Know the Difference

• If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you.  That is the difference between a dog and a man
• The difference between stumbling block and stepping stone is the way a man uses them.
• The difference between an helping hand and an outstretched palm is only a twist of the wrist.
• We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
• Fear grows out of the things we think; it lives in our minds.  Compassion grows out of the things we are and lives in our hearts.
• Job is what we do for money; work is what we do for love.
• Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.
• To be deeply loved by someone gives you strength; to deeply love someone gives you courage.
• Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
• We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
• In the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
• It is more important to do the right things than to do things right.
• A house is built of bricks and stones but a home is built by love alone.
• Never believe in your doubts and never doubt your beliefs.
• An attempt may be a failure but there should be no failure in attempting.
• It does not matter where you are coming from; all that matters is where you are going.
• Two men looked through the prison bars: one saw the mud; the other saw the stars.
• Good habits are hard to form but easy to live with; bad habits are easy to form but hard to live with.
• You cannot control what happens; you can only control the way you respond to what happens.
• Successful people do not always make the right decisions, but they make their decisions right.
• It is always better to fail in doing something than to excel in doing nothing.
• Don’t die until you are dead.
• Some people speak from experience; others from experience don’t speak.
• Truth without love is brutality. Love without truth is hypocrisy.
• Something, which you do to yourself, is learning. Something, which is done to you, is training.
• Face powder wins a husband but only baking powder can hold him.
• The hands that help are holier than the lips that pray.
• Some temptations come to the industrious, but all temptations attack the idle.
• You don’t drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.
• Little faith will bring your souls to heaven, but great faith will bring heaven to your souls.
• Weak men are slaves of what happens.  Strong men are masters of what happens.
• The difference between ordinary and extra-ordinary is that little extra.
• Happiness is not a reward – it is a consequence.
• To handle yourself, use your head.  To handle others, use your heart.
• One man working with you is worth dozen men working for you.
• Growing older is mandatory.  Growing up is optional.
• Pyre consumes the dead; worry burns the living.
• Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking together in the same direction.
• Death leaves a heartache no one can heal; love leaves a memory no one can steal.
• The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.  Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
• Strong drink is the devil’s way to man, and man’s way to the devil.
• Talking comes by nature, silence by wisdom.
• Honest man takes pains and then enjoys pleasures; the knave takes pleasure and then suffers pains.
• Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.
• Where there is hunger, law is not regarded; and where law is not regarded, there will be hunger.
• Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.
• Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you.
• Vision without action is a daydream, Action without vision is a nightmare.
• Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
• The difference between a goal and a dream is the written word.
• It is not what we read, but what we remember that makes us learned. It is not what we intend but what we do that makes us useful. And, it is not a few faint wishes but a lifelong struggle that makes us valiant. - Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887, American Preacher, Orator, Writer)
• You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions
• Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
• Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
• The fruit of peace is love and the fruit of love is forgiveness.
• Adversity cause some men to break; others to break records.
• Putting off an easy thing makes it hard, and putting off a hard thing makes it impossible.
• Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.
• Tears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength.
• What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
• The whole difference between construction and creation is this; that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
• There is no fear without some hope, and no hope without some fear.
• The only difference between a rut and a grave is how deep, how wide and how long you are in it.
• White men build big fire and stand back.  Indians build little fire, huddle close.
• A fine is a tax for doing wrong.  A tax is a fine for doing well.
• Genius develops in quiet places, character out in the full current of human life.
• Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
• Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.
• A closed mouth says nothing wrong and a closed mind does nothing right.
• It is better to add life to your years than it is to add years to your life.
• Knowledge can cure ignorance but it cannot cure stupidity.
• Saints engage in introspection but sinners rule the world.
• You may not get what you pay for, but you always pay for what you get.
• A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities; an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.
• It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; It is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
• The difference between intelligence and character has been summed up by saying that intelligence plans but character does.  Intelligence is like the headlights of a motor car whereas character is like the engine which moves the car.
• What the caterpillar calls "the end", the butterfly calls "the beginning."
• The difference between an error and a mistake... depends on how long it takes you to correct the error.
• The right to be heard is constitutionally guaranteed. The right to be listened to must be earned.
• The difference between school and life - In school, you've taught a lesson and then given a test.  In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson.
• A consistent man believes in destiny, a capricious man in chance.
• He who cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot.  He that dare not is a slave.
• Formal education will earn you a living.  Self-education will earn you a fortune.
• A neurotic is a man who builds castle in the air.  A psychotic is the man who lives in it, and a psychiatrist is the man who collects the rent.
• Your dreams tell you what to do; your reason tells you how to do it.
