Making A Difference Quotes - Page 7

• If you live life with the intention of making a difference in others' lives, your life will be full not empty.

  John C. Maxwell

  Live Life, Differences, Live Your Life

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• Young entrepreneurs will make a difference in the Indian ecosystem.

  Ratan Tata

  Young Entrepreneurs, Ecosystems, Differences

  "I have a dream of an India where everyone has equal opportunity: Ratan Tata". Interview with Vani Kola, yourstory.com. February 10, 2015.

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• Go on... make a difference.

  Heather Mills

  Differences, Goes On, Landmines

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• Through my work at the Katie Piper Foundation, I've seen how the smallest of kindness can make a difference to someone's life. Even a simple smile instead of a start can lift someone's heart.

  Katie Piper

  Kindness, Heart, Simple

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• Some people get in the way of change happening. Some people spend their whole careers thinking they can make a difference. Other people want to do as little as possible to get the day done.

  Amy Poehler

  Thinking, Careers, Differences

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• If you give up on the idea that your voice can make a difference, then other voices will fill the void

  Barack Obama

  Giving Up, Ideas, Voice

  Second Democratic Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speech, delivered 6 September 2012, Charlotte, North Carolina

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• I think writing is really a process of communication. . . . It's the sense of being in contact with people who are part of a particular audience that really makes a difference to me in writing.

  Sherley Anne Williams

  Communication, Writing, Thinking

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• God wants us to speak to men so that they will feel it, so that they will never forget it. God means every Christian to be effective, to make a difference in the actual records and results of Christian work. God put each of us here to be a power. There is not one of us but is an essential wheel of the machinery and can accomplish all that God calls us to.

  A. B. Simpson

  Christian, Mean, Men

  A. B. Simpson (1984). “Days of Heaven on Earth: A Daily Devotional to Comfort and Inspire”, Moody Publishers

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• We can change the lives of autistic children. We can make a difference. There are hundreds of families in Florida who can't afford the therapists.

  Dan Marino

  Change, Children, Florida

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• We can make a difference. We can save lives. We can stop the genocide.

  Kendrick Meek

  Differences, Genocide, Save A Life

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• Your belief in yourselves is the only thing that will make a difference and create an ability for you to see for yourselves, that you really are unlimited beings in the way that you were fashioned to be.

  Darryl Anka

  Spiritual, Law Of Attraction, Differences

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• And why do we worship hindsight (as in the news media's constant rehash of the day, the week, the year) and yet distrust foresight, which actually might make a difference in our lives?

  Gavin de Becker

  Differences, Media, Years

  Gavin De Becker (1998). “The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals that Protect Us from Violence”, Dell Publishing Company

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• In the past, it was easier to believe in my own effectiveness. If I worked hard, with good colleagues and good ideas, we could make a difference. But now, I sincerely doubt that.

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Believe, Past, Ideas

  Margaret J. Wheatley (2010). “Finding Our Way: Leadership for an Uncertain Time (Large Print 16pt)”, p.327, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• For Builders, the real definition of success is a life and work that brings personal fulfillment and lasting relationships and makes a difference in the world in which they live.

  Jerry I. Porras

  Success, Real, Differences

  Jerry I. Porras, Stewart Emery, Mark Thompson (2006). “Success Built to Last: Creating a Life That Matters”, p.19, Pearson Education

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• I will act as if I do make a difference.

  William James

  Differences, Action, Ifs

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• People need fewer 'ought-to' sermons, and more 'how-to' sermons. The deepest kind of teaching is that which makes a difference in people's day-to-day lives. Jesus spoke to the crowd with an interesting style. When God's Word is taught in an uninteresting way, people don't just think the pastor is boring, they think God is boring!

  Rick Warren

  Jesus, Teaching, Past

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• If Jesus can live in you and you are no different than the world around you, something got short circuited because Jesus makes a difference.

  David Jeremiah

  Christian, Jesus, Differences

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• I believe that each of us can make a difference. That what is wrong can be made right. That people possess the basic wisdom and goodness to govern themselves without conflict.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Wisdom, Believe, Differences

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• It may make a difference to all eternity whether we do right or wrong today.

  James Freeman Clarke

  Inspirational, Differences, May

  James Freeman Clarke (1880). “Self-culture, lectures”

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• [U]sefulness is happiness, and... all other things are but incidental.

  Lydia M. Child

  Happiness, Helping

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• think people get scared that they’re not going to be able to do it perfectly - they’re going to be criticized - they’re going to be like, “Well, I’m not totally green.” Well, you know what? At this point we don’t care... Just a shade of green is enough right now. Move a little bit closer towards this. Because the more people start moving closer and closer to it, that’s something that collectively makes a difference.

  Cameron Diaz

  Strong Women, Moving, Thinking

  "Talking Green with Cameron Diaz". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 9, 2008.

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• You can get control of your tasks and activities only to the degree that you stop doing some things and start spending more time on the few activities that can really make a difference in your life.

  Brian Tracy

  Differences, Priorities, Degrees

  Brian Tracy (2008). “Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.5, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• We have many years to eat and sleep, but how many years do we have to make a difference in the lives of others? That's the highest calling any of us can have: Living our life so as to intentionally add value to others. But to do this, we have to make ourselves more valuable. We have to keep learning, growing, developing as leaders and taking responsibility for being the change we want to see in the world.

  John C. Maxwell

  Sleep, Responsibility, Differences

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• We make each other alive; it doesn’t make a difference if it hurts.

  Ingmar Bergman

  Hurt, Differences, Alive

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

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Weed, Thorns, Helping

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1912). “Some Mistakes of Moses”, p.1, Library of Alexandria

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