Top 100 Our Differences Quotes
#1. It's just really important that we start celebrating our differences. Let's start tolerating first, but then we need to celebrate our differences.
Billie Jean King
#2. I believe that we are here for each other, not against each other. Everything comes from an understanding that you are a gift in my life - whoever you are, whatever our differences.
John Denver
#3. It is in seeing ourselves whole that we can begin to see ways of working out our differences, of understanding our similarities and of finally forming the cohesive nation that can one day experience the 'domestic tranquility' so hoped for by the framers of the Constitution.
Robert C. Maynard
#4. We have the ability to love each other, no matter our differences. To help each other, no matter our weaknesses.
Marissa Meyer
#5. Every race will have disagreements amongst themselves, but we must put aside our differences, and work together for the advancement of that race Sandra Forsythe
Frantz Fanon
#6. What we need to do in the community, and in the city, and in the state. We need to stop airing our differences in front of the white man. Put the white man out of our meetings, number one, and then sit down and talk shop with each other. [That's] all you gotta do.
Malcolm X
#7. Our similarities bring us to a common ground;
Our differences allow us to be fascinated by each other.
Tom Robbins
#8. In America, our differences matter, but our country matters more. That's the attitude I wanted to take to the Senate.
Cory Booker
#9. Love is magical, and it can last, if we remember our differences.
John Gray
#10. We all do better when we work together. Our differences do matter, but our common humanity matters more.
Bill Clinton
#11. When we begin to see our differences as opportunities rather than threats, then we can work together.
Bidemi Mark-Mordi
#12. Great authors are admirable in this respect: in every generation they make for disagreement. Through them we become aware of our differences.
Andre Gide
#13. The suffering of our people is greater than our differences. We are not yet free at last, so there is work to be done.
Louis Farrakhan
#14. Humanity can do better ... if we put our differences a side and diligently work together for the good of all mankind. What a powerful difference we could make.
Timothy Pina
#15. We must grow beyond it! Why reinforce our differences, and keep ancient laws, and never know the joy of breaking bread with our neighbors?
Helene Wecker
#16. In the context of marriage, if we do not feel loved, our differences are magnified. We come to view each other as a threat to our happiness. We fight for self-worth and significance, and marriage becomes a battlefield rather than a haven.
Gary Chapman
#17. Nobody fights over the opinion of which book is better. So why do we fight over which religion is better, if they're all based on books? Let us read and learn from them all and unite in our differences and disagreements too.
Robin Sacredfire
#18. As we mature spiritually, we exhibit a growing capacity to care for and appreciate one another in the body of Christ, regardless of our differences.
Joseph Stowell
#19. We have thought of peace as the passive and war as the active way of living. The opposite is true. War is not the most strenuous life. It is a kind of rest-cure compared to the task of reconciling our differences.
Mary Parker Follett
#20. I want my songs to be heard by everyone. I want [everyone] to treat people with compassion. I want them to realize that we are all so similar, but we focus so much on our differences.
Joshua Radin
#21. History teaches us that unity is strength, and cautions us to submerge and overcome our differences in the quest for common goals, to strive, with all our combined strength, for the path to true African brotherhood and unity.
Haile Selassie
#22. We are a diverse country, but we are one country. And we are at our best when we come together as Americans, not despite our differences, but in celebration of them.
Jared Polis
#23. I said, "Mr. President, if there are policies of yours with which I disagree, they will be addressed. From time to time you may not like what I say, or how or where I say it. I hope we can work through our differences when those occasions arise." Nixon
Vernon Jordan
#24. Our history is that we can very aggressively, if necessary, and openly and democratically discuss our differences. We have a democratic history in which we come together and vote on these things.
Stockwell Day
#25. The civility we need will not come from watching our tongues. It will come from valuing our differences.
Parker J. Palmer
#26. We get together on the basis of our similarities; we grow on the basis of our differences.
Virginia Satir
#27. Peace is a never ending process ... It cannot ignore our differences or overlook our common interests. It requires us to work and live together.
Oscar Arias Sanchez
#28. We must honor our differences while we find our own courage and our own strength the best we know how.
Jennifer Roy
#29. Our differences are only skin deep, but our sames go down to the bone.
J.D. Robb
#30. Our differences are our strength as a species and as a world community.
Nelson Mandela
#31. Our differences will also show up from time to time, underscoring the uniqueness of our personal endowments, the variety of our experiences, and the creativity of our sovereign God.
J. Grant Howard
#32. Despite our differences, we are all in this together. No act of kindness or compassion goes unnoticed. To change the world, take compassionate action within your immediate sphere of influence. To change yourself, start by being still and making time just to listen.
Edmund Bourne
#33. It is time for us to turn a corner and come together, put our differences behind us and focus on the future.
Christine Gregoire
#34. For me
obedience to another is the decay of self.
for though every being is similar
each being is different
and to herd our differences
under one law
degrades each self.
Charles Bukowski
#35. We emphasize our differences by nationality, race and financially.It's our common humanity that defines us.
