Herb Kelleher Quotes

The opposite of bravery is not cowardice but conformity.

The opposite of courage is not so much fear as it is conformity.

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

Don't do it, Eleanor told the little girl; insist on your cup of stars; once they have trapped you into being like everyone else you will never see your cup of stars again; don't do it; and the little girl glanced at her, and smiled a little subtle, dimpling, wholly comprehending smile, and shook her head stubbornly at the glass. Brave girl, Eleanor thought; wise, brave girl.

I would rather be a man of conviction than a man of conformity

The only tyrant I accept in this world is the 'still small voice' within me. And even though I have to face the prospect of being a minority of one, I humbly believe I have the courage to be in such a hopeless minority.

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

We have to wake up. We have to refuse to be a clone.

To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.

I don't care much about conforming.

If you believe in your heart that you are right, you must fight with all your might to do it your way. Only dead fish swim with the stream all the time.

I don't want to follow the herd.

Whoso would be a man must be a non-conformist.

Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person. And to retain this right, you will have to be willing to take the social or external risks involved in ignoring pressures to do things the way others say they should be done

It is long since I have learned to hold popular opinion of no value.

Any man more right than his neighbors constitutes a majority of one.

I would never wear anything because someone told me to.

When I was 16, I was doing what was popular. If I could go back, I would tell myself to not be afraid to be alone and not to follow others so much.

I don't take well to rules.

I've had the basic courage and confidence to never follow convention.

I couldn't follow nobody's rules.

We never want to toe the line.

I'm not ambitious and I don't need to work for The Man.

No rebellious heart is ever at ease with paths established by others.

In this age, the mere example of nonconformity, the mere refusal to bend the knee to custom, is itself a service.