Top 200 Individuality Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Never be limited by other people’s limited imaginations.”

— Mae Jemison

52. “I do my thing and you do your thing. I am not in this world to live up to your expectations, And you are not in this world to live up to mine. You are you, and I am I, and if by chance we find each other, it’s beautiful. If not, it can’t be helped.”

— Frederick Salomon Perls

53. “A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

54. “I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.”

— Henry David Thoreau

55. “Religion is like a pair of shoes. Find one that fits for you, but don't make me wear your shoes.”

— George Carlin

56. “Poor is the man whose pleasure depends on the permission of another.”

— Madonna

57. “I never tried to prove anything to someone else. I wanted to prove something to myself.”

— Kobe Bryant

58. “If I’d observed all the rules I’d never have got anywhere.”

— Marilyn Monroe

59. “You don’t need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!”

— John Lennon

60. “You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. It’s their mistake, not my failing.”

— Richard P. Feynman

61. “I am beneath or above no one. When I am independent of the good or bad opinion of others, I stand strong in my own divine power.”

— Deepak Chopra

62. “You can be anything you want to be, just turn yourself into anything you think that you could ever be.”

— Freddie Mercury

63. “The world will ask you who you are, and if you don’t know, the world will tell you.”

— C.G. Jung

64. “Thought is the sculptor who can create the person you want to be.”

— Henry David Thoreau

65. “Don’t impersonate. Innovate.”

— Conor McGregor

66. “Don’t let insecurity ruin the beauty you were born with.”

— Anonymous

67. “I would prefer not to.”

— Herman Melville

68. “If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking.”

— George S. Patton Jr.

69. “One must give value to one’s existence by behaving as if one’s very existence were a work of art.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

70. “No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.”

— Virginia Woolf

71. “Do you. Just focus on being the best version of yourself that you can be every day, and don’t compare yourself to anyone else or worry about what they’re doing.”

— Angie Martinez

72. “And you? When will you begin that long journey into yourself?”

— Rumi

73. “I’m the one that’s got to die when it’s time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to.”

— Jimi Hendrix

74. “I live for myself and answer to nobody.”

— Steve McQueen

75. “Compete with yourself, not with others.”

— Sophia Amoruso

76. “Be brave, be bold, be free.”

— Angelina Jolie

77. “Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway. You’ll be “damned if you do, and damned if you don’t.””

— Eleanor Roosevelt

78. “What is the seal of liberation? Not to be ashamed in front of oneself.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

79. “Put your foot upon the neck of the fear of criticism by reaching a decision not to worry about what other people think, do, or say.”

— Napoleon Hill

80. “We are constantly invited to be who we are.”

— Henry David Thoreau

81. “Refuse to be average. Let your heart soar as high as it will.”

— A.W. Tozer

82. “Ignore all hatred and criticism. Live for what you create, and die protecting it.”

— Lady Gaga

83. “Don’t become a wandering generality. Be a meaningful specific.”

— Zig Ziglar

84. “Envy is ignorance, Imitation is Suicide.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

85. “Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.”

— Margaret Mead

86. “I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.”

— Sylvia Plath

87. “A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

88. “People are going to judge you anyway, so you might as well do what you want.”

— Taylor Swift

89. “Be not the slave of your own past – plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far, so you shall come back with new self-respect, with new power, and with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

90. “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.”

— Henry David Thoreau

91. “If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking.”

— George S. Patton Jr.

92. “Me, myself and I. That’s all I got in the end.”

— Beyoncé Knowles

93. “I refuse to apologize for my ability – I refuse to apologize for my success – I refuse to apologize for my money. If this is evil, make the most of it.”

— Ayn Rand

94. “You must not let your life run in the ordinary way; do something that nobody else has done, something that will dazzle the world. Show that God’s creative principle works in you.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

95. “Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

96. “Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be?”

— Danielle LaPorte

97. “We must overcome the notion that we must be regular. It robs you of the chance to be extraordinary and leads you to the mediocre.”

— Uta Hagen

98. “The reward for conformity is that everyone likes you but yourself.”

— Rita Mae Brown

99. “I don't paint dreams or nightmares, I paint my own reality.”

— Frida Kahlo

100. “Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!”

— Dr. Seuss