Quotes About Distinction

Me tembló el alma. ¿Qué hacer, que podría hacer para triunfar, para tener dinero, mucho dinero?...Y no sabiendo si pudiera asesinar a alguien, si al menos hubiera tenido a algún pariente, rico, a quien asesinar y responderme, comprendí que nunca me resignaría a la vida penuriosa que sobrellevan naturalmente la mayoría de los hombres. De pronto se hizo tan evidente en mi conciencia la certeza de que ese anhelo de distinción me acompañaría por el mundo.

Vultures and peacocks might both have feathers and beaks, but one did not confuse the two creatures.

The behavior of these three blurs the distinction at the edge between life and death.

You either have to be first, best, or different.

This is not a restaurant. Restaurants serve different things from this.

Riches are a claim to distinction for those who have no other right to it. Ancestry is most important to those who have done nothing themselves, and often the ancestor from whom they claim descent is one they would not allow in the house if they met him today.

It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women. Amy was learning this distinction through much tribulation, for mistaking enthusiasm for inspiration, she attempted every branch of art with

This would be a feather in its cap.

There is no substitute for excellence. Not even success.

Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity that was at hand.

Success seems to be that which forms the distinction between confidence and conceit.

The vast majority of things are distractions, and very few really matter to your success.

To possess a good cognomen is a long way on the road of success in life.

He whose game is the eagle takes no heed of the sparrow

Although men cannot become absolutely equal unless they be entirely free, and consequently equality, pushed to its furthest extent, may be confounded with freedom, yet there is good reason for distinguishing the one from the other.

Il n'y a rien de si difficile à distinguer que les nuances qui séparent un malheur immérité d'une infortune que le vice a produite. Combien de misères sont à la fois le résultat de ces deux causes!

Hay otra cosa que aprendes cuando recorres el mundo. Existe una distinción de clases en todas las cosas. La gente ama a los de su propia clase y odia a los de su propia clase. Los chacales odian a los chacales, no se atreverían a odiar a un león»

ECCENTRICITY, n. A method of distinction so cheap that fools employ it to accentuate their incapacity.

Jude wondered if the chip was smart enough to tell the difference between a dog and a naked psychotic scrambling around on all fours with a knife in his teeth.

You could look at birds all your life without ever knowing what was a sparrow and what was a blackbird, but we all know a swan when we see it.

Thucydides: "Any nation that draws too great a distinction between its scholars and its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting done by fools.

It takes a mature person to recognize what you're not. Knowing what you're not will help you stay focused on becoming who you are, because there will always be pressures to be this, to be that, to be the other.

One cannot develop taste from what is of average quality but only from the very best.

One of life's best coping mechanisms is to know the difference between an inconvenience and a problem.