Being Different Quotes

• If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.

  George S. Patton

  Motivational, Business, Military

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• Creativity is more than just being different. Anybody can plan weird; that's easy. What's hard is to be as simple as Bach. Making the simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.

  Charles Mingus

  Inspirational, Music, Art

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• People May Hate You For Being Different and Not Living By Society's Standards,but Deep Down,They Wish They Had The Courage To Do The Same.

  Kevin Hart

  Hate, People, Wish

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• The one who walks alone, is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been.

  Albert Einstein

  Following The Crowd, Crowds, Walks

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• Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.

  Margaret Mead

  Inspirational, Funny, Inspiring

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• When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free.

  Charles Evans Hughes

  Freedom, Carpe Diem, Diversity

  Address at Faneuil Hall, Boston, Massachusetts, on the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Bunker Hill, June 17, 1925.

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• the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.

  Cecil Beaton

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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

  Herman Melville

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Herman Melville, Harrison Hayford, G. Thomas Tanselle (1987). “Piazza Tales and Other Prose Pieces, 1839-1860: Volume Nine, Scholarly Edition”, p.247, Northwestern University Press

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• In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.

  Coco Chanel

  Inspirational, Confidence, Fashion

  "Coco Chanel : Her Life, Her Secrets". Book by Marcel Haedrich, 1971.

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• Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes... the ones who see things differently - they're not fond of rules... You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things... they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• I am not made like any of those I have seen. I venture to believe that I am not made like any of those who are in existence. If I am not better, at least I am different.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Believe, Venture, Made

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1996). “The Confessions”, p.3, Wordsworth Editions

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• New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.

  John Locke

  Business, Philosophy, War

  An Essay Concerning Human Understanding "Dedicatory Epistle" (1690)

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• Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.

  Voltaire

  Journey, Hiking, Thought Provoking

  Francois Voltaire (1977). “The Portable Voltaire”, p.109, Penguin

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• You cannot be all things to all people. Be unique. Be different. Give to others what you want yourself. And do what you were made to do.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Being Yourself, Unique, People

  Twitter post from Feb 22, 2017

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• If everyone is thinking alike, then no one is thinking.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Success, Freedom, Thinking

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• My great mistake, the fault for which I can’t forgive myself, is that one day I ceased my obstinate pursuit of my own individuality.

  Oscar Wilde

  Respect, Mistake, Individuality

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• I think being different, going against the grain of society is the greatest thing in the world.

  Elijah Wood

  Thinking, Aquarius, World

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• If only I'd known my differentness would be an asset, then my earlier life would have been much easier.

  Bette Midler

  Singers, Actresses, Would Be

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• Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Sad, Business, Lying

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2012). “A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings”, p.37, Beacon Press

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• 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 continually be part of unanimity.

  Christopher Morley

  Wisdom, Silly, Reading

  Christopher Morley (2013). “The Haunted Bookshop”, p.294, Melville House

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• The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Education, Children, Growing Up

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.63, Penguin

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• The world is not ready for some people when they show up, but that shouldn't stop anyone.

  Ashly Lorenzana

  Inspirational, Freedom, Differences

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• Sometimes people say I should see a therapist, but I don't want any therapist wrecking my weirdness.

  Peter Wolf

  Inspirational, Being Yourself, People

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• 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 goldfish.

  Edith Sitwell

  Women, Eels, People

  Attributed to Edith Sitwell in Life Magazine, January 4, 1963.

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