Top 200 Individuality Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “In a society that tries to standardize thinking, individuality is not highly prized.”

— Alex Grey

152. “It’s weird not to be weird.”

— John Lennon

153. “I don’t want other people to decide who I am. I want to decide that for myself.”

— Emma Watson

154. “You deserve to take up space.”

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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

— Malcolm Muggeridge

156. “The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.”

— Sigmund Freud

157. “Whatever the majority of people is doing, under any given circumstances, if you do the exact opposite, you will probably never make another mistake as long as you live.”

— Earl Nightingale

158. “Your opinion of yourself is your most important viewpoint. You are infinitely greater than you think you are.”

— Neville Goddard

159. “Be that self which one truly is.”

— Soren Kierkegaard

160. “Being an outsider is the one thing we all have in common.”

— Alice Hoffman

161. “In a democracy, the well-being, individuality and happiness of every citizen is important for the overall prosperity, peace and happiness of the nation.”

— Abdul Kalam

162. “I am me and I am okay.”

— Virginia Satir

163. “I was not designed to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.”

— Henry David Thoreau

164. “In a way, you are poetry material; You are full of cloudy subtleties I am willing to spend a lifetime figuring out. Words burst in your essence and you carry their dust in the pores of your ethereal individuality.”

— Franz Kafka

165. “Individuality is only possible if it unfolds from wholeness.”

— David Bohm

166. “The worst curse to befall anyone is stagnation, a banal existence, the quiet desperation that comes out of a need for conformity.”

— Deepak Chopra

167. “Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature!”

— George Bernard Shaw

168. “The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.”

— Harper Lee

169. “Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

170. “Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself.”

— C.G. Jung

171. “Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors.”

— George Santayana

172. “I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room.”

— Ray Bradbury

173. “Remember to always be yourself. Unless you suck.”

— Joss Whedon

174. “Two things are necessary, the development of individuality and the participation of the individual in a truly social life.”

— Maria Montessori

175. “Our culture has made us all the same. No one is truly white or black or rich, anymore. We all want the same. Individually, we are nothing.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

176. “Dance is active meditation. When we dance, we go beyond thought, beyond mind and beyond our individuality to become one in the divine ecstasy of the union with the cosmic spirit. This is the essence of the trance dance experience.”

— Goa Gil

177. “If you don’t have a plan for what you want, then you will probably find yourself buying into someone else’s plan and later find out that was not the direction you wanted to go. You’ve got to be the architect of your life.”

— Jim Rohn

178. “Do not indoctrinate your children. Teach them how to think for themselves, how to evaluate evidence, and how to disagree with you.”

— Richard Dawkins

179. “Had I to carve an inscription on my tombstone I would ask for none other than “The Individual.””

— Soren Kierkegaard

180. “Other people’s opinion of you does not have to become your reality.”

— Les Brown

181. “More and more, when faced with the world of men, the only reaction is one of individualism. Man alone is an end unto himself. Everything one tries to do for the common good ends in failure.”

— Albert Camus

182. “The beliefs that we use to define our own individuality, what makes us unique – good, bad, or indifferent – from other individuals.”

— Tony Robbins

183. “Its hard to be a diamond in a rhinestone world.”

— Dolly Parton

184. “Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.”

— Kurt Cobain

185. “No one can transcend their own individuality.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

186. “I worship individuals for their highest possibilities as individuals and I loathe humanity for its failure to live up to these possibilities.”

— Ayn Rand

187. “In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.”

— Karl Marx

188. “The great mystery of our metaphysical situation, that God is nearer to us than we are ourselves, is manifest in the fact that we cannot even be wholly ourselves – in the sense of individuality as a unique divine thought – until we are reborn in Christ.”

— Dietrich von Hildebrand

189. “No member of a crew is praised for the rugged individuality of his rowing.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

190. “Maximum individuality within maximum community.”

— Immanuel Kant

191. “Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity, and fashion will drive them to acquire any custom.”

— George Bernard Shaw

192. “Imitation is the highest form of flattery, but clones kind of get it wrong because we are promoting individuality and being proud of being yourself.”

— Brian Molko

193. “When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong; they taught me different was wrong.”

— Ani DiFranco

194. “When the individuality of the artist begins to express itself, what the artist gains in the way of liberty he loses in the way of order.”

— Pablo Picasso

195. “Style is an expression of your individuality. Who you are and what your mood is, is what you wear.”

— Sonam Kapoor

196. “I feel that America is essentially against the artist, that the enemy of America is the artist, because he stands for individuality and creativeness, and that’s un-American somehow.”

— Henry Miller

197. “Each day has its own individuality of color.”

— Charles Webster Hawthorne

198. “No task is so humble that it does not offer an outlet for individuality.”

— William Feather

199. “The individualists stare into each other’s eyes and yet deny the existence of each other.”

— Ingmar Bergman

200. “It was the spirit animating the mass and flowing from it, and it expressed the individuality of the building.”

— Louis Sullivan