Margaret Mead Quotes

You've got to recognize, there will never be another you. It has nothing to do with ego; it happens to be the truth. There will never be another person the same. There'll never be another you.

I don't feel inferior in the slightest to anybody - or superior to anybody, let's get that clear. But I do feel different.

The last thing I want to think of myself as is anything different.

I just want girls to realize, everybody's born a way for a reason, and you are who you are. You should just be yourself at all times. The only way you're going to get through life, happily, is being yourself.

The more I like me, the less I want to pretend to be other people.

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

I don't know why you should be proud of something. It doesn't make you any better or worse. You are what you are.

If I am not grotesque, I am nothing.

I just didn't believe I was like everybody else. I thought I was unique.

I learned at Yale, one of the biggest lessons was to learn how special I am and therefore how totally unspecial I am. I was special among everyone else who was special. The fact that we're all so individual and that's what makes us special.

Very often, people are obsessed with what others think of them. It's like if a flower wants to be a cactus or a palm but it's not. A flower is a flower, and that's enough. That's all you have to do is be a flower.

Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.

The things that make me different are the things that make me.

Don't let that nagging fear - that feeling that being different automatically qualifies you as being wrong - eat away at you.

I know who I am and I know who I'm not. I'm different, yes, and I am big. But I love who I am.

It doesn't feel great to be compared to Genelia or anyone. I don't want to be compared, and I would like to think I am different.

When you're growing up, the most important thing is to try to not change yourself too much. Be you, because everyone else is taken.

I definitely don't want to be compared with Dele anymore.

I complained to my mother about wanting to look less like myself and more like my friends. My mother then gave me a lesson in embracing my differences and loving them despite what others said.

I always felt as a kid that I was underappreciated, invisible or weird, but I've always secretly thought people would one day appreciate what is different about me. I'm always putting that message out there.

Being confident is the key to life. Don't be afraid to be you! I'm super different from a lot of kids my age with style and personality, and I'm OK with it. And if you are OK with it, everyone else will be, too. Just be yourself.

There's not one person that I say I want to look like.

I have never tried to compare myself to anyone else.

You are one of a kind and unique. Never forget that.

I consider myself just as normal as anybody else.