Think For Yourself

Let today be a day to take life less seriously.
Take the weight of the world off your shoulders.
Choose Joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
- John F. Kennedy

The reward for conformity is that everyone likes you but yourself.
- Rita Mae Brown

If you stand up and be counted,
from time to time you may get yourself knocked down.
But remember this: A man flattened by an opponent can get up again.
A man flattened by conformity stays down for good.
- Thomas J. Watson

Further reading: A Foolish Consistency

How to Deal with Rejection

Being Your Own Person

Thinking for Yourself
    

Reject Mindless Conformity

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
- John F. Kennedy

If you stand up and be counted,
from time to time you may get yourself knocked down.
But remember this: A man flattened by an opponent can get up again.
A man flattened by conformity stays down for good.
- Thomas J. Watson

The reward for conformity is that everyone likes you but yourself.
- Rita Mae Brown

Let today be a day to take life less seriously.
Take the weight of the world off your shoulders.
Choose Joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Thinking for Yourself

A Foolish Consistency

My Own Person

How to Deal with Rejection
    

Conformity

That you may retain your self-respect, it is better
to displease the people by doing what you know is right,
than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.
- William J. H. Boetcker

The reward for conformity is that everyone likes you but yourself.
- Rita Mae Brown

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
- John F. Kennedy

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

If you stand up and be counted,
from time to time you may get yourself knocked down.
But remember this: A man flattened by an opponent can get up again.
A man flattened by conformity stays down for good.
- Thomas J. Watson

Today's affirmation:
I have no need to conform to the stereotypes
others have defined for me.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: A Foolish Consistency

My Own Person

How to Deal with Rejection

The Choice to be Free

Be Yourself

Values

Responsibility