Quotes on originality

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”

Oscar Wilde

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Anymore, no one's mind is their own.”

Chuck Palahniuk

“An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.”

Stephen Fry

“originality and a feeling of one's own dignity are achieved only through work and struggle.”

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.

E.A. Bucchianeri

Insist on yourself; never imitate.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The world will never see another you. Don’t let that life go to waste.

Neil Gaiman

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Walt Disney

You were born an original. Don’t die a copy.

John Mason

Originality is nothing but judicious imitation.

Voltaire

The most exhausting thing in life, I have discovered, is being insincere.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Originality is simply a fresh pair of eyes.

Thomas W. Higginson

I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.

Katherine Mansfield

Originality implies being bold enough to go beyond accepted norms.

Anthony Storr

Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value.

Ken Robinson

When you’re true to yourself, you’re original.

Toni Morrison

No one ever made a difference by being like everyone else.

P.T. Barnum

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail.

Edwin Land