Elbert Hubbard Quotes

Being part of a crowd and not standing out is way more frightening than being the person that stands out.

If you want to look like the people next door, you're probably smothering yourself into your dreams.

Stay mad, but behave like normal people. Run the risk of being different, but learn to do so without attracting attention.

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 wish I were kind of normal. It would be so much more simple.

I've never been very good at fitting into boxes.

Well, sometimes when you say you want to be like everybody else, you're really saying that you're not.

Some days, I think maybe we should try and be a little more conventional, but every time I try, I fail, so I'm learning to not even entertain that thought anymore.

All I want to do is be normal. But really, it's other people who won't let me be that way.

The nail that sticks out gets knocked down.

Why do you want to fit in when you were born to stand out?

A lot of people go through life trying to perform normalcy, and I think you can relate to that.

Don't worry about fitting in - it's completely over-rated.

There are two ways of dealing with being odd. One is to really try and conform, and the other is to do the opposite and really make a thing out of it. At school, it wasn't that I was bullied, but everyone was very aware that I was different. I was kind of the token weird person that people accepted into their group, almost like an accessory.

As soon as I hear that there's something to get used to, I know that I won't; I sort of pledge myself to not getting used to it.

People don't want to be diverse, or they're scared to be diverse. People just dress a certain way to fit in but sometimes being outside of the box is the cool thing to do.

I have been told too much - to talk less, to keep my opinions to myself, to not sound intelligent - all this was told to me so that I could fit in. But I never thought I fit in anyway. So if you don't fit in, at least stand out.

Everyone was wearing jeans, so I started wearing slacks. I'd walk on, and people would laugh before I got to the mic because I looked stupid.

When you stand out in a small town or at work, or in your peer group, whatever it is, it feels really awful. Certainly, when you're growing up, you want to be normal. You just want to fit in. Then you realize that maybe fitting in is, in some respects, quite ordinary. I think it's good to put a positive spin on being slightly unique.

The reason they want you to fit in... is that once you do, then they can ignore you.

Be one of the crowd? It went against everything a wizard stood for, and a wizard would not stand for anything if he could sit down for it, but even sitting down, you had to stand out.

In these days the young folks is all copy-cats, 'fraid to death they won't be all just alike; as for the old folks, they pray for the advantage o' bein' a little different.

It would be very hard for me to do things somebody else's way.

I'd love to be able to fit in a box. Like one of those people who fit into small boxes. I'd love it.

Conformity makes everything easier, if you can still breathe.