Best 289 quotes in «making a difference quotes» category

How strange too and unfamiliar to think that one had been loved, that one's presence had once had the power to make a difference between happiness and dullness in another's day.

I always saw myself as a large stockholder trying to make a difference. I wasn't raiding anybody.

I believe we can balance the scales if Tom Cruise would lower his quote by a mere $29 million... I assure you my salary would not make a difference. My annual salary is the budget for Altoids on one of Tom's movies.

I believe deeply that every one of us has an individual talent or trait that can be used to make a difference in some way.

I believe in getting a good education to be able to go out into the world and make a difference.

I can definitely say the same thing [discussing Steffi Graf's claim that she had played against at least one top player who used steroids]. Steroids can really make a difference, physically and mentally. I'd be really disappointed if I had been ranked No. 2 behind someone who took steroids.

I can be vilified. I can be misunderstood. I didn't come here to be liked. I came here to make a difference.

I don't want to make money; I want to make a difference.

I care not whether the soldiers are of Milesian, Teutonic, African or Angelo-Saxon descent. I despise the principle that make a difference between them in the hour of battle and of death.

If a film is not a success, then that's just the way things are. Nothing I can do can make a difference. I have stopped worrying about it.

If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go. Each one of us could make the difference.

I feel like you have to use your energy, you have to use your resources to help those who don't have a voice. Whereas back in the day, you could say, "I didn't know about this. What was I supposed to do? One person can't make a difference." No, like, none of that's valid. You can make a difference, and you do have a voice.

If i can do just one tenth of the good Michael Jackson did for others, i can really make a difference in this world

I feel it is important to point out that individuals can make a difference, that things that seem impossible one day might suddenly shift into a possibility the next day.

If we make every attempt to increase out knowledge in order to use it for human good, it will make a difference in us and in our world.

If I thought I was going to die tomorrow, I should nevertheless plant a tree today.

If the church is going to make a difference, it will need to go through the "big give-up" stage. Churches will need to quit being selfish and become relevant.

If we could all hear one another's prayers, God might be relieved of some of his burdens.

If you can get to a girl and make a difference in her life, you're actually going to have a greater impact on a woman's life. If you don't get to her as a girl, you may not be able ever to help her as a woman.

If you make the choice to just go with the flow, that is a choice to make a difference in a negative way.

If you create something that makes a difference in people's lives, you are likely to become a business success as well

If you make a difference, people will gravitate to you. They want to engage, to interact and to get you more involved.

If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains.

If you really want to make a difference for the customer, so what you have got to do is to make sure the products that you're bringing down in price are ones that they are buying every day.

I guess one person can make a difference.

If you're going to follow your bliss and make a difference in the world, you'll soon learn that you can't follow the herd.

If you want to make a difference, the next time you see someone being cruel to another human being, take it personally. Take it personally because it is personal!

If you were to ask me what I want to do - I don't want to be a celebrity, I want to make a difference.

If you want to make a difference, then get good at doing something and not just talking about something

I have a passion to make a difference in the world. And that difference can be just making the fans at my show leave with a smile on their face and feeling uplifted.

I love being able to perform in front of people. I like potentially making a difference in somebody's day or somebody's life.

I just want to be the biggest artist that I can be, and I want to make a difference. I feel like Michael (Jackson) made a difference with everything that he did. He was so charitable and just always on-point. I just want to be where he is, as an artist.

I learned in my four decades in Washington that one person can make a difference.

I hope telling stories though 'Making a Difference' - as in my academic work and nonprofit work - will help me to live my grandmother's adage of 'Life is not about what happens to you, but about what you do with what happens to you.'

I know it shouldn't make a difference, but crossing the dateline, we weren't sure what day it was - it was very strange. Now, I seem to cope with it better.

I love what's going on these days with these powerful women who are really working to make a difference.

I love music. I love making songs. I feel like I've been given a path where I can contribute, where I can protest if somebody does something really obviously wrong or inhuman right in front of me, where I can make a difference. Where I can most especially elevate, make you happy, elevate the condition, elevate the thing.

In a lot of close games, I can make a difference with my speed.

I'm not a soldier for anything, either. I'm only a singer and I don't think it makes a difference what we sing.

Imagine what a focused human being could do in a day to make a difference in this world.

I'm always struck by how innately curious kids are about the world around us and how engaged and sensitive they are to what is happening .. and how many kids do want to be engaged and do what to make a difference.

I'm very involved in my business and with my family and my friends. I don't play the social world very much, and not to promote my product. I do it for the philanthropic problems because there I feel that I'm making a difference, and that I'm helping. So I do it in a soulful way.

In a position to make a difference, politicians and hypocrites they don't wanna listen.

I obviously hoped that everything that I found would make a difference. It ended up being way behind my wildest dreams.

Inspirational and will challenge readers to get involved in the lives of others to make a difference. Thank you for sharing your wonderful insight and encouragement.

I realized just how much exercise and eating right make a difference in how you feel now and when you get older.

I think I'm making a difference for a lot of young singers.

I speak to lots of people around the world, and no one would tell you that 25 basis points will make a difference to them.

I realize it's possible in ways both large or small to make a difference in someone's life.

I thought I could make a difference, so I ran for office.