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Goodreads Choice Awards 2024 Opening Round

Distinct Quotes

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Antonin Sertillanges
“We must beware of yielding to the pressure of a spirit of cowardly conformity which proclaims itself everybody's friend in the hope that everybody will obligingly return the compliment.”
― Antonin Sertillanges, The Intellectual Life: Its Spirit, Conditions, Methods
tags: conformity, distinct, non-conformity
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Israelmore Ayivor
“You don't get drown by falling into a river. You get drown by remaining there. Falling accidentally and rising immediately was what distinguished Thomas Edison and Abraham Lincoln from the rest.”
― Israelmore Ayivor
tags: abraham-lincoln, distinct, distinguish, don-t-quit, drown, excellence, extra, extra-mile, extra-ordinary, fall, fall-down, falling, fell, food-for-thought, israelmore-ayivor, never-give-up, rise, rise-up, rising, rose, success, thomas-edison, try, try-again, winner
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Israelmore Ayivor
“When you are pursuing your dreams, they will call you CRAZY because they are LAZY. They never know you are a HERO who just jumped away from step ZERO. Stay away from negative people; they will only pollute you.”
― Israelmore Ayivor
tags: crazy, distinct, don-t-give-up, hard-work, hero, lazy, negative-people, pollute, pursuit, stay-away, work, zero
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“You have two choices in life: you can dissolve into the mainstream or you can be distinct. To be distinct, you must be different. To be different, you must strive to be what no one else but you can be.”
― Alan Ashley-Pitt
tags: choices, different, dissolve, distinct, life, mainstream, no-one, strive
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Israelmore Ayivor
“In your goals to go the extra mile, prepare to pay an extra cost. Excellence is to be exceptional, surpassing, more competent and a step ahead with what is in your hands.”
― Israelmore Ayivor
tags: be-prepared, competent, cost, different, distinct, distinction, do-it-better, excel-excellence, excellent, exceptional, extra, extra-mile, food-for-thought, go-ahead, goal, goal-setting, goals, israelmore-ayivor, more, more-actions, outstanding, pay, pay-the-cost, prepare, set-a-goal, stretch-the-cord, surpass, the-cost, very-good
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“...when you're a writer, you become deeper and more uniquely distinct, the more you go inside yourself...”
― John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
tags: distinct, introspection, writer, writing-process
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Israelmore Ayivor
“Take distinct steps and exploits. Those who are distinct and distinguished always score distinction. Go there, be there and stay there.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream
tags: act, action, bold, boldness, dare, differentiate, distinct, distinction, distinctions, distinguish, drive, excel, excellence, exploits, food-for-thought, hard-work, israelmore-ayivor, passion, passionate, score, steps, work-hard, work-it, work-out
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Israelmore Ayivor
“Those who distinguish themselves in what they do and become disinct always score distinction. Don't follow the crowd. Distinguish yourself with a special commitment and you will excel.”
― Israelmore Ayivor
tags: commitment, distinct, distinction, distinguish, excellence, success
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P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar
“Etiquette teaches the distinct elegance of demeanor”
― P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar
tags: demeanor, distinct, elegance, etiquette-quotes
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Mehmet Murat ildan
“When you swim, be a part of the sea; when you walk, be a part of the road! Integrate with the universe! See it not as a distinct entity, but as your own continuation, as your own self!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan
tags: continuation, distinct, entity, murat-ildan, own-self, road, sea, swim, universe, walk
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Mehmet Murat ildan
“One of the most distinct features of this whole human history is god flattery! People never get tired of buttering every kind of gods in the hope of getting earthly benefit or obtaining heavenly plunder! Man is no doubt a tireless flunkey!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan
tags: buttering, distinct, flattery, flattery-quotes, flunkeys, god, god-love, gods, heavenly, human-history, ildan-wisdom, ildan-wise-sayings, ildan-words, mehmet-murat-ildan-quotations, mehmet-murat-ildan-quotes, plunder, tireless, turkish-authors, turkish-literature, turkish-playwrights, turkish-quotations, turkish-quotes, turkish-wisdom-words, turkish-writers
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Craig D. Lounsbrough
“We are not made for a mold to which we all mindlessly adhere. Rather, we are made to be molded into something for which no mold exists.”
― Craig D Lounsbrough
tags: distinct, individuals, molds, society, standards, unique, uniqueness
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Milan Kundera
“Merely by being born intelligent, you right away find yourself in absolute exile.”
― Milan Kundera, Farewell Waltz
tags: different, distinct, exile, intelligence, intelligent, outsider
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Steven Magee
“I often struggle with the perception of the USA and the reality, as they are distinctly different.”
― Steven Magee
tags: america, different, distinct, government, perception, politics, propaganda, reality, struggle, usa
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Shree Shambav
“You are appealing because you are distinct.”
― Shree Shambav, Twenty + One - 21 Short Stories
tags: appealing, consciousness, distinct, happiness, inspirational, mankind, motivation, positive-thinking, shreeshambav, spirituality
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