Quotes About Distinction

Middle names are kind of like vice presidents: It's a fine distinction and certainly an honor, but you're never not aware that someone else got the real job.

A scar nobly got is a good livery of honor.

You want an Open title by your name. To finally get it, even though it's a Senior Open, I still regard it as a very high honor.

Maybe it's a little crazy, but it's good to have it, but I just don't like [prizes or honors].

I have lived as plain Mr. Jinnah and I hope to die as plain Mr. Jinnah. I am very much averse to any title or honours and I will be more than happy if there was no prefix to my name.

There lurks, perhaps, in every human heart a desire of distinction, which inclines every man first to hope, and then to believe, that Nature has given him something peculiar to himself.

I hope my fans remember my name is Gene Vincent and not Gene Autry.

Whatever I do, I hope it's quality, I hope it's something that's class.

All hen are created equal but some have more feather than others.

But sometimes what we call 'memory' and what we call 'imagination' are not so easily distinguished.

That which distinguishes this day from all others is that then both orators and artillerymen shoot blank cartridges.

Quality is more important than quantity. One home run is much better than two doubles.

They envy the distinction I have won; let them therefore, envy my toils, my honesty, and the methods by which I gained it.

Riches have never fascinated me, unless combined with the greatest charm or distinction.

You cannot overestimate the unimportance of practically everything.

To be more successful, learn to distinguish between the truly unimportant and the truly important. Eventually you will be considered not only a genius, but a messiah as well.

The fact differentiates the fake.

My role as a role model is to teach my generation how to excel in the role of distinction.

When you walk in distinction, you don't compete with anyone but competition wants to compete with you.

You will never see an eagle of distinction flying low with pigeons of mediocrity.

Don't try to be different. Just be good. To be good is different enough.

Having publicly made a clear distinction between aggressors - the Serbs and victims - the Bosnians - from the moment they took office, they had stuck to this line ever since. Their credibility would be in doubt and their reputations damaged if they were not to give public approval to a territorial swap involving eastern enclaves.

The epic poet is all taken up with what he called klea andron, "glorious deeds of men," of individual heroes; and what these heroes themselves ardently long and pray for is just this glory, this personal distinction, this deathless fame for their great deeds.

The best designers and the best programmers aren't the ones with the best skills, or the nimblest fingers, or the ones who can rock and roll with Photoshop or their environment of choice, they are the ones that can determine what just doesn't matter. That's where the real gains are made.