Differences Quotes

The strangest thing was, as beautiful as I found her to be, she admitted that she wasn’t always comfortable in her own skin. I found that hard to believe until she explained herself. All of the sudden I was not so much in awe of her but found myself empathizing with her.

~ Michele Jennae

Truth be told, I’m still in awe of her, but I found it easier to relate to her. She really made me see that we are all the same. We all suffer the same feelings of inadequacy because we are not like others, but that’s what makes us so special too.

~ Michele Jennae

Confidence turns into pride only when you are in denial of your mistakes.

~ Criss Jami

So you can be 'fantastic' or 'elastic' but can you ever be both lol??

~ Amber J.

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 different. God made us that way. Drawing a line in the sand due to that is indeed unfortunate.

~ Jill Telford

Thank God for immigrants. They're the only ones who have any personality left. They still allow themselves emotions, judgments, and all those qualities that we are evolving past. I don't know what they're saying, but I can tell they're speaking honestly.

~ Colin Quinn

The fact that we're all different is the one thing we all have in common.

~ Justin Young

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

...we live in the same city but don't see the same things - you see buildings and I see memories...

~ John Geddes

To be truly positive in the eyes of some, you have to risk appearing negative in the eyes of others.

~ Criss Jami

Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

We live in one world together. It's more important than ever to be friend to all.

~ Elizabeth Miyu Blake

It’s hard to be different,” Scarborough said. “And perhaps the best answer is not to tolerate differences, not even to accept them. But to celebrate them. Maybe then those who are different would feel more loved, and less, well, tolerated.

~ Bill Konigsberg

If you are well-mannered towards those whose views are similar to yours, you may be said to exhibit a fairly good character. But, if you behave properly wit those holding divergent views from you or who criticize you, then you deserve to be credited with having an excellent character. (p. 99)

~ Maulana Wahiduddin Khan

We try so hard because it is all we've ever known, I thought. We try to fit ourselves into this world so that we don't seem more different than different, an oddity in a sea of normality. We try because it is only instinct, but we obey because it is law.

~ Nadège Richards

Cripples are not the stuff of romance. Only Lord Byron, dragging his club foot, springs to mind as an exception to the rule, but such a failing in a man is regarded as interesting, even provocative, rather than disfiguring. Women must submit to a more exacting measure.

~ Mordecai Richler

There is a different world on the other side of your present attitude.

~ Bryant Mcgill

The surest way of ruining a youth is to teach him to respect those who think as he does more highly than those who think differently from him.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Perhaps we don’t progress, because there are so many views – so many paths to peace and happiness – that we get hung up on each path’s differences. Trying to sort out right from wrong when the rights mean so much to us that we can’t look at them objectively.

~ A.j. Darkholme

Let us know our differences! Let us understand our differences! Let us know and understand that we are all different people with different differences! We all have different differences that are not all that different! Understanding is the matter! When we get to know and understand our differences well, we shall least spit on each other just because of our differences!

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

At the end of the day, that's what a family is - a group of different people who accept each other.

~ Sara Sheridan

There was no single gay point of view. Like skin color or gender or any of those arbitrary, sometimes artificial, difference sexual orientation didn't make us all the same. But it did affect us. It had to.

~ Kelly J. Cogswell

Don't accentuate our differences,but instead focus on our similarities.

~ Anthony T. Hincks

Sacrifice” and “self” both begin with the same letter, but the spelling is way different after that.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Each of us is called upon to take a stand. So in these days ahead, as we examine ourselves and each other, our works, our fears, our differences, our sisterhood and survivals, I urge you to tackle what is most difficult for us all, self-scrutiny of our complacencies, the idea that since each of us believes she is on the side of right, she need not examine her position.

~ Audre Lorde

It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.

~ Audre Lorde

People — teachers, other students, parents — constantly made offhand comments that didn't mean much to them, but I read something else in their words. A hidden language that told me I was different. Or maybe I was so aware of my own difference that I was just looking to be offended by other people's words.

~ Aditi Khorana

to treat a human being as an animal - as a mere space-binder - because humans have certain animal propensities, is an error of the same type and grossness as to treat a cube as a surface because it has surface properties.

~ Alfred Korzybski

There is no need to become unique. We already are unique. There is no need to become equal. We already are equal. The greatest tragedies of humankind have come from people trying to force sameness on the level we are different, and trying to become different on the level we are the same. Peace is a matter of recognizing what is already there, not creating something new.

~ Vironika Tugaleva

When we begin to see our differences as opportunities rather than threats, then we can work together.

~ Bidemi Mark-Mordi

There were formerly horizons within which people lived and thought and mythologized. There are now no more horizons. And with the dissolution of horizons we have experienced and are experiencing collisions, terrific collisions, not only of peoples but also of their mythologies. It is as when dividing panels are withdrawn from between chambers of very hot and very cold airs: there is a rush of these forces together. And so we are right now in an extremely perilous age of thunder, lightning, and hurricanes all around. I think it is improper to become hysterical about it, projecting hatred and blame. It is an inevitable, altogether natural thing that when energies that have never met before come into collision—each bearing its own pride—there should be turbulence. That is just what we are experiencing; and we are riding it: riding it to a new age, a new birth, a totally new condition of mankind—to which no one anywhere alive today can say that he has the key, the answer, the prophecy, to its dawn. Nor is there anyone to condemn here (”Judge not, that you may not be judged!”). What is occurring is completely natural, as are its pains, confusions, and mistakes.

~ Joseph Campbell

Too often, we pour the energy needed for recognizing and exploring difference into pretending those differences are insurmountable barriers, or that they do not exist at all.

~ Audre Lorde

One decision make differences, so make one.

~ Deyth Banger

I wonder how it is that we are all connected despite our tremendous differences.

~ Sarah Ruhl

It is easy to surround yourself with people who think in the same ways, believe the same ideas, and live life in similar patterns. Many communities are made up of the same kind of people to the extent that we intentionally have to seek people whose stories are completely different from ours.

~ Holly Sprink

Differences disappear when faced with death.

~ Shannon A. Thompson

His thoughts inhabit a different plane from those of ordinary men, the simplest interpretation of that is to call him crazy.

~ Juliet Marillier

Life among clones would not be worth living, and a sane person will only rejoice that others have abilities that they do not share. That should be elementary.

~ Noam Chomsky

She could not have been born gray. Hercolor, her color of brown, was an essential part of her, not an accident. Her anger, timidity, brashness, gentleness, all were elements of her mixed being, her mixednature, dark and clear right through, like Baltic amber. She could not exist in the gray people's world. She had not been born.

~ Ursula K. Le Guin