Quotes About Nonconformity

There's a line in the picture where he (Johnny - The Wild One) snarls, 'Nobody tells me what to do.' That's exactly how I've felt all my life.

You're entirely bonkers. But I'll tell you a secret... All the best people are!

If they give you ruled paper, write the other way.

Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.

To be ones self and unafraid whether right or wrong is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.

Never follow the crowd.

Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.

You can do right or you can do what you are told. And the prize of the victory will belong to the bold.

People are always telling me that i'm not like other girls...that i dont dress like other girls...that i dont act like other girls. But i'm my OWN person...i go to the beat of my own drum.

If you're still doing what mommy and daddy said for you to do (go to school, get a job, and save money), you're losing.

Creativity is the greatest rebellion in existence.

I prefer being wrong in my own way to being right in someone else's.

There are those who dance to the rhythm that is played to them, those who only dance to their own rhythm, and those who don't dance at all.

As you get to thirty, the main thing is to not be sensible.

When I was younger I was trying to do what I wanted to do, not what the game wanted me to do.

If you really want to break from the pack, you have to risk being perceived to be as eccentric as these people. You have to think exceptionally-a LOT!

I do so hate to be forced to be anything than other than what I am.

When you find yourself on the side of majority, question yourself about what you are doing and why. It is likely wrong.

Be the exceptional being who separates themselves from the herd and the fate of the herd.

Don't follow the crowd. The crowd doesn't get there. They just run round and around in a crazy race. It never ends.

Nothing ventured, nothing gained, sometimes you've got to go against the grain.

If you make a choice that goes against what everyone else thinks, the world will not fall apart.

Take a look around, there are misfits everywhere.

If it weren't for people that stand out, this whole world would be really, really boring.