quotes about Making A Difference
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Focus attention and energy on making a difference in the lives of others, and success might follow as a by-product.
-- Adam GrantSource : Adam Grant (2013). “Give and Take: Why Helping Others Drives Our Success”, p.181, Penguin
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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.
-- Alan RickmanSource : "Alan Rickman on 'Nobel Son'". Interview with Aaron Hillis, www.ifc.com. December 04, 2008.
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To make a difference is just... I think... the purpose of what life is.
-- Anastacia -
When I have interns, I always say, 'Handwritten thank-you notes can make a difference.' People remember that - not an e-mail, a handwritten note in an envelope.
-- Andre Leon Talley -
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Every single thing you do matters. You have been created as one of a kind. You have been created in order to make a difference. You have within you the power to change the world.
-- Andy AndrewsSource : Andy Andrews (2012). “How Do You Kill 11 Million People? (International Edition): Why the Truth Matters More Than You Think”, p.82, Thomas Nelson Inc
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Everybody wants to make a difference, but nobody wants to be different. And you simply cannot have one without the other.
-- Andy AndrewsSource : FaceBook post by Andy Andrews from Sep 30, 2013
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If there is anything serious enough to make a difference in my ife, I will talk about it.
-- Anushka Sharma -
I realized just how much exercise and eating right make a difference in how you feel now and when you get older.
-- Ashley Tisdale -
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What I actually wanted to do with my life is make a difference to the world. That led me into science very quickly.
-- Aubrey de Grey -
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 AngelisSource : Barbara De Angelis (2013). “Real Moments: Discover the Secret for True Happiness”, p.279, Dell
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Throw yourself into life as someone who makes a difference, accepting that you may not understand how or why.
-- Benjamin ZanderSource : Rosamund Stone Zander, Benjamin Zander (2002). “The Art of Possibility: Transforming Professional and Personal Life”, p.54, Penguin
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To say that on a daily basis you can make a difference, well, you can. One act of kindness a day can do it.
-- Betty Williams -
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I choose bold. I choose action. I choose what's right for the people. I choose to make a difference.
-- Bill RichardsonSource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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...we need to stop plotting the course and instead just land the plane on our plans to make a difference by getting to the "do" part of faith.
-- Bob Goff -
One person can make a difference. In fact, its not only possible for one person to make a difference, its essential that one person makes a difference. And believe it or not, that person is you.
-- Bob Riley -
Help us show children around the world that we can make a difference together.
-- Bradley Whitford -
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If you want to make a difference, the next time you see someone being cruel to another human being, take it personally. Take it personally because it is personal!†(p 272)
-- Brené Brown -
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 -
You may find that making a difference for others makes the biggest difference in you.
-- Brian Williams -
One person really can make a difference. Each person is the revolution.
-- Bryant H. McGill -
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For you will certainly carry out God's purpose, however you act, but it makes a difference to you whether you serve like Judas or like John.
-- C. S. Lewis -
Oh, it makes a difference, I thought. And if it doesn't make a difference you will make it make a difference.
-- Chaim Potok -
Citizenship is the chance to make a difference to the place where you belong.
-- Charles Handy -
Please, put aside all excuses and ask yourself, "What should I be doing?" Yes, you alone can make a difference. The question is, will you?
-- Charles R. Swindoll -
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I hope telling stories though 'Making a Difference' - as in my academic work and nonprofit work - will help me to live my grandmother's adage of 'Life is not about what happens to you, but about what you do with what happens to you.'
-- Chelsea Clinton -
Leaders stand out. Good leaders succeed. Great leaders make a difference in the world.
-- Cheryl Richardson -
I can definitely say the same thing [discussing Steffi Graf's claim that she had played against at least one top player who used steroids]. Steroids can really make a difference, physically and mentally. I'd be really disappointed if I had been ranked No. 2 behind someone who took steroids.
-- Chris Evert -
I wake up every day feeling like today's the day to make a difference. I never question the correctness of what I'm doing or the need for it.
-- Cindy Sheehan -
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I've learned what it truly means to be Canadian and in turn I've been inspired to make a difference in the world, however small it's been.
-- Clara Hughes -
It doesn't really matter to me how I make a difference, I just wanna make sure that I do.
-- Clay Aiken -
It's important that I make a difference in some way. It's not necessarily how I make a difference, but I want to make sure that I do.
-- Clay Aiken -
You got to like your work. You have got to like what you are doing, you have got to be doing something worthwhile so you can like it - because it is worthwhile, that it makes a difference, don't you see?
-- Colonel SandersSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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You will make a difference in the world, but not immediately. Your first obligation is to find something you like doing, because if you like doing it, you'll do it well.
-- Condoleezza Rice -
As a GM Goodwrench Service Plus dealer, I understand how good service makes a difference to our customers.
-- Dale Earnhardt -
Find ways to embrace the things that make you unique, and you'll unlock the ways you can make a difference in the world.
-- Dan MillerSource : Dan Miller, Jared Angaza (2012). “Wisdom Meets Passion: When Generations Collide and Collaborate”, p.44, Thomas Nelson Inc
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If you want to make a difference, then get good at doing something and not just talking about something
-- Danny Silk -
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A difference is a difference only if it makes a difference.
-- Darrell HuffSource : Darrell Huff (2010). “How to Lie with Statistics”, p.60, W. W. Norton & Company
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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 -
A good bookshop is not just about selling books from shelves, but reaching out into the world and making a difference.
-- David Almond -
None of those other things makes a difference. Love is the strongest thing in the world, you know. Nothing can touch it. Nothing comes close. If we love each other we're safe from it all. Love is the biggest thing there is.
-- David GutersonSource : David Guterson (2009). “Snow Falling on Cedars”, p.109, A&C Black
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In a cornball way, I think being a celebrity is about making a difference, too.
-- David Hasselhoff -
No matter who you are, where you've come from, what you've been through... You can make a difference in this world.
-- Demi Lovato -
Don't aspire to make a living, aspire to make a difference.
-- Denzel Washington -
We may not have the ability to change all of the world's wrongs, but we can make a difference where we are.
-- Dillon Burroughs -
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Live today the way you want to be remembered tomorrow.
-- Dillon Burroughs -
It’s not about making money for themselves or the company, but making a difference in the lives of others.
-- Don Yaeger -
Everything is a process... some of our eating habits consist of things we can't change, but if we modify it a little and put some exercise in there, we can really make a difference.
-- Doug E. Fresh -
I like when money makes a difference but don't make you different
-- Drake -
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I think the fact is that anybody who goes into politics feels like 'I can make a difference'. But it's not one person, you need so many others
-- Drew Brees -
Software touches all of these different things you use, and tech companies are revolutionizing all different areas of the world...from how we shop to how farming works, all these things that aren't technical are being turned upside down by software. So being able to play in that universe really makes a difference.
-- Drew Houston -
When you're in sync with the director, on the type of movie you want to make, the arc of the characters, how the characters intertwine and interact, plotlines and story, and things like that, it really makes a difference.
-- Dwayne Johnson -
When we grow old, there can only be one regret - not to have given enough of ourselves.
-- Eleanora Duse -
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One person of integrity can make a difference.
-- Elie WieselSource : Elie Wiesel (2012). “Night”, p.143, Macmillan
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There is much to be done, there is much that can be done... one person of integrity can make a difference...
-- Elie Wiesel -
Making a living is nothing; the great difficulty is making a point, making a difference-with words.
-- Elizabeth HardwickSource : Elizabeth Hardwick (2017). “The Collected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick”, p.112, New York Review of Books
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I waited and worked, and watched the inferior exalted for nearly thirty years; and when recognition came at last, it was too late to alter events, or to make a difference in living.
-- Ellen Glasgow -
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Make a difference. Live a life that matters.
-- Frank McKinney -
One of these days you're going to wake up," William finally said, "and I will have shaved you, Everywhere." (Paris) "Won't make a difference. Women will still want me.
-- Gena Showalter -
You can't go through life and leave things the way they are. We can all make a difference, and if I die today, I know I made a difference.
-- Gene SimmonsSource : "Gene Simmons: I've never been drunk". CNN Interview, marquee.blogs.cnn.com. July 9, 2012.
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I don't use the word lightly, in fact, I don't use it at all, but Ben Marcus is a genius, one of the most daring, funny, morally engaged and brilliant writers, someone whose work truly makes a difference in the world. His prose is, for me, awareness objectified-he makes the word new and thus the world.
-- George Saunders -
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Only meaning can make a difference and we all know there's no meaning. All stories express a desire for meaning, not meaning itself. Therefore any difference knowing the story makes is a delusion.
-- Glen Duncan -
Information is a difference that makes a difference.
-- Gregory BatesonSource : 1984 Quoted in Scientific American, no.41, Sep.
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What we mean by information the elementary unit of information is a difference which makes a difference, and it is able to make a difference because the neural pathways along which it travels and is continually transformed are themselves provided with energy. The pathways are ready to be triggered. We may even say that the question is already implicit in them.
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Each and every one of you has the power, the will and the capacity to make a difference in the world in which you live in
-- Harry BelafonteSource : FaceBook post by Harry Belafonte from Aug 09, 2012
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To know is to care, to care is to act, to act is to make a difference.
-- Harry Chapin -
Music is the tool to express life - and all that makes a difference.
-- Herbie Hancock -
Having money might not buy happiness, but how you spend it could actually make a difference.
-- Ian K. SmithSource : "Excerpt: Dr. Ian Smith's 'Happy'". ABC News, abcnews.go.com. July 07, 2010.
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We make each other alive; it doesn’t make a difference if it hurts.
-- Ingmar Bergman -
People have to understand that unless social enterprise is experimental, it will not succeed in making a difference.
-- Jacqueline Novogratz -
It may make a difference to all eternity whether we do right or wrong today.
-- James Freeman ClarkeSource : James Freeman Clarke (1880). “Self-culture, lectures”
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We dont know anything about racism. Weve never experienced it. If words can make a difference in your life for seven minutes, how would it affect you if you heard this every day of your life?
-- Jane Elliott -
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What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.
-- Jane GoodallSource : "Inspire Her Feature: Olivia R. Colombo". Interview with Briana Berger, www.codergirls.org. June 19, 2017.
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For anyone inclined to caricature environmental history as 'environmental determinism,' the contrasting histories of the Dominican Republic and Haiti provide a useful antidote. Yes, environmental problems do constrain human societies, but the societies' responses also make a difference.
-- Jared Diamond -
No obstacle is so big that one person with determination can't make a difference.
-- Jay SamitSource : Twitter post from Dec 15, 2016
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Now is the time when we must renew ourselves and live as if we and all of life is sacred, and as if everything we do makes a difference.
-- Jean Houston -
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Teachers make a difference, and we would serve our students better by focusing on attracting and retaining the quality teachers by raising teacher pay.
-- Jeb Bush -
I like to make pictures about people who make a difference.
-- Jerry Bruckheimer -
Care enough to make a difference. Care enough to turn somebody around. Care enough to change. Care enough to win.
-- Jim Rohn -
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You reach a certain point in your life where they things you do and say do make a difference.
-- Jimmy Webb -
I really have to feel that I could make a difference in the movie, or I shouldn't be doing it.
-- Joe DanteSource : Source: www.avclub.com
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The test is can you do something, rather than have a theoretical argument - can you make a difference?
-- Johann Lamont -
We have already noticed the difference in the attitude of a spectator and of an agent or participant. The former is indifferent to what is going on; one result is just as good as another, since each is just something to look at. The latter is bound up with what is going on; its outcome makes a difference to him.
-- John Dewey -
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Don't chase success. Decide to make a difference and success will find you.
-- Jon Gordon -
You don’t need to come from wealth or privilege to make a difference,
-- Joni Ernst -
Decide that you don’t mind being inconvenienced or interrupted, and God will use you to make a difference.
-- Joyce Meyer -
The question is not 'Can you make a difference?' You already do make a difference. It's just a matter of what kind of difference you want to make during your life on this planet.
-- Julia Hill -
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You've met Nick?" "Yep, we've met, all right. He was kind enough to inform me that I have absolutely no say in whether you two date." "Well, you don't." "You know, you all could at least pretend that my opinion makes a difference.
-- Julie James -
I just want to be the biggest artist that I can be, and I want to make a difference. I feel like Michael (Jackson) made a difference with everything that he did. He was so charitable and just always on-point. I just want to be where he is, as an artist.
-- Justin BieberSource : Source: www.cbn.com
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Yes, well I really hope I can make a difference, even in the smallest way. I am looking forward to helping as much as I can.
-- Kate Middleton -
Women don't seek power for its own sake, but to make a difference and overcome each challenge
-- Kathleen Wynne -
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Vision comes alive when everyone sees where his or her contribution makes a difference.
-- Ken BlanchardSource : Ken Blanchard, John P. Carlos, Alan Randolph (2001). “Empowerment Takes More Than a Minute”, p.48, Berrett-Koehler Publishers
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We can make a difference. We can save lives. We can stop the genocide.
-- Kendrick Meek -
I want to be remembered as someone who put India on the scientific map of the world in terms of large innovation. I want to be remembered for making a difference to global healthcare. And I want to be remembered as someone who did make a difference to social economic development in India.
-- Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw -
If you were to ask me what I want to do - I don't want to be a celebrity, I want to make a difference.
-- Lady Gaga -
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I didn't come to stay. I came to make a difference.
-- Lawton Chiles -
The purpose of life is to matter, to be productive, to have it make a difference that you lived at all-using the talents that God has given you for the betterment of others.
-- Leo Rosten -
I learned in my four decades in Washington that one person can make a difference.
-- Liz Carpenter -