Individuality Quotes

As you grow wiser, so does your personality.

~ Oliver Faurholt Nielsen

How come you're so different, I asked once, as we sat in the shade of the pine tree. Yukiko's answer, a sentence learned by heart: Because I fell from a star.

~ Milena Michiko Flašar

The closer we come to understanding the challenges of autism, the better we are placed to accommodate and educate without risking removing that individuality we all love.

~ Adele Devine

If he (Teddy Roosevelt) lacked Will Taft's immediate charisma, gradually his classmates could not resist the spell of his highly original personality.

~ Doris Kearns Goodwin

I never blindly roamed with a team just for the sake of social labeling or fitting in. I was never part of a particular group, scene or tribe. I was friends with everybody. My best friend in high school was prom queen, yet I was voted the biggest nonconformist of my senior class.

~ Suzy Kassem

Here is the paradox of it: the more of an individual you become the more you realize we are interrelated, that success of one requires the success of all.

~ James Rozoff

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

You are so busy being YOU that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are.

~ John Green

I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.

~ Augusten Burroughs

I am not eccentric. It's just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of catfish.

~ Edith Sitwell

Don't you ever let a soul in the world tell you that you can't be exactly who you are.

~ Lady Gaga

Where's your will to be weird?

~ Jim Morrison

It never got weird enough for me.

~ Hunter S. Thompson

I think everybody's weird. We should all celebrate our individuality and not be embarrassed or ashamed of it.

~ Johnny Depp

There is not one big cosmic meaning for all; there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an individual novel, a book for each person.

~ Anaïs Nin

I don't believe in fashion. I believe in costume. Life is too short to be same person every day.

~ Stephanie Perkins

Think outside the box, collapse the box, and take a fucking sharp knife to it.

~ Banksy

your handwriting. the way you walk. which china pattern you choose. it's all giving you away. everything you do shows your hand. everything is a self portrait. everything is a diary.

~ Chuck Palahniuk

If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways.

~ Michel De Montaigne

Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can offer with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation, but of the adopted talent of another, you have only an extemporaneous, half possession.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

It's so hard to express yourself.' I understand this.'I want to express myself.'The same is true for me.' I'm looking for my voice.' It's in your mouth.' I want to do something I'm not ashamed of.'Something you are proud of, yes?' Not even. I just don't want to be ashamed.

~ Jonathan Safran Foer

There's a rebel lying deep in my soul. Anytime anybody tells me the trend is such and such, I go the opposite direction. I hate the idea of trends. I hate imitation; I have a reverence for individuality.

~ Clint Eastwood

I am not plain, or average or - God forbid - vanilla. I am peanut butter rocky road with multicolored sprinkles, hot fudge and a cherry on top.

~ Wendy Mass

The worst curse to befall anyone is stagnation, a banal existence, the quiet desperation that comes out of a need for conformity.

~ Deepak Chopra

Why would I want to fit in?

~ Carrie Jones

As much as I live I shall not imitate them or hate myself for being different to them

~ Orhan Pamuk

Everyone marries the Duke of Westminster. There are a lot of duchesses, but only one Coco Chanel.

~ Coco Chanel

You laugh at me because I'm different, I laugh at you because you're all the same.

~ Jonathan Davis

Autists are the ultimate square pegs, and the problem with pounding a square peg into a round hole is not that the hammering is hard work. It's that you're destroying the peg.

~ Paul Collins

If you are different from the rest of the flock, they bite you

~ Vincent O'sullivan

I act with complete certainty. But this certainty is my own.

~ Ludwig Wittgenstein

Do the other kids make fun of you? For how you talk?''Sometimes.''So why don't you do something about it? You could learn to talk differently, you know.'But this is my voice. How would you be able to tell when I was talking?

~ Lauren Oliver

I hate the thought of her being forced into a box that doesn't fit her. Of having her wings cut off, her sight blinded, her hearing muted, her voice stilled.

~ Charles De Lint

Eleanor looked up, surprised; the little girl was sliding back in her chair, sullenly refusing her milk, while her father frowned and her brother giggled and her mother said calmly, 'She wants her cup of stars.'Indeed yes, Eleanor thought; indeed, so do I; a cup of stars, of course.'Her little cup,' the mother was explaining, smiling apologetically at the waitress, who was thunderstruck at the thought that the mill's good country milk was not rich enough for the little girl. 'It has stars in the bottom, and she always drinks her milk from it at home. She calls it her cup of stars because she can see the stars while she drinks her milk.' The waitress nodded, unconvinced, and the mother told the little girl, 'You'll have your milk from your cup of stars tonight when we get home. But just for now, just to be a very good little girl, will you take a little milk from this glass?'Don't do it, Eleanor told the little girl; insist on your cup of stars; once they have trapped you into being like everyone else you will never see your cup of stars again; don't do it; and the little girl glanced at her, and smiled a little subtle, dimpling, wholly comprehending smile, and shook her head stubbornly at the glass. Brave girl, Eleanor thought; wise, brave girl.

~ Shirley Jackson

I'm an oddity of one, my strangeness too complicated to explain or share.

~ Libba Bray

If you're quiet, you're not living. You've got to be noisy and colorful and lively.

~ Mel Brooks

Any fool can do something cool and look cool, but it takes skill to make something uncool cool again.

~ Criss Jami

Whatever does not pretend at all has style enough.

~ Booth Tarkington

Have you ever played chess, Kitty?”I eyed her. What did a board game have to do with this? “Not really.”“You and I should play sometime. I think you would like it,” she said. “It’s a game of strategy, mostly. The strong pieces are in the back row, while the weak pieces—the pawns—are all in the front, ready to take the brunt of the attack. Because of their limited movement and vulnerability, most people underestimate them and only use them to protect the more powerful pieces. But when I play, I protect my pawns.”“Why?” I said, not entirely sure where this conversation was going. “If they’re weak, then what’s the point?”“They may be weak when the game begins, but their potential is remarkable. Most of the time, they’ll be taken by the other side and held captive until the end of the game. But if you’re careful—if you keep your eyes open and pay attention to what your opponent is doing, if you protect your pawns and they reach the other side of the board, do you know what happens then?”I shook my head, and she smiled.“Your pawn becomes a queen.” She touched my cheek, her fingers cold as ice. “Because they kept moving forward and triumphed against impossible odds, they become the most powerful piece in the game. Never forget that, all right? Never forget the potential one solitary pawn has to change the entire game.

~ Aimee Carter