Being Different Quotes

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

  George S. Patton

  Motivational, Business, Military

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

  Benjamin Franklin

  Success, Freedom, Thinking

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Being different is awesome! All of those who are different are more interesting than those who are clamoring for acceptance because they follow the path.

  Tony Hawk

  Acceptance, Interesting, Path

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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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• 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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• 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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  Those who matter don't mind, and those who mind don't matter.

  Bernard Baruch

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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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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• If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Success, Music, Forgiveness

  Walden ch. 18 (1854). Frequently quoted as "marches to the tune of a different drummer."

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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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• To this day, no one has come up with a set of rules for originality. There aren't any.

  Les Paul

  Inspirational, Individual Differences, Originality

  FaceBook post by Les Paul from Nov 30, 2015

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• Every one of us is different in some way, but for those of us who are more different, we have to put more effort into convincing the less different that we can do the same thing they can, just differently.

  Marlee Matlin

  Individual Differences, People, Effort

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• Saints and ordinary folks are the same from the start. Inquiring about a difference is like asking to borrow string when you've got a good strong rope. Every Dharma is known in the heart.

  Hsu Yun

  Strong, Buddhist, Heart

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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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