Individuality Quotes

These individuality quotes are quite inspiring; take your time reading them and reflect on who you are.

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

A man who does not think for himself does not think at all. -Oscar Wilde

We would worry less about what others think of us if we realized how seldom they do. -Ethel Barrett (1934-1989)

If all my friends were to jump off a bridge, I wouldn’t follow. I’d be at the bottom to catch them when they fall. -Unknown

Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream. -Malcolm Muggeridge

The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself. -Mark Caine

Let every man judge according to his own standards, by what he has himself read, not by what others tell him. -Albert Einstein

Individuality is only possible if it unfolds from wholeness. -David Bohm

Everything without tells the individual that he is nothing; everything within persuades him that he is everything. -X. Doudan

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. -William James

All greatness of character is dependent on individuality. The man who has no other existence than that which he partakes in common with all around him, will never have any other than an existence of mediocrity. -James F. Cooper

The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I’m against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise. -Robert Frost (1875-1963)

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I know now that most people are so closely concerned with themselves that they are not aware of their own individuality. I can see myself, and it has helped me to say what I want to say in paint. -Georgia O’Keeffe

If a man is not faithful to his own individuality, he cannot be loyal to anything. -Claude McKay

No one should part with their individuality and become that of another. -William Ellery Channing

In matter of principle, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current. -Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)

The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals; but the morals of the Heroic Age are founded on individuality, and on nothing else. -Lascelles Abercrombie

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter, and those who matter don’t mind. —Dr. Seuss

Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity. -Christopher Morley (1890-1957)

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

Why are trying so hard to fit in, when you’re born to stand out. —Oliver James

My mother said to me, “If you become a soldier, you’ll be a general; if you become a monk you’ll end up as the pope.” Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso. -Pablo Picasso

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

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

The nail that sticks up will be hammered down. -Japanese Proverb

If you are different from the rest of the flock, they bite you. —Vincent O’Sullivan

Which of these quotes on individuality jump out at you?  Which ones do you think would help you if you copied them out right now and stuck them up on your wall?  Please share your thoughts in the comments section below.