Rick Warren Quotes

As soon as something becomes 'trendy,' I go off it. I hate the idea of being a sheep and just following a look because I've been told it's fashionable. Individuality makes the world a much more interesting place.

The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow.

I always tried so hard to fit in, and then I figured out that I didn't want to fit.

I've always been the girl the kids in school would be like, 'What is she wearing?' Then eventually some trends would stick.

The only behaviour that is truly common is to avoid doing something because you think others might consider it common.

I was always a class clown, so I never had trouble fitting in; I just had trouble finding out where I really wanted to be.

I know how easy it is for some minds to glide along with the current of popular opinion, where influence, respectability, and all those motives which tend to seduce the human heart are brought to bear.

There is nothing that makes more cowards and feeble men than public opinion.

I can't do something just because it's popular.

I'd rather look ridiculous when everybody else does than plain and sensible all by myself.

Everybody's private motto: It's better to be popular than right.

If we attach more importance to what other people believe than to what we know to be true - if we value belonging over being - we will not attain authenticity.

I went to public school for like, one day. I don't get it. Everybody tries to be exactly the same. I think being an outsider is a good thing.

The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.

Popular kids don't necessarily know who they are because they're so busy trying to conform. It's the outcasts who are more attuned to who they are. They're more self-aware, more real.

Fame or perceived success - it all comes from groupthink.

When I first got into the league, I tried to fit in. Now I don't care.

Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the dangers of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity. And on issues that seem important to you, stand up and be counted at any cost.

If human beings had genuine courage, they'd wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween.

Look, none of the artists who I admire or respect have ever shied away from a role because it might make them unpopular with somebody.

It is hard to be an individual in Japan.

It can be frightening to turn your back on what others think is right. But I'm not the same as a lot of people - I'm quite artistic and quite eccentric sometimes. If you honour that, you fit into yourself better - and people accept you for what you are.

I think I hid my singing talent from a lot of my friends at school because I didn't want to alienate anyone. If everyone was singing along in the car to a Madonna song, I didn't join in because when we're younger we're afraid of sticking out or showing off, when in fact we should own those things that make us really unique.

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else?