Linda Ellerbee Quotes

The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.

I've never been a yes man.

I hate driving a bandwagon.

I don't care much about conforming.

I've never been one to just do what I'm told. I don't say that necessarily with pride, it's just something that has gotten me in trouble before.

I am anti-ideological. Ideology destroys your freedom. It binds you to the herd.

I would never wear anything because someone told me to.

I'd never jump on a bandwagon; sometimes people do that and it's not what I wanted to do.

Me, I like to go against the grain.

I existed before the mainstream. Why would I join them? I watched the mainstream come up, and now I'm watching it collapse. I don't want to be a part of that.

How can we choose to selectively follow what we find comfortable and attack anybody who tries to break free from the norms that we choose to set?

No rebellious heart is ever at ease with paths established by others.

If that's what everybody else is doing, that is not what I'm going to do!

In this age, the mere example of nonconformity, the mere refusal to bend the knee to custom, is itself a service.

I always wanted to be different and do things differently. I was a pain in the neck. I was challenging everything you wanted me to do and challenging people in school.

I dig my heels in every now and then, and think 'I'm not going to do what's expected or what people think is the right thing.' So I have a little bit of that in my personality.

I don't play by those rules; I'm my own worst enemy sometimes. There's something in me that has to go against the grain. You know, I don't like to be a dead fish, swimming with all the other dead fish, I like to go upstream sometimes, against the flow.

Custom, madam, is the law of fools, but it shall never govern me.

Don't follow leaders.

I’VE ALWAYS BEEN A REBEL. I NEVER DO THINGS THE WAY THEY’RE SUPPOSED TO BE DONE. EITHER I GO IN THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION OR I CREATE A NEW DIRECTION FOR MYSELF, REGARDLESS OF WHAT THE RULES ARE OR WHAT SOCIETY SAYS.

It's healthier to reject certain cautions than fall in line.

I cannot change the world, but I do not have to conform.

The most unpardonable sin in society is independence of thought.

The opposite of bravery is not cowardice but conformity.

I'm bad at doing what I'm told. I'm a born free thinker.