In today’s world, original is rare! Everyone is influenced by someone or something. One person is copying another person’s ideas, businesses and way of living. We don’t say copying isn’t good but copying someone’s whole concept is really bad! There are people who come up with new ideas and if you’re influenced with it, you can at least try to do something different with the concept. When you’re copying someone’s hard work or an idea on which they’ve worked for years, it might demotivate that person and could also become complicated for you as well. So, don’t be a copycat! And if one of your work is copied by someone else, don’t worry they won’t be able to do it better than you because you’re the one who came up with that plan and you must have a backup or an upgrade to that. It’s not only about ideas, businesses or the way of living, people are even copying others’ stories or posts! If you’re someone whose work was copied here are some copycat quotes for you. These quotes will tell you about their mentality and you could also share these quotes on your social media accounts to let them know what they’ve done wrong.
Copycat Quotes
- People copy people they look up to, and good products inspire copycats.Innocent-Mwatsikesimbe
- If you copy then it is not self-expression.-Michael Schenker
- You should learn from your competitor, but never copy. Copy and you die.-Jack Ma
- When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.-Eric Hoffer
- Do your own thing. Others own their own thing. If you copy too much, you’ll find yourself in late night cocktail lounge cover band limbo.-Kurt Cobain
- Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.-Pablo Picasso
- In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.-Marcus Tullius Cicero
- Parrots mimic their owners. Their owners consider that a sign of intelligence.-Marty Rubin
- In my mind, there are too many copycat web products out there that are doing the same thing.-Daymond John
- A copycat is like a poor amateur. Just another rip off.-Knisztina
- To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic.-Pablo Picasso
- Switch my hair, they gon’ copy her. Switch my gear, they gon’ copy her. Look at how they stare, just a copier. Roger that. Did you copy that? copycat.-Nicki Minaj
- You can’t copy anybody and end with anything. If you copy, it means you’re working without any real feeling.-Billie Holiday
- Don’t Copy What Someone Is Doing, Copy What God Wants You To Do.-Cyc Jouzy
- Creativity vs. inspiration: inspiration makes a copy, creativity makes something completely new.-Hannah Garrison
- Imitation is not just the sincerest form of flattery – it’s the sincerest form of learning.-George Bernard Shaw
- On the inside, the copycats of the ruffians are more delicate than the copycats of prudes.-Criss Jami
- There’s no harm being a copycat. If someone else is doing a good job, copy. It’s free.-Uday Kotak
- People are going to copy your product if you build great stuff. Just because Yahoo has a search box doesn’t make it Google.-Evan Spiegel
- As long as you’re being a copycat, you will never be the best copycat.-Eric Thomas
- Stay true to yourself. An original is worth more than a copy.-Suzy Kassem
- Without authenticity, we are only a poor imitation of someone else.-Tom Hayes
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- Great, a copycat. Nothing better than one freak mimicking a bunch of other freaks.-Sherri Cooper-Landsman
- Copying someone else is easy but uninspiring, and people will see right through it because it won’ be authentically you.-Aymee C. Buckhannon
- Mirroring someone’s words and behavior is a primordial instinct. It quickly makes people think that you are part of the ‘clan’.-Tony Bennis
- If you are looking for a way to manipulate people, mirroring can work wonders ‘Imitation is the best form of flattery.-‘Tony Bennis
- You can only imitate what you understand; but in other cases, you understand something precisely because you imitate it.-Werner Stegmaier
- Perhaps the most obvious and most common way to learn is by imitating someone, by saying or doing something as another directs.-Jack R. Fraenkel
- I could not fathom the slavery of being a copycat. Be yourself, be your own responsibility.-Nida Bejosano Goudeaux
- The beauty is that through disappointment you can gain clarity, and with clarity comes conviction and true originality.-Conan O’Brien
- Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren’t very new after all.-Abraham Lincoln
- Always be a first rate version of yourself, instead of a second rate version of somebody else.-Judy Garland
- “Be yourself because an original is worth more than just a copy.”― Suzy Kassem
- “I learnt that people copy people they look up to, and good products inspire copycats.”― Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
- “Strong brands are not built through shortcuts and copycats”― Bernard Kelvin Clive
- “Confidence attracts copycats!”― Aniekee Tochukwu Ezekie
- Some personal traits one holds dear just can’t be co-opted.”― A.D. Aliwat, In Limbo
- “It’s called originality, you should try it sometime.”
- “A copy cat can copy, not create.”
- “They can imitate you style, they can’t imitate your creativity.”
- “It’s easy being me, but it’s funny watching you struggle trying to be me.”
- “Live up to your potential instead of imitating someone else’s.”
- “A copy cat is always italic and originality is always bold.”
- “Individuality is a rare concept these days, it’s almost like a myth.”
- “I am making a list of everything I love and down to my hair color, so that it becomes easier for the copycats.”
- “Copy cats are usually missing a core idea of who they are and the reason they copy is to feel less empty and vacant emotionally.”
- “They can copy your idea, your dream, your style, your work, your everything. What they cannot copy is your spirit.”
- “My world is surrounded by copycats. Being yourself would be liberating and powerful.”
- Obsessing on evil is boring. Rousing fear is a hackneyed shtick. Wallowing is despair is a bad habit. Indulging in cynicism is akin to committing a copycat crime. – Rob Brezsny
- The king of comedy is dead. Richard Pryor was the king of comedy. The rest of them are the king of copycats. – Paul Mooney
You may share these copycat quotes on your social media but still these copycats may not understand or might copy you again in future. But, you should not worry about it and don’t let it fear you or turn you down. Keep doing the great work and keep creating original stuff!
