Best 289 quotes in «making a difference quotes» category

Given how well the cards have been dealt to someone like myself, I think there's an inherent obligation to try to reach out and make a difference.

God, show me how to pray in a way that will make a difference in this child’s life.

God wants to use you to make a difference in His world. He wants to work through you. What matters is not the duration of your life, but the donation of it. Not how long you lived, but how you lived.

Here, let me break it down for you, so you know what I say is true: Teachers? Teachers make a difference! Now what about you?

Help us show children around the world that we can make a difference together.

Go out into the world, find work that you love, learn from your mistakes, and work hard to make a difference.

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.

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

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

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 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 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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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'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, then get good at doing something and not just talking about something

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!

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

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.

I guess one person can make a difference.

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 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 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 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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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