Conformity Quotes

I didn’t belong as a kid, and that always bothered me. If only I’d known that one day my differentness would be an asset, then my early life would have been much easier.

Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world. But be transformed by the renewing of your mind. (Romans 12:2)

Conformity in matters of human performance is a crime against yourself.

Be different: conform.

Never forget that only dead fish swims with the stream.

To get nowhere, follow the crowd.

In any free society, the conflict between social conformity and individual liberty is permanent, unresolvable, and necessary.

To rebel in season is not to rebel.

It saves trouble to be conventional, for you’re not always explaining things.

I am a believer and a conformist. Anyone can revolt; it is more difficult silently to obey our own interior promptings, and to spend our lives finding sincere and fitting means of expression for our temperaments and our gifts – if we have any.