You Make A Difference Quotes

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  What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.

  Jane Goodall

  Life, Strong Women, Differences

  "Inspire Her Feature: Olivia R. Colombo". Interview with Briana Berger, www.codergirls.org. June 19, 2017.

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  Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

  Margaret Mead

  Inspirational, Life, Friendship

  Margaret Mead, Robert B. Textor (2005). “The World Ahead: An Anthropologist Anticipates the Future”, p.12, Berghahn Books

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• I am only one but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something.

  Edward Everett

  Life, Responsibility, Oneness

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  The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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  Success isn't about how much money you make, it's about the difference you make in people's lives.

  Michelle Obama

  Motivational, Success, Inspirational Life

  Michelle Obama's Speech speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, www.npr.org. September 4, 2012.

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• Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver.

  Barbara De Angelis

  Inspirational, Karma, Kindness

  Barbara De Angelis (2013). “Real Moments: Discover the Secret for True Happiness”, p.279, Dell

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• Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

  John Wooden

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "This Speech Was Given Before The #4Women4AllWomen Run" by Powdered Feet, womensrunning.competitor.com. January 25, 2017.

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• Everybody can be great...because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Love, Inspirational, Marriage

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• If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.

  Lucy Larcom

  Inspirational, Adversity, Caring

  LUCY LARCOM (1869). “POEMS”, p.186

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• I am only one,
  But still I am one.

  Helen Keller

  Responsibility, Volunteer, Solitude

  "The Book of Good Cheer : A Little Bundle of Cheery Thoughts‎" by Edwin Osgood Grover, (p. 28), 1909.

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• The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Encouragement, Freedom, Business

  "The Power of Purpose: Find Meaning, Live Longer, Better". Book by Richard Leider, p. 35., 2010.

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  We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

  Winston Churchill

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• Be The Peace You Wish To See In The World!

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

  Unknown

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  FaceBook post by Anne Frank from Dec 25, 2011

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• One person can make a difference, and everyone should try.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Bullying, Morning

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  Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.

  Robert Frost

  Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness

  "The Road Not Taken" l. 16 (1916)

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• Everybody can be great...because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  College, Helping Others, Greatness

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  There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.

  Aldous Huxley

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Time Must Have a Stop (1945) ch. 7

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• The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.

  William James

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.

  William James

  Love, Relationship, Marriage

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• Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

  William James

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• Happiness is not so much in having as sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

  Norman MacEwen

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

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• Love and kindness are never wasted.

  Barbara De Angelis

  Karma, Inspirational Love, Kindness

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• Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.

  Muhammad Ali

  Basketball, Kindness, Fighting

  Twitter post from May 26, 2010

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• You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.

  Khalil Gibran

  Inspirational, Motivational, Kindness

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.34, Lulu.com

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