20 Quotes to Remind You Not to Conform

  1. [Tweet ““I think the reward for conformity is that everyone likes you except yourself.” ― Rita Mae Brown”]
  2. “It’s weird not to be weird.” ― John Lennon
  3. “Rebel children, I urge you, fight the turgid slick of conformity with which they seek to smother your glory.” ― Russell Brand
  4. [Tweet ““If you are always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be.” ― Maya Angelou”]
  5. “The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it’s conformity.” ― Rollo May
  6. “Be neither a conformist or a rebel, for they are really the same thing. Find your own path, and stay on it” ― Paul Vixie
  7. “There are no norms. All people are exceptions to a rule that doesn’t exist.” ― Fernando Pessoa
  8. [Tweet ““The human spirit lives on creativity and dies in conformity and routine.” ― Vilayat Inayat Khan”]
  9. “A man’s shortcomings are taken from his epoch; his virtues and greatness belong to himself.” ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  10. “Stubbornness does have its helpful features. You always know what you are going to be thinking tomorrow.”  – Glen Beaman
  11. “You don’t get harmony when everybody sings the same note.” – Doug Floyd
  12. “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
  13. [Tweet ““Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.” Ralph Waldo Emerson”]
  14. “Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary.” – Albert Einstein
  15. [Tweet ““You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.” – Winston Churchill”]
  16. “Not all those who wander are lost.”  – J.R.R. Tolkien
  17. “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
  18. [Tweet ““It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.” – Herman Melville”]
  19. “Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.” – Alexander Hamilton
  20. “I am not in this world to live up to other people’s expectations, nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine.” – Fritz Perls

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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