• Nothing is so strong as gentleness and nothing is so gentle as real strength.
• Bad men gather; good men associate.
• Solitude vivifies; isolation kills.
• Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.
• Moderation in temper is always a virtue.  But moderation in principle is always a vice.
• We protest against unjust criticism, but we accept unearned applause.
• Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.
• Ignore the business outlook; be on the lookout for business.
• Pain is temporary; victory is forever.
• The work will wait while you show the child the rainbow but the rainbow won't wait while you do the work.
• Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard.
• The foolish men seek happiness in the distance; the wise grow it under their feet.
• There is great difference between worry and concern.  A worried person sees a problem, and a concerned person solves a problem.
• A wise man makes his own decision; an ignorant man follows the public opinion.
• Mastering others is strength.  Mastering yourself is true power.
• Don’t find fault; find remedy.
• Customs are generally unselfish.  Habits are nearly always selfish.
• One should judge a man mainly from his depravities.  Virtues can be faked. Depravities are real.
• When you are right, you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.
• You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.
• Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
• Never complain that roses have thorns.  Rejoice that thorns bear the roses.
• An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie, for an excuse is a lie guarded.
• Afflict the comfortable and comfort the afflicted.
• Never mistake knowledge for wisdom.  One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.
• To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.
• The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age.
• Any clod can have the facts; having opinion is an art.
• Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.
• Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events and great minds discuss ideas.
• Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear.
• The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.
• The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.
• The difference between ignorance and apathy: I don’t know and I don’t care.
• The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.
• The difference between doctors and lawyers is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.
• Everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles will be exalted.
• Pain is inevitable but suffering is optional.
• Life is like water. Cow drinks water and make milk.  Snake drinks water and make poison.
• It is better to lose in a cause that will one day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose.
• An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
• Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinions, will make a man brave in another – C.C.Colton.
• Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.
• The difference between impossible and the possible lies in a man’s determination.
• Serenity is not freedom from the storm but peace amid the storm.
• If you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains; if you pursue good with labour, the labour passes away and the good remains. – Cicero.
• There’s a difference between beauty and charm.  A beautiful woman is one I notice.  A charming woman is one who notices me.
• A successful revolutionary is a statesman; an unsuccessful one is a criminal.
• Freedom is when the people can speak; democracy is when the government listens.
• The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.
• You can’t think your way into a new way of living.  You have to live your way into a new way of thinking.
• A good idea will keep you awake during the morning, but a great one will keep you awake during the night.
• Don’t let the littleness in others bring out the littleness in you.
• When the business is good it pays to advertise.  When the business is bad you have got to pay to advertise.
• Discussion is an exchange of intelligence.  Argument is an exchange of ignorance.
• Poverty wants much, but avarice everything.
• Don’t tell your friends about your indigestion. “How are you?” is a greeting, not a question.
• If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubt, but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties.
• A small debt makes a man your debtor; a larger one makes him your enemy.
• A creditor is worse than a master; for a master owns only your person, a creditor owns your dignity and can belabour that.
• When you educate a man you educate an individual and when you educate a woman you educate a whole family.
• Experience increases our wisdom but does not reduce our follies.
• Our wisdom comes from experience and experience comes from our foolishness.
• Faith ends where the worry begins, and worry ends where faith begins.
• Go down the ladder when you choose a wife and up when you choose a friend.
• You can keep a man ignorant but you cannot make him ignorant.
• You cannot joke an enemy into a friend but you can make a friend into an enemy.
• Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.
• Knowledge is proud that it has learnt so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
• The difference between a man’s love and a woman’s is she love with all her heart and soul; he with all his mind and body.
• As laws are necessary that good manners may be preserved, so good manners are necessary that laws may be maintained.
• Women accept men for the sake of matrimony and men accept matrimony for the sake of women.
• The only difference between a caprice and a life long passion is that the caprice last a little longer.
• A compliment is a statement of an agreeable truth; flattery is the statement of an agreeable untruth.
• Wisdom is knowing when to speak your mind and when to mind your speech.
• He who knows others is learned.  He knows himself is wise.
• A learned man is a tank; a wise man is a spring.
• A good woman inspires a man, a brilliant woman interests him, a beautiful woman fascinates him and a sympathetic woman gets him.
• Wives are young men’s mistresses, companions for middle age and old men’s nurses.
• To marry once is duty; twice folly; thrice a madness.
• When a dog bites a man that is not news, but when a man bites a dog that is news.
• The heart of the fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of the wise man is in his heart.
• When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport, when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.
• Pride is concerned with who is right.  Humility is concerned with what is right.
