58 Individuality Quotes For Inspiration

In a world that's constantly evolving and interconnected, the quest for individual expression remains as vital as ever. Every person is a unique blend of experiences, thoughts, and dreams, and embracing this individuality can be a powerful source of inspiration. To celebrate the beauty of being unapologetically yourself, we've curated a collection of the top 58 individuality quotes. These insightful and motivational words from diverse voices will encourage you to stand out, embrace your uniqueness, and live authentically. Dive into this compilation and let these quotes remind you of the extraordinary power of individuality.

1. “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.” - Bernard M. Baruch

2. “I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.” - Mahatma Gandhi

3. “Where's your will to be weird?” - Jim Morrison

4. “I've come to believe that each of us has a personal calling that's as unique as a fingerprint - and that the best way to succeed is to discover what you love and then find a way to offer it to others in the form of service, working hard, and also allowing the energy of the universe to lead you. ” - Oprah Winfrey

5. “The individual, man as a man, man as a brain, if you like, interests me more than what he makes, because I've noticed that most artists only repeat themselves. ” - Marcel Duchamp

6. “The unique must be fulfilled.” - Martha Graham

7. “It's so hard to express yourself.' I understand this.'I want to express myself.'The same is true for me.' I'm looking for my voice.' It's in your mouth.' I want to do something I'm not ashamed of.'Something you are proud of, yes?' Not even. I just don't want to be ashamed.” - Jonathan Safran Foer

8. “I think... if it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts.” - Leo Tolstoy

9. “Think outside the box, collapse the box, and take a fucking sharp knife to it.” - Banksy

10. “To be an outlaw you must first have a base in law to reject and get out of, I never had such a base. I never had a place I could call home that meant any more than a key to a house, apartment or hotel room. … Am I alien? Alien from what exactly? Perhaps my home is my dream city, more real than my waking life precisely because it has no relation to waking life…” - William S. Burroughs

11. “I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit.” - Theodore Roosevelt

12. “Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.” - Carl Sagan

13. “I recognized him then; that is, I finally comprehended what I had known but had never been able to formulate: he had always been complete. He had finished the work of becoming himself, long before any of us could even imagine such a feat was possible. ” - Aleksandar Hemon

14. “You swallow hard when you discover that the old coffee shop is now a chain pharmacy, that the place where you first kissed so-and-so is now a discount electronics retailer, that where you bought this very jacket is now rubble behind a blue plywood fence and a future office building. Damage has been done to your city. You say, ''It happened overnight.'' But of course it didn't. Your pizza parlor, his shoeshine stand, her hat store: when they were here, we neglected them. For all you know, the place closed down moments after the last time you walked out the door. (Ten months ago? Six years? Fifteen? You can't remember, can you?) And there have been five stores in that spot before the travel agency. Five different neighborhoods coming and going between then and now, other people's other cities. Or 15, 25, 100 neighborhoods. Thousands of people pass that storefront every day, each one haunting the streets of his or her own New York, not one of them seeing the same thing.” - COLSON WHITEHEAD

15. “There is not one big cosmic meaning for all; there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an individual novel, a book for each person.” - Anais Nin

16. “your handwriting. the way you walk. which china pattern you choose. it's all giving you away. everything you do shows your hand. everything is a self portrait. everything is a diary.” - Chuck Palahniuk

17. “Who are you?'I didn't understand the question.I'm Uri', he said. 'What's your name?'I gave him my name. 'Stopthief.” - Jerry Spinelli

18. “My head’ll explode if I continue with this escapism.” - Jess C. Scott

19. “Why does it scare me to think I might be ordinary? I remember when I started first grade and I could hardly pay attention for fear I wouldn't learn to read and write. I didn't want to be like everyone else. I didn't want to have to learn. I wanted to know everything already” - Margaret Sartor

20. “I would rather die an individual than live my life as a clone.” - Cristina Marrero

21. “Maybe your country is only a place you make up in your own mind. Something you dream about and sing about. Maybe it's not a place on the map at all, but just a story full of people you meet and places you visit, full of books and films you've been to. I'm not afraid of being homesick and having no language to live in. I don't have to be like anyone else. I'm walking on the wall and nobody can stop me.” - Hugo Hamilton

22. “It kills me how these days everyone has clinical justification for their strangeness.” - Miguel Syjuco

23. “No need for everyone to look the same. The secret is to wear what suits you best!” - Chica Umino

24. “I often warn people: "Somewhere along the way, someone is going to tell you, 'There is no "I" in team.' What you should tell them is, 'Maybe not. But there is an "I" in independence, individuality and integrity.” - George Carlin

25. “I act with complete certainty. But this certainty is my own.” - Ludwig Wittgenstein

26. “Whatever does not pretend at all has style enough.” - Booth Tarkington

27. “I get glimpses of the horror of normalcy. Each of these innocents on the street is engulfed by a terror of their own ordinariness. They would do anything to be unique.” - Katherine Dunn

28. “I must shape my own coat according to my cloth, but it will not be after the fashion of this world, God willing, but fit for me.” - Arbella Stuart

29. “Life is neither static nor unchanging. With no individuality, there can be no change, no adaptation and, in an inherently changing world, any species unable to adapt is also doomed.” - Jean M. Auel

30. “Individuality or Unity? I say there's room for both.” - Brian Celio

31. “You can't shame a shameless man, you can only remind him of the awesome shit he's done.” - Captain Perverto

32. “I’m ALL about the Alternative.” - Solange nicole

33. “Dance above the surface of the world. Let your thoughts lift you into creativity that is not hampered by opinion.” - Red Haircrow

34. “Joining a sub-culture, any sub-culture, for whatever reason, is as I see it never a legitimate self-expression. It is always a result of sheep mentality; a wish to belong somewhere.” - Varg Vikernes

35. “A girl should be two things: who and what she wants.” - Coco Chanel

36. “Human groupings have one main purpose: to assert everyone’s right to be different, to be special, to think, feel and live in his or her own way. People join together in order to win or defend this right. But this is where a terrible, fateful error is born: the belief that these groupings in the name of a race, a God, a party or a State are the very purpose of life and not simply a means to an end. No! The only true and lasting meaning of the struggle for life lies in the individual, in his modest peculiarities and in his right to these peculiarities.” - Vasily Grossman

37. “You have to do stuff that average people don't understand because those are the only good things.” - Andy Warhol

38. “The individuals inside are frequently fighting that their individual voices be heard, while the walls of the place, which are the mask, and the perception, are reluctant to give over to the voices of the individuals. Those in the margins are always trying to get to the center, and those at the center, frequently in the name of tradition, are trying to keep the margins at a distance. Part of the identity of a place is the tension between those in the margins, and those in the center, and they all live behind the walls which wear the tradition.” - Anna Deveare Smith

39. “Causing any damage or harm to one party in order to help another party is not justice, and likewise, attacking all feminine conduct [in order to warn men away from individual women who are deceitful] is contrary to the truth, just as I will show you with a hypothetical case. Let us suppose they did this intending to draw fools away from foolishness. It would be as if I attacked fire -- a very good and necessary element nevertheless -- because some people burnt themselves, or water because someone drowned. The same can be said of all good things which can be used well or used badly. But one must not attack them if fools abuse them.” - Christine de Pizan

40. “I’d love to step off this well-trodden straight and boring path. To somehow live differently, think different thoughts, feel different feelings than others. It wouldn’t bother me to be as alone as a tree on the plains. My leaves would be like no other tree’s.” - Gyula Krúdy

41. “The citizens of Ludania would finally be free, no longer forced into a class system that determined what language they could speak, what jobs they could do, or who they could be” - Kimberly Derting

42. “The present representative of the Dedlocks is an excellent master. He supposes all his dependents to be utterly bereft of individual characters, intentions, or opinions, and is persuaded that he was born to supersede the necessity of their having any. If he were to make a discovery to the contrary, he would be simply stunned — would never recover himself, most likely, except to gasp and die.” - Charles Dickens

43. “His thoughts inhabit a different plane from those of ordinary men; the simplest interpretation of that is to call him crazy.” - Juliet Marillier

44. “A man's shortcomings are taken from his epoch; his virtues and greatness belong to himself.” - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

45. “tetaplah prinsipil walau berada diantara berbagai pemikiran yang bertolak belakang” - Kartika Nirmala 2012

46. “We have a God who is a Creator, not a duplicator.” - Francis Chan

47. “Being human makes us one. Be uniquely ourselves makes us individual." - Nancy S. Mure, Author of Unidentical Twins” - Nancy S. Mure

48. “Watch out for the average--they're usually hiding something big.” - James St. James

49. “Every plant is an individual.Wrong again. We are not individuals at all, we are all connected. We are individuals the way each blossom on an apple tree is an individual.” - Dale Pendell

50. “In fact, being a unique individual is as much of a farce as trying to be like everyone else. Maybe more.” - Nora Raleigh Baskin

51. “See with your own eyes, hear with your own ears, think your own thoughts, say what you must say, do what you must do, love all that you can and stand on your own two feet.” - Paul Palnik

52. “History. Language. Passion. Custom. All these things determine what men say, think, and do. These are the hidden puppet-strings from which all men hang.” - R. Scott Bakker

53. “I can be a better me than anyone can.” - Diana Ross

54. “I cannot say this too strongly: Do not compare yourselves to others. Be true to who you are, and continue to learn with all your might.” - Daisaku Ikeda

55. “Every system of power in the world has a vested interest in weakening the individuality of its subjects and tries to weaken or it possible completely extinguish it.” - Christa Wolf

56. “Identity is your role in life, the part you play. Individuality is who you are, and who you are is revealed to you if you can get to complete presence.” - Tom Spanbauer

57. “Your personal declaration of will is the first step in a seemingly impossible journey.” - Bryant McGill

58. “Is it really so terrible being around us?"I blushed. "No," I said. "But . . . it's complicated. I've been taught certain things my entire life. Those are hard to shake.""The greatest changes in history have come because people were able to shake off what others told them to do.” - Richelle Mead