Being Different Quotes - Be You - Be Yourself Quotes

If you have anything really valuable to contribute to the world it will come through the expression of your own personality, that single spark of divinity that sets you off and makes you different from every other living creature.
Bruce Barton 

There is just one life for each of us: our own.
Euripides

When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free.
Charles Evans Hughes

From the fact that people are very different it follows that, if we treat them equally, the result must be inequality in their actual position, and that the only way to place them in an equal position would be to treat them differently. Equality before the law and material equality are therefore not only different but are in conflict which each other; and we can achieve either one or the other, but not both at the same time.
F.A. Hayek

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
E.E. Cummings

Always show the you in you that makes you the you that you are.
Chidinma Obietikponah

When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free.
Charles Evans Hughes

Commandment Number One of any truly civilized society is this: Let people be different.
David Grayson

Why am I upset when I think that I'm different from everybody else, but angry when I realize that I'm the same?
Heather Heine

I didn't belong as a kid, and that always bothered me. If only I'd known that one day my differentness would be an asset, then my early life would have been much easier.
Bette Midler

If you do things well, do them better. Be daring, be first, be different, be just.
Anita Roddick

Every individual in an organization is motivated by something different.
Rick Pitino

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
Judy Garland

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

There lurks, perhaps, in every human heart a desire of distinction, which inclines every man first to hope, and then to believe, that Nature has given him something peculiar to himself.
Samuel Johnson

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.
Harvey Fierstein

If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.
Johann von Goethe

Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be, because sooner or later, if you are posing, you will forget the pose, and then where are you?
Fanny Brice

The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Originality is... a by-product of sincerity.
Marianne Moore

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not. Andre Gide

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
Kurt Vonnegut


Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.
M. Scott Peck

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.
Cecil Beaton

We boil at different degrees.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you want to stand out, don't be different; be outstanding.
Meredith West

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

All eyes see a different world. All minds live in a different world. Why do we feel the need to force someone to see and live our way? When we do this, we lose sight of our world.
Bobby Lambert