Quotes About Being Different

#1. 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

#2. Do others, I wondered, "see things as I do? I do not think so, for if they did they would not still be alive." And, life-threatening though my vision seemed, I would not repudiate it: "Sometimes I think I shall die from being different even as I cling to the difference fiercely."

Nancy Mairs

#3. Recognizing Quebec as being different, recognizing our history, recognizing our identity, has never meant a weakening of Quebec and has never been a threat to national unity.

Jean Charest

#4. For being different, it's easy. But to be unique, it's a complicated thing.

Lady Gaga

#5. I am showing solidarity while being different. Or if you prefer, I am being different while being in solidarity.

Nicolas Sarkozy

#6. It's always been a struggle to differentiate myself, but I like my parents. I enjoy doing events with them, and I don't feel I should purposely avoid something just for the sake of being different.

Jesse Kellerman

#7. It didn't matter that I wore clothes from Sears; I was still different. I looked different. My name was different. I wanted to pull away from the things that marked my parents as being different.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#8. I'm used to always being different, in any context. People always want to know how I grew up, so I just say I grew up Muslim. That's the truth. Two Muslim girls can write me two extremely different letters - and they do. Some are very supportive, and some question what I do.

Noureen DeWulf

#9. You can only make a difference by being different.

Rick Warren

#10. Microresolutions focus on doing, not being. Being different follows, rather than precedes, deliberate action.

Caroline L. Arnold

#11. I don't think we ever get away from the fear of labels and being different. It's human nature to want to be part of a community. That's why excommunication and solitary confinement are such brutal forms of punishment.

Matte Bach

#12. Those we mock for being different in the beginning are those we idolize in the end for being unique.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#13. Dignity is a bridge.

It needs two sides that, being different, distinct and distant become one in the bridge

without ceasing to be different and distinct, but ceasing already to be distant.

Zapatistas

#14. If you don't make yourself irreplaceable, somebody will replace you. Being different is being remembered. Being the same is being forgotten.

Holly Smale

#15. What if we could stop being different colors, different backgrounds, and just be in love?

E. Lockhart

#16. She is a good person and she's just different among others. But being different doesn't mean you are bad or doesn't belong to the society.

Cherry Seniel

#17. What I don't understand about your type is that you want to emulate the other side. You kick up such a commotion about being different, and all you want is to be the same.

Damon Galgut

#18. The relentless pursuit of being different is very French.

Alain Ducasse

#19. Being different was about something more than just our dicks.

Paul Monette

#20. I stopped focusing on people being different, and I started treating everyone the same way.

Ivan Glasenberg

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

Elijah Wood

#22. I talk to women's groups all over the country and see women struggling with this. The fear of not being accepted, of being different, of not having a man, all make it hard for a woman to do what she really believes is right for her.

Olympia Dukakis

#23. There's merit in being different, inspiration in being individual, courage in being unique, and freedom in being yourself.

Fennel Hudson

#24. Desire for normality; a longing to adapt to some recognized and general rule; a wish to be like everyone else, from the moment that being different meant being guilty.

Alberto Moravia

#25. I want to encourage kids to speak up, to tell their stories. That is the only way people will know what we have to go through. Believe in yourself. Someone once told me being different isn't bad - different is just different!

Lauren Potter

#26. And memory insists on pining
For places it never went,
As if life would be happier
Just by being different.

Dana Gioia

#27. Never jeopardize who you are for a role. Now, I'm not saying you should never change for a role, because the fun of being different characters is adapting different nuances and different parts of the character, but never jeopardize your moral compass or anything like that to have a role.

Yara Shahidi

#28. 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

#29. When the pain of being the same becomes greater than the pain of being different, you change.

Deepak Chopra

#30. They had a place where they belonged, and, even if it was because he didn't want to deal with their being different, he didn't treat them any differently. Which I think is a pretty successful implementation of Christianity.

Tina Fey

#31. I like books that have razor-sharp plotting that snaps and moves along. It's not about the main character being different at the end. I don't want my main character to be different in the end. I still want him committed to his ideas, to be steadfast, true and loyal.

Brad Thor

#32. Different is better. I get more jobs being different.

Cintia Dicker

#33. You do not understand
no accomplishment overcomes the stigma of being different. [ ... ] I try not to think about it and cannot eat my supper or nothing. I didn't understand it at first. But now I do. You are not different in the way difference is acceptable but in another, bigger way.

David Adams Richards

#34. Clary, you're an artist, like your mother. That means you see the world in ways that other people don't. It's your gift, to see the beauty and the horror in ordinary things. It doesn't make you crazy - just different. There's nothing wrong with being different.

Cassandra Clare

#35. (He) committed the cardinal sin in a college atmosphere not only of being different but of being different in a way that left a lot of people with the impression that he thought he was better than they were.

John Feinstein

#36. I was feeling like a real misfit in middle school, but when I saw 'Wicked,' it made me feel really cool for being different ... and you can carve that in stone!

Jennifer Damiano

#37. You're hated by some, loved by others, but that's what's great about being different. If everybody loved you, that means you're not doing the right thing most of the time.

Bernard Hopkins

#38. One is called a criminal for being different, and malicious for observing other people with too much clarity and penetration. But what if one began with oneself?

Andre Suares

#39. But if everyone was made to look perfect, then no one would be special because being special meant being different, by offering something that wasn't on offer elsewhere.

Matt Haig

#40. My obsession with outer space is my way of being different. I make astronaut music. It takes an astronaut so long to get to space - that's how long it takes to catch up on my music.

Nayvadius Cash

#41. Dreamers dream about things being different. Visionaries envision themselves making a difference. Dreamers think about how nice it would be for something to be done. Visionaries look for an opportunity to do something.

Andy Stanley

#42. He loved the strange privacy of being different.

Niall Williams

#43. People think about the world of TV and the world of online video as being different ways to distribute video. But what happens when every TV is connected to wi-fi with a browser?

Chad Hurley

#44. I would prove to you that being different isn't a death sentence but a call to arms.

Jodi Picoult

#45. It's b******* to think of friendship and romance being different. They're not. They're just variations of the same love. Variatons of the same desire to be close.

David Levithan

#46. Being different and thinking different makes a person unforgettable. History does not remember the forgettable. It honors the unique minority the majority cannot forget

Suzy Kassem

#47. I think every person has their own identity and beauty. Everyone being different is what is really beautiful. If we were all the same, it would be boring.

Tila Tequila

#48. She had shown him by her independence how it was only fear that held people together. The fear of being alone and the fear of being different.

Mervyn Peake

#49. Strategy is about setting yourself apart from the competition. It's not a matter of being better at what you do - it's a matter of being different at what you do.

Michael Porter

#50. I always stood out as being different...and unwilling to accept the phrase 'I am a girl' as an ending to any type of sentence that started with 'I can't because'.

Scott Hildreth

#51. I find 'Edward Scissorhands' a very inspiring movie - it's one of the first movies about bullying, in a way - about being treated unkindly for being different.

Denise Di Novi

#52. I finally know the difference between pleasing and loving, obeying and respecting. It has taken me so many years to be okay with being different, and with being this alive, this intense. (xxvi)

Eve Ensler

#53. There's no need to glamorize one body type and slam another. We need to stop this absurd hatred towards bodies for being different sizes. It doesn't help anyone and it's getting old.

Jennie Runk

#54. I used to hate being different. I used to cry. I wanted to be blonde-haired and blue-eyed like all of my girlfriends. My mom and dad would feel so badly - 'No, it's OK. You'll be happy you're different later.

Kiana Tom

#55. I enjoy being a character actor; I enjoy being different in everything. I want a private life; I want to be able to go to 7-11 and not get into a fight with a guy because he saw me in a movie, or not have people hitting on me simply because they saw me in a movie.

Alexis Arquette

#56. When people ask where I studied to be an ambassador, I say my neighborhood and my school. I've tried to tell my kids that you don't wait until you're in high school or college to start dealing with problems of people being different. The younger you start, the better.

Andrew Young

#57. Let's stop "tolerating" or "accepting" difference, as if we're so much better for not being different. Instead, let's celebrate difference, because in this world it takes a lot of guts to be different and to act differently.

Kate Bornstein

#58. Everything combines for the works of Merzbow. I don't see them as being different and separate ... Music and art is not separate. I mix rock sounds and art together .

Richard Pinhas

#59. An applause is not just the recognition of good performance, but its proof of being different than the crowd.

Amit Kalantri

#60. People like you and me are quite lonely really but we still have each other, we have the secret satisfaction of being different, of rebelling, of desiring the unusual.

Hermann Hesse

#61. 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

#62. It's important to me that people can associate being different with being beautiful.

Andrej Pejic

#63. I want to be important. By being different. And these girls are all the same.

Sylvia Plath

#64. What's the use in being different when it's being different that's the same.

John Hartford

#65. Don't focus on being different, focus on being yourself - and your difference will naturally shine through!

Kevin Eikenberry

#66. We must each learn to feel comfortable in our own uniqueness by rising above the fear of being wrong and the aversion to being different.

Iyanla Vanzant

#67. that there is some place better than our earthly home - a space where we are accepted no matter what, a banquet table where we are called by name and not ridiculed for being different.

Alice J. Wisler

#68. Everybody in the world wants to be understood and to have others appreciate them.
Being different is scary. Solitude is pain and loneliness.

Mizuki Nomura

#69. I've always been slightly hesitant about generalizing movies made by men and women being different in their nature; I think movies by each director are different. Having said that, I think that it's kind of disgraceful that there aren't more female directors.

Susanne Bier

#70. And being different? That turned out to the best part of all. I found that with a little creativity, and a lot of dedication, any difference can be turned into something amazing. Our differences are our superpowers.

Cece Bell

#71. When someone becomes successful or rich and famous, people perceive that person as being different. But I'm the same guy I've always been.

Barry Zito

#72. I'm interested in people who are not exactly the middle way, or who are trying something else because they cannot prevent themselves from being different, or they wish to be different, or they are different because society pushed them away.

Agnes Varda

#73. Being different is ... interesting; there's nothing implicitly inferior or superior about it. Great difference, of course, produces natural caution; and if the differences are too extreme ... well, then, reality tends to fade away.

Edward Albee

#74. All I knew now was that nothing lasted forever, not even a friendship, and that being "different" felt the same as being alone.

Lauren Myracle

#75. child was left out in the cold, bearing the stigma of being different. It is this one child that our Constitution is concerned about - his tranquillity, his health, his safety, his conscience. What a kindly old document it is, and how brightly it shines, through interpretation after interpretation!

E.B. White

#76. For the possibilities of being different from what one is are infinite. Once one has negated oneself, however, there are no longer any particular choices.

Hannah Arendt

#77. Your lack of commitment to being different is what kills you. It is the insanity of doing the same thing every time and expecting a different result that wastes your time.

Shannon L. Alder

#78. Seeking is a combination of emotions people usually think of as being different: wanting something really good, looking forward to getting something really good and curiosity. Seeking gives you the energy to go after your goals.

Temple Grandin

#79. Originality is being different from oneself, not others.

Philip Larkin

#80. Being different is not bad. It means you are brave enough to be yourself.....

Unknown

#81. The price we pay for being different may be severe.

Unknown

#82. Forgiveness is giving up the hope of what happened to you from being different.

Tyler Perry

#83. Because I've overcome the vanity and pride of being different. I've understood that they are a pitiful defense against being different. Because I've understood that the sun shines differently when something changes, but I'm not the axis of those changes.

Andrzej Sapkowski

#84. And the truth is that by homeschooling, you're doing something that a large part of society isn't doing. Being different is a ministry.

Jamerrill Stewart

#85. Being different is what makes us special and the world so exciting

Demi Lovato

#86. Being different is the only way to live

Cath Crowley

#87. It's really hard to hate someone for being different when you're too busy laughing together.

George Takei

#88. I always wanted to be famous because I thought that if I couldn't be good [at something], I'd be famous. I was never really good. I was just something different and I got to be famous for being different.

Cher

#89. There would be no need for love if perfection were possible. Love arises from our imperfection, from our being different and always in need of the forgiveness, encouragement and that missing half of ourselves that we are searching for, as the Greek myth tells us, in order to complete ourselves.

Eugene Kennedy

#90. Stay mad, but behave like normal people. Run the risk of being different, but learn to do so without attracting attention.

Paulo Coelho

#91. I wanted to talk to very young kids about self-image and about being different and how that can be your strength, especially from the immigrant perspective.

Gloria Estefan

#92. I think being an Asian woman has been more of an advantage than a disadvantage. It helps me stand out from the rest of the entertainers out there. Again, being from such an ethnically diverse place like New York, you get comfortable and confident with being different!

Nadia Ali

#93. Being different doesn't make you broken. Look at me, I'm the smallest elf in all of the AAD. My father was a toy soldier, yet I have no discernible skills whatsoever. I might feel a little lost at times, but I'm not broken

Charlie Cochet

#94. I don't see anyone as being different than anyone else, whether you're gay or straight or whatever - everyone's the same. That's how I was raised.

Lea Michele

#95. And yet I know that expressing oneself necessarily means being different. The writer's voice is a singular one, solitary. Art is nothing other than the freedom to express oneself in any language, in whatever manner, dressed any which way.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#96. When we prohibit others from being different, we end up forfeiting our own right to Liberty ...

John Webster

#97. When we relax about imperfection, we no longer lose our life moments in the pursuit of being different and in the fear of what is wrong.

Tara Brach

#98. Being different is a talent. You illuminate what makes you special in the sea of sameness around you.

Lady Gaga

#99. It's bullshit to think of friendship and romance as being different. They're not. They're just variations of the same love. Variations of the same desire to be close.

Rachel Cohn

#100. Pip wondered what the secret was of being different in a way that attracted people, as opposed to her own way.

Jonathan Franzen