Making A Difference Quotes - Page 17

• Please find out what you can do to make a difference. Take five minutes to educate yourself on an issue you didn't know about before. Then tell somebody else.

  Matt Damon

  Differences, Issues, Action

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• At the foundation of every life is one central desire: to make a difference that you lived.

  Ron Smothermon

  Differences, Desire, Foundation

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• Today, is a great day to make a difference for someone. 'I have a dream'.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Dream, Differences, Great Day

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• I am impressed when music matters, when genres are broken, when spirits are lifted, when people make a difference, and when people are true to themselves.

  Nelly Furtado

  Differences, People, Broken

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• I've been doing this work [ambassador of VDay]for a long time, and there are so many ways that we have to work to eradicate domestic violence and violence against women, this felt like such a tangible way to make a difference.

  Kerry Washington

  Differences, Long, Domestic Violence

  Source: www.sheknows.com

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• I think all of us in our lives feel like we can't make a difference or we can't make a change or it's too late or we're too tired or we're too scared.

  Kerry Washington

  Tired, Thinking, Differences

  Source: www.sheknows.com

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• 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.

  Chelsea Clinton

  Kids, Differences, World

  "Exclusive: Chelsea Clinton on motherhood, her childhood and changing the world". Interview with Jeanne Sager, www.sheknows.com. September 15, 2015.

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• Individuals by themselves can make a difference. And by making a difference, you can improve the world.

  Bill Frist

  Differences, World, Individual

  "Bill Frist on Cindy McCain's Humanitarian Efforts". "America's Election HQ" with Bill Hemmer, www.foxnews.com. September 5, 2008.

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• If we are going to out-innovate, out-compete, out-educate other countries, it's going to be women who make a difference, it's women who are going to lead the way and you know, until women get that rightful place and decision making and leadership and growth, America won't realize all her potential.

  Kirsten Gillibrand

  Country, Differences, America

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• 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.

  Joel Osteen

  Thinking, Differences, Wells

  Joel Osteen (2008). “Become a Better You: 7 Keys to Improving Your Life Every Day”, p.136, Simon and Schuster

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• When your dreams include service to others - accomplishing something that contributes to others - it also accelerates the accomplishment of that goal. People want to be part of something that contributes and makes a difference.

  Jack Canfield

  Dream, Differences, People

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• 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.

  Radhanath Swami

  Heart, Humility, Differences

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• I get up every morning and think, today I'm going to make a difference. Today I'm going to end capitalism. Today I'm going to make a revolution. I go to bed every night disappointed but I'm back to work tomorrow, and that's the only way you can do it.

  Bill Ayers

  Morning, Thinking, Night

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• You can never tell what type of impact you may make on another's life by your actions or lack of action. Some times just with a smile on the street to a passing stranger can make a difference we could never imagine.

  Ed Foreman

  Impact, Differences, May

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• There are people who are out to take advantage of others and some who are merely putting in their time. But most of the people I encounter in the work place are desperately trying to make a difference and what to be effective at their jobs.

  David Livermore

  Jobs, Differences, People

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• I think, in a way, I've returned to who I used to be as a global correspondent whose life was devoted to really making a difference, illuminating what's happening in the world, always drawn toward the suffering of peoples and cultures and exposing exploitation and injustice; but now I'm the same person in a much, much softer iteration.

  Brad Willis

  Thinking, Differences, Suffering

  "Warrior Pose: A Conversation with Bhava Ram". Interview with Zoë Kors, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• It's not true that voting doesn't make a difference. To check out is political suicide. This is especially true for our young black artists. You don't want to inadvertently end up doing someone's bidding.

  Darryl Pinckney

  Suicide, Artist, Differences

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I actually think every person can make a difference. Every single human being has within the impulse to express more of who they truly are.

  Barbara Marx Hubbard

  Thinking, Differences, Impulse

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• Believe in your dreams. Believe in today. Believe that you are loved. Believe that you make a difference. Believe we can build a better world. Believe when others might not. Believe there's a light at the end of the tunnel. Believe that you might be that light for someone else. Believe that the best is yet to be. Believe in each other. Believe in yourself. I believe in you.

  Kobi Yamada

  Dream, Believe, Tunnels

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• If we begin to stop spewing the negative and really move into using our voices and our pens and our abilities that we have to reach millions of people to the positive, we can make a difference in the world.

  Stevie Wonder

  Moving, Differences, Voice

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I decided I wanted to be a painter, and then that moved into wanting to be an animator. By adolescence, I just wanted it to be something that was important...something that would make a difference in people's lives or leave an imprint in history.

  Evangeline Lilly

  Differences, People, Important

  Source: www.justjared.com

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• We know in history that great individuals have totally changed everything, whether it be Jesus Christ or Abraham Lincoln or Winston Churchill or Albert Einstein. I actually think every person can make a difference.

  Barbara Marx Hubbard

  Jesus, Thinking, Differences

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• Evolutionary circles are one of the key social forms in which people are connecting and can connect to make a difference throughout the world.

  Barbara Marx Hubbard

  Keys, Circles, Differences

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• Material success is rewarding and a lot of fun, but it's not the most important thing in my life because I know when this is all over, the Master isn't going to ask me how many things I owned or how many television shows I did. I think the questions will be, What did I do to make a difference? Did I learn to live with love in my heart?

  Oprah Winfrey

  Fun, Heart, Thinking

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• Complaining doesn't make a difference; it's useless and it's wasted energy.

  Simon Le Bon

  Differences, Energy, Complaining

  Interview with Kristi York Wooten, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. 2015.

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