Best 289 quotes in «making a difference quotes» category

One of these days you're going to wake up," William finally said, "and I will have shaved you, Everywhere." (Paris) "Won't make a difference. Women will still want me.

One person of integrity can make a difference.

One person can make a difference.

One person can and does make a difference.

One person really can make a difference.

Only by giving are you able to receive more than you already have.

People always talk about what they do the night before, but to be totally honest what you do the night before isn't going to make a huge difference in how you look. Maybe eating a giant burger and being bloated would make a difference, but other than that it's the lead-up. For me it's always about trying to consistently maintain a fit and body-conscious eating schedule so three days before I'm not like, Oh my God, I have a bathing suit shoot I have to do.

People have to understand that unless social enterprise is experimental, it will not succeed in making a difference.

Take time to make a difference. Don't just obsess about how you can make your life better. Think about how you can make somebody else's life better as well.

Popular as Keynesian fiscal policy may be, many economists are skeptical that it works. They argue that fine-tuning the economy is a virtually impossible task, and that fiscal-stimulus programs are usually too small, and arrive too late, to make a difference.

Praying can make a difference, and it is up to all of us to try that, with faith, and see if it will not support these admirable troops, their spouses, and their families.

Sometimes just a smile on our face can help to make this world a better place.

Sometimes, when you want to make a difference in a person's life, stay out of it.

Students need to be reminded that revision isn't merely making a few cosmetic changes. Revision is seeing and then reseeing our words and practicing strategies that make a difference in our writing.

See yourself always as cause, and perhaps a better world will be found among your effects.

Some determined advocates of the vegetable system maintain, that the teeth and stomach of the monkey correspond, in structure, very closely with that of man, yet it lives on fruits - therefore if man followed nature, he would live on fruits and vegetables. But though the anatomical likeness between man and monkeys is striking, yet it is not complete; the difference may be and doubtless is precisely that which makes a difference of diet necessary to nourish and develope their dissimilar natures. Those who should live as the monkeys do would most closely resemble them.

Stand up for the things that are right. Try to talk things out instead of fight.

Teachers make a difference, and we would serve our students better by focusing on attracting and retaining the quality teachers by raising teacher pay.

The cumulative effect of each person making a change in his or her own life will make a difference.

The destroyer of weeds, thistles, and thorns is a benefactor whether he soweth grain or not.

The good news is that more than ever, value accrues to those that show up, those that make a difference, those that do work that matters.

The difference between a helping hand and an outstretched palm is a twist of the wrist.

The purpose of life is to matter, to be productive, to have it make a difference that you lived at all-using the talents that God has given you for the betterment of others.

The market can move for irrational reasons, and you have to be prepared for that, ... you need to make big bets when the odds are in your favor -- not big enough to ruin you, but big enough to make a difference.

The only way to make a difference is to acquire power.

The problem in modern America is not that an individual can't make a difference, but that nearly all of us are too distracted to even consider trying.

There is a huge difference between being tolerant and tolerating intolerance

There are women who make things better, there are women who change things, there are women who make things happen, who make a difference. I want to be one of those women.

The reason people come to work for GE, they want to be apart of something bigger than themselves, they want to work for a company that makes a difference, a company that is doing great things in the world.

There is always someone better than you. Whatever it is that you do for a living, chances are, you will run into a situation in which you are not as talented as the person next to you. That's when being a competitor can make a difference in your fortunes.

There's always an opportunity to make a difference

There is no greater reward than working from your heart and making a difference in the world.

there’s really nowhere else I can go, and even if there were, it wouldn’t make a difference because I’d just be running from myself, and you can’t do that no matter how hard you try, and trying hard is what got you in this predicament in the first place.

The willingness to share does not make one charitable; it makes one free.

There's so much one person can do, and so many ways they can help make a difference. It just takes one person to help someone to a better life.

The test is can you do something, rather than have a theoretical argument - can you make a difference?

The top players talk more now, and we have more meetings. We're just trying to get things better. But we still need somebody who could make a difference.

To me, Texas is Austin, a bunch of cool people trying to make a difference.

The world is not interested in what we do for a living. What they are interested in is what we have to offer freely - hope, strength, love and the power to make a difference!

To make a difference is not a matter of accident...People CHOOSE to make a difference.

This is a time of tremendous ferment and experimentation that is scary and exciting at the same time. The biggest challenge for media remains economic. How will we pay for the kind of work that really makes a difference? The revenue model for news has been profoundly disrupted, and that is as much a challenge for Vox, Medium, Yahoo or Twitter as it is in some ways for The New York Times or a local newspaper.

Throw yourself into life as someone who makes a difference, accepting that you may not understand how or why.

To say that on a daily basis you can make a difference, well, you can. One act of kindness a day can do it.

Understand and be confident that each of us can make a difference by caring and acting in small as well as big ways.

Treat employees like they make a difference and they will

True generosity consists precisely in fighting to destroy the causes which nourish false charity.

We dont know anything about racism. Weve never experienced it. If words can make a difference in your life for seven minutes, how would it affect you if you heard this every day of your life?

We cannot build our own future without helping others to build theirs.

We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.

We could make a difference just by holding our emissions steady as our businesses continue to grow. But that doesn't seem to be enough: we want to go all the way to zero... Today, I am announcing our intention to be carbon neutral, across all our businesses, by 2010.