Quotes about Distinction

We all have the drum major instinct. We all want to be important, to surpass others, to achieve distinction, to lead the parade.

I have my own identity ... The whole Michael thing does drive me nuts sometimes because people won't leave it alone. He's bald, I have hair. He's almost 40, I'm 22. Seriously though, I wish people would let it be and let me just be Kobe.

Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

Wisdom is what separates average people from extraordinary people.

What are your highest value activities? What can you, and only you do, that if done well, can make a real difference?

The name, Seventh-day Adventist, is a standing rebuke to the Protestant world. Here is the line of distinction between the worshipers of God, and those who worship the beast, and receive his mark. The great conflict is between the commandments of God and the requirements of the beast.

I know very well the difference between my image and who I am.

I like the way that the history of the tree shapes the tree. There's no distinction between the tree and its history. You can lose yourself in that thought.

There's something I want to clarify here before we get any further: making it matter doesn't mean making it worth it. Embracing the distinction can be no small relief.

For if eternity and time are rightly distinguished by this, that time does not exist without some movement and transition, while in eternity there is no change, who does not see that there could have been no time had not some creature been made, which by some motion could give birth to change.

Using every means possible to show that, although you're just an ordinary human being, you're far above other mortals.

Kings ought to differ from their subjects, not in kind, but in perfection.