49 Quotes About Being Different

The ability to be different requires the ability to set and live by your own course. These quotes about being different highlight some of the benefits and unique characteristics that account for these special individuals.

“Always be a first rate version of yourself, instead of a second rate version of somebody else.”

“An arrow can only be shot by pulling it backward. So when life is dragging you back with difficulties, it means that it’s going to launch you into something great.”

“At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time.”

“Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.”

“Be different so that people can see you clearly amongst the crowds.”

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.”

“Do something remarkable or accept being the mere statistic that you have always been awarded.”

“Don’t carry your mistakes around with you. Instead, place them under your feet and use them as stepping stones to rise above them.”

“Fitting in allows you to blend in with everyone else, but being different allows you to be yourself, to be unique and to be more creative.”

“Grief is the last act of love we have to give to those we loved. Where there is deep grief, there was great love.”

“I believe that every person has uniqueness — something that nobody else has.”

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

“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.”

“If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.”

“If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn t thinking.”

“If I’m going to sing like someone else, then I don’t need to sing at all.”

“If you want to stand out, don’t be different; be outstanding.”

“In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.”

“Individualism is rather like innocence: There must be something unconscious about it.”

“It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.”

“It’s going to get harder before it gets easier. But it will get better. You just have to make it through.”

“It’s really important to share the idea that being different might feel like a problem at the time, but ultimately diversity is a strength.”

“I’ve learned more from pain than I could’ve ever learned from pleasure.”

“Keep calm and be crazy, laugh, love, and live it up because this is the oldest you’ve been and the youngest you’ll ever be again.”

“Life has many ways of testing a person’s will, either by having nothing happen at all or by having everything happen all at once.”

“Life’s no piece of cake, mind you, but the recipe’s my own to fool with.”

“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

“My great mistake, the fault for which I can’t forgive myself is that one day I ceased my obstinate pursuit of my own individuality.

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.

“Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.”

“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.”

“People have a problem with me being different, but that propels me forward in life.

“Remind yourself that you don’t have to do what everyone else is doing.”

“Ride the energy of your own unique spirit.

“Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.

“Sometimes it takes an overwhelming breakdown to have an undeniable breakthrough.”

“Sometimes life doesn’t give you something you want, not because you don’t deserve it, but because you deserve more.”

“Sometimes when things are falling apart they may actually be falling into place.”

“The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is.

“The longer you go by yourself the weirder you get, and the weirder you get the longer you go by yourself.”

“The moment you feel like you have to prove your worth to someone is the moment to absolutely and utterly walk away.”

“The person who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The person who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever seen before.”

“There is no such thing as a weird human being, It’s just that some people require more understanding than others.”

“To that one soul reading this, I know you’re tired. You’re fed up. You’re so close to breaking. But there’s strength within you, even when you are weak. Keep fighting.”

“We must understand that sadness is an ocean, and sometimes we drown, while other days we are forced to swim.”

“Whatever you do, never run back to what broke you.”

“When we allow ourselves to exist truly and fully, we sting the world with our vision and challenge it with our own ways of being.”

“When you’re the only sane person, you look like the only insane person.”

“Whoever is trying to bring you down, is already below you.”

Using the power of being different allows you to establish your own course of action and achieve great new heights of success.