These individuality quotes will inspire you. Individuality, total character peculiar to and distinguishing an individual from others or the quality or character of a particular person or thing that distinguishes them from others of the same kind, especially when strongly marked.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging individuality quotes, individuality sayings, and individuality proverbs.
Best Individuality Quotes
- “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.” ~ John F. Kennedy
- “Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself.” ~ Harvey Fierstein
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“I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.” ~ Bruce Lee
- “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.” ~ Mark Twain
- “Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.” ~ Albert Einstein
- “Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference.” ~ Jane Goodall
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“The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “To become a person does not necessarily mean to be well adjusted, well adapted, approved of by others. It means to become who you are. We are meant to become more eccentric, more peculiar, more odd. We are not meant just to fit in. We are here to be different. We are here to be the individual.” ~ James Hollis
- “Your individuality is the most valuable thing you have.” ~ Martha Beck
- “It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.” ~ e. e. cummings
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“An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.” ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
- “Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual; you have an obligation to be one.” ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
- “Those who matter don’t mind, and those who mind don’t matter.” ~ Bernard Baruch
- “A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.” ~ Oscar Wilde
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“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
- “The things that make me different are the things that make me.” ~ A. A. Milne
- “Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.” ~ Margaret Mead
- “The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.” ~ Rudyard Kipling
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“Individuality is either the mark of genius or the reverse. Mediocrity finds safety in standardization.” ~ Frederick E. Crane
- “I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
- “The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.” ~ Joseph Campbell
- “I’ve come to believe that each of us has a personal calling that’s as unique as a fingerprint – and that the best way to succeed is to discover what you love and then find a way to offer it to others in the form of service, working hard, and also allowing the energy of the universe to lead you.” ~ Oprah Winfrey , Individuality quotes about uniqueness
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“Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.” ~ Albert Einstein
- “A red rose is not selfish because it wants to be a red rose. It would be horribly selfish if it wanted all the other flowers in the garden to be both red and roses.” ~ Oscar Wilde
- “The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.” ~ Coco Chanel
- “Only an individual can imagine, invent, or create. The whole audience of art is an audience of individuals.” ~ Ben Shahn
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“We live in a context, but we’re also individuals. We need to explore both.” ~ Nitin Sawhney
- “Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.” ~ Voltaire
- “I am increasingly an architect of self. I am free to will and choose. I can, through accepting my individuality… become more of my uniqueness, more of my potentiality.” ~ Carl Rogers
- “We need to go inward instead of outward, and learn to trust our own inner guide, preserving our identity and finding the answers from within.” ~ Jane Fulton Alt
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“All greatness of character is dependent on individuality.” ~ James F. Cooper
- “Individuality’ is the key to success.” ~ Robert Orben
- “About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won’t like you at all.” ~ Rita Mae Brown
- “Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.” ~ Stephen King
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“Be yourself. Above all, let who you are, what you are, what you believe shine through every sentence you write, every piece you finish.” ~ John Jakes
- “Let every man judge according to his own standards, by what he has himself read, not by what others tell him.” ~ Albert Einstein
- “God enters by a private door into every individual.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “To be nobody-but-yourself – in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else – means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.” ~ e. e. cummings
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“I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.” ~ Augusten Burroughs
- “People say that you’re going the wrong way when it’s simply a way of your own.” ~ Angelina Jolie
- “I think everybody’s weird. We should all celebrate our individuality and not be embarrassed or ashamed of it.” ~ Johnny Depp
- “It is beneath human dignity to lose one’s individuality and become a mere cog in the machine.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
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“The power of the individual is as powerful as the universe is infinite.” ~ Tom Hanks
- “The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.” ~ Carl Jung
- “Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself.” ~ Harvey Fierstein
- “Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.” ~ Carl Sagan
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“Don’t let anything poison your individuality. Breakaway & look in, not outward.” ~ Rodney Mullen
- “Individuality is very important for a full human life.” ~ Dalai Lama
- “Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.” ~ Oscar Wilde
- “It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” ~ Aristotle
- “Great spirits have always encountered opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly.” ~ Albert Einstein
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“Be as you wish to seem.” ~ Socrates
- “It is an absolute perfection… to get the very most out of one’s individuality.” ~ Michel de Montaigne
- “No price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
- “Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded.” ~ Charlie Chaplin
- “All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.” ~ Thomas Paine
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“Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.” ~ Pablo Picasso
- “Certain defects are necessary for the existence of individuality.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- “Comrades! We must abolish the cult of the individual decisively, once and for all” ~ Nikita Khrushchev
- “Unless a person decides that `Whatever the cost, I want just to be myself. Condemned, unaccepted, losing respectability – everything is okay but I cannot pretend anymore to be somebody else`… This decision and this declaration – this declaration of freedom, freedom from the weight of the crowd – gives birth to your natural being, to your individuality. Then you don`t need any mask. Then you can be simply yourself, just as you are. And the moment you can be just as you are, there is tremendous peace that passeth understanding.” ~ Rajneesh
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“For myself, I do not now know in any concrete human terms wherein my individuality consists. In my present human form of consciousness, I simply cannot tell.” ~ Josiah Royce
- “In terms of an identity, an identity reflects an individuality, by definition. And, if there is a quality present, it is recognizable and it can be named. If you can’t name it, it means you don’t recognize it.” ~ Robert Fripp
- “If it were felt that the free development of individuality is one of the leading essentials of well-being; that it is not only a coordinate element with all that is designated by the terms civilization, instruction, education, culture, but is itself a necessary part and condition of all those things; there would be no danger that liberty should be undervalued.” ~ John Stuart Mill
- “I go to make art as who I am as a person. The fact that I am a woman comes into play maybe in the kinds of things I’m interested in or in the way I structure a canvas.” ~ Judy Chicago
