not let your assumptions about a culture block your ability to perceive the individual, or you will fail.

~ Brandon Sanderson

It’s the sensation that gives rise to ego or personal identity. All the external and internal experiences of life are experienced only with the sensation.

~ Roshan Sharma

When your focus is on how you feel about things in the world then the things of the world slip from view, your little boat of learning things for what they are are swamped by the swells of how you feel about them. With hard work and with learning, the things of the world are still somehow out there, waiting for you to know about them, no matter how you feel. They survive how you feel about them and they are there before and after the storms of your feelings roar through and abate. Feelings aren't much of a compass to go by.

~ Stephen Jenkinson

I imagine you come across a number of people who are disconcerted by the difference between what you do feel and what they fancy you ought to feel. It is fatal to pay the smallest attention to them.”“Yes,” said Harriet, “but I am one of them. I disconcert myself very much. I never know what I do feel.”“I don’t think that matters, provided one doesn’t try to persuade one’s self into appropriate feelings.

~ Dorothy L. Sayers

It's a funny thing about names, how they become a part of someone.

~ Lois Lowry