49 Best Conformity Quotes not to change your thoughts for others

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Conformity is changing your behavior to fit in with the people around you or to go along with them. This act compels you to change your beliefs, attitudes, actions, or perceptions in accordance with the wishes of other people or groups of people. Read best conformity quotes that will help you to know never change your mindset according to what others wish. Also read the best individuality quotes, madness quotes, and genius quotes.

Let’s read here the collection of best inspiring conformity quotes.

Best Conformity Quotes

1. “A man conforms to his situation, or it conforms to him. A strong and inspirational man does the latter.” ― Connor Monaghan

2. “A prison becomes a home when you have the key.” ― George Sterling

3. “Any fool can do something cool and look cool, but it takes skill to make something uncool cool again.” ― Criss Jami

4. “Any fool can make a rule And any fool will mind it.” ― Henry David Thoreau

5. “Being different is dangerous in a world that requires conformity.” ― Jonathan Cardon

6. “Being yourself in a world which wants you to be someone else is the highest possible attainment.” ― Bryant McGill

7. “Conformity begins the moment you ignore how you feel for acceptance.” ― Shannon L. Alder

8. “Conformity is a cage that confines our ability to think. It is a cage that hinders growth and deters individualism.” ― Yahya Mohamed

9. “Conformity is a type of calm where you hover motionless on the edge of a scream that never comes.” ― Bryant McGill

10. “Conformity is dangerous.” ― Adam Grant

11. “Conformity is often more dangerous than war. War destroys the body but conformity destoys the imaginative mind.” ― Debasish Mridha

12. “Conformity is painful. You know, it’s too tight. Conformity leads to rebellion. So a desire for happiness is in direct conflict with a desire for freedom.” ― Thomas Jane

13. “Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.” ― John F. Kennedy

14. “Conformity makes us blind. Our unwillingness to change keeps us blind.” ― Debasish Mridha

15. “Conformity requires us to minimize our differences for the greater good. We fear that if we don’t conform, we will be abandoned, but there is no loneliness like having people only see you after you’ve erased yourself.” ― Alok Vaid-Menon

16. “Conformity rules society not wisdom or simplicity.” ― Debasish Mridha

17. “Conformity—the natural instinct to passively yield to that vague something recognized as authority.” ― Mark Twain

Inspirational Quotes About Conformity

18. “Do not follow conformity toward the darkness. Follow the light of wisdom to fill the world with happiness.” ― Debasish Mridha

19. “Don’t conform to those who have been overwhelmed by the tide of immorality sweeping our country!” ― Billy Graham

20. “Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.” ― Henry David Thoreau

21. “Happiness is not intelligence. You can be in a group of happy people, but they may be miles off course.” ― Shannon L. Alder

22. “If you are always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be.” ― Maya Angelou

23. “If you conform, you can never reform.” ― Debasish Mridha

24. “If you want to conform, then how can you change?” ― Debasish Mridha

25. “If you wish to abrogate all responsibility for your moral and intellectual independence, then by all means – conform with the herd and obey blindly.” ― Graeme Rodaughan

26. “It is a brave thing to have courage to be an individual; it is also, perhaps, a lonely thing. But it is better than not being an individual, which is to be nobody at all.” ― Eleanor Roosevelt

27. “It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.” ― J. Krishnamurti

28. “Leaders do not conform; they reform. If you conform, you are nurturing mediocrity. If you reform, you are breeding change.” ― Israelmore Ayivor

29. “Life in society requires consensus as an indispensable condition. But consensus, to be productive, requires that each individual contribute independently out of of his experience and insight.” ― Solomon E. Asch

30. “Morality is a test of our conformity rather than our integrity.” ― Jane Rule

31. “One must conform to the baseness of an age or become neurotic.” ― Robert Musil

32. “One must do no violence to nature, nor model it in conformity to any blindly formed chimera.” ― Janos Bolyai

33. “One of the greatest regrets in life is being what others would want you to be, rather than being yourself.” ― Shannon L. Alder

Famous Conformity Quotes

34. “Public opinion is less tolerant than any system of law.” ― George Orwell

35. “Remember, the opposite of bravery is not cowardice, but conformity.” ― Gayle Forman

36. “The common person fears to think beyond the common.” ― Bryant McGill

37. “The greatest fear in the world is of the opinions of others. And the moment you are unafraid of the crowd you are no longer a sheep, you become a lion. A great roar arises in your heart, the roar of freedom.” ― Osho

38. “The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow.” ― Jim Hightower

39. “The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it’s conformity.” ― Rollo May

40. “The problem is that we humans are deep conformists.” ― Robert Greene

41. “The race of man, while sheep in credulity, are wolves for conformity.” ― Carl Clinton Van Doren

42. “The reward for conformity is that everyone likes you but yourself.” ― Rita Mae Brown

43. “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson

44. “We are the prisoners of conformity. To get out of this prison, education is the only door and only opportunity.” ― Debasish Mridha

45. “We are usually on bended knee before laws or angrily reacting against them, both immature responses.” ― Richard Rohr

46. “We cannot expect that all nations will adopt like systems, for conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.” ― John F. Kennedy

47. “We conform to pain until we don’t notice it anymore; it’s what you call — numb — and it tragically blots out our pleasure too.” ― Bryant McGill

48. “When you’re just like everybody else, you’ve nothing to offer other than your conformity.” ― Wayne Dyer

49. “You can look different but have the same values. That’s not diversity; it’s conformity.” ― Tucker Carlson

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