• Mediocrity is self-inflicted.  Genius is self-bestowed.
• Don’t limit your challenges; challenge your limits.
• A lifestyle is what you pay for; a life is what pays you.
• Make yourself indispensable, and you will move up.  Act as though you are indispensable and you will move out.
• To be full of things is to be empty of God.  To be empty of things is to be full of God.
• A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
• Eyes believe themselves; the ears believe the other people.
• Debate is masculine and conversation is feminine.
• A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time and a courageous person afterwards.
• Silence is foolish if you are wise, but wise if you are foolish.
• It is better in prayer to have a heart without words, than words without a heart.
• Diligence overcomes difficulties; sloth makes them.
• A learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant fool.
• Progress always means change, but change does not always mean progress.
• Cowardice asks if it is safe; experience asks if it is polite; vanity asks if it is popular but conscience asks if it is right.
• Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains.
• Science without religion is lame; Religion without science is blind.
• The superior man thinks only of virtue; the common man thinks only of comfort.
• Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea.
• Instead of striking the iron while it is hot, keep striking the iron and it will become hot.
• A wise man who stands firm is a states man; a foolish man who stands firm is a catastrophe.
• Everything you are against weakens you.  Everything you are for empowers you.
• To be born free is an accident; to live free a responsibility; to die free is an obligation.
• One thought driven home is better than three left on base.
• The different between involvement and commitment is like ham and egg. The chicken is involved; the pig is committed.
• An optimist laughs to forget and a pessimist forgets to laugh.
• Ask God’s blessing on your work, but don’t ask him to do it for you.
• God looks on the inside.  People look on the outside.
• Have faith in the force of right and not in the right of force.
• Inch by inch life is a cinch.  Yard by bard life is hard.
• The only difference between a rut and a grave are the dimensions. A rut is a grave with both ends kicked out.
• Ignorance on fire is better than knowledge on ice.
• Security is not in having things.  It is in handling things.
• Rest not from duty, but find rest in it.
• How you bring happiness to others: While you are entering their room or while leaving it?
• A life with love will have some thorns, but a life without love will have no roses.
• An angry person is seldom reasonable and a reasonable person is seldom angry.
• A sinning man will stop praying and a praying man will stop sinning.
• A stand can be taken against invasion of an army; no stand can be taken against invasion of an idea.
• Don’t work for recognition, but do work worthy of recognition.
• A statesman shears the sheep. A politician skins them.
• At 20 we worry about what others think of us.  At 40 we don’t care what they think of us and at 60 we discover they have not been thinking of us at all.
• Attitude might not catch fish, but it helps when you don’t.
• Be bold in what you stand for; and careful what you fall for.
• Better an end with pain, than pain with no end.
• Character is made by what you stand for. Reputation, by what you fall for.
• Coins are made by mint of metal.  Character is made by dint of mettle.
• Confrontation doesn’t always bring a solution to the problem, but until you confront the problem, there will be no solution.
• Copying from one is plagiarism; copying from two is research.
• Cultivate money and you grow rich.  Cultivate mind and you raise culture.
• Dogs have masters.  Cats have staff.
• When you serve a dog, he thinks you are the God. If you serve a cat, he thinks, he is God.
• Don’t control; be in control.
• Every crown is made for a head, but every head is not made for a crown.
• Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservations.
• Everything that can be counted doesn’t necessarily count; everything that counts can't necessarily be counted.
• Falling in love is awfully simple.  Falling out of love is simply awful.
• He who blames others has a long way to go on his journey.  He who blames himself is halfway there. He who blames no one has arrived.
• Information is giving out.  Communication is getting through.
• Material or human things must be known to be loved; but Divine things must be loved to be known.
• Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life.  Laughing at someone else’s can shorten it.
• Man’s way leads to a hopeless end. God’s way leads to an endless hope.
• Prayer does not cause faith to work; faith causes prayer to work.
• Quality is presence of value and not absence of mistake.
• Tears will get you sympathy. Sweat will get you results.
• Beginning of anxiety is the end of faith and beginning of faith is the end of anxiety.
• Comforting the disturbed and disturbing the comfortable is what the world calls as good preaching.
• A contented person is never poor. The discontented person is never rich.
• Pain of discipline lasts a short while but the pain of regret lasts a lifetime.
• To let a fool kiss you is stupid. To let a kiss fool you is worse.
• With wealth you can live in comfort.  With drive you can make a comfortable living.  With peace of mind, you can be comfortable in living.
• You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they are going.
• The difference between giving up and letting go. Giving up is sacrificing what was rightfully yours, letting go is forgetting what was never yours.