Naveen Andrews
#36. When we dehumanise and demonise our opponents, we abandon the possibility of peacefully resolving our differences, and seek to justify violence against them.
Nelson Mandela
#37. We fell in love, despite our differences, and once we did, something rare and beautiful was created. For me, love like that has only happened once, and that's why every minute we spent together has been seared in my memory. I'll never forget a single moment of it.
Nicholas Sparks
#38. Only once we realize that our differences do NOT make us enemies can be begin to expect peace!
Hend Hegazi
#39. So we should all, me included, stop fighting each other and arguing about our differences on certain policies.
Robert Gibbs
#40. Let's go old school to impress people. Wear a smile, rather than a branded dress. Crease out our differences with understanding. And, use empathy, care, and patience as accessories. Then, let's make a conversation, not talk.
Ah, what a fine world it would be! Fine, pure and minus artifice.
Saru Singhal
#41. I think we can put our differences behind us. For science. You monster."
-GLaDOS, Portal 2 trailer
Valve
#42. Yet part of me also thinks the whole idea makes perfect sense. The three of us, leaving our differences behind, stepping on the plane together, sitting side by side, lifting off, moving West to reach the East.
Amy Tan
#43. Our peaceful borders and our peaceful history are important symbols, to be sure. What they symbolize, however, is the spirit of respect and restraint which allow us to cooperate, despite our differences, in way which help us both.
Richard M. Nixon
#44. That may sound a big vague, but what has struck me in city after city is that despite our differences and diversity, there's a common humanity we all share. In many ways we're all searching and longing for the same things ...
Rob Bell
#45. The usefullest truths are plainest; and while we keep to them, our differences cannot rise high.
William Penn
#46. I'm sure our paths will cross again, and our differences will be settled once and for all. Walk carefully, because next time it will be I who will surprise you." My
Mary E. Pearson
#47. We are victims of our history and our present. They place too many obstacles in the way of love. And we cannot enjoy even our differences in peace.
Ama Ata Aidoo
#48. While Secretary Rumsfeld and I have had our differences, he deserves Americans' respect and gratitude for his many years of public service.
John McCain
#49. We come in many different shapes and sizes, and we need to support each other and our differences. Our beauty is in our differences.
Carre Otis
#50. The whole world is global. With the Internet, it's like we're all living in a small village. We're starting more and more to realize there is no difference, we can work together, we can put aside our differences and work on our similarities and be successful in that way.
Shohreh Aghdashloo
#51. Bun E.'s a member of the band, but he's not touring, and he's not recording ... We've had our differences, but we're all settled up now, and hopefully we can forget about that era. These decisions that Cheap Trick makes, Bun E. is part of.
Robin Zander
#52. Misfits deal with the double-edged reality of having our differences act as the source of both our challenges as well as our successes.
Tiffany L. Jackson
#53. Political civility is not about being polite to each other. It's about reclaiming the power of 'We the People' to come together, debate the common good and call American democracy back to its highest values amid our differences.
Parker Palmer
#54. We'd had our differences over the years, as all brothers do, but brothers also have a way of sticking together when the chips are down.
Stephen King
#55. We need not agree on everything, but we must find a way to handle our differences so that they do not become divisive.
Gary Chapman
#56. As believers we all have an opportunity and moral obligation to recognize our spiritual common ground; to rise above our differences; to combat prejudice and intolerance.
Queen Noor Of Jordan
#57. The more we run from conflict, the more it masters us; the more we try to avoid it, the more it controls us; the less we fear conflict, the less it confuses us; the less we deny our differences, the less they divide us.
David W Augsburger
#58. I believe our differences are the little pinches of salt that can make the marriage seem more flavorful.
James E. Faust
#59. We must stop concentrating on our differences and focus on what we have in common. Then we can realize our full potential and achieve the greatest good in the world.
Bonnie L. Oscarson
#60. It's time to put our differences aside and find ways to work together to move Wisconsin forward.
Scott Walker
#61. And being different? That turned out to the best part of all. I found that with a little creativity, and a lot of dedication, any difference can be turned into something amazing. Our differences are our superpowers.
Cece Bell
#63. We are too focused in our differences to see how much we already share.
IMad Black
#64. So long as our relationship is defined by our differences, we will empower those who sow hatred rather than peace, those who promote conflict rather than the cooperation that can help all of our people achieve justice and prosperity. This cycle of suspicion and discord must end.
Barack Obama
#65. Yeah, we have our differences, but we put those aside, and now we're making music. It's great.
Alex Van Halen
#66. We must fight for our country and forget our differences. There can be but two parties: the party of patriots and the party of traitors ...
Seth Grahame-Smith
#67. I occasionally think how quickly our differences worldwide would vanish if we were facing an alien threat from outside this world.
Ronald Reagan
#68. For decades, our differences with Iran meant that our governments almost never spoke to each other. Ultimately, that did not advance America's interests.
Barack Obama
#69. What we need to do is learn to respect and embrace our differences until our differences don't make a difference in how we are treated.
Yolanda King
#70. I know today that appreciating your own beauty does not come solely from therapy, make up application, or plastic surgery- although these things can help. Rather, it comes from a little door that opens in our minds and helps us celebrate our differences and find pride in our uniqueness.
Laura Mercier
#71. If we are going to do big things in our country, we're going to have to think about better ways working across our differences.
Cory Booker
#72. In theory, the Internet should bring us all closer together and slowly eliminate our differences.
Jon Evans
#73. We must not only learn to tolerate our differences. We must welcome them as the richness and diversity which can lead to true intelligence.
Albert Einstein
#74. Our world hangs like a magnificent jewel in the vastness of space. Every one of us is a part of that jewel. A facet of that jewel. And in the perspective of infinity, our differences are infinitesimal.
Fred Rogers
#75. I believe in the goodness of man, and I believe we're all connected and that connection is through God. We have our differences. But if we will recognize that we like each other, that we are more common than uncommon, we will work toward what needs to be done to reconcile that.
Corbin Bernsen
#76. For too long, we have focused on our differences - in our politics and backgrounds, in our race and beliefs - rather than cherishing the unity and pride that binds us together.
Bob Riley
#77. We should not and cannot change all our differences. Each of us brings from our own background things which we should share. There is good in diversity.
Georgie Anne Geyer
#78. We're all a little weird, Isabelle. It's our differences that make us unique and you shouldn't let anyone, even a boy you might like, tell you anything different.
Melyssa Winchester
#79. With all our differences, whenever we are confronted with a threat to our security we are not then Republicans or Democrats but Americans; we are not then the fifty states but the United States.
Richard M. Nixon
#80. Let's stop believing that our differences make us superior or inferior to one another. Let's not be afraid that our different colors make us different people. Who cares? It's just a lie, and we don't have to believe all the lies and superstitions that control our lives.
Miguel Angel Ruiz
#81. Our differences need not divide us because even as we are unique and individual, we are also all one.
Karen Kimsey-House
#82. None of us are any better than anyone else and none of us are any worse than anyone else, and we're all equal and whatever we can do to celebrate our commonality rather than our differences, which is what religion does, to me ... religion just compartmentalizes people and makes everybody into a box.
Ron Perlman
#83. If we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.
[Commencement Address at American University, June 10 1963]
John F. Kennedy
#84. We are sisters. We will always be sisters. Our differences may never go away, but neither, for me, will our song.
Elizabeth Fishel
#85. Let us unite, not in spite of our differences, but through them. For differences can never be wiped away, and life would be so much the poorer without them. Let all human races keep their own personalities, and yet come together, not in a uniformity that is dead, but in a unity that is living.
Rabindranath Tagore
#86. Culture is this thing that we can exchange among ourselves as human beings to knock aside our differences and build upon our similarities. Cultural exchange is the ultimate exchange.
Chuck D
#87. In the end we are all separate: our stories, no matter how similar, come to a fork and diverge. We are drawn to each other because of our similarities, but it is our differences we must learn to respect.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#88. Everyone always talks about being color blind. And I get that. I do. But maybe instead of being color blind, we should celebrate color, in all its shades. It kind of bugs me that we're supposed to ignore our differences like we don't see them, when seeing them doesn't have to be a negative.
Amy Harmon
#89. We always wanna fight about what we think are our differences, but really we are fighting contrasts of the same.
Allura Eshmun
#90. Many hard comments have been made on my efforts in India from the side of the Congress party, yet I feel content in the deep conviction that the offer I traveled 22,000 miles to discuss with Indian leaders was a real contribution to a solution of our differences.
Stafford Cripps
#91. Before our race, nationality, or religion, we are all human beings. Let's celebrate our differences and not fight over them.
Rosie Fellner
#92. We might more of us say these words to others, and more frequently
how healing that would prove to be. "Look, we've had our differences, but how about some chocolate?" Or: "I'm so sorry: how about some chocolate?" Or simply, "Great to see you! How about some chocolate?
Alexander McCall Smith
#93. Your jaw makes you different, Ionikus Reaves, and more often than not, it is our differences that make us stronger.
Nikolas Lee
#94. As I've said many times, the nuclear deal was never intended to resolve all of our differences with Iran. But still, engaging directly with the Iranian government on a sustained basis for the first time in decades has created a unique opportunity, a window, to try to resolve important issues.
Barack Obama
#95. Our differences in beliefs
do not truly separate us,
or elevate us over others.
Rather,
they highlight the rich tapestry
that is humanity.
George Takei
#96. By definition, though, we are family. And in difficult times-- times like these-- despite our differences, we stand together as family.
Stephen King
#97. My sister accommodates me, never reproaches me with her doctrine, never tries to change me. She accepts and loves me, despite our differences.
Joy Harjo
#98. I'm okay with who I am.You might not understand me. That's okay as I don't understand you.We can still be friends, we just have to accept our differences.
Tina J. Richardson
#99. We're resolving our differences and we're looking forward to putting out a record next year.
Brad Delson
#100. We add our voice ... to those who struggle for the recognition and protection for their rights and cultures, because to the extent that we respect our differences, we shall build a life with more justice.
Francisco Toledo
