100 Originality Quotes, Sayings about being original (Images)

Originality Quotes

  • “Originality is dead.” —Anonymous
  • “Originality is really important.” —Jim Carrey
  • “Yolo you obviously lack originality.” —Anonymous
  • “Originality is merely an illusion.” —M.C. Escher
  • “I’m not perfect ~ I’m original.” —Anonymous
  • “Be original.. Copies fade too fast.” —Anonymous
  • “What is originality1 undetected plagiarism.” —Dean Inge
  • “Always love originality it’s more than a +.” —Anonymous
  • “No man was ever great by imitation.” —Samuel Johnson
  • “Creativity is the defeat of habit by originality.” —Arthur Koestler
  • “You were born an original. Don’t die a copy.” —Anonymous
  • “It’s called originality – you should try it sometime.” —Anonymous
  • “Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes.” —Thomas W. Higginson
  • “Being like everybody is the same as being nobody.” —Rod Serling
  • “Dedication to quality, community, and originality – without exception.” —Zach Klein
  • “Simplicity with originality is better than super beautiful but imitation.” —Anonymous
  • “Originality is the art of concealing your source.” —Franklin P. Jones
  • “In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.” —Coco Chanel
  • “Please stop stereotyping me because I got way more originality.” —Tinchy Stryder
  • “Dare to be different. The world is full of the ordinary.” —Anonymous
  • “Don’t even talk about originality, if you just follow the mainstreams.” —Anonymous
  • “Originality Implies Being Bold Enough To Go Beyond Accepted Norms.” —Anthony Storr
  • “If you set out to be original, prepare to be copied.” —Anonymous
  • “Style – all who have it share one thing originality.” —Diana Vreeland
  • “Creativity is the defeat of habit by imposing originality and change.” —Andy Law
  • “Literature is too full of ‘acknowledgments’ and squabbles about originality.” —George Bernard Shaw
  • “Originality is independence, not rebellion; it is sincerity, not antagonism.” —George Henry Lewes
  • “All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.” —John Stuart Mill
  • “Originality is a gift everyone possess but not everyone choose to open it.” —Anonymous
  • “Originality irritates so obscurely that people may have to evolve to scratch it.” —Steve Aylett
  • “True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.” —Edith Wharton
  • “If you’re not prepared to be wrong, you’ll never come up with anything original.” —Anonymous
  • “Originality is the claim of the ignorant. Excellence is the claim of the brave.” —Panos Vassiliou
  • “If you were created an original, why would you want to be a copycat1.” —Abhishek Tiwari
  • “Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.” —John Stuart Mill
  • “If you walk in the footprints of others you won’t make any of your own.” —Anonymous
  • “The writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels.” —Simone de Beauvoir
  • “The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even—if you will—eccentricity.” —Joseph Brodsky
  • “Originality depends only on the character of the drawing and the vision peculiar to each artist.” —Georges Seurat
  • “They say imitation is a form of flattery but honey it’s time to get your own ideas.” —Anonymous
  • “Do not worry about your originality you could not get rid of it even if you wanted to.” —Anonymous
  • “Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything.” —George Lois
  • “The merit of originality is not novelty, it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man.” —Thomas Carlyle
  • “Never change your originality for the sake of others because no one can play your role better than you.” —Lyn
  • “Cinema reflects culture and there is no harm in adapting technology, but not at the cost of losing your originality.” —Anonymous
  • “I stay true to myself and my style, and I am always pushing myself to be aware of that and be original.” —Aaliyah
  • “Originality exists in every individual because each of us differs from the others. We are all primary numbers divisible only by ourselves.” —Jean Guitton
  • “Originality is not seen in single words or even in sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man’s thinking or his writing.” —Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • “Original minds are not distinguished by being the first to see a new thing, but instead by seeing the old, familiar thing that is over-looked as something new.” —Friedrich Nietzsche
  • “No man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring two pence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.” —C. S. Lewis
  • “Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.” —C.S. Lewis

Quotes about Being Original

  • “Nothing in Christianity is original.” —Dan Brown
  • “Be a voice not an echo.” —Albert Einstein
  • “An envious heart can’t be original.” —Toba Beta
  • “I am not an originator but a transmitter.” —Confucius
  • “One Original Thought is worth 1000 Meaningless Quotes.” —Banksy
  • “Originality is the art of concealing your sources.” —Benjamin Franklin
  • “Creativity is the defeat of habit by originality.” —Arthur Koestler
  • “The original is unfaithful to the translation.” —Jorge Luis Borges
  • “Everything I’ve done I’ve copied from somebody else.” —Sam Walton (Walmart)
  • “Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes.” —Thomas W Higginson
  • “You were born an original. Don’t die a copy.” —John Mason
  • “All the time I feel I must justify my existence.” —Prince Charles
  • “A poor original is better than a good imitation.” —Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  • “All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.” —John Stuart Mill
  • “A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.” —Dorothy L. Sayers
  • “It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.” —Herman Melville
  • “You were born God’s original. Try not to become someone’s copy.” —Marian Wright Edelman
  • “I hold firmly to my original views. After all I am a philosopher.” —Voltaire
  • “God’s original prototype, too weird to live, too rare to die.” —Hunter S. Thompson
  • “Be different so that people can see you clearly amongst the crowds.” —Mehmet Murat ildan
  • “There are a great many sins in this world, none of them original.” —Richard Russo
  • “Imitation, if noble and general, insures the best hope of originality.” —Edward G Bulwer- Lytton
  • “True originality consists not in a new manner, but in a new vision.” —Edith Wharton
  • “Originality is nothing by judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.” —Voltaire
  • “Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.” —John Stuart Mill
  • “Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory is too good.” —Friedrich Nietzsche
  • “An original idea. That can’t be too hard. The library must be full of them.” —Stephen Fry
  • “Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I’ve ever known.” —Chuck Palahniuk
  • “The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man.” —Thomas Carlyle
  • “You’ve got to be original, because if you’re like someone else, what do they need you for? Bernadette Peters
  • “Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.” —Lawrence J. Peters
  • “An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate.” —François- René de Chateaubriand
  • “Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren’t very new after all.” —Abraham Lincoln
  • “An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.” —Jean Cocteau
  • “About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.” —Josh Billings
  • Should we all confess our sins to one another we would all laugh at one another for our lack of originality?” —Kahlil Gibran
  • “To be authentic is literally to be your own author …, to discover your own native energies and desires, and then to find your own way of acting on them.” —Warren G. Bennis

