Holiness is not a series of do’s and don’ts but conformity to the character of God and obedience to the will of… — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
We must reject all notions of 'reform' that serve up more of the same: more testing, more 'standards', more uniformity, more conformity,… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
“With over a millennia of heritage behind them, each with their own glimpse of empire and some pinnacle of human expression (a… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
“Everyone knows that children and teens want to blend in and follow the crowd. And from whom do they learn this lesson?… — Leora Tanenbaum Copy Share Image
“...all these things were part of the business of dreams. He had learned not to laugh at the advertisements offering to teach… — Nathanael West Copy Share Image
I find nothing healthful or exalting in the smooth conventions of society. I do not like the close air of saloons. I… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Conformity—the natural instinct to passively yield to that vague something recognized as authority. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
In a famous Middletown study of Muncie, Indiana, in 1924, mothers were asked to rank the qualities they most desire in their… — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
Custom is, to think a handsome thing in private but tame it down in the utterance. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The best assurance any one can have of his interest in God, is doubtless the conformity of his soul to Him. When… — Ralph Cudworth Copy Share Image
You mock those who blindly follow the majority...turn your attention now to those who are so dedicated to deviating from the norm… — Demetri Martin Copy Share Image
To speak impartially, the best men that I know are not serene, a world in themselves. For the most part, they dwell… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care? A poor fool indeed is he who… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
As much as I live I shall not imitate them or hate myself for being different to them — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
Everyone tries to impress that special someone, but if you can't get them by being yourself, then they can't be that special. — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
It is but too easy to establish another durable and harmonious routine. Immediately all parts of nature consent to it. Only make… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The one who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The one who walks alone, is likely to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Yourself a newborn bard of the Holy Ghost, cast behind you all conformity, and acquaint men at first hand with Deity. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If you do not speak up when it matters, when would it matter that you speak? The opposite of courage is conformity.… — Rickson Gracie Copy Share Image
It is the active exercise of our faculties in conformity with virtue that causes happiness, and the opposite activities its opposite. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Today we hear a great deal about Organizational Men, Mass Culture, Conformity, the Lonely Crowd, the Power Elite and its Conspiracy of… — Kenneth Rexroth Copy Share Image
The struggle is always between the individual and his sacred right to express himself and... the power structure that seeks conformity, suppression… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
