individuality quotes

I thought one should have the attitude of ‚What do you care what other people think!‘

I find only freedom in the realms of eccentricity.

Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?

The bottom line is that everyone thinks differently.

I specifically did not read other First Ladies‘ books, because I didn’t want to be influenced by how they defined the role. I knew that I would have to find this role – very uniquely and specifically to me and who I was.

This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say.

I don’t compare myself to anyone else; I don’t make comments about anyone else because they do what feels right for them, and that’s okay by me.

I always liked different things, rare things.

Most people are happy being average. Most are happy being faceless in a sea of faces.

I want people to understand they have to live their own lives the way they want to and not just do what we do.

After winning, most teams become individuals; most teams become complacent.

All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.

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

Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself.

I’m a free spirit.

I never set out to be weird. It was always other people who called me weird.

It is a great shock at the age of five or six to find that in a world of Gary Coopers you are the Indian.

Whatever that means, however you got on that mountain, why not try to climb it? And do it in your own way.

I don’t do drugs. I am drugs.

Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!

I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.

A person’s a person, no matter how small.

If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

You know, I just do whatever feels right to me! And so that’s what you’re gonna get!

I like everything. Boyish girls, girlish boys, the heavy and the skinny. Which is a problem when I’m walking down the street.

If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking.

I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.

The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.

I’ve never lived my life in the opinion of others. I believe I’m a good person. I believe I’m a good mom. But that’s for my kids to decide, not for the world.

You don’t need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!

Every man should know, if you’re comfortable and you like it, you should do it. Everyone always worries about what the girls think, what the guys think. If you like it, do it.

The philosophical idea that there are no more distances, that we are all just one world, that we are all brothers, is such a drag! I like differences.

Individuality is founded in feeling; and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making, and directly perceive how events happen, and how work is actually done.

I don’t really have a gimmick or a ‚thing.‘ I’m one of the few artists who gets to be himself every day.

Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end.

Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.

I dressed more like a pop star, I suppose, rather than the traditional blazer and tall trousers other players went for.

I can relax with bums because I am a bum. I don’t like laws, morals, religions, rules. I don’t like to be shaped by society.

No man was ever great by imitation.

If you have fear, you are bound by tradition, you follow some leader or guru. When you are bound by tradition, when you are afraid of your husband or your wife, you lose your dignity as an individual human being.

There is a piece of me that likes to fondly imagine my maverick and rebellious nature. But, more accurately, I like to have a nice and cosy institution that I can rub up against a little bit.

I think style is being so comfortable and confident in what you’re wearing. That’s what style is, ‚cause everybody’s got different style.

I’ve always done whatever I want and always been exactly who I am.

I never think of myself as an icon. What is in other people’s minds is not in my mind. I just do my thing.

I like to be myself, and I don’t pretend. For instance, I don’t dress up for occasions; I am what I am.

The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.

You lose your individuality a huge amount when you have no money, and I certainly had that experience.

The people you choose to have around you make all the difference. My family and close friends keep me grounded. You have to have a mind of your own and a strong head on your shoulders. Cricket is the most important thing to me, so the rest of it pales in comparison.

We cannot live being obsessed with what other people think about us. It’s impossible to live like that. Not even God managed to please the entire world.

And finally I twist my heart round again, so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the inside, and keep on trying to find a way of becoming what I would so like to be, and could be, if there weren’t any other people living in the world.

Let’s embrace being not normal!

It’s a representation of yourself, and you can express a lot of your creativity with what your wearing.

Our diversity is our strength. What a dull and pointless life it would be if everyone was the same.

A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.

Everyone is different. Everyone has different teams they’ve played on, coaches they’ve played for.

I’m happy being myself, which I’ve never been before. I always hid in other people, or tried to find myself through the characters, or live out their lives, but I didn’t have those things in mine.

The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.

What’s the greater risk? Letting go of what people think – or letting go of how I feel, what I believe, and who I am?

Remember that the revolution is what is important, and each one of us, alone, is worth nothing.

SEALs are human beings. We may all have the same haircuts, but we aren’t robots. Some SEALs are great people. Some are not great people. Some have done unspeakably terrible things. You’re dealing with different people, different dreams, different desires.