Differences - Quotes

All the lessons of psychiatry, psychology, social work, indeed culture, have taught us over the last hundred years that it is the acceptance of differences, not the search for similarities which enables people to relate to each other in their personal or family lives. - John Ralston Saul

As a young child, being different is isolating, and as a teenager it's humiliating. I wish I had been able to stand out with more confidence when I was a child, and especially when I was a teenager. I was different, but it wasn't always a conscious choice, and it often made me miserable. But I'm all grown up now, and so are you. Today, difference is your strength, your power, and your trademark. It's your signature. It can still be difficult to be different – sometimes even harder than it used to be. Even so, it's time to embrace being yourself. It's time to be authentic. - Bethenny Frankel

I'm always astounded at the way we automatically look at what divides and separates us. We never look at what people have in common. If you see it, black and white people, both sides look to see the differences, they don't look at what they have together. Men and women, and old and young, and so on. And this is a disease of the mind, the way I see it. Because in actual fact, men and women have much more in common than they are separated. - Doris Lessing

Imagine a world in which we saw beyond the lines that divide us, and celebrated our differences, instead of hiding from them. Imagine a world in which we finally recognized that, fundamentally, we are all the same. And imagine if we allowed that new understanding to build relations between people and between nations. - Wesley Clark

It seemed ... such nonsense – inventing differences, when people, heaven knows, were different enough without that. - Virginia Woolf

Most people can't understand how others can blow their noses differently than they do. - Ivan Turgenev

Our greatest strength as a human race is our ability to acknowledge our differences, our greatest weakness is our failure to embrace them. - Judith Henderson

The difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is how you use them. - Unknown

The fact that we’re all different is the one thing we all have in common. - Justin Young

There is a difference between giving up and knowing when you’ve had enough. - Unknown

There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative. - W. Clement Stone

To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater. - Unknown

We are all different, which is great because we are all unique. Without diversity life would be very boring. - Catherine Pulsifer

We are enriched by our reciprocate differences. - Paul Valery

We have become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams. - Jimmy Carter

We may have different religions, different languages, different coloured skin, but we all belong to one human race. - Kofi Annan

You’re different. And I'm different too. Different is good. But different is hard. Believe me, I know. - Matthew Quick

Seek opportunities to show you care. The smallest gestures often make the biggest difference. - John Wooden