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Individuality Quotes

"I don’t have to be what you want me to be."

― Muhammad Ali

"One of the most important things you can accomplish is just being yourself."

― Dwayne Johnson

"The one thing I couldn’t identify with was the blue cowboy outfit he put on. I was a bit challenged when I was younger to stay on the right path."

― Dwayne Johnson

"Always be you, play chess, not checkers and always play the long game."

― Dwayne Johnson

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

― Paulo Coelho

"We can never judge the lives of others because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It’s one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it’s another to think that yours is the only path."

― Paulo Coelho

"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect."

"Don't settle for a relationship that won't let you be yourself."

― Oprah Winfrey

"The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique."

― Walt Disney

"I try more and more to be myself, caring relatively little whether people approve or disapprove."

― Vincent Van Gogh

"Every morning when I wake up, I experience an exquisite joy —the joy of being Salvador Dalí— and I ask myself in rapture: What wonderful things is this Salvador Dalí going to accomplish today?"

― Salvador Dali

"The sole difference between myself and a madman is the fact that I am not mad!"

― Salvador Dali

"I am not strange. I am just not normal."

― Salvador Dali

"Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing."

― Salvador Dali

"People say I make strange choices, but they’re not strange for me. My sickness is that I’m fascinated by human behavior, by what’s underneath the surface, by the worlds inside people."

― Johnny Depp

"If there’s any message to my work, it is ultimately that it’s OK to be different, that it’s good to be different, that we should question ourselves before we pass judgement on someone who looks different, behaves different, talks different, is a different "

― Johnny Depp

"I am doing things that are true to me. The only thing I have a problem with is being labelled."

― Johnny Depp

"We all know that distinctiveness – originality – is valuable. We are all taught to “be yourself. What I’m really asking you to do is to embrace and be realistic about how much energy it takes to maintain that distinctiveness. The world wants you to be typi"

"You have to pay a price for your distinctiveness, and it’s worth it. The fairy tale version of ‘be yourself’ is that all the pain stops as soon as you allow your distinctiveness to shine. That version is misleading. Being yourself is worth it, but don’t ex"