Quotes About Distinction

Being the best is great, you're number 1. But being unique is greater, you're the only one.

We are delighted when a Minister awards us a decoration, even when we have no claim to be thus honoured, but if he follows this up by awarding the same distinction to others who occupy a position similar to our own, we feel inclined to keep him, if we can, from so foolishly cheapening the mark of esteem which he has bestowed upon us.

seis años son suficientes para hacerse muchas preguntas y, si no eres una idiota, para haberles encontrado respuesta a las que la tienen. Las otras, sencillamente hay que borrarlas del disco duro. Lo significativo es saber distinguirlas.

Don't let outward appearances mislead you into thinking that someone with more prestige, power or some other distinction must on that account be happy.

and it might be only small things that separate guys who are very good from guys who are absolutely excellent, outstanding.

It's been said that only the very rich understand the difference between themselves and the poor, and only the truly brilliant understand the difference between themselves and the relatively dumb. Well, only men who have gone through

The world isn't large enough for heroes and monsters at once. There's too much danger of confusion between the two categories.

San Josemaría criticaba la visión clerical que no distingue ámbitos —el orden natural y el sobrenatural, la Iglesia y el Estado, la religión y la política, etc.—, y sostenía que para la inmensa mayoría de los asuntos humanos no había una "solución católica", sino que cada cristiano elige la opción más conveniente según el dictado de su conciencia bien formada.

The very distinction between "high" and "low" culture was itself looking increasingly shaky, a product of an earlier era of elite intellectual self-confidence and benevolent moral superiority.41

There's no in between-you're either good or bad. We were in between.

Women are not forgiven for aging. Robert Redford's lines of distinction are my old-age wrinkles.

I may not know much, but I know the difference between chicken sh.. and chicken salad.

Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn't know the first thing about either.

We're not murderers, Tremaine. We're killers. There's a difference. A small difference, but a difference nonetheless.

Why should moral distinction be made between death by the spirochete and death by the streptococcus?

Unless a sharp distinction is maintained between the purpose and function of the Law and the Gospel, the Christian doctrine cannot be kept free from error.

You are commanded to get angry, not on your own behalf, but on behalf of your office and of God; you must not confuse the two, your person and your office.

To live and let live, without clamor for distinction or recognition; to wait on divine love; to write truth first on the tablet of one's own heart - this is the sanity and perfection of living, and my human ideal.

I can jog, but I can't run. That's hard for me. I like the fact that I can jog for fitness, but to me there's a huge difference between jogging and running.

I say every dog looks like no other but that isn't true. Not entirely. Difference is slippery.

perhaps there is only one distinction that matters: those who are learning to love their neighbors and those who remain indifferent to them

I do earnestly wish to see the distinction of sex confounded in society, unless where love animates the behaviour.

Weaseling out of things is important to learn. It's what separates us from the animals ... except the weasel.

Style… is a peculiar recasting and heightening, under a certain condition of spiritual excitement, of what a man has to say, in such a manner as to add dignity and distinction to it.