Carl Jung Quotes

If people don't love what you're doing, that doesn't mean you're wrong.

Why would I care what other people are thinking? I don't care what an audience thinks of me.

I do not live for people, for what they think, for them to say that I'm nice, good, the best, perfect. Everyone has their opinion. And I respect that.

Most people feel like they're out of step, so just have the conviction to go your own way.

Many are so preoccupied with what others think it defines their existence. When we fixate externally, it keeps us from truly knowing ourselves and our destiny. Most [people] fear looking inward for worry they won't find greatness, but when you stop allowing others to define your worth, you'll see—greatness exists in us all, waiting to be
 expressed

Any man who is really a man must learn to be alone in the midst of others, to think alone for others, and, if necessary, against others.

In his essay 'Self-Reliance' Emerson wrote, 'Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.' The Apostle Paul reminds us that whoso would be a Christian must also be a a nonconformist. Any Christian who blindly accepts the opinions of the majority and in fear and timidity follows a path of expediency and social approval is a mental and spiritual slave.

It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

He only is a great man who can neglect the applause of the multitude and enjoy himself independent of its favor.

If you maintain a dead church, contribute to a dead Bible-society, vote with a great party either for the government or against it, spread your table like base housekeepers, - under all these screens I have diffuculty to detect the precise man you are: and of course so much force is withdrawn from your proper life. But do your work and I shall know you. Do your work, and you shall reinforce yourself. A man must consider what a blind-man's bluff is this game of conformity. If I know your sect I anticipate your argument.

There’s a greatness in not caring what people think

The hallmark of courage in our age of conformity is the capacity to stand on one's own convictions - not obstinately or defiantly

Only people who carry the opinions of others need the support of others.

You have trust in what you think. If you splinter yourself and try to please everyone, you can’t. It’s important to stay the course. I don’t think I would have lasted this long if I’d listened to anyone. You have to listen somewhat and then put that to the side and know that what you do matters.

The elderly have weathered enough squalls to know that this one, too, shall pass. They own the courage to be original; they've learned to hold their own values above the conventional wisdom.

All isolation is wrong so say the herd. And long didst thou belong to the herd.

Beware of those who seek constant crowds; they are nothing alone.

You spend all your life trying to do something they put people in asylums for.

In America we have only the bourgeoisie, and the love of the heroic is one of the few counterpoises available to us. In us the contempt for the heroic is only an extension of the perversion of the democratic principle that denies greatness and wants everyone to feel comfortable in his skin without having to suffer unpleasant comparisons. Students have not the slightest notion of what an achievement it is to free oneself from public guidance and find resources for guidance within oneself.

I won't change anything in my life I'm staying myself tonight

One's duty is to feel what is great, cherish the beautiful, and to not accept the conventions of society with the ignominy that it imposes upon us.

You will find it easier to accept contrary views, knowing that you are not defined by anything or anyone external to yourself.

Only the self-sufficient stand alone - most people follow the crowd and imitate.

Genius is inconsiderate, self-relying, and, like unconscious beauty, without any intention to please.

The greater the spirit, the more one is alone.