Originality Quotes, Sayings about being original

If you walk in the footprints of others, you won’t make any of your own.

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Simplicity with originality is better than super beautiful but imitation.

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Be bold or italic, never regular.

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Dare to be different. The world is full of the ordinary.
– RVM

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It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
– Herman Melville

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You were born an original. Don’t become a copy.

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Don’t live in someone’s shadow; you’ll just be stuck in the dark.

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One of the hardest yet best things is to accept who you are.

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If you are not prepared to be wrong, you will never come up with anything original.

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One Original Thought is worth 1000 Meaningless Quotes.
– Banksy

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You were born God’s original. Try not to become someone’s copy.
– Marian Wright Edelman

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Be original. Be yourself. To be anything else is to be a coward.
– Ryan Holiday

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A poor original is better than a good imitation.
– Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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An envious heart can’t be original.
– Toba Beta

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Nothing in Christianity is original.
– Dan Brown

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You’ve got to be original, because if you’re like someone else, what do they need you for?
– Bernadette Peters

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The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man.
– Thomas Carlyle

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I’d rather live the life of an unknown original than to live a life of a famous clone.

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Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren’t very new after all.
– Abraham Lincoln

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An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate.
– Francois- Rene de Chateaubriand

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Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes.
– Thomas W Higginson

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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

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About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.
– Josh Billings

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Imitation, if noble and general, insures the best hope of originality.
– Edward G Bulwer- Lytton

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Be yourself. The world worships the original.
– Jean Cocteau

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Be a voice not an echo.
– Albert Einstein

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Originality is the art of concealing your sources.
– Benjamin Franklin

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Should we all confess our sins to one another we would all laugh at one another for our lack of originality.
– Kahlil Gibran

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Just as a photocopied article is without colour so is anyone who desires to be like someone else.

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There are a great many sins in this world, none of them original.
– Richard Russo

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Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
– James Stephens

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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

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Creativity is the defeat of habit by originality.
– Arthur Koestler

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God’s original prototype, too weird to live, too rare to die.
– Hunter S. Thompson

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Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.
– Lawrence J. Peters

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A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.
– Dorothy L. Sayers

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True originality consists not in a new manner, but in a new vision.
– Edith Wharton

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Everything I’ve done I’ve copied from somebody else.
– Sam Walton (Walmart)

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The original is unfaithful to the translation.
– Jorge Luis Borges

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Be regular and orderly in your life, that you may be violent and original in your work.
– Clive Barker

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Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory is too good.
– Friedrich Nietzsche

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All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.
– John Stuart Mill

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Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.
– John Stuart Mill

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Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I’ve ever known.
– Chuck Palahniuk

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I am not an originator but a transmitter.
– Confucius

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An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.
– Jean Cocteau

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Originality is merely an illusion.
– MC Escher

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An original idea. That can’t be too hard. The library must be full of them.
– Stephen Fry

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You were born an original.Don’t die a copy.
– John Mason

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All the time I feel I must justify my existence.
– Prince Charles

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Insist upon yourself. Be original.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Originality is nothing by judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.
– Voltaire

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I hold firmly to my original views. After all I am a philosopher.
– Voltaire

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Be different so that people can see you clearly amongst the crowds.
– Mehmet Murat ildan

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