Larry Norman Quotes

We should know mankind better if we were not so anxious to resemble one another.

Get to know the real you, rather than try to look like or dress like those around you.

The greatest fear people have is that of being themselves. They want to be 50 Cent or someone else. They do what everyone else does even if it doesn’t fit where and who they are. But you get nowhere that way; your energy is weak and no one pays attention to you. You’re running away from the one thing that you own – what makes you different. I lost that fear. And once I felt the power that I had by showing the world I didn’t care about being like other people, I could never go back.

The more you try to be like someone else, the more you find yourself standing in the way.

Don't try so hard to fit in, and certainly don't try so hard to be different just try hard to be you.

If I wasted my time trying to be like everybody else when I was 10 and 11, I wouldn't be me today. So if you are gonna be the future rockstars, the future somebody, whatever you wanna be then you're wasting your time trying to be somebody else, because you'll never get to you.

When I was in school, I got there on the first day and everyone had long, blonde, straight hair, and I had short, dark, curly hair. I immediately felt I didn't fit in and started growing my hair. But I've learned that I'm only happy when I am truly me and feel comfortable and confident in myself.

Yeah, it's nice to look up to people, but the more you try to be somebody else, the less you are of yourself.

Be stupid, be dumb, be funny, if that's who you are. Don't try to be someone that society wants you to be; that's stupid. So be yourself.

When you're growing up, the most important thing is to try to not change yourself too much. Be you, because everyone else is taken.

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.

We spend our life until we’re twenty deciding what parts of ourself to put into the bag, and we spend the rest of our lives trying to get them out again.

Be yourself. If you try to be someone else, it won't work. Whatever you do, you are not going to make everyone happy.

The greatest fear people have is that of being themselves.

When you get to heaven God won't ask you why you weren't more like Billy Graham. He may ask you why you weren't more like you. Get in touch with who you are. Lead with your own unique style. Be yourself and let God use you.

Unhappiness comes when you try to be like everyone else rather than embracing the unique person that you are.

Anybody who told you to be yourself simply couldn't have given you worse advice.

Don't spend all of your time trying to be like someone else because you can never be them and they can never be you.

We think we need to create ourselves, always doing a paste-up job on our personalities. That is because we're trying to be special rather than real. We're pathetically trying to conform with all the other people trying to do the same.

You don't have to give up who you are to be successful just because you're different.

If one is a greyhound, why try to look like a Pekingese?

We won't be like Jesus if it's more important to us to be like each other. God doesn't compare what he creates.

I'm losing myself trying to compete with everyone else, instead of just being me.

From the very beginning you are being told to compare yourself with others. This is the greatest disease; it is like a cancer that goes on destroying your very soul because each individual is unique, and comparison is not possible. I am just myself and you are just yourself. There is nobody else in the world you can be compared with.

The best piece of advice that I remember probably on a daily basis is to accept everything about me that is different. That is what makes me special.