Conformity is behaviour that follows the usual standards that are expected by a group or society. Profoundly inspirational conformity quotes will encourage growth in life, make you wiser and broaden your perspective.
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Famous Conformity Quotes
Great spirits have always encountered opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly. Albert Einstein
They laugh at me because I’m different; I laugh at them because they’re all the same. Kurt Cobain
Those who matter don’t mind, and those who mind don’t matter. Bernard Baruch
I think being different, going against the grain of society is the greatest thing in the world. Elijah Wood
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth. John F. Kennedy
It takes nothing to join the crowd. It takes everything to stand alone. Hans F. Hansen
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. Albert Einstein
The greatest fear in the world is of the opinions of others. And the moment you are unafraid of the crowd, you are no longer a sheep, you become a lion. A great roar arises in your heart, the roar of freedom.
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. Rudyard Kipling
Always remember that the crowd that applauds your coronation is the same crowd that will applaud your beheading. People like a show. Terry Pratchett
You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist. Friedrich Nietzsche
If you want to make unique discoveries, you do not follow the crowd. Steven Magee
No price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. Friedrich Nietzsche
To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself. Thich Nhat Hanh
The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity. Rollo May
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
The individual has always to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe Friedrich Nietzsche
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly. Albert Einstein
Mental slavery is mental death, and every man who has given up his intellectual freedom is the living coffin of his dead soul. Robert Green Ingersoll
You were born an original, don’t die a copy. John Mason
The reward for conformity is that everyone likes you but yourself. Rita Mae Brown
Be weird. Be random. Be who you are. Because you never know who would love the person you hide.
New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common. John Locke
Blessed are the weird people: poets, misfits, writers, mystics, painters, troubadours, for they teach us to see the world through different eyes. Jacob Nordby
Our expenses are all for conformity. Ralph Waldo Emerson
I like messy people; people who don’t fit in a box or stay between the lines, but whose integrity is greater than any rule book and whose loyalty is stronger than blood. Jim Wern
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. Ralph Waldo Emerson
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. Ralph Waldo Emerson
The minority, the ruling class at present, has the schools and press, usually the Church as well, under its thumb. This enables it to organize and sway the emotions of the masses, and make its tool of them. Albert Einstein
If you are always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be. Maya Angelou
Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new. Henry David Thoreau
Nature is busy creating absolutely unique individuals, whereas culture has invented a single mold to which all must conform. It is grotesque. U.G. Krishnamurti
If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise. Johann von Goethe
I’m not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I’ve always been a freak. So I’ve been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know. I’m one of those people. John Lennon
Be yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self. There is something which you can do better than another. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Rebel children, I urge you, fight the turgid slick of conformity with which they seek to smother your glory. Russell Brand
There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality. Anton Chekhov
Conformity is the last refuge of the unimaginative. Oscar Wilde
By being yourself, you put something beautiful into the world that was not there before. Edwin Elliot
To be one’s self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity. Irving Wallace
Follow your inner moonlight; don’t hide the madness. Allen Ginsberg
The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it’s conformity. Rollo May
It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions. Robert Green Ingersoll
Anti social behavior is a trait of intelligence in a world full of conformists. Nikola Tesla
No one ever made a difference by being like everyone else. Buckminster Fuller
I think the reward for conformity is that everyone likes you except yourself. Rita Mae Brown
Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead. Aldous Huxley
Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul. Michel de Montaigne
I am alone again and I want to be so; alone with the pure sky and open sea. Friedrich Nietzsche
Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of ‘crackpot’ than the stigma of conformity. Thomas J. Watson
Find your own way, open your treasure house, invent your own answer to the chaos. Gertrude Stein
Honestly, if you don’t fit in, then you’re probably doing the right thing. Lights Poxleitner
It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed. Albert Einstein
The more I awaken, the less I desire to fit in.
Where all think alike there is little danger of innovation. Edward Abbey
Don’t force yourself to fit in where you don’t belong.
I am not made like any of those I have seen. I venture to believe that I am not made like any of those who are in existence. If I am not better, at least I am different. Jean Jacques Rousseau
Life is very, very short, and you can choose to live it how you want. You can choose to dumb yourself down and not express yourself just so you can fit in, just so people won’t dislike you. Gerard Way
Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. Carl Sagan
Celebrate the idea that you don’t fit in. Find your own fit. Stay unique. Betsey Johnson
We are the ones we have been waiting for. Alice Walker
Don’t try to fit in or stand out just be yourself. Kunal Khemu
