| "I'm the only person of distinction who's ever had a depression named for him." »Herbert Clark Hoover |
| "distinction is the consequence, never the object of a great mind." »George Washington Allston |
| "The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos, crazy for love." »Don Barthelme |
| "What I must do is all that concerns me. This rule, equally arduous in actual and intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is harder because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it." »Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| "Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion." »Albert Einstein |
| "I'm not judging people, I'm judging their actions. It's the same type of distinction that I try to apply to myself, to judge, but not be judgmental." »Jeff Melvoin |
| "They envy the distinction I have won let them therefore, envy my toils, my honesty, and the methods by which I gained it." »Sallust |
| "Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity presented to them. They have developed the opportunity that was at hand." »Bruce Marton |
| "I realized early on that the academy and the literary world alike-and I don't think there really is a distinction between the two-are always dominated by fools, knaves, charlatans and bureaucrats. And that being the case, any human being, male or female, of whatever status, who has a voice of her or his own, is not going to be liked." »Harold Bloom |
| "Commencement speakers have a good deal in common with grandfather clocks Standing usually some six feet tall, typically ponderous in construction, more traditional than functional, their distinction is largely their noisy communication of essentially commonplace information." »W, Willard Wirtz |
| "The real distinction is between those who adapt their purposes to reality and those who seek to mold reality in the light of their purposes." »Henry Kissinger |
| "An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men." »Thomas Fuller |
| "No kingdom can be secured otherwise than by arming the people. The possession of arms is the distinction between a freeman and a slave. He, who has nothing, and who himself belongs to another, must be defended by him, whose property he is, and needs no arms. But he, who thinks he is his own master, and has what he can call his own, ought to have arms to defend himself and what he possesses else he lives precariously, and at discretion." »James Burgh |
| "My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that 'achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others, and that's nice, too, but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.'" »Helen Hayes |
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