Famous Quotes about Originality

  • “You don’t take a photograph, you make it.” —Ansel Adams
  • “Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.” —Stephen King
  • “Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.” —Ansel Adams
  • “I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it.” —Garrison Keillor
  • “He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher.” —Walt Whitman
  • “The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.” —John Dewey
  • “Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • “Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.” —Eleanor Roosevelt
  • “Good actors I’ve worked with all started out making faces in a mirror, and you keep making faces all your life.” —Bette Davis
  • “I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again.” —The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath

Original Quotes about Life

  • “Each life makes its own imitation of immortality.” —Stephen King
  • “There is just one life for each of us: our own.” —Euripides
  • “A man’s originality is not only the most beautiful, but the best personality of his life.” —Anonymous
  • “Be regular and orderly in your life, that you may be violent and original in your work.” —Clive Barker
  • “It is better to create than to be learned, creating is the true essence of life.” —Barthold Georg Niebuhr
  • “Good actors I’ve worked with all started out making faces in a mirror, and you keep making faces all your life.” —Bette Davis
  • “A person who is trying to copy others will be a successful person for a while, but he won’t be able to succeed further in life.” —Ratan Tata
  • “Be original, be yourself. In trying to become like someone else, we are compromising our own self being. If we are not satisfied with our own self, cannot find satisfaction anywhere. We should learn to keep our own self happy and remain happy under all circumstances in life. The key to being happy is a non-insisting mind, non-complaining mind, and a pure mind.” —Unknown

Quotes about being original Yourself

  • “Insist upon yourself. Be original.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • “Be yourself. The world worships the original.” —Jean Cocteau
  • “Be yourself because an original is worth more than a copy.” —Anonymous
  • “Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.” —Anonymous
  • “Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.” —James Stephens
  • “Never change your originality for sake of others. Because no one can play your role better then you. So be yourself. You are the best.” —Anonymous

Originality Quotes and Sayings

  • “The unique must be fulfilled.” —Martha Graham
  • “Originality is nothing but judicious imitation.” —Voltaire
  • “Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.” —T.S. Eliot
  • “Insist upon yourself. Be original.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • “Nothing is new except arrangement.” —William J. Durant
  • “Originality is a byproduct of sincerity.” —Marianne Moore
  • “Anymore, no one’s mind is their own.” —Chuck Palahniuk
  • “Originality is the art of concealing your sources.” —Benjamin Franklin
  • “Every individual has the potential to be original.” —Yogi Bhajan
  • “Begin with another’s to end with your own.” —Baltasar Gracian
  • “Do your work, but do your thing.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • “You were born an original. Don’t die a copy.” —John Mason
  • “Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.” —Erich Fromm
  • “Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.” —Franz Kafka
  • “The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.” —Arthur Koestler
  • “The man with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.” —Mark Twain
  • “It’s not where you take things from it’s where you take them to.” —Jean-Luc Godard
  • “Originality is way overrated. To make, you need to take. All great artists do.” —Darby Bannard
  • “Most people imitate others. You should be original, and whatever you do, do well.” —Paramahansa Yogananda
  • “Don’t let anyone else hold your pen if you are writing your story.” —Sushan R Sharma
  • “Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.” —Julius Charles
  • “If you’re not prepared to be wrong, you’ll never come up with anything original.” —Sir Ken Robinson
  • “Be the one who speaks out above the crowd when everyone else follows the norms.” —Ritu Ghatourey
  • “Originality comes from just being true to ourselves and what we value about what we see.” —Melinda Collins
  • “Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren’t very new after all.” —Abraham Lincoln
  • “Always be a first rate version of yourself, instead of a second rate version of somebody else.” —Judy Garland
  • “The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.” —Aldous Huxley
  • “A man’s mind stretched by a new idea, can never go back to its original dimensions.” —Oliver Wendell Holmes
  • “The beauty is that through disappointment you can gain clarity, and with clarity comes conviction and true originality.” —Conan O’Brien
  • “An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.” —Jean Cocteau
  • “It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.” —Andre Gide
  • “A man of great common sense and good taste, meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.” —George Bernard Shaw
  • “New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.” —John Locke
  • “I think one of the reasons I’m popular again is because I’m wearing a tie. You have to be different.” —Tony Bennett
  • “People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things.” —R. Buckminster Fuller
  • “Create your own method. Don’t depend slavishly on mine. Make up something that will work for you! But keep breaking traditions, I beg you.” —Konstantin Stanislavisky
  • “Be original. That’s my best advice. You’re going to find that there’s something that you do well, and try to do it with as much originality as you can, and don’t skimp on the words. Work on the words.” —Bob Seger