Following The Crowd Quotes

No one achieves great things by following the crowd. Have a spine. Strike your own path.

After following the crowd for a while, I'd then go 180 degrees in the exact opposite direction. It always worked for me.

It is a decision that compassion is more important than fear, than fitting in, than following the crowd.

The intelligent investor is likely to need considerable will power to keep from following the crowd.

The woman who follows the crowd will usually believe that I said this.

You and I were created by God to be so much more than normal…Following the crowd is not a winning approach to life. In the end it’s a loser’s game, because we never become who God created us to be by trying to be like everybody else.

The woman who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The woman who walks alone is likely to find herself in places no one has ever been before.

Advice ... is a habit-forming drug. You give a dear friend a bit of advice today, and next week you find yourself advising two or three friends, and the week after, a dozen, and the week following, crowds!

Don't follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you.

Courage is......following your conscience instead of "following the crowd." Sacrificing personal gain for the benefit of others. Speaking your mind even though others don't agree. Taking complete responsibility for your actions and your mistakes. Doing what you know is right, regardless of the consequence.

Chances are, if you are following the crowd, you're following the wrong path.

The only certainty about following the crowd is that you will all get there together.

The best opportunities are often ones where you're being contrarian. That doesn't mean being contrarian for contrarian's sake, but it means you're thoughtful about the risks of following the crowd.

A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.

Fortunately, some are born with spiritual immune systems that sooner or later give rejection to the illusory worldview grafted upon then from birth through social conditioning. They begin sensing that something is amiss, and start looking for answers. Inner knowledge and anomalous outer experiences show them a side of reality others are oblivious to, and so begins the journey of awakening. Each step of the journey is made by following the heart instead of the crowd, and by choosing knowledge over veils of ignorance.

The one who walks alone, is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been.

Do not follow where the path may lead.

Or about how when you're a child, to stop you from following the crowd you're assaulted with the line "If everyone jumped off a bridge, would you?" but when you're an adult and to be different is suddenly a crime, people seem to be saying, "Hey. Everyone else is jumping off a bridge. Why aren't you?