Individuality Quotes

Some people love me for being odd, and some want to kill me for the same reason

~ Hilal Hamdaan

Greaser ' didn't have anything to do with it. My buddy over there wouldn't have done it. Maybe you would have done the same thing, maybe a friend of yours wouldn't have. It's the individual.

~ S.e. Hinton

We are against ignorance. We feel that you have to educate yourself, no matter what the situation is. People who refuse to educate themselves - people who refuse to find out what something is about, that they're frightened of - find comfort in being ignorant.”--Zeena Schreck Interview for KJTV-1990

~ Zeena Schreck

If there is one thing I have come to believe over the years, it’s the notion that there really is somebody for everybody. Every single person is going to look at beauty from a different angle. Every single person is going to be attracted to certain features and characteristics that are completely different than the next person. And… there isn’t a person on earth that everybody on earth finds attractive.

~ Dan Pearce

Always be a first rate version of yourself and not a second rate version of someone else.

~ Judy Garland

Its hard to be a diamond in a rhinestone world.

~ Dolly Parton

A man's shortcomings are taken from his epoch, his virtues and greatness belong to himself.

~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Was the excellence of Socrates or of Shakespeare normal? Was it not rather abnormal, extraordinary? It is, I think, obvious in the first place, that not all that is good is normal; that, on the contrary, the abnormal is often better than the normal...

~ G.e. Moore

When I say Be Perfect - it means BE AUTHENTICALLY YOURSELF in expressing your feelings, without any external interference!

~ Ramana Pemmaraju

I'm swimming upstream. Fighting the tide while the happy dead drift past me to the pools of ignorance.

~ Katie Waitman

A person can't pick up they children and just squeeze them to which-a-way they wants them to be.

~ Carson Mccullers

Phoebe Marks was a person who never lost her individuality. Silent and self-contained, she seemed to hold herself within herself, and take no colour from the outer world.

~ Mary Elizabeth Braddon

I would rather be what God chose to make me than the most glorious creature that I could think of; for to have been thought about, born in God's thought, and then made by God, is the dearest, grandest and most precious thing in all thinking.

~ George Macdonald

All of us take pride and pleasure in the fact that we are unique, but I'm afraid that when all is said and done the police are right: it all comes down to fingerprints.

~ David Sedaris

I' is merely one of the world's instantaneous spasms.

~ Clarice Lispector

The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you

~ Neil Gaiman

I want you to stop being subhuman and become 'yourself'. 'Yourself,' I say. Not the newspaper you read, not your vicious neighbor's opinion, but 'yourself.' I know, and you don't, what you really are deep down. Deep down, you are what a deer, your God, your poet, or your philosopher is. But you think you're a member of the VFW, your bowling club, or the Ku Klux Klan, and because you think so, you behave as you do. This too was told you long ago, by Heinrich Mann in Germany, by Upton Sinclair and John Dos Passos in the United States. But you recognized neither Mann nor Sinclair. You recognize only the heavyweight champion and Al Capone. If given your choice between a library and a fight, you'll undoubtedly go to the fight.

~ Wilhelm Reich

The individuals inside are frequently fighting that their individual voices be heard, while the walls of the place, which are the mask, and the perception, are reluctant to give over to the voices of the individuals. Those in the margins are always trying to get to the center, and those at the center, frequently in the name of tradition, are trying to keep the margins at a distance. Part of the identity of a place is the tension between those in the margins, and those in the center, and they all live behind the walls which wear the tradition.

~ Anna Deavere Smith

Yearn for the opposite, to buck the trend, to be different.

~ Fennel Hudson

Be individual, break free from the flock to avoid the predictable midsummer haircut.

~ Fennel Hudson

I am persuaded that a coldly-thought-out and independent verdict upon a fashion in clothes, or manners, or literature, or politics, or religion, or any other matter that is projected into the field of our notice and interest, is a most rare thing -- if it has indeed ever existed.

~ Mark Twain

We are the estranged orphans of our nations and tribes, and we now bear the weight not of survival of the group but of personal identity.

~ Chris Matakas

Disconnect from society’s pressure to conform. Do things your own way.

~ Fennel Hudson

Be as thou wast wont to be.

~ William Shakespeare

Be as thou wast wont to be.See as thou wast wont to see.

~ William Shakespeare

Clancy comments that the subtleties of national character can impact the world stage by making espionage more difficult. Americans were quirky by nature, making the sorts of eccentric moves that had to be followed up on as potential espionage cues. Russians, on the other hand, were too orderly by nature to make such distractions appear natural.

~ Tom Clancy

I see that if you try to fit someone in a box, she might slip through the seams like water and become her own river.

~ Laura Resau

Identity is your role in life, the part you play. Individuality is who you are, and who you are is revealed to you if you can get to complete presence.

~ Tom Spanbauer

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

~ Nancy S. Mure

A human being too, is many things. Whatever makes up the air,the earth, the herbs, the stones is also part of our bodies. We must learn to be different, to feel and taste the manifold things that are us.

~ Lame Deer

People will always walk their own road and you cannot drag them onto yours. But, if you happen to wander into the path of a good person, you best take your mask off and shine or I promise, they will just walk on by.

~ Ava Ayers

A thorough inspection of someone you believed to be loveable will send you back into your shell if all you saw in their life was all bullshit.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Don’t lose yourself in the fog of normality.

~ Fennel Hudson

Playing safe, hiding among the masses, will rarely get you noticed.

~ Fennel Hudson

It’s better to be individual than a clone of someone else.

~ Fennel Hudson

Learn from all, but copy none and just be yourself.

~ Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

Human thought and human caring go on in one brain and one heart at a time. Groups are necessary. Regulations are necessary. Government, I would hope limited government, is necessary. But it all starts with the individual. Everything that is accomplished starts with one person, even if the group steps in and helps; it’s still one brain and one heart at a time.

~ Dan Groat

It's our journey to search for that piece of our soul with our life's purpose written on it. Cinderella in Focus: Cindy's Secret

~ Hlbalcomb

You have two choices in life...Choice one is to be the same and be like everyone else...Choice two is to be yourself and be a difference-maker.

~ Jazlyn Roehl

That's the nice thing about being human. We only have one life, but we can choose what kind of story it's going to be.

~ Rick Riordan