Quotes About Individuality

Have the courage to use your own reason- That is the motto of enlightenment. "Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals" (1785)

If you do not speak up when it matters, when would it matter that you speak? The opposite of courage is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow.

If you're able to be yourself, then you have no competition. All you have to do is get closer and closer to that essence.

Wanted, a man who will not lose his individuality in a crowd, a man who has the courage of his convictions, who is not afraid to say "No," though all the world say "Yes.

My definition of courage is never letting anyone define you.

It takes a lot of courage to be the same person on the outside that you are on the inside.

To be what I term a 'quality' human being one has to be transparently real and have the courage to be what he is.

The deepest and rarest kind of courage has nothing to do with feats or obstacles in the outside world; and, indeed, has nothing to do with the outside world - it is the courage to be who you are.

Lipstick is the red badge of courage.

Have the courage to take your own thoughts seriously, for they will shape you.

Gather up your courage like an armful of free clothes at a McQueen sample sale and follow your inner voice wherever it takes you.

Courage is when you dare to be yourself, in whatever ways you want to be - to not be afraid, to just do it.

And only weaklings...who lack courage and the power to feel they're right when the whole world says they're wrong, ever lose.

The fact is ones own voice is not heard anywhere else. Its a challenge to be yourself. It takes a lot of courage.

Have the courage "to swim against the tide". Have the courage to be happy.

I think every woman should have leopard, but not every woman will wear leopard. You have to have courage to wear leopard.

[Introverts,] the world needs you and it needs the things you carry. So I wish you the best of all possible journeys and the courage to speak softly.

Away with the world's opinion of you-it's always unsettled and divided.

Everyone pretends to be 'free thinkers', but few individuals pass the line into expressive territories that may be detrimental to their own social well-being.

The opposite of bravery is not cowardice but conformity.

The bird that would soar above the plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings.

The real acid test of courage is to be just your honest self when everybody is trying to be like somebody else.

Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter.

Have the courage to be selfless in a world were such qualities are not admired. Dare to be differnt. Be crazy!