Quotes About Individuality

A person without self-expression is a person without personal freedom.

All progress comes from unreasonable people, people who follow their hearts and the instructions of their consciences rather than the commands of the crowd. All progress has come from risk-takers and men and women who were willing to visit the places that scared them. Greatness arrives once you refuse to buy into what others see as impossible.

Yogi Raman preached: 'Every second you spend thinking about someone else's dreams, you take time away from your own.

The saddest thing is that this is often all we understand about ourselves: that so often, we live our neighbor's life, instead of our own.

There is a huge value placed in our world on doing what everyone else is doing and thinking as everyone else is thinking.

Run your own race.

Leadership requires great courage. It is tough to leave the gravitational pull of the crowd around us. It is tough to take the road less traveled when everyone urges you to be like everyone else. It is tough to create your life on your own terms when others are telling you how your life should be created. But nothing will fill your heart with a greater sense of regret than lying on your deathbed knowing that you did not live your life and do your dreams.

Success lies in being true to yourself—and living life on your own terms.

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma—which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become." —Steve Jobs

Commit to being a highly unusual human being instead of one of those timid souls who behave like everyone else, living a sloppy life instead of a magnificent one, a derivative life instead of an original one.

It makes me think of what the writer Charles Bukowski said: 'Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.

Charles Bukowski said: 'Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.

Llegar a tu último día sabiendo que has vivido la vida que la sociedad te enseñó a desear y no la vida que verdaderamente querías.

never get into the petty habit of measuring your self-worth against other people's net worth.

Arthur Schopenhauer: «Todo el mundo toma los límites de su propia visión para hallar los límites de mundo. Unos pocos no. Únete a ellos».

Saben lo que dijo Picasso en cierta ocasión? —Cuéntenoslo, por favor —suplicó la emprendedora, cuya mirada demostraba que en ese instante se sentía muy receptiva. —El pintor dijo: «Cuando era un niño mi madre me dijo: si vas a ser soldado, serás general. Si vas a ser monje, terminarás siendo el papa. En lugar de eso me convertí en pintor y terminé siendo Picasso».

La señora Greenaway me enseñó que todo ser humano nace con algún tipo de talento. Me explicó que a cada persona se le puede dar muy bien una cosa y que nacemos con puntos fuertes particulares, capacidades extraordinarias y virtudes muy dignas. Me dijo que si recordaba esto, trabajaba muy duro y era fiel a mí mismo, me pasarían cosas

Se esfumó mi necesidad de complacer, de ser querido y de seguir al rebaño mientras me traicionaba a mí mismo.

Each man had only one genuine vocation—to find the way to himself.… His task was to discover his own destiny—not an arbitrary one—and live it out wholly and resolutely within himself. Everything else was only a would-be existence, an attempt at evasion, a flight back to the ideals of the masses, conformity and fear of one's own inwardness." —from Demian by Hermann Hesse

no pospongáis todo aquello que debáis hacer para expresar vuestra genialidad y vuestro talento naturales. Vivid una vida que sintáis que es auténtica para vosotros y prestad atención a los pequeños milagros que os ofrece cada día.

Having lots of money doesn't make you different. It just makes you more of who you were before you made the cash.

If a brother or sister of our big family that inhabits this tiny planet seeks to condemn me or mock me or downgrade their impression of me on learning of my frailties and faults, then, well, that's just fine with me. Actually, their behavior is on them. It really has zero to do with me. None of my business.

Being different is really cool. And eccentricity is very hip.

Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.