Distinction Quotes - Page 26

• When you're following your energy and doing what you want all the time, the distinction between work and play dissolves.

  Shakti Gawain

  Inspirational, Work, Passion

  Shakti Gawain (1993). “Living in the Light: A Guide to Personal and Planetary Transformation”, Nataraj Publishing

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• There is a difference between going to a service "for the worship" and going to a service "to worship the Lord." The distinction appears to be a minor one, but it may imply the difference between the worship of God and the worship of music!

  Sinclair B. Ferguson

  Differences, May, Worship

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• In God there is no duality. In that Presence "I" and "we" and "you" do not exist. "I" and "you" and "we" and "He" become one.... Since in the Unity there is no distinction, the Quest and the Way and the Seeker become one.

  Mahmud Shabistari

  Spiritual, Unity, Quests

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• The great distinction of a true Christian is the indwelling of the Holy Spirit. How careful should he be, lest anything in his thoughts or feelings would be offensive to the Divine Guest.!

  Francis Schaeffer

  God, Christian, Feelings

  Francis Schaeffer (2016). “The Francis Schaeffer Collection: True Spirituality / He Is There and He Is Not Silent”, p.125, NavPress

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• The glory of sport is witnessing a well-coached team perform as a single unit, striving for a common goal and ultimately bringing distinction to the jersey the players represent.

  Dick Vitale

  Basketball, Sports, Team

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• Nothing flatters me more than to have it assumed that I could write prose, unless it be to have it assumed that I once pitched a baseball with distinction.

  Robert Frost

  Baseball, Writing, Prose

  Robert Frost (1968). “Selected prose of Robert Frost”

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• But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy, and deals with the memory of men without distinction to merit of perpetuity.

  Thomas Browne

  Memories, Men, Merit

  'Hydriotaphia' (Urn Burial, 1658) ch. 5

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• I make a distinction between Buddhism with a Capital 'B' and buddhism with a small 'b'. Sri Lanka has the former, in which the state uses Buddhism as an instrument of power, so there are even Buddhists monks who say the Tamils should be eliminated. Thai Buddhists are not perfect either. Some Thai Buddhist monks have compromised with the kind and possess cars and other luxuries. In many Buddhist countries, the emphasis is on being goody-goody, which is not good enough. I am for buddhism with a small 'b' which is non-violent, practical and aims to eliminate the cause of suffering.

  Sulak Sivaraksa

  Country, Buddhist, Humility

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• For our immigration policy to make sense, it is necessary to make distinctions between those who obey the law, and those who violate it.

  Barbara Jordan

  Law, Immigration, Policy

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• The violence of war admits no distinction; the lance, that is lifted at guilt and power, will sometimes fall on innocence and gentleness.

  Samuel Johnson

  War, Fall, Guilt

  Samuel Johnson (1815). “The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia: A Tale”, p.200

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• On consideration, it is not surprising that Darwin's finches should recognize their own kind primarily by beak characters. The beak is the only prominent specific distinction, and it features conspicuously both in attacking behaviour, when the birds face each other and grip beaks, and also in courtship, when food is passed from the beak of the male to the beak of the female. Hence though the beak differences are primarily correlated with differences in food, secondarily they serve as specific recognition marks, and the birds have evolved behaviour patterns to this end.

  David Lack

  Character, Science, Differences

  David Lack (1947). “Darwin's Finches”, p.54, CUP Archive

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• The only distinction between freedom and slavery consists in this: In the former state a man is governed by the laws to which he has given his consent, either in person or by his representative; in the latter, he is governed by the will of another. In the one case, his life and property are his own; in the other, they depend upon the pleasure of his master. It is easy to discern which of these two states is preferable.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Men, Law, Two

  Alexander Hamilton (1842). “The Official and Other Papers ...”, p.12

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• It has been rightly said that nothing is unimportant, nothing powerless in the universe; a single atom can dissolve everything, and save everything! What terror! There lies the eternal distinction between good and evil.

  Gerard De Nerval

  Lying, Unimportant Things, Evil

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• Every person who has grown to any degree of usefulness, every person who has grown to distinction, almost without exception has been a person who has risen by overcoming obstacles, by removing difficulties, by resolving that when he met discouragement he would not give up.

  Booker T. Washington

  Success, Determination, Giving Up

  Booker T. Washington (2013). “The Booker T. Washington Reader”, p.303, Simon and Schuster

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• Humility leads to the highest distinction, because it leads to self-improvement.

  Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie, 1st Baronet

  Humility, Self, Improvement

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• This is the age othe common man, they tell us-a title which any man may claim to the extent osuch distinction as he has managed not to achieve.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Age, Titles

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• One man may hit the mark, another blunder; but heed not these distinctions. Only from the alliance of the one, working with and through the other, are great things born.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Thank You, Thankful, Gratitude

  "The Wisdom of the Sands" by Antoine de Saint-Exupery, translated by Stuart Gilbert, Harcourt, Brace and Co., (p. 44), 1950.

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• To me there never has been a higher source of honour or distinction than that connected with advances in science. I have not possessed enough of the eagle in my character to make a direct flight to the loftiest altitudes in the social world; and I certainly never endeavored to reach those heights by using the creeping powers of the reptile, who in ascending, generally chooses the dirtiest path, because it is the easiest.

  Humphry Davy

  Character, Ambition, Science

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• What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Greatness, Thinking

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.263, Library of America

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• Where there are no distinctions there can be no superiority; perfect equality affords no temptation.

  Thomas Paine

  Class, Perfect, Temptation

  Thomas Paine, Bruce Kuklick (2000). “Paine: Political Writings”, p.26, Cambridge University Press

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• It is almost impossible systematically to constitute a natural moral law. Nature has no principles. She furnishes us with no reason to believe that human life is to be respected. Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil.

  Anatole France

  Life, Nature, Believe

  Anatole France (2015). “The Revolt of the Angels: Works by France”, p.130, 谷月社

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• Familiarity confounds all traits of distinction; interest and prejudice take away the power of judging.

  William Hazlitt

  Justice, Judging, Prejudice

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1341, Delphi Classics

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• Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Character, Levels, Welcome

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2602, Delphi Classics

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

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Success, Achievement, Form

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.51

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• 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.

  Samuel Johnson

  Being Yourself, Believe, Being Single

  Samuel Johnson (1977). “Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.37, Univ of California Press

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