60+ Best Being Different Quotes: Exclusive Selection

You are who you are. And you are unique like anyone else. Being different means you’re daring to live your own life, on your terms, with your values. Profoundly inspirational being different quotes will fire up your brain and encourage you to look at life differently while making you laugh.

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Famous Being Different Quotes

When you  embrace your difference, your DNA, your look or heritage or religion or your unusual name, that’s when you start to shine. Bethenny Frankel

The reward for conformity is that everyone likes you but yourself. Rita Mae

As we grow as unique persons, we learn to respect the uniqueness of others. Robert H. Schuller

Some people around you will not understand your journey. They don’t need to; it’s not for them. Paulo Coelho

It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities and talents. Eric Hoffer

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I – I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. Robert Frost

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

The key to me is being different not for the sake of being different, but being the most authentic version of what you do. Sam Hunt

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Being different gives the world color. Nelsan Ellis

Stop apologizing! It’s ok if your ideas are different, your goals are big – don’t be afraid of what others would say. You are skilled, capable, and talented – you deserve to be a leader, and you are enough. Leaning in can be uncomfortable, so don’t be afraid to own your seat, lean back, and kick your feet up. Joy Fitzgerald

In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different. Coco Chanel

You must not be afraid of your uniqueness and you must care less and less what people think of you. Robert Greene

I find that the very things that I get criticized for, which is usually being different and just doing my own thing and just being original, is the very thing that’s making me successful. Shania Twain

When someone is nasty or treats you poorly, don’t take it personally. It says nothing about you, but a lot about them. Michael Josephson

So you’re a little weird? Work it! A little different? Own it! Better to be a nerd than one of the herd! Mandy Hale

Amazing Being Different Quotes

If you are always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be. Maya Angelou

I think every person has their own identity and beauty. Everyone being different is what is really beautiful. If we were all the same, it would be boring. Tila Tequila

I am different. Not less. Temple Grandin

There would be no need for love if perfection were possible. Love arises from our imperfection, from our being different and always in need of the forgiveness, encouragement and that missing half of ourselves that we are searching for, as the Greek myth tells us, in order to complete ourselves. Eugene Kennedy

If one’s different, one’s bound to be lonely. Aldous Huxley

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

To be successful one has to be one of three bees; the queen bee, the hardest working bee, or the bee that does not fit in. Suzy Kassem

To be nobody but yourself in a world doing its best to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle any human can ever fight and never stop fighting. E. E. Cummings

I find that the very things that I get criticized for, which is usually being different and just doing my own thing and just being original, is the very thing that’s making me successful. Shania Twain

I’m different from everyone else because everyone else is not me. Julian Aguilar

People have a problem with me being different, but that propels me forward in life. Mary-Louise Parker

So what? You’re another person, so of course you look different. What do you need to be ashamed for? Yana Toboso

So what? You’re another person, so of course you look different. What do you need to be ashamed for? Yana Toboso

You cannot be all things to all people. Be unique. Be different. Give to others what you want yourself. And do what you were made to do. Robert Kiyosaki

A fruit salad is delicious precisely because each fruit maintains its own flavor. Sean Covey

I think every person has their own identity and beauty. Everyone being different is what is really beautiful. If we were all the same, it would be boring. Tila Tequila

Never be afraid to be different. An original is more valuable than a copy. Roy Sutton

When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everybody will respect you. Lao Tzu

Top Being Different Quotes

What sets you apart can sometimes feel like a burden and it’s not. And a lot of the time, it’s what makes you great. Emma Stone

When you’re the only sane person, you look like the only insane person. Criss Jami

Life’s no piece of cake, mind you, but the recipe’s my own to fool with. Haruki Murakami

You are lucky enough to be different, never change. Taylor Swift

Bullying is killing our kids. Being different is killing our kids and the kids who are bullying are dying inside. We have to save our kids whether they are bullied or they are bullying. They are all in pain. Cat Cora

The person who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. Albert Einstein

I yam what I yam and dat’s all what I yam. I’m Popeye the Sailor Man. Popeye

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 he hears, however measured or far away. Henry David Thoreau

I want to say when I was little, like Maleficent, I was told I was different. And I felt out of place and too loud, too full of fire, never good at sitting still, never good at fitting in.  And then one day I realized something – something I hope you all realize. Different is good. When someone tells you that you are different, smile and hold your head up and be proud. Angelina Jolie

So you’re a little weird? Work it! A little different? Own it! Better to be a nerd than one of the herd! Mandy Hale

I stopped focusing on people being different, and I started treating everyone the same way. Ivan Glasenberg

You can make life very simple or very complicated. Some people try to be what others want them to be. Others try to be different just to stand out. In both cases, they are changing themselves to impress others. Neither of these paths has a heart. Just be true to yourself. It’s that simple. Mike Stutman

You are a marvel. You are unique. In all the years that have passed, there has never been another child like you. Your legs, your arms, your clever fingers, the way you move. You may become a Shakespeare, a Michelangelo, a Beethoven. You have the capacity for anything. Henry David Thoreau

We’re all different people all through our lives. And that’s OK, that’s good, you gotta keep moving, so long as you remember all the people that you used to be. Doctor Who

When you do something different, you are either blessed or cursed. Mehmet Murat ildan

The person who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The person who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever seen before. Albert Einstein

I want to say when I was little, like Maleficent, I was told I was different. And I felt out of place and too loud, too full of fire, never good at sitting still, never good at fitting in. And then one day I realized something – something I hope you all realize. Different is good. When someone tells you that you are different, smile and hold your head up and be proud. Angelina Jolie

I finally know the difference between pleasing and loving, obeying and respecting. It has taken me so many years to be okay with being different, and with being this alive, this intense (xxvi). Eve Ensle

If you are always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be. Maya Angelou

Normal is not something to aspire to, it’s something to get away from. Jodie Foster

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not. André Gide

Sometimes, being different feels a lot like being alone. But with that being said, being true to that and being true to my standards and my way of doing things in my art and my music, everything that has made me feel very different…in the end, it has made me the happiest. Lindsey Stirling

Not all who wander are lost. Gandolf

I think everybody carries a slight sense of being different, and I know that it comes very naturally to me. Louis Theroux

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

Being different simply means you have something unique to offer the world. Scarlett Vespa

Creativity is more than just being different. Anybody can plan weird; that’s easy. What’s hard is to be as simple as Bach. Making the simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity. Charles Mingus