Originality Quotes, Sayings about being original

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

Be bold or italic, never regular.

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

Simplicity with originality is better than super beautiful but imitation.

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

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

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

One Original Thought is worth 1000 Meaningless Quotes.
– Banksy

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

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

Nothing in Christianity is original.
– Dan Brown

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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