Best 436 quotes in «conformity quotes» category

Each one of us has to be what he or she is.

Even a dead fish can go with the flow.

For all have not the gift of martyrdom.

Fear, safety, and conformity make you mediocre and average

God, possessing supreme and infinite wisdom, acts in the most perfect manner, not only metaphysically, but also morally speaking, and ... with respect to ourselves, we can say that the more enlightened and informed we are about God's works, the more we will be disposed to find them excellent and in complete conformity with what we might have desired.

For the more a soul conforms to the sanity of others, the more does it become insane.

From now on, I'll connect the dots my own way.

God elevates nations that behave in conformity with God's standards but he withdraws his blessings from a people who disregard those standards.

Holiness is not a series of do’s and don’ts but conformity to the character of God and obedience to the will of God.

Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime.

He travels the fastest who travels alone.

He who rides and keeps the beaten track studies the fences chiefly.

Go into yourself and see how deep the place is from which your life flows.

Great thoughts are against all doctrines of conformity

He ... knew, in that instant, that his life would not be an easy one-he was different, he looked different, he thought differently.

... he who has independent ideas is hated by the mass[es].

Holiness is nothing less than conformity to the character of God

I am moving deeper into my own brain.

I always wonder why some people see things as weird and some people don't.

I am bored in France because everyone resembles Voltaire.

I am myself. That is not enough.

...how deep the ruts of tradition and conformity!

I am convinced that creativity is a priori to the integrity of the universe and that life is regenerative and conformity meaningless.

I cannot change the world, but I do not have to conform.

If you are to be, you must begin by assuming responsibility. You alone are responsible for every moment of your life, for every one of your acts.

I don't follow any system. All the laws you can lay down are only so many props to be cast aside when the hour of creation arrives.

If one is a greyhound, why try to look like a Pekingese?

I must say to myself that I ruined myself, and that nobody great or small can be ruined except by his own hand. I am quite ready to say so. ... Terrible as was what the world did to me, what I did to myself was far more terrible still.

If you do not speak up when it matters, when would it matter that you speak? The opposite of courage is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow.

If you stand up to the human race you lose something called their 'goodwill'; if you kowtow to them you gain ... their permission to continue kowtowing.

If you're trying to forge bonds on something other than kinship, and forge a tribal identity on something other than relatedness, conformity is a good way to do it. And if you're wealthy, you can do it with a very expensive It bag, or whether it's Vuitton or Valentino at the moment, and it's a way to signal to one another, We're part of this tribe.

If you take responsibility for what you are doing to yourself, how you produce your symptoms, how you produce your illness, how you produce your existence-the very moment you get in touch with yourself-growth begins, integration begins.

I merely observe that all living things are manipulated. As long as there is a will, it is bent and twisted constantly. Only the dead are allowed the luxury of freedom, and then only because they want nothing, and therefore can't be thwarted.

In conformity with the philosophy of Christ, let us make of our life a training for death.

Institutions do all the things that are supposed to be bad. They impede personal exploration. They enforce conformity. But they often save us from our weaknesses and give meaning to life.

I now know, by an almost fatalistic conformity with the facts, that my destiny is to travel.

In ourselves we harbor the intuition of another evolution, of other possibilities of life.

Is there an existence that is only mine?

Isolation and belonging are not absolute, provable states of being. They arise completely out of the nothingness within you; you measure their dimensions against your own firm or shaky sense of who you are.

I propose . . . . The conformity of the proposed Constitution to the true principles of republican government.

Is uniformity of opinion desirable? No more than that of face and stature.

I then endeavoured to show that it is more especially in the thorough conformity with law which natural phenomena and natural products exhibit, and in the comparative ease with which laws can be stated, that this difference exists.

It's the non-conformist who gives color to history.

It's both rebellion and conformity that attack you with success.

It's terrible to allow conventional habits to gain a hold on a whole household; to eat, sleep and live by clock ticks.

Man..must necessarily be subject to the laws of his Creator, for he is entirely a dependent being..And, consequently, as man depends absolutely upon his Maker for everything, it is necessary that he should in all points conform to his Maker's will.

I've rebelled against all types of conformity throughout my life, not just Utah's conservative culture

I was seen in earlier years by family members and people of authority as somebody wasting his time. I had trouble with the restrictions of conformity. It made me edgy.

Knowledge is the conformity of the object and the intellect.

It takes far more courage to violate a custom than a law.