Being Different Quotes - Page 3

Sometimes being different is not going to be the most popular thing. But you have to be confident in you and what you know is right and stand firm. You may lose friends over it. Families may even split up because of it. But that's the price to pay. That's the cross to bear when you really live your life for Christ.

I'm interested in people who are not exactly the middle way, or who are trying something else because they cannot prevent themselves from being different, or they wish to be different, or they are different because society pushed them away.

I don't see anyone as being different than anyone else, whether you're gay or straight or whatever - everyone's the same. That's how I was raised.

As soon as you can say what you think and not what some other person has thought for you, you are on the way to being a remarkable man.

We must each learn to feel comfortable in our own uniqueness by rising above the fear of being wrong and the aversion to being different.

We are all born originals - why is it so many of us die copies?

It's important to me that people can associate being different with being beautiful.

Forgiveness is giving up the hope of what happened to you from being different.

Being different is good; embrace it.

Do not choose to be wrong for the sake of being different.

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

No one has a monopoly on our unending story of nationhood; no one has the manual for our nationhood.

I always was a rebel...but on the other hand, I wanted to be loved and accepted...and not just be a loudmouth, lunatic, poet, musician. But I cannot be what I am not.

So much time is wasted on trying to be better than others.

Yes, be different, but not for the vanities of being different.

When you're the only sane person, you look like the only insane person.

The Lounge Lizards were relating with a tradition and it was like I was playing within a musical context. The guitar playing stood out as being different in some way. That was a real education for me.

Being different and thinking different makes a person unforgettable. History does not remember the forgettable. It honors the unique minority the majority cannot forget

It really takes growing up to treasure the specialness of being different.

Every individual in an organization is motivated by something different.

The only reason I am a star is because of my repression. Nothing else would have driven me through all that if I was 'normal'.

What's the use in being different when it's being different that's the same.

The point here is what makes human beings different from other creatures is our ability to use language. We can use words to express ourselves in very eloquent and complex ways. We grow up telling and listening to stories. That's what turns us into the people we are.

The panic of the Depression loosened my inhibitions against being different. I could be myself.

A "Normal" person is the sort of person that might be designed by a committee. You know, "Each person puts in a pretty color and it comes out gray."