Quotes about Individuality
Everybody seems to think I'm lazy I don't mind, I think they're crazy. Running everywhere at such a speed Till they find there's no need.
- John Lennon
Trying to please everybody is impossible - if you did that, you'd end up in the middle with nobody liking you. You've just got to make the decision about what you think is your best, and do it.
- John Lennon
Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.
- John Lennon
People think you want them to do something or say something special...you don't. You just want them to be themselves, so you can be yourself.
- John Lennon
There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance that imitation is suicide that he must take himself for better for worse as his portion.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
When each thing is unique in itself, there can be no comparison made.... There is only this strange recognition of present otherness.
- DH Lawrence
Its hard to be a diamond in a rhinestone world.
- Dolly Parton
...my experience with people who tried to label me was that they usually did it to either dismiss me or use me.
- Audre Lorde
The one reality you can't evade is personal experience.
- David Bentley Hart
I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side, be an advocate for myself and others like me.
- Maya Angelou
Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.
- Martin Luther
Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity.
- Charles Spurgeon