Individuality Uniqueness Quotes

#1. Being human makes us one. Being uniquely ourselves makes us individual. - Nancy S. Mure, Author of Unidentical Twins

Nancy S. Mure

#2. It's better to be individual than a clone of someone else.

Fennel Hudson

#3. I believe that the very effort to convert anybody is violence, it is interfering in his individuality, in his uniqueness, into his freedom.

Rajneesh

#4. There is a certain way of being human that is my way. I am called upon to live my life in this way, and not in imitation of anyone else's life. But this notion gives a new importance to being true to myself. If I am not, I miss the point of my life; I miss what being human is for me.

Charles Taylor

#5. You should never make fun of something that a person can't change about themselves.

Phil Lester

#6. Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can offer with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation, but of the adopted talent of another, you have only an extemporaneous, half possession.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#7. In today's globalized world nothing is sure. Routines are falling; stereotypes are breaking. Life has never been as piquant as it is now. So go out of your way; leave your cocoon. Do that crazy thing and be happy you did it.

Ogwo David Emenike

#8. I'm ALL about the Alternative.

Solange Nicole

#9. I am less and less a creature of influences in myself which operate beyond my ken in the realms of the unconscious. I am increasingly an architect of self. I am free to will and choose. I can, through accepting my individuality, my 'isness,' become more of my uniqueness, more of my potentiality.

Carl R. Rogers

#10. I have been known to think outside of all rules. Even my own.

Ashly Lorenzana

#11. It [the Harlem Renaissance] was a time of black individualism, a time marked by a vast array of characters whose uniqueness challenged the traditional inability of white Americans to differentiate between blacks.

Clement Alexander Price

#12. We are sun and moon, dear friend; we are sea and land. It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is: each the other's opposite and complement.

Hermann Hesse

#13. I'm an oddity of one, my strangeness too complicated to explain or share.

Libba Bray

#14. If the chick is not able to break the shell of his egg, he will die without being born. We are - chick. The world - is our egg. If we do not break the shell of the world, then we will die without being born

Hermann Hesse

#15. I was not born to live up to society's expectations of who I should be but rather I define my own individuality and my uniqueness for I chose to follow the path of being an extraordinary instead of just being ordinary.

Elizabeth E. Castillo

#16. For me, beauty is synonymous with uniqueness ... perfection is mundane, boring, and emotionless. It is by celebrating the differences in others that we can begin to accept our own individuality.

Kevyn Aucoin

#17. And just because God attains and wins and finds this uniqueness, all our lives win in our union with him the individuality which is essential to their true meaning.

Josiah Royce

#18. Was the excellence of Socrates or of Shakespeare normal? Was it not rather abnormal, extraordinary? It is, I think, obvious in the first place, that not all that is good is normal; that, on the contrary, the abnormal is often better than the normal...

G.E. Moore

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

Ashly Lorenzana

#20. Never again!" commanded his will.
"Again! Tomorrow!" begged his heart.

Hermann Hesse

#21. I was not designed to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.

Henry David Thoreau

#22. The authentic human has the might of compassion and the creative power to do any manner of good.

Bryant McGill

#23. No original thought still exists. People are original, each one of them. The same ideas that others had before you are waiting for you to bring them back to life in a new way. The part of who you are that is left behind within these old ideas is what makes them original all over again.

Ashly Lorenzana

#24. As a concept [androgyny] raise[s] anxiety levels by conjuring up a conformist, unisex vision, the very opposite of the individuality and uniqueness that feminism actually has in mind.

Gloria Steinem

#25. [E]ach of our voices has something unique to say. Not only should I not mold my life to the demands of external conformity; I can't even find the model by which to live outside myself. I can only find it within.

Charles Taylor

#26. Take pride in your uniqueness.
You are powerful individual.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#27. We were built differently. Locate your own uniqueness

Sunday Adelaja

#28. The only unique contribution you can offer the world is to be who you actually are and no one else.

Ashly Lorenzana

#29. Express your uniqueness in whatsoever you do.
Express your individuality.
Let existence be proud of you.
Life will not be felt like a drag; it will become a fragrance.

Osho

#30. Each individual is unique in ordinary life. The uniqueness becomes even more sharp and clear, crystal clear, when the person becomes enlightened - because only then his pure genius, his pure individuality, uncontaminated, unpolluted, is revealed.

Rajneesh

#31. I don't fit into any stereotypes. And I like myself that way.

C. JoyBell C.

#32. I just always want to be different - THE EXCEPTION - and this weekend knocked me right back to reality.And the reality is - I AM TRULY BLESSED ..

Jon-Robert Holden

#33. When you are 'bad' in the art world they are very very scared! They want to control you ... and they can't! Individuality and uniqueness are threats to the status quo. It is an artist's job to be an 'outlaw.

Laurence Gartel

#34. It never got weird enough for me.

Hunter S. Thompson

#35. Our finger print represents our unique identity and individuality.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#36. There's nothing good about being ordinary. People don't respect you for it. People run after people who are different, who have confidence in their own taste, who don't run with the herd. There is nothing gained by giving in to the pressures of group vulgarity.

Erica Jong

#37. Out of ignorance or expediency we give all snowflakes the same name.

Marty Rubin

#38. This balance between tribe and individuality, community and uniqueness, was a surprise in a world that makes us think we have to make a choice between them.

Gloria Steinem

#39. Don't lose yourself in the fog of normality.

Fennel Hudson