Inspirational Not Conforming Quotes & Sayings

We seldom know what echo our actions will find, but our stories will most certainly outlast us. — Colum McCann

We can't do justice to our dreams, reworking them in memory. They seem borrowed, part of another life, ours only maybe and only in the farthest margins. — Don DeLillo

We can not improve humanity if everyone is conforming to society's standards. Set your own standard, and find out for yourself. — Mary Sage Nguyen

have long time holden my peace; I have been still, and refrained myself: now will I cry like a travailing woman; I will destroy and devour at once. — Anonymous

He who repeats a tale after a man,
Is bound to say, as nearly as he can,
Each single word, if he remembers it,
However rudely spoken or unfit,
Or else the tale he tells will be untrue,
The things invented and the phrases new. — Geoffrey Chaucer

So I guess this is the next big thing. And I guess that's when it starts to hit me: the whole point is, you do what you can. — Lauren Oliver

We can pretend that the book in question is not Mr. West's but mine, made mine by the madness of my reading. — J.M. Coetzee

Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay. — Simone De Beauvoir

A truly wise person will constantly move forward, striving for self-improvement, knowing that daily repentance is needed for progress. He will realize the good life is simply conforming to a standard of right and justice. The joys of happiness can only be realized by living lofty principles. — Marvin J. Ashton

When I love, I love hard. You're stuck with me for good. In your news report, you didn't say what happened at the end of the bumpy ride. You didn't say what it takes to break the curse. But I know. True Love. the kind that doesn't go away because of a few disasters along the way. I love you, Melissa. — Jennifer Bernard

Be free! Get out of your prison of conforming thoughts. — Debasish Mridha

A society becomes a breeding ground of violence and terrorism when it closes its door to new ideas and forces the citizens to live in the prison of conforming thoughts. — Debasish Mridha

A closed conforming society is a sick society waiting to die from stagnation and inner illness. Only openness is the treatment. — Debasish Mridha

Sometimes, especially under severe repressive regimes, the victimized adores the torturers out of a total absence of resistance. In these sad cases, tyranny and oppression become institutional and an accepted practice in the community. As a result, anger and frustration is piled up, and will be released on the streets at the first opportunity. — Hani Soubra

The neccessity for making a living keeps our minds so bound down to the details of professional success that we sometimes forget there is anything except professional success to live for. The necessity of conforming our habits and standards to the habits and standards of those about us, in order that we may do efficient work, makes us forget that there is a point where conformity ceases to be a virtue. — Arthur Twining Hadley

It is often safer to be in chains than to be free. — Franz Kafka

There is nothing mixed up about a woman who loves women, who wants to have sex with them, or who identifies as a lesbian. It is society that is mixed up because it punishes people for not conforming to its gender stereotypes. — Edward Stein

It'll keep you alive for another 10 years if you get yourself a laugh once a day: either provoke it, or look around in the wildest laboratory in the world, the public. — Jerry Lewis

Many people are not conforming with theism, but they are comfortable with spiritualism. — Debasish Mridha

Brand and product don't compete. Brand is product, and everything else conforming to the unique story that consumers create when they think of you. — Laura Busche

I have learned that trying again is important and decisivness is good. I have learned that silence hurts. I have learned about starting over and releasing pride. — Sabrina Ward Harrison

I love everyone and everything. I belong to everyone and everything. I am a citizen of this world. I created my own universe. I don't want to belong to an ideology or belief system. I don't want to be imprisoned by someone else's conforming thoughts. I only accept that which is beautiful, loving, and kind. I want to belong to this universe until I am gone. We are one; we are kin. So my religion is love and kindness is my prayer. Altruism is my path. Peace is my palace where I dwell with humility and happiness. — Debasish Mridha

When both a speaker and an audience are confused, the speech is profound. — Oscar Wilde

Find the window of unconditional love in your heart and liberate yourself from the prison of judgemental and conforming thoughts. — Debasish Mridha