Quotes About Difference

Few perfectionists can tell the difference between love and approval. Perfectionism is so widespread in this culture that we actually have had to invent another word for love. 'Unconditional love,' we say. Yet, all love is unconditional. Anything else is just approval.

A comfortable rut and a grave are very much alike. The only real difference is the dimensions.

Difference of opinion is the one crime which kings never forgive

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honourable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.

The reality for those in the successful inner circle is simply "the mundanity of excellence": a smoothly applied routine of using finely tuned resources with the confidence that one knows how to make them pay off. To those in the outer tiers, even those in the second competitive rank, there seems to be some mysterious quality that the successful possess, and this sense of difference generates a barrier of anxiety which makes it all the more impassable.

But the differences between the two races, especially that of colour, led Jefferson to advocate the total removal of the Negroes, after emancipation, "beyond the reach of mixture." My dear Miss Sally Hemings, has the man no shame?

When it comes to physical healing and deliverance, there is an historical difference in quality and quantity regarding healing between Christianity and other religious systems or non-religious systems.

Passion and drive are not the same at all. Passion pulls you toward something you cannot resist. Drive pushes you toward something you feel compelled or obligated to do. If you know nothing about yourself, you can't tell the difference. Once you gain a modicum of self-knowledge, you can express your passion.....It's not about jumping through someone else's hoops. That's drive.

Never shrink from making a difference.

Harmony is dependent upon a recognition of difference and a willingness to hold one's own truth intact in its presence.

Religion is too often the pretext for war, hatred, intolerance among different faiths, and competitive piety within faiths. But the problem isn't with faith, or even with difference in faith, within the churches, synagogues, temples, and mosques. The problem is the overachievers in those institutions.

A church can offer living and palpable proof that the gospel makes a real difference for real people living in the real world.

We cannot, to use the jargon, find "the neural correlates of consciousness" (NCC): more precisely, identify an adequate basis for the difference between neural activity that is, and neural activity that isn't, associated with consciousness.

Well, what was it to be a thief? He met the question at last, face to face, wiping the clammy drops of sweat from his forehead. God made this money - the fresh air, too - for his children's use. He never made the difference between poor and rich.

America: It's like Britain, only with buttons.

The cage is bigger than the ring, and it's a little bit different.

For me, even if it is a five-second cameo but one that makes a difference I will do it.

My family always laugh at me because they all camp and I'm definitely not a camper!

The difference between authorized and unauthorized biographies is the difference between riding in carriage or squatting in steerage.

What keeps me going is those cases, maybe ten a year, where I can make a difference.

I think Delhiites know how to party, but Kolkata has people who know how to celebrate. I think that's the main difference.

In a cornball way, I think being a celebrity is about making a difference, too.

Arianna Huffington is one of the greatest champions of this idea - that anyone can make a difference.