The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh.

Knowing that we can make a difference in this world is a great motivator. How can we know this and not be involved?

I salute every individual who honours the core values of peace and help in one way or another to make a difference.

One of the advantages of being over forty is that one begins to learn the difference between knowing and realising.

I feel such a difference between a philologist/linguist and a linguaphile as, say, a choreographer and a ballerina.

I wonder how often in the past I may have missed the good in people because I pre-judged, based on the differences?

Perhaps the greatest difference among people is between those who never have to worry about money and those who do.

Analogue. A part or organ in one animal which has the same function as another part or organ in a different animal.

I can't fix the world. If you want to make a difference in life, you have to direct your energies in a focused way.

The only difference about us in here and you guys out there is we're braver for about 15 minutes longer. That's it.

Prayer is the difference between you fighting for God and God fighting for you. Secret prayer is our secret weapon.

Talking to yourself proves only one thing: you're still unable to tell the difference between good and bad company.

As we get older, our world gets smaller and we start to doubt and question. We are really suspicious of difference.

We are of course a nation of differences. Those differences don't make us weak. They're the source of our strength.

There is a difference between finding trouble in your path and going out of your way searching for it.” -Jacen Solo

It is the difference betwixt lust and love that this is fixed, that volatile. Love grows, lust wastes by enjoyment.

Researchers have found very little difference between men and women in terms of the amount of time spent gossiping.

I think it has done us more harm believing in the huge differences between left and right, Democrat and Republican.

So many people spend so much time on things that aren't important. It's the difference between success and failure.

I say that male and female are cast in the same mold; except for education and habits, the difference is not great.

There's a difference between watching a film and watching a bit of cinema and enjoying a film as a piece of cinema.

If i can do just one tenth of the good Michael Jackson did for others, i can really make a difference in this world

She lived unknown, and few could know When Lucy ceased to be; But she is in her grave, and oh The difference to me!

Honest difference of views and honest debate are not disunity. They are the vital process of policy among free men.

The difference between a novelist and someone who tinkers around with writing is this: novelists finish their books.

Theirs is the party that ... responds to the death of Americans at Benghazi by asking, What difference does it make?

It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.

There's a difference between those two [George Soroses and the Tom Steyers] and the Kochs that I think is important.

What's the difference between sex and love? I have four wives and five kids. I apparently don't know the difference.

I think - you know, I'm a guy that - I don't live on the earth just to walk it. I live on here to make a difference.

People have to understand that unless social enterprise is experimental, it will not succeed in making a difference.

We offer a new way for those people of Indian origin to make a difference in their country - and to make some money.

In inorganic chemistry the radicals are simple; in organic chemistry they are compounds—that is the sole difference.

The difference between the rich and the poor is that the rich have learned to recognize the value of their thoughts.

Perception is reality, but it may not be actuality, and you have got to be able to keep the difference between that.

I'm not interested in the difference between good and bad, I'm interested in the differences between good and great.

Life is a disease; and the only difference between on man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives.

It's the differences in people that help you realize who you are. Even if we silently pass each other on the street.

If you get into business solely to make money, you won’t. If you try to make a real difference, you’ll find success.

When you fall in love, it is spring no matter when. Leaves falling make no difference, they are from another season.

The use of the right word, the exact word, is the difference between a pencil with a sharp point and a thick crayon.

You don't want someone who can't tell the difference between having a different opinion and dismissing your opinion.

The more intelligence one has, the more people one finds original. Commonplace people see no difference between men.

The uniform makes for brotherhood, since when universally adopted it covers up all differences of class and country.

The difference between hearsay and prophecy is often one of sequence. Hearsay often turns out to have been prophecy.

I guess there were fewer differences between me and social psychologists than between me and other people in general

Understand and be confident that each of us can make a difference by caring and acting in small as well as big ways.

By looking at the difference between perceived danger and actual danger, you can fundamentally change your reaction.

The entrepreneurs who succeed usually want to make a difference to people’s lives, not just their own bank balances.

It seemed to her such nonsense-inventing differences, when people, heaven knows, were different enough without that.

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