Good quote on individuality?

Question

i need a good quote on individuality. something that tells people to just let you be and to accept the way you are. preferably something that you can tell your bf/gf.

Answer 1

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

Answer 2

"If your joy is derived from what society thinks of you, you're always going to be disappointed."

Madonna, in this month's Vanity Fair

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation."

Herman Melville

"I know there is strength in the difference between us. I know there is comfort where we overlap."

Ani DiFranco

"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

"Always be a first rate version of yourself rather than a second-rate version of someone else."

Judy Garland

"It takes courage to grow up and be who you really are." ee cummings

"If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise."  Johann von Goethe

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Answer 3

Be yourself. Everybody else is taken.

Answer 4

“It is those who concentrates on but one thing at a time who advance in this world. The great man or woman is the one who never steps outside his or her specialty or foolishly dissipates his or her individuality.”

“There are many who are living far below their possibilities because they are continually handing over their individualities to others. Do you want to be a power I the world? Then be yourself.”

-Ralph Waldo Trine

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

-Carl Gustav Jung

“What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality?”

-Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.”

-Karl Marx

“Individuality is the aim of political liberty. By leaving to the citizen as much freedom of action and of being, as comports with order and the rights of others, the institutions render him truly a freeman. He is left to pursue his means of happiness in his own manner.”

-James F. Cooper

“The higher mental development of woman, the less possible it is for her to meet a congenial male who will see in her, not only s*x, but also the human being, the friend, the comrade and strong individuality, who cannot and ought not lose a single trait of her character.”

- Emma Goldman

“No one can transcend their own individuality.”

-Arthur Schopenhauer

“When the Irishman is found outside of Ireland in another environment, he very often becomes a respected man. The economic and intellectual conditions that prevail in his own country do not permit the development of individuality. No one who has any self-respect stays in Ireland, but flees afar as though from a country that has undergone the visitation of an angered Jove.”

-James Joyce

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HOPE THIS HELPS ♥!!!

Answer 5

Can't think of any one quote but when I read your question this poem popped to mind:

Identity

by Julio Noboa Polanco

Let them be as flowers,

always watered, fed, guarded, admired,

but harnessed to a pot of dirt.

I'd rather be a tall, ugly weed,

clinging on cliffs, like an eagle

wind-wavering above high, jagged rocks.

To have broken through the surface of stone,

to live, to feel exposed to the madness

of the vast, eternal sky.

To be swayed by the breezes of an ancient sea,

carrying my soul, my seed,

beyond the mountains of time or into the abyss of the bizarre.

I'd rather be unseen, and if

then shunned by everyone,

than to be a pleasant-smelling flower,

growing in clusters in the fertile valley,

where they're praised, handled, and plucked

by greedy, human hands.

I'd rather smell of musty, green stench

than of sweet, fragrant lilac.

If I could stand alone, strong and free,

I'd rather be a tall, ugly weed.

Any quote from it speaks of individuality, standing on your own and for what you believe in... hope it helps!

Answer 6

Be a first rate version of yourself,not a second rate version of someone else.

Answer 7

lord grant me that strength to change what I can and accept what I can't - the knowledge to know the difference.

Answer 8

"I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine."

(Ayn Rand)

"It only stands to reason that where there's sacrifice, there's someone collecting the sacrificial offerings. Where there's service, there is someone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice is speaking of slaves and masters, and intends to be the master."

(Ayn Rand)

Answer 9

looks can be deiceiving

Answer 10

If we were all the same, life would be boring.

You may only be one person to the world, but to one person you may be the world.

Answer 11

i donot want to mix up with the crowd

Answer 12

It isn't a quote, it's a paraphrase, because I can't recall the original source:

Don't try to be like someone else.  That job is taken, and someone else is doing it as well as it can be done.  Instead, be yourself. Be the you that only you are qualified, sufficiently talented or inspired enough to be.  No one else can be you as well as you can, so be your own best self.