Difference Quotes

Show the world you are not here to just pass through. Leave great footprints wherever you pass and be remembered for the change you initiated.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Focus on your work. Do what you're great at. Don't compare yourself to others and or waste time criticizing the lives and work of others. Do what matters most to you and make a difference doing that.

~ Germany Kent

Because a quiet night is not the same as a silent one, a firm man is not the same as a steady one, and a bright light is not the same as a brilliant one.

~ Tahereh Mafi

Every specific human being, however, thinks, judges, imagines, wills and expresses himself or herself in a unique, dissimilar, and unrepeatable mode--a mode of unpredictable difference, or otherness, which objectively defies description or delimitation.

~ Christos Yannaras

You were created a hero and born to prove it. Stand on challenges and make a difference.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

The art is not, to tell. The art is, not to tell.

~ Muhammad Zaki

The dividing line between those who will be great and those who will be mediocre is the amount of time each person converts into added value to himself.

~ Sunday Adelaja

He no longer loves the person whom he loved ten years ago. I quite believe it. She is no longer the same, nor is he. He was young, and she also; she is quite different. He would perhaps love her yet, if she were what she was then.

~ Blaise Pascal

There is, after all, no moral difference between the bigot and the tolerator. They are from case to case positive or negative. One man is bigoted because he was given the sword of truth, another because he is angered in thoughtlessness; then, one man is tolerant because he was given the flag of peace, another because he is cowardly and wishes to hide all guilt.

~ Criss Jami

Our differences are the real treasures.

~ Temitope Ibrahim

Because the difference between a friend and a real friend is that you and the real friend come from the same territory, of the same place deep inside you, and that means you see the world in the same kind of way. You know each other even before you do.

~ Laura Pritchett

In a general sense, I admit to valuing the worldviews of men under the age of 40 and women over the age of 30.

~ Criss Jami

Strange is our situation here upon earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to a divine purpose. From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: That we are here for the sake of other men —above all for those upon whose smile and well-being our own happiness depends, for the countless unknown souls with whose fate we are connected by a bond of sympathy. Many times a day, I realize how much my outer and inner life is built upon the labors of people, both living and dead, and how earnestly I must exert myself in order to give in return as much as I have received and am still receiving.

~ Albert Einstein

The only difference between you and the person you admire is their perspective on life.

~ Shannon L. Alder

The most unpresentable persons are generally the most interesting.

~ Teresa De La Parra

Some people make a difference, some people make you different.

~ Saleem Sharma

Young people today are deeply passionate and crave authentic life based on truth. They're hungry to make a difference. They're willing to take a stand for whatever they believe, even to die for a cause. When they sell out to Jesus, they'll pursue a standard of righteousness that is greater than anything you and I ever saw growing up. Don't water it down. Don't lower the standard. And don't just settle for raising it-raise it higher. Believe in your children. Talk with them. Speak well of them. Encourage them. Pray for them. Celebrate the victories with them. Affirm their growth. We can raise a generation that, although they'll make mistakes, will sell out completely when Jesus grips them. They'll give Him everything. They'll make you proud by being even weirder than you are.

~ Craig Groeschel

Once upon a time there were two countries, at war with each other. In order to make peace after many years of conflict, they decided to build a bridge across the ocean.But because they never learned each other’s language properly, they could never agree on the details, so the two halves of the bridge they started to build never met.To this day the bridge extends far into the ocean from both sides, and simply ends half way, miles in the wrong direction from the meeting point.And the two countries are still at war.

~ Vera Nazarian

The world is not ready for some people when they show up, but that shouldn't stop anyone.

~ Ashly Lorenzana

Each of us needs something of an island in his life—if not an actual island, at least some place, or space in time, in which to be himself, free to cultivate his difference from others.

~ John C. Keats

In the transformed world political context of today, it is more essential than ever that the critique of democracy in the name of difference developed by oppositional intellectuals be formulated so carefully that these thoughts cannot be exploited for nationalist, tribalist, and xenophobic purposes. It is imperative that the politics of the 'differend' not be settled beyond and at the margins of democratic politics.

~ Şeyla Benhabib

But change proves that you are still alive. Change often measures our tolerance for folk different from ourselves. Can we accept their languages, their customs, their garments, and their foods into our own lives? If we can, then we form bonds, bonds that make wars less likely. If we cannot, if we believe that we must do things as we have always done them, then we must either fight to remain as we are, or die

~ Robin Hobb

If you truly believe in something that is totally rejected by others, then you've just made a difference.

~ Toba Beta

Fight for change? Thirst for difference?Start talking what men avoid talking about.

~ Toba Beta

Sometimes it's possible, just barely possible, to imagine a version of this world different from the existing one, a world in which there is true justice, heroic honesty, a clear perception possessed by each individual about how to treat all the others. Sometimes I swear I could see it, glittering in the pavement, glowing between the words in a stranger's sentence, a green, impossible vision--the world as it was meant to be, like a mist around the world as it is.

~ Ben H. Winters

You do not change anything, only need to make difference.

~ Toba Beta

We cannot force others to behave differently if they disagree with us, but if we change what we are saying or doing they will respond differently.

~ Nabil N. Jamal

You can flip a coin to change its face, but it remains the same coin.

~ Dashanne Stokes

It is strange a difference comes from a subtraction.

~ Natasha Tsakos

When we look at things differently, things look different.

~ Toni Sorenson

I have a face where half is mine and half is not, it is hard to see a difference when you stand in front of me under the light as both my eyes shines equally. But the day you step into the darkness I hold inside me you will see my face the way it is and it will end up changing your whole world related to me forever.

~ Akshay Vasu

The world bein’ so small ain’t always a good thing for those of us who ain’t searchin’ for new and different stuff.

~ Dan Groat

As a leader, you will see things you may never like to see; yours is to correct those things so that next time you open your eyes, you will see better things you wish to be seeing always. Leaders learn to right the wrong of society.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Being different is a revolving door in your life where secure people enter and insecure exit.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Death has only one hand glove... so it takes away the body, but leaves behind the impacts. Difference makers live twice; in body and in impacts... The former is temporal but the later lasts long!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

What differentiates victors and victims are visions and vigor. Victims won't get the vim to step out of their situations.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Leadership makes a difference in the results we create and the quality of life we live.

~ Bob Anderson

Art teaches something we all need to learn, especially about people who are different from ourselves: To see things the way they truly are, sometimes you have to look more deeply.

~ Ron Hall

I don't read books to finish them, I read to consume them.

~ Temitope Ibrahim

God decided that this time in history was perfect for you to glorify Him and make an eternal difference. So God gave you unique gifts, talents, passions, and experiences to propel you into your life purpose.

~ Craig Groeschel