82 Quotes About Standing-out

Society won't stand for it.It's not society, You're the one who won't stand for it - right?If you do such a thing society will make you suffer for it.It's not society. It's you, isn't it?Before you know it, you'll be ostracized by society.It's not society. You're going to do the ostracizing, aren't you?

Better to embrace the discomfort of being different than the comfort of fitting in.

You and I both know being conventional is overrated.

Breaking from the herd is better than getting lost in it.

There's the 'right way' and the 'usual way'. Folks tend to confuse both. The right way isn't always the best way, and the usual way leaves you lost in the crowd of the common. Then, there's the 'unusual way', which might be right or 'wrong'; but when it births success, it usually has the power to invalidate the right way and the usual way.

If knowing yourself and being yourself were as easy to do as to talk about, there wouldn't be nearly so many people walking around in borrowed postures, spouting secondhand ideas, trying desperately to fit in rather than to stand out.

She had met people who had tried to fit in. She had met people who tried to stand out. But until then she had never met anyone who simply tried to be themselves without expecting anything from those around them. It was a refreshing experience.

We are what our parents didn't want US to be!” 

An artist has got to get acquainted with himself just as much as he can. It is no easy job, for it is not a present-day habit of humanity.