Making A Difference Quotes - Page 8

• As long as God lets me live, I want to do things that make a difference in the world besides play music.

  Randy Owen

  Play, Differences, Long

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• In every single job, in every single business, in every single profession - in whatever you do - there can be the satisfaction and the happiness that comes from knowing that what you do is important, that what you do makes a difference in the lives of the people you serve.

  Wayne D. Dosick

  Jobs, Work, Differences

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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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• A dynamic person is one who really makes a difference in the world; who does something that changes things or other people. The magnitude of the work done may not be great, but the world is different because that person has lived and worked. The real secret of a dynamic personality is to believe that God works through you, whatever you may be doing; to put his service first, and to be as sincere, practical, and efficient as you know how.

  Emmet Fox

  God, Real, Believe

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• I think these ladies, that group of 130 women, are going to make a difference in what goes on down there, because they're going to hold the locals' feet to the fire.

  Lynn Westmoreland

  Women, Thinking, Differences

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• There is so much we can do to render service, to make a difference in the world - no matter how large or small our circle of influence.

  Stephen Covey

  Compassion, Circles, Differences

  Stephen R. Covey, A. Roger Merrill, Rebecca R. Merrill (1997). “First Things First Every Day: Daily Reflections- Because Where You're Headed Is More Important Than How Fast You Get There”, p.361, Simon and Schuster

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Attitude isn’t everything, but it is one thing that can make a difference in your life.

  John C. Maxwell

  Attitude, Differences, One Thing

  John C. Maxwell (2006). “The Difference Maker: Making Your Attitude Your Greatest Asset”, p.2, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• By the end of the writing process, which is about 80 songs per album, I look at the material and think, what's going to make a difference in someone's life.

  Jason Mraz

  Song, Writing, Thinking

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• I thought I could make a difference, so I ran for office.

  Mary Fallin

  Differences, Office, Ran

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• We're the ones who can make a difference. If we lead lives where we consciously leave the lightest possible ecological footprints, if we buy the things that are ethical for us to buy and don't buy the things that are not, we can change the world overnight.

  Jane Goodall

  Differences, World, Footprint

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• I didn't come to stay. I came to make a difference.

  Lawton Chiles

  Differences

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• If the media is sending girls the message that their value lies in their bodies, this can only leave them feeling disempowered and distract them from making a difference and becoming leaders.

  Jennifer Siebel Newsom

  Girl, Lying, Media

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