Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and go do it, because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
~ Howard Thurman
Individuality
Think wrongly
Think wrongly if you please, but in all cases, think for yourself.
~ Louisa May Alcott
If we are afraid to be different
in Action, Change, Courage, Individuality
If we are afraid to be different from the world, how can we make a difference in the world?
~ Rev. John Jenkins, President of Notre Dame University
I was different
I was motivated to be different in part because I was different.
~ Donna Brazile
Be daring, be different, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers…
~ Cecil Beaton
You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.
~ Abraham Lincoln
The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.
~ Erasmus
Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.
~ Dr. Seuss
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
I now believe this without question: Income, position, the opinions of one’s friends, the judgments of one’s peers, and all the other traditional criteria by which human beings are judged are for the birds. The only question is — can you hang on through the crap they throw at you and not lose your freedom or your good sense.
~ James Michener
These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined.
~ Homer Simpson, regarding his membership in a fraternity; Matt Groening, creator