Best 289 quotes in «making a difference quotes» category

Shit happens everyday. How you deal with it makes all the difference.

They needed this anti-virus. If they could find it, it could make all the difference in the world. They had to hurry, though.

The alternatives in my life went through my mind. Unemployed, alone, despairing, watching daytime TV. That couldn't end well. Or helping people, like genuinely making a difference. Imagine waking up and doing that every day?

The Crowd Follower: I don’t believe it? The Risk Taker: What exactly you don’t believe? The completion of the project or the process of completion. The Crowd Follower: I don’t believe this can be done this way. No one ever thought of such method, it is beyond my belief. The Risk Taker: Exactly! Your belief was in the failure, you believed its impossible, & when the work progressed, you started questioning the process? The Crowd Follower: I need to know how they made it possible? The Risk Taker: It’s very simple, unlike you. They started with a clean thought process & a missing ingredient, you know what was missing? The belief that it is impossible. They believed it’s possible, & they kept trying & improvising during the process. The absence of a dis-belief resulted in a new method. They discussed the set-backs/failures in a positive manner on making it more effective, and not to declare the project as failure & stop work. It’s the thought process which provides a positive or negative result, when you start negatively you are already working towards proving your point that it’s impossible, didn’t I tell you so? However positive thoughts generates a positive energy that produces improvisation & innovation required to succeed

The only thing that keeps us from a place of joy is an illusion, the illusion of fear.

The world needs more love and Twitter just figured out a way to send 'hearts all over the world'.

This is what made the difference, they used social networking for entertainment and I used it for business.

There is always a TRUTH to be revealed in any situation where your emotions have shifted.

The way you treat people who are in no position to help you, further you, or benefit you reveals the true state of your heart.

Though you can live for as much as you like, but your longevity is stupidity if you were leading a worthless life.

Until you go and grow ‎MAD‬ with and in your true passion and purpose, you cannot enter the realm of meteority which is enemical to mediocrity.

To make a difference in the world, it only takes one optimistic person, who can gather millions of people to make the change.

When national ideals are confined to insignificant issues reflective primarily of a personal choice, there lies a problem of distorted priorities.

We are not on this earth to just stand still & look pretty. The museums already have enough statues.

We can ALWAYS make a difference to someone, no matter what role we play.

We cannot stop this war but we can fight it, in the shadows, the Old Man says. You have a choice. We all have a choice. We can give in to the darkness, or we can fight it, and elect to try and make the world a slightly less terrible place than it is. Perhaps we'll fail. If we succeed in what we do, no one would thank us. If we die, no one will remember us.

What lies ahead? Worrying about it or creating it. Both requires a choice, one opens the door.

When we involve others in spontaneous acts of kindness, we go from being strangers to becoming a united team connected at the heart level.

When we face our fear of death and slow down our busy lives, we come to realize our relationships are precious, a part of life’s foundation. Knowing this fact helps us to understand that death’s true purpose is to teach us how to live.

You cannot be as E-ffective when you are IN-fected.

When you live for the purpose of making a difference for the people, for society, for the things that are beyond you, then significance will not be able to elude you.

Writing is easy. Saying something that would make a difference is the task.

You can make a difference, wherever you are. It begins with a decision and defined purpose.

When you have discovered your significance, your life will now begin to move towards making a difference.

Yes, you can make a difference! You can speak on behalf of those who are voiceless.

You and I were put on this earth to serve something greater than our narrow interests. When our focus becomes self-centered instead of God-centered we lose our greatest source of power. Our God-given talents are meant to benefit others. When we use them for that greater purpose, we put faith into action to fulfill His plan for us. We make a difference in this world that helps prepare us for the next.

You can coddle your rage, or you can fully engage.

You don't have to knock anyone off their game to win yours. It doesn’t build you up to tear others down.

You don't have to be a billionaire to believe you can make a difference. Give your resources to a charity and volunteer in your community.

You don’t need to give up everything in order to do good to the world – you can do good from where you stand, if you feel responsible enough.

You must know, the day your star exploded into my universe, you altered it all. You exposed my light and my dark, settled into my existence and there you will be and glow in the matter of my heart, long after light is only a memory. You have changed things for always.

You wanna grow up to be a trivia question?" she asked, challenging me. "Or do you wanna make a difference in the world?

You've got to know what your magic is. How else will you fully share your gifts with others and enrich the world for these precious years that you live?

A big part of my job is coaching and developing. I've hired the right team. But everyone has areas where we need to improve. One of the things that I do is discuss a leadership topic at our regular meetings. And it makes a difference, because through these leadership topics, I get to reinforce our culture, the style, what's expected.

A human being can only absorb a small amount of the mystical kundalini, you can be exposed again and again to it, but it won't really make a difference. You can only absorb so much.

Above all we must realize that each of us makes a difference with our life. Each of us impacts the world around us every single day. We have a choice to use the gift of our life to make the world a better place - or not to bother

Act always from a sense of common humanity, and let God judge if it be charity.

Actors are agents of change. A film, a piece of theater, a piece of music, or a book can make a difference. It can change the world.

A good bookshop is not just about selling books from shelves, but reaching out into the world and making a difference.

Anybody can make a difference and be a voice for the voiceless.

A single, ordinary person still can make a difference - and single, ordinary people are doing precisely that every day.

Anyone who thinks he's too small to make a difference has never been bit by a mosquito

As a GM Goodwrench Service Plus dealer, I understand how good service makes a difference to our customers.

Bread for myself is a material question. Bread for my neighbor is a spiritual one.

A virtue which is divine is humility. A person who could do great things and still maintain humility of the heart, charity of the heart, goodness of the heart is a person who could actually make a difference in peoples lives in a very positive way.

Be sure that you make a difference in the world.

But the "wise" person understands something else— that we are all connected and, therefore, his or her own happiness must include the happiness of others.

Connect, create meaning, make a difference, matter, be missed.

Doing good business - being ethical, being transparent, being caring, implementing values in your business - makes a difference, and you make money at the same time.

Decide that you don’t mind being inconvenienced or interrupted, and God will use you to make a difference.