Difference Quotes

Compassion is that special ingredient that is often missed, and it makes a difference in building a positive environment.

~ Farshad Asl

What a strange revelation of self-esteem it is when people only love those who think and feel as they do - an extension of themselves, in fact! Even Christianity does not cure us, since one cannot feel right without assuming that the rest must be wrong. Personally I would rather feel wrong with everybody else than right all by myself: I like people different, and agree with the man who said that the worst of the human race is the number of duplicates.

~ Freya Stark

A joker is a little fool who is different from everyone else. He's not a club, diamond, heart, or spade. He's not an eight or a nine, a king or a jack. He is an outsider. He is placed in the same pack as the other cards, but he doesn't belong there. Therefore, he can be removed without anybody missing him.

~ Jostein Gaarder

Lonely and Alone: There's a difference.

~ Jerhia

If you think that growth means perfection, let me assure you, it does not! You do not need to be perfect; instead, strive to be honest, admit to failures, learn to ask for and to give forgiveness, love and allow yourself to be loved. Accept and even celebrate differences in others; their “No Excuses” mindsets may look and function a bit differently than yours, but that is okay!

~ Farshad Asl

Never fight any progressive moves unless you can move faster to achieve something different.

~ Ferdinard S. Lawson

Now is the time to commit to your SELF that there will be no playing small. You have gifts to give unto the world - and a difference to make.

~ Kami Guildner

Being goal-oriented instead of self-oriented is crucial. I know so many people who want to be writers. But let me tell you, they really don't want to be writers. They want to have been writers. They wish they had a book in print. They don't want to go through the work of getting the damn book out. There is a huge difference.

~ James A. Michener

Here, her hand in mine was the one reality that severed us from the cold click-clack of Hell. I rubbed her hand and she sighed; wasn’t that meaning? Wasn’t that something we could cling to? I could be with this other. I could form no other relation, but maybe her hand in mine was enough, both sufficient and necessary. In Hell there was no sense of place, because all places were the same. Uniform monotony. A place without place. A place without context. But, here, now, I could rub her hand and she would sigh. She was a difference. Perhaps each person was the only difference in all these halls of unchanging ranks of books, kiosks, clocks, and carpet, and that, and that, at least, we had to hold to.

~ Steven L. Peck

Her action in defending Marcão meant one thing to him and something quite different to her, it was so different that it was not even the same event.

~ Orson Scott Card

No man voluntarily expresses his opinion without some intent to make a difference, and even if he does, he shouldn't.

~ Criss Jami

Those who with high self esteem makes deep and lasting connections with their own unique way to make all the difference in the world.

~ Kishore Bansal

We are victims of our history and our present. They place too many obstacles in the way of love. And we cannot enjoy even our differences in peace.

~ Ama Ata Aidoo

The parts of me that used to think I was different or smarter or whatever, almost made me die.

~ David Foster Wallace

If you follow the pescribed way of how people want you to be, then it will be of great relieve if you commit suicide than to be dragged along like a donkey.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

The difference between self love and being in love with yourself is that one results in giving and the other in taking.

~ Jeffrey Fry

The difference between writers and readers is similar to the difference between expressionism and impressionism. Writers want to express themselves and readers want to be impressed.

~ Claire Amber

And I’m not spying! I’m evaluating!”“It’s the same difference!

~ Kim Harrison

At that moment I remembered something Cal had told me: that there is beauty in darkness in everything. Sorrow in joy, life and death, thorns on the rose. I knew then that I could not escape pain and torment any more than I could give up joy and beauty

~ Cate Tiernan

Love is not all about loving everything perfect, it is when someones corrosive nature is the only thing that glues you to them which you wished it were never there.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

That's all science fiction was ever about. Hating the way things are, wanting to make things different.

~ Ray Bradbury

Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

You are making a difference in Life. Whether or not you realize it, every action, every re-action, or every non-action impacts Life. The question to ask yourself is not whether you are making a difference, but whether that difference is positive or negative.

~ Donald L. Hicks

Difference between a successful and an unsuccessful person is not the action but the vision.

~ Debasish Mridha

They want to knowwho I write these poems for.Tell them it's for all loversbecause I don’t see a differencebetween our loveand their love.

~ Kamand Kojouri

The coining of their new catch-phrase 'homophiliac' displayed in contrast to 'homophobic' was rather amusing, though to think that they believe it means anything different to 'homophobic' is just facetious. It's like someone trying to create a difference in definition between 'genocide' and 'ethnic cleansing' - or to make the one look better or less reprehensible than the other.

~ Christina Engela

It is the culture that makes the difference. When there is no internal transformation, there cannot be external progress and development whatsoever.

~ Sunday Adelaja

It's about the ways in which girls deal with anger and aggression, as opposed to the ways in which boys do. The premise is that boys tend to be more direct in their aggression - physical confrontation - while in contrast, girls use an indirect approach known as relational aggression. Relational aggression is a form of aggression where the group is used as a weapon to assault others and others' relationships. It uses lies, secrets, betrayals and a host of other two-faced tactics to destroy or damage the relationships and social standing of others in the group.

~ Anonymous

It was different than all the rest because I say it was. I felt it was.

~ Katie Heaney

Man always becomes other. Man is the animal who continually differs from himself.

~ Georges Bataille

The difference between ideas and resources is that resources has its limits.

~ Santosh Kalwar

You can do the right thing that seems wrong to others, or the wrong thing that seems right, and its actually puerile to await recommendation when what you are about to do doesn't concerns anyone.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

The difference between politics and religion is that the first makes it legal to hate, and makes the love of the second illegal.

~ Rebecca Mckinsey

Different people remember things differently, and you’ll not get any two people to remember anything the same, whether they were there or not. You stand two of you lot next to each other, and you could be continents away for all it means anything.

~ Neil Gaiman

We are all lumps, and of so various and inform a contexture, that every piece plays, every moment, its own game, and there is as much difference betwixt us and ourselves as betwixt us and others.

~ Michel De Montaigne

The only difference between you and the star is that you shine below, and the other shines above: Wherever you are located, You are a star!

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

When your absence is felt, your presence is the essence and it makes a difference.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Just as it is certain that one leaf is never totally the same as another, so it is certain that the concept leaf is formed by arbitrarily discarding these individual differences and by forgetting the distinguishing aspects. This awakens the idea that, in addition to the leaves, there exists in nature the leaf: the original model according to which all the leaves were perhaps woven, sketched, measured, colored, curled, and painted--but by incompetent hands, so that no specimen has turned out to be a correct, trustworthy, and faithful likeness of the original model.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Aunts offer kids an opportunity to try out ideas that don't chime with their parents and they also demonstrate that people can get on, love each other and live together without necessarily being carbon copies.

~ Sara Sheridan

Christianity grasped perfectly that there is an element in the apparent contingency of love that can’t be reduced to that contingency. But it immediately raised it to the level of transcendence, and that is the root of the problem. This universal element I too recognize in love as immanent. But Christianity has somehow managed to elevate it and refocus it onto a transcendent power. It’s an ideal that was already partly present in Plato, through the idea of the Good. It is a brilliant first manipulation of the power of love and one we must now bring back to earth. I mean we must demonstrate that love really does have universal power, but that it is simply the opportunity we are given to enjoy a positive, creative, affirmative experience of difference. The Other, no doubt, but without the “Almighty-Other”, without the “Great Other” of transcendence.

~ Alain